governor and intendant, Charles de Beauharnois and Hocquart*, attempted to help Bazil salvage something from his affairs by working out a

-seigneur of Mingan; b. 19 May 1673, son of François Byssot* de La Rivière and Marie Couillard; m. 4 Feb

BOURDON, ANNE, dite de Sainte-Agnès, first Canadian-born superior of the Ursulines in New

. 1713 at Versailles, France, son of Louis Bénard, a soup-cook in the king’s kitchens, and Marie Guy; m. on 20 Nov. 1741 Marie-Germaine-Eustache Lanoullier de Boisclerc. After the conquest he

 Jan. 1767 and buried the next day in the church of Saint-Germain de Rimouski (Que.). Information about Toussaint Cartier comes

Rocbert* de La Morandière and put up for Paul Le Moyne de Maricourt, according to his

DELAGRAVE, CYRILLE, lawyer, member of the Council of Public Instruction for Lower Canada; b. 25 Nov. 1812 at Sainte-Marie-de

Marie Filleul, from Grande in Normandy; d. 29 July 1687 and was buried the next day in the parish of Notre-Dame de Québec. His duties made

DUQUET DE LA CHESNAYE, PIERRE, explorer, royal notary, attorney-general

DURAND DE LA GARENNE (first name unknown), writer in the Marine, judge of the admiralty court at Placentia (Plaisance); d. 12

. Georgette Séguin Arch. des sœurs grises (Montréal), Dossier de sœur Marie

GAULTIER DE COMPORTÉ, PHILIPPE, soldier, seigneur, commissary of the king’s warehouses, provost of the marshalsea, naval commissary; b

Archives acadiennes, Université de Moncton, Archives paroissiales de Saint-Thomas (Memramcook, N.B.), 1828–52. Gloucester County Court (Bathurst, N.B.), Gloucester County records, 21 (1969). N.B. Museum

. Antoine Grisé’s father, a corporal in Jacques-Hugues Péan* de Livaudière’s company, came originally from one of the places in

. On 4 March 1708, the cream of Quebec society gathered to witness the drawing up of the marriage contract between Jean-François and Catherine Martin de Lino, whose wedding had been arranged to take

voyageurs who were on their way west. In March 1730, when he had become a prominent merchant, he was chosen with 12 of his fellow citizens to present to Governor Charles de Beauharnois the remonstrances

MALLEPART DE GRAND MAISON, dit Beaucour, PAUL (he generally signed Paul Beaucour or

-Dame de Montreal, where he had several administrative responsibilities. Shortly before his installation as chief bursar of the seminary of Montreal, M. Mercier, on 26 April 1857, founded

became renowned for his lessons in the catechism to the children and the poor; he was called “the children’s Father.” In 1624 he became confessor to Henri de Lévis, Duc de Ventadour, who on his advice

was attached to the parish of Saint-Georges de Cacouna, Lower Canada, son of Louis Pelletier and Sophie Michaud; d. 25 June 1910 at the convent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd (Angers

POULIN DE COURVAL, JEAN-BAPTISTE, king’s attorney, merchant, and seigneur of Nicolet; b. 15 Jan. 1657 at Trois-Rivières, of

POULIN DE LA FONTAINE, MAURICE, seigneurial attorney, judge, and king’s attorney

Aliomet; b. c. 1611 at Pomponne (Île-de-France); d. in 1671 at Montreal, where he was buried on 10 July. After arriving in

; Sister Marie-Élisabeth Chausson, of the Congrégation des Filles de la Croix, had been running a school for girls there since 1701. Several

Hertel de Rouville, attacked Haverhill. Simon Wainwright, who was commandant of the fort, was killed, and Mrs. Wainwright managed to flee, but Mary was captured and taken off as a prisoner

 Dec. 1712 in Montreal, son of Pierre Trottier Desauniers, a merchant-trader, and Catherine Charest; m. in 1747, in Quebec, Marie-Thomas, daughter of Joseph de

to publish in 1867 his Histoire de l’île d’Orléans, dealing with the French period; in it he outlined the history of each parish and recounted shipwrecks in which islanders

Soumande*]. According to a statement by Intendant Jacques de Meulles* in 1685, instruction was given there in “carpentry, woodcarving

THUBIÈRES DE LEVY DE QUEYLUS, GABRIEL (the name is sometimes written Kaylus, Kélus, or Quélus, but

in Argentan, France, son of Nicolas Ango, Sieur de La Chaise, and Catarine Cochon; d. 23 April 1721 at Quebec and was buried there two days later under the chancel of the city’s cathedral

Dollier* de Casson in 1672, and completed in 1683. Constructed entirely of stone, 129 ft. long and 38 ft. wide, it was considerably larger and more impressive than

BERGIER, CLERBAUD, initiator of a project for a shore fishery in Acadia and one of the leading members of the Compagnie de la

(Que.), son of Pierre Blais and Françoise Baudoin; d. 5 Sept. 1783 at Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud (Saint-Pierre-Montmagny, Que

Notre-Dame (1879) and Saint-Joseph (1884–85) in Montreal, as well as in the chapels of the reform school (1877) and Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours (1879) in Montreal and the chapel of Sacré-Cœur (1883) at the

, Joseph Chabert is believed to have studied for three years at the École Impériale des Beaux-Arts in Paris before pursuing a vocation in the church. In 1861 he entered the Congrégation de Sainte-Croix at Le

CHAUVIN DE LA PIERRE, PIERRE, also called Chavin, Huguenot merchant and sea captain, temporary commandant at Quebec

attended the Petit Séminaire de Chezal-Benoit in the diocese of Bourges. He continued his studies at the Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris and obtained a baccalauréat ès sciences. He then earned admission

COUAGNE, RENÉ DE, merchant, colonel of militia, judge; baptized 30 Aug. 1690 in Montreal, son of Charles de

GODET DES MARETZ (Desmarets, Desmarais), CLAUDE DE, infantry officer, trader, son-in-law of

-language nursing school in Canada. Founded in 1897, the École des Hospitalières et Gardes-Malades de l’Hôpital Notre-Dame admitted its first students in 1898. With the opening of this school, which

MOUCHY, NICOLAS DE, often erroneously called Monchy, a native of Lyon (France), notary, clerk of court, deputy

NOYELLES DE FLEURIMONT, NICOLAS-JOSEPH DE, officer in the colonial regular troops in Canada; b. 13 Oct. 1695 in Quimper

TASCHEREAU, MARIE-ANNE-LOUISE, named de Saint-François

BAILLAIRGÉ, LOUIS DE GONZAGUE, lawyer, businessman, and philanthropist; b. 18 Feb. 1808 at Quebec, son of Pierre-Florent

there three days later in the cemetery of the Hôpital Saint-Jean-de-Dieu. The eldest of a family that would number 15 children, Julie-Marguerite

Thiboult’s death, he became superior of the seminary for two years, and as he was “agreeable to everyone” he was appointed priest of the parish of Notre-Dame de Quebec in 1725 and remained in that

Grosse Île, he was a curate from 1848 to 1851 and again in 1853 and 1854, and was parish priest of Saint-Lambert-de-Lévis from 1854 to 1858. When

published a number of textbooks. Despite the mounting wave of grammar texts, he brought out Éléments de la grammaire française de Lhmond at Quebec in 1873 and Devoirs grammaticaux gradués en

GRAVÉ DE LA RIVE, HENRI-FRANÇOIS, Roman Catholic priest, superior of the Séminaire de Québec, and vicar general; b. 25 April

Compagnie de la Colonie, councillor in the Conseil Supérieur; b. in France, c. 1638; d. in Quebec, 28 June 1708. The son of François