MARGANE DE LAVALTRIE, FRANÇOIS, seigneur, trader, priest; b. 9 Sept. 1685 at Lavaltrie (Que.) on the north shore of the St
PHILIPPE (Philippes) DE HAUTMESNIL DE MANDEVILLE, FRANÇOIS (sometimes known as the Sieur de Marigny), trader, officer
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Brother Louis-Bertrand reached Montreal on 25 Sept. 1888, leading a group that consisted of brothers Herbland, Jean de Prado, Sylvère, Augustin, and Raoul. They moved into the orphanage, which was located
GUYON, LOUISE (Thibault; Damours de Freneuse), baptized 1 May 1668 on Île
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Eugène Rouillard, who was the son of a merchant in Quebec’s Lower Town, pursued his classical studies at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1860 to 1872. He enrolled in the Université Laval at Quebec in
physician, though a social or military title would have been an asset in New France. The signatures of the Irish nobles (Fitzjames of Berwick is “Fitzjam de Barwick”) appear to be copied from a French history
ADHÉMAR DE SAINT-MARTIN, ANTOINE (baptized Anthony), royal notary, clerk of court, process-server, and prison keeper
BERNARD DE LA RIVIÈRE (Darivière), HILAIRE, mason, building contractor, “architect,” royal surveyor, court officer
CHAUSSEGROS DE LÉRY, LOUIS-RENÉ, seigneur, army and militia officer, office holder, jp, and politician
DANEAU DE MUY, JACQUES-PIERRE, army officer, seigneur; baptized 7 Oct
GAULTIER DE VARENNES, RENÉ, officer in the Carignan-Salières regiment, seigneur, governor of Trois-Rivières; baptized 2 June
GIFFARD DE MONCEL, ROBERT, master surgeon, colonizing seigneur, member of the Communauté des Habitants, first doctor of the Hôtel-Dieu
HERTEL DE ROUVILLE, JEAN-BAPTISTE-RENÉ, militia officer, seigneur, and politician; b. 20 June 1789 in Montreal, son of Jean
LE MOYNE DE LONGUEUIL, CHARLES, Baron de LONGUEUIL, the second to hold the title, officer in the colonial regular troops, governor of
MOREL DE LA DURANTAYE, OLIVIER, esquire, captain, commandant, councillor, seigneur; b. 17 Feb. 1640 at Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
MOZIÑO LOSADA SUÁREZ DE FIGUEROA, JOSÉ MARIANO (also Mociño and Mosiño
reconstructed, without too much certainty, from fragmentary and conflicting accounts (Bacqueville de La Potherie [Le Roy
ANDRÉ DE LEIGNE, LOUISE-CATHERINE (Hertel de Rouville), b. 1709 at Havre-de-Grâce (Le Havre
BLAISE DES BERGÈRES DE RIGAUVILLE, NICOLAS, officer, commandant of Fort Niagara, seigneur; b. 1679 at Estampes (France), son of
Guillet de Chaumont, which was followed by a one-year partnership with Delaunay. In these partnerships Brunet, it seems, did not just supply skins for a half interest. A few accounts show that
COULON DE VILLIERS, NICOLAS-ANTOINE, captain in the colonial regular troops, major of Trois-Rivières; b. 25 June 1708 at
DAMOURS (d’Amours) DE FRENEUSE, MATHIEU, seigneur in Acadia and member of the Conseil Souverain of New France in succession to his
DESCHAMPS DE LA BOUTEILLERIE, JEAN-BAPTISTE-FRANÇOIS, seigneur of Rivière-Ouelle; baptized 1646 at Cliponville, son of Jean Deschamps
-Gabriel de Thiersant), required adroitness, tact, and perseverance; Fézeret lacked none of these qualities. He was, moreover, greatly helped by his wife, Marie Carlié, whom he married in Montreal on 11
GAMELAIN DE LA FONTAINE, MICHEL, surgeon, colonizer, businessman; b. in 1640 at Blois (France) if one is to believe the census of 1667
GODEFROY DE LINTOT, JEAN (not “Jean-Baptiste” as he has usually been called by historians on the authority of the 1666 census; “Lintot
IGNACE DE PARIS, priest, Capuchin, chronicler; d. 1662 in Paris
LA MARCHE, DOMINIQUE DE (baptized François), priest, Recollet, missionary, superior of the Recollets in Acadia
LEGARDEUR DE REPENTIGNY, JEAN-BAPTISTE (also Legardeur d’Arpentigny), esquire, midshipman, councillor in the Conseil
MARIN DE LA PERRIÈRE, CLAUDE (occasionally called Marin de La Malgue), trader; baptized 28 Oct. 1705 at
SAINT-ÉTIENNE DE LA TOUR, CHARLES DE, trader and soldier; b. between 1663 and 1668 at Cape Sable in Acadia; d. 1731 at Louisbourg
large number of unemployed, and the Association des Dames de la Charité, founded to help the victims of poverty and destitution then so numerous in Montreal. Home visits and the distribution of alms
BAUDRY DE LAMARCHE, JACQUES, purchaser of Lamothe Cadillac’s
-Louis Billaudèle began his secondary education under the direction of a priest, and in 1812 went into the Petit Séminaire de Charleville, dept of Ardennes, where he entered the priesthood. In 1813 he
BOURDON DE DOMBOURG, JEAN-FRANÇOIS, seigneur and ship’s captain; baptized 2 Feb. 1647 in Quebec, son of
BRÉHAUT DELISLE, ACHILLE (Antoine-Louis?) DE, Knight of Malta, lieutenant of Governor
CHAMPFLOUR, FRANÇOIS DE, governor of Trois-Rivières, commandant at Fort Richelieu; b. into the
CHAVIGNY LACHEVROTIÈRE, FRANÇOIS DE, esquire, seigneur; b. 6 July 1650 on the Île d’Orléans, son of François de Chavigny and
February and March 1703 he served at Saint-François de Sales, on Île Jésus.
Father Constantin was at Montreal in 1706. He served at Longueuil and was
FLEURY DESCHAMBAULT, JACQUES DE, Canadian priest, missionary in Acadia; b. 14 Aug. 1672 at Quebec, son of Jacques-Alexis de
Laval, parish priest; son of Marin Terrier de Repentigny et de Francheville, originally from the province of Normandy, and of Jeanne Jallot, from the province of Poitou; baptized 14 July
to 1645 he was apparently in the employ of the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal at Sainte-Foy. In October 1645, Hurons and Algonkins broke into Gadoys’s house on several occasions to steal food from
Jan. 1739.
Ignace Gamelin married Marguerite Lemoine, the daughter of Jean Lemoine and Madeleine de Chavigny de Berchereau, on 10 Nov
GUENET, MARIE, dite de Saint-Ignace, Hospitaller of the Augustine order; b. 28 Oct. 1610 at
LA BRETONNIÈRE, JACQUES-QUINTIN DE, priest, Jesuit, missionary; b. 5 May 1689 in Bayeux, France; d. 1 Aug
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The fourth child in a family that would number 13 children, Michel-Thomas Labrecque attended elementary school at the Collège de Lévis (1858–63) and pursued his classical studies at the Petit
, half in money, half in beaver. He was also said to be the owner of a merchants’ bank, a house in the Lower Town of Quebec, in Sault-au-Matelot street, and a dwelling at Saint-Joseph de Beauport. In 1653
LEGARDEUR DE TILLY, PIERRE-NOËL, captain in the colonial regular troops, councillor of the Conseil Souverain, son of Charles
Boucher* de Boucherville’s cabinet. His securing of this appointment was no doubt facilitated by his friendship with Boucher de Boucherville. Less than two years later the state of his health obliged