LAMBERVILLE, JACQUES DE, Jesuit missionary to the Mohawks and Onondagas, younger brother of the missionary

LE GARDEUR DE COURTEMANCHE, AUGUSTIN, soldier, ambassador to the English and the Indians, commandant on the coast of Labrador; b. at

LE MOYNE DE LONGUEUIL, MARIE-CHARLES-JOSEPH, Baronne de LONGUEUIL (Grant), seigneur and

remained for two and a half years. He arrived in Quebec in 1755, established himself on Rue de l’Escalier with silversmith Jacques

children, he left a diary containing anecdotes, notes on his reading, and observations about the people and customs of his time, but little about himself. After beginning his studies at the Collège de Lévis

Marie-Louise Dufrost de La Gemerais, sister of Marie-Marguerite, and they had 15

RAMEZAY, LOUISE DE, seigneur; b. 6 July 1705 at Montreal, daughter of Claude de

of medicine at the Université Laval in Montreal in 1890, graduating with high honours in 1894. He took two further years of training at the Université de Paris where he was awarded his

SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE-FÉNELON, FRANÇOIS DE, priest, Sulpician, missionary; b. 1641 at the Château de Fénelon in Périgord

Bégon*, seigneurial judge, and royal notary; b. c. 1670 at Le Havre-de-Grâce, in the diocese of Rouen, son of Charles Barbel and Catherine Provost; d. 29 July 1740 at

BODEGA Y QUADRA (Cuadra), JUAN FRANCISCO DE LA, naval officer, explorer, and

. Besides working with the association, Bourbeau also helped found the Société Coopérative Agricole des Fromagers de Québec [see Joseph-Édouard

 April 1736 at Saint-François-du-Lac (Que.), son of Joseph Gamelin, a merchant, and Angélique Giasson; m. 29 Jan. 1759 at Lachine Marie-Louise de Lorimier and they had six daughters; m

-Alexandre-Hubert La Rue received a classical education at the Petit Séminaire de Québec before he entered the Quebec School of Medicine, which gave place to the faculty of medicine of the Université

. 11 March 1884 in Sainte-Julienne-de-Rawdon (Sainte-Julienne), Que., son of Félix Mailhotte (Mailhiotte), a farmer, and Carmela (Marie) Éthier; m. 14 Oct. 1914 Virginie Carey in Lacorne

BERMEN DE LA MARTINIÈRE, CLAUDE DE, esquire, seigneurial judge, seigneur, councillor in the Conseil Souverain and first councillor of

, Patriote, civil servant, and linguist; b. 8 Sept. 1800 at Quebec, son of Pierre Boucher-Belleville and Louise Belleau; d. 1874 at Saint-Michel-de-Napierville, Quebec

CADOTTE, MARIE-ELMIRE, named Marie de Saint-Alphonse-de-Liguori, provincial superior of the Sisters of the Good

CHAUVIN DE TONNETUIT, PIERRE DE, French naval and military captain, lieutenant of New France, called the founder of Tadoussac; b

 April 1873 Sophie Laurier (d. 3 Aug. 1905) in Montreal; m. thirdly 7 Nov. 1905 Marie-Amanda Rouleau in Saint-François-de-Sales (Laval), Que.; d. 11 Dec. 1908 in Terrebonne

DAUPHIN DE LA FOREST, FRANÇOIS, employee of Cavelier* de

DE MILLE, JAMES (the family used DeMill, but he wrote under De Mille, and used this name after 1865), author and professor

at the local Jesuit college, Jean-Nicolas Desandrouins was commissioned lieutenant in the Régiment de Beauce in 1746. Five years later, following active combat service in the War of the Austrian

August 1670 to November 1671 being modelled on the Recollet church in Paris, still extant as the Villemin Military Hospital opposite the Gare de l’Est. In 1692 the Quebec church was sold to Bishop Saint

Petit Séminaire de Montréal, graduating in 1841. He later studied medicine at McGill College, and after his graduation in 1845 returned to Laprairie where he practised for two years. He spent his time in

theological studies at the Petit Séminaire and then the Grand Séminaire de Québec, Hyacinthe Hudon was ordained priest by the bishop of Quebec, Joseph-Octave

student in the classical program at the Lycée Impérial in Nantes from 1855 to 1863, and he continued his education at the Séminaire de Nantes, which was run by the Sulpicians, until 1868. Ordained deacon on

LEPAGE DE SAINTE-CLAIRE, LOUIS, priest, canon, seigneur; b. 22 Aug. 1690 at Saint-François, Île d’Orléans, son of René

, by the Jesuit Pierre-Joseph Picot de Clorivière and Marie-Adélaïde Champion de Cicé to fill the void left by the banning of religious congregations at that time. Its members had no habit, religious

and took up residence in Montreal. In 1688 Catherine Thierry, the widow of Charles Le Moyne* de Longueuil

Petit Séminaire de Montréal from 1836 to 1843. He then studied medicine at the Montreal School of Medicine and Surgery and was licensed to practise on 16 Nov. 1847. As a doctor he was in great demand

ALLEMAND (Lalemand), PIERRE, pilot, cartographer, explorer, fur-trader; b. c. 1662 at Saint-Sauveur-de-Nuaillé (Charente

Robinau* de Bécancour. The Baudrys had 15 children, one of whom, Jean-Baptiste, who exercised the craft of gunsmith, was among the original inhabitants of Detroit

BEAUSSIER DE LISLE, LOUIS-JOSEPH, naval officer; baptized 15 March 1701 in Toulon, France, son of Louis Beaussier, port captain

BELVÈZE, PAUL-HENRY DE, French sailor, commander of La Capricieuse, descended from an old family of Languedoc; b. 11

BOUCAULT DE GODEFUS, GILBERT, merchant, royal notary; b. c. 1709 in the region of Paris, France, son of Nicolas-Gaspard

BOUCHER DE BOUCHERVILLE, PIERRE (baptized François-Pierre

BUISSON DE SAINT-COSME, JEAN-FRANÇOIS, priest, canon, bursar of the seminary of Quebec; b. 24 Nov. 1660 at Quebec; d

BÉDARD, THOMAS-LAURENT, priest, professor, bursar, and superior of the Séminaire de Québec; b

was prevented by illness from taking up a post in Acadia. In March 1752 the Abbé de L’Isle-Dieu, the bishop of Quebec’s vicar general in France

CAUMONT, PIERRE DE, priest, missionary, canon; b. c. 1641 in France; d

circumstances, living on Rue Buade, in Quebec’s market square. After studies at the Séminaire de Québec he was ordained priest by Bishop Briand* on

, politician, and office holder; b. 16 Feb. 1789 in Saint-Thomas-de-la Pointe-à-la-Caille (Montmagny), Que., son of Jean-Baptiste Couillard and Marie-Angélique Chaussegros de Léry; m. 6 Feb

, les lois rurales, etc.; and in 1867, Notions élémentaires de cosmographie et de météorologie accompagnées de leçons sur l’usage des globes. The first two do not display great

DECOSTE, JEAN-BAPTISTE (sometimes called Sieur de LETANCOUR), court officer; b. in 1703 in Paris, France, son of

DENYS DE LA RONDE, PIERRE, landowner and businessman; b. 8 Oct. 1631 at Tours, son of Simon

DESJORDY MOREAU DE CABANAC, FRANÇOIS (Sourdy), knight of the order of Saint-Louis, commandant of Fort Frontenac, 1696, commandant of

officer François Desjordy Moreau de Cabanac caused quite a stir in New France. Dizy, a surgeon who at a young age had married a coureur de bois from Batiscan, lived with the soldier while her

. in Quebec 22 Sept. 1873 and was buried three days later in Notre-Dame de Belmont cemetery, Sainte-Foy (Quebec City). Charles Drolet was

DUFROST DE LAJEMMERAIS, MARIE-MARGUERITE (Youville), founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Hôpital Général of