AILLEBOUST DE LA MADELEINE, FRANÇOIS-JEAN-DANIEL D’, merchant-voyageur; b. 7 Oct. 1702 in Montreal (Que.), son of Jean
. 1813 at the mission of Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup (Louiseville), Lower Canada.
Attracted to the religious life, Laurent Bertrand entered the
BYSSOT (Bissot) DE LA RIVIÈRE, FRANÇOIS, a native of Pont-Audemer, in the Department of the Eure (Normandy); b. 1612 or 1613, son
COUAGNE (Coigne), MICHEL DE, officer in the colonial regular troops; b. 5
COULON DE VILLIERS, FRANÇOIS, captain in the colonial regular troops; b. 1712 at either Montreal or Verchères (Que.), son of Nicolas
-Dieu in Montreal (Que.); b. 15 Aug. 1744 in Montreal, elder daughter of Pierre-Joseph Céloron* de Blainville and
DEJORDY (Desjordy) DE VILLEBON, CHARLES-RENÉ (he signed Dejordy Villebon
Carleton*’s permission. Admitted a member of the Séminaire de Québec on 5 April 1777, Dudevant was ordained priest two weeks later. From 1775 to 1777 he is reported to have taught the third form in
Duquesne* de Menneville about 1752. From 1755 to 1760 he held the post of scrivener in the Bureau de l’Intendance (Bureau de la Marine) at Quebec and in the last year received a salary of 1,200
FORESTIER, MARIE, dite de Saint-Bonaventure-de-Jésus, one of the three original Religious Hospitallers of
GALIFFET DE CAFFIN, FRANÇOIS DE, military officer; governor of Trois-Rivières; b. 1666 in Provence, son of Pierre de Galiffet, seigneur
GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR, CHARLES-ANTOINE, priest, theologal of the chapter of the cathedral of Quebec; b. 13 May 1698 at Trois
GUILLIMIN, MARIE-FRANÇOISE, dite de Saint-Antoine, Ursuline and superior
JUCHEREAU DE LA FERTÉ, JEAN, merchant, member of the Conseil Souverain; b. c. 1620 perhaps at La Lande-sur
JUCHEREAU DE LA FERTÉ, JEANNE-FRANÇOISE, dite de Saint-Ignace, superior of the Religious Hospitallers of the
JUCHEREAU DE MAUR, JEAN, seigneur, member of the fur-trading council and churchwarden, brother of
LA SALLE, NICOLAS DE, colonial administrator, commissary in Louisiana; b. probably at Paris, son of Nicolas de La Salle and
throughout the Quebec region. One patient, whose severed leg tendon he failed to rejoin, obtained a miraculous cure at the shrine of Sainte-Anne de Beaupré
LEGARDEUR DE REPENTIGNY, PIERRE, military officer and seigneur; b. 10 March 1657 at Quebec, eldest son of
Bishop Laval on 21 July 1677 to Bazire and Charles Aubert de La
. 20 March 1717 at Saint-Martin-de-Valamas (dept of Ardèche), France, son of Claude Mathevet and Blanche Ranc; d. 2 Aug. 1781 in Montreal (Que
MAURAULT, JOSEPH-PIERRE-ANSELME, priest, missionary, and historian; b. 27 Dec. 1819 at Saint-Louis-de
MIGEON DE BRANSSAT, JEAN-BAPTISTE, merchant, clerk in the Compagnie des Indes occidentales, seigneurial attorney, subdelegate of the
MIGEON DE LA GAUCHETIÈRE, DANIEL, seigneur, officer in the colonial regular troops; baptized 6 Aug. 1671 in Montreal, son of
.
The vitality and solidarity of the Montreal shoemakers and cobblers were expressed in the 1720s by the formation of the Confrérie de Saint-Crépin et Saint-Crépinien, for which Moreau, Jean Ridday, and
Jean de Lauson, notary and clerk of the seneschal’s court, seigneurial attorney for the Compagnie des Indes occidentales, receiver for crown lands, chief clerk and secretary of the Conseil
JARRET DE VERCHÈRES, MARIE-MADELEINE (baptized Marie-Magdelaine, more often called Madeleine
CÉRÉ DE LA COLOMBIÈRE, MARIE-JULIE-MARGUERITE, dite Sœur Mance, Religious Hospitaller of St
Quebec, perpetuated the family tradition; he built houses for Nicolas Lanoullier de Boisclerc
(also spelled Devaux, de Veaux, de Vox), salt smuggler and blacksmith; b. c. 1704 in France, son of Benoît Devau and
DUGUÉ DE BOISBRIAND, MICHEL-SIDRAC, one of the first seigneurs in the Montreal area; b. and baptized in April 1638 in the parish
de Chaumont, it is stated that Durocher gave his wife the sum of “three thousand livres as stipulated jointure.” On 24 June 1743, shortly after the death of his wife, who had borne
ESPIET DE PENSENS, JACQUES D’, esquire, officer of the colonial regular troops in
GUILLET DE CHAUMONT, NICOLAS-AUGUSTE, soldier, royal notary; b. c. 1695 in Paris
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD DE ROYE, JEAN-BAPTISTE-LOUIS-FRÉDÉRIC DE, Marquis de ROUCY, Duc d’ANVILLE
LENEUF DE LA POTERIE, JACQUES, seigneur of Portneuf, governor of Trois-Rivières, acting governor of New France; baptized 7 Nov
Levasseur* and one of the founders of the Confrérie de Sainte-Anne, at the parish church of Quebec.
In 1648, in Paris, he married Marguerite Richard
NEVEU, JEAN-BAPTISTE (also written Nepveu; he is sometimes called Sieur de La Bretonnière
NOLAN LAMARQUE, CHARLES, merchant; b. 25 Nov. 1694 in Montreal, son of Jean-Baptiste Nolan, a merchant, and Marie-Anne de La
PAYEN DE NOYAN, PIERRE-BENOÎT, officer in the colonial regular troops; b. c. 1700 in Normandy, France, son of Pierre
PERTHUIS, CHARLES, merchant, commercial fisherman, churchwarden, and a director of the Compagnie de la Colonie; b. 1664, son of Charles
Marine, and seigneur; b. 1663, son of Pierre Petit, former comptroller of the annuities of the Hôtel de Ville in Paris, and of Catherine Du Bellineau, of the parish of Saint-Jean in Paris; d. 24
Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Lower Canada, son of Ambroise Pilote, a farmer, and Marguerite Coulombe; d. 5 April 1886 at Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Que
himself on being a painter, producing many pictures; no one liked them,” wrote Bertrand de Latour* in his Mémoires sur la vie de M
Dugua de Monts; baptized 5 Jan. 1576 in Blois, France, son of Estienne Ralluau and Marguerite Du Four.
We know little of the life of
REGNARD DUPLESSIS, GEORGES, receiver of the Admiralty, treasurer of Marine, general and special agent for the Compagnie de la Colonie
RICHARD, dit Lafleur, GUILLAUME (styled Sieur de La Fleur), soldier
ROUER DE VILLERAY ET DE LA CARDONNIÈRE, AUGUSTIN, first seigneur of Rimouski and councillor on the Conseil Souverain; baptized 13
CHARTIER DE LOTBINIÈRE, LOUIS-THÉANDRE, seigneurial attorney and lieutenant general of the seneschal’s court at Quebec, attorney