LECLERC, NAZAIRE, Roman Catholic priest, author, and journalist; b. 21 July 1820 at Sainte-Anne-de-la

Lévesque at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal, where he studied for six years. He had not completed his program there when – in 1835, it appears – he was articled to Édouard-Étienne

-Cartier in Montreal, Oscar-Félix Mercier went on to obtain his classical education at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal, where he enrolled in 1879, and then at the Collège Sainte-Marie. A brilliant and

Duchesneau*, representative of the farmers of the Compagnie de la Ferme du Roi, member of the Conseil Souverain, one of the directors of the Compagnie du Nord, and of the Compagnie de la Colonie

, seigneur; b. 26 Aug. 1680 at Tours, France, son of Christophe Taschereau, Sieur de Sapaillé, king’s councillor, director of the mint and treasurer of the city of Tours, and Renée Boutin; d. 25

AILLEBOUST DE COULONGE ET D’ARGENTENAY, LOUIS D’, “engineer skilled in the profession of arms,” governor and lieutenant-general of New

), Spain, son of Antonio Alcalá-Galiano Pareja y Valero de la Serna and Antonio Alcalá-Galiano; d. 21 Oct. 1805 in the battle of Trafalgar, off the coast of Spain

of Fleury Baudrand’s childhood or education. He was ordained priest at Grenoble on 16 July 1837 by Bishop Philibert de Bruillard, and on 31 October entered the noviciate of the

BAUDRY, MARIE-VICTOIRE, named de la Croix, sister of the

BIZARD, JACQUES, town-major of Montreal 1677–92, one-time aide-de-camp to

BOURDON, MARGUERITE, dite de Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Augustinian Hospitaller of the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec, one

of Séraphin Bréaux and Brigitte Martin; d. 12 Jan. 1824 in Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan (Saint-Jacques), Lower Canada. Deported

early 1793. Some time after his arrival there the bishop of Quebec, Jean-François Hubert, through the agency of Jean-François de La Marche, the bishop of Saint-Pol-de-Léon then residing in London

1696, by an act dated 15 December, Dollier de Casson placed him officially in charge of the

 April 1666 at Sillery, son of Guillaume Constantin and Jeanne Masse; d. 20 March 1751 and was buried the following day in the cemetery of the parish of Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures

DAMOURS (d’Amours) DE CHAUFFOURS, LOUIS, Acadian seigneur, fur-trader, and soldier; b. 16 May 1655 and baptized 30 May

Madame de Repentigny. Five years later he was staying at Detroit, where he may have painted a retable for Cadillac [Laumet

to grant “a six-month bursary” to a candidate who would go to train, according to the methods advocated by Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, at the seminary for schoolmasters in the parish of Saint

come to New France to be a servant of Jean-François Hazeur, Sieur de Petit-Marais, a Montreal merchant, but as the latter had died before Gaillard arrived, in 1685, the young man went to Quebec. On 22

Like his father before him, the seigneur René Godefroy de Tonnancour (1669–1738) held the office of king’s attorney in Trois

. 1704 at La Flotte, Île de Ré, France, son of Denis Goguet, merchant, and Marguerite-Thérèse-Sibylle – ; m. 24 Nov. 1738 at Quebec Louise-Élisabeth, daughter of Jean

GUITON DE MONREPOS, JACQUES-JOSEPH, lieutenant general for civil and criminal affairs in the royal jurisdiction of Montreal; b

assuming the position of ecclesiastical superior of the sisters of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame. Owing to renewed tensions with his flock, Guyotte was sent back to France and was refused permission to

HERTEL DE SAINT-FRANÇOIS, ÉTIENNE (after the death of his older brother Joseph in

Bailly de Messein, who with the support of Bishop Jean-Olivier Briand of Quebec had written to the

LEGARDEUR DE TILLY, CHARLES, navigator, governor of Trois-Rivières, member of the Communauté des Habitants, business man, fur-trader

LEMOINE, dit Monière, ALEXIS (Jean-Alexis), merchant; b. 14 April 1680 at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade

LEVASSEUR DE NERÉ, JACQUES, military engineer, knight of the order of Saint-Louis, captain and sub-lieutenant; b. 1662 or 1664 in Paris

LEVRAULT DE LANGIS (Langy) MONTEGRON, JEAN-BAPTISTE, officer in the colonial regular troops; baptized 8 Oct. 1723 in Batiscan

LOMBARD DE COMBLES (de Combes, Descombes), JEAN-CLAUDE-HENRI DE, officer in the French regular troops, engineer; b. 10 Dec

L’ESPÉRANCE (also Sivert de

MALERAY DE NOIRÉ DE LA MOLLERIE, JACQUES (usually referred to as the Sieur de La Mollerie), officer in the colonial regular troops

Christians who had joined the brotherhood of Sainte-Anne in 1715. According to Jacques Viger*, Marchand attended the College de Québec and then went to

AVM, B 2735; Biographies de conseillers. Bibliothèque de l’université de Montréal, Collection Baby, Correspondance et papiers concernant la famille, XXIII, 14225–26 (copies in PAC). PAC, MG 24, D47

MIUS (Muis) D’ENTREMONT, PHILIPPE, first Baron de Pobomcoup (Pubnico), near Cap de Sable, lieutenant-major, king’s attorney, settler

leased out for a small rental. At Ville-Marie, Paillard and his family occupied rented lodgings until the completion of their new home near Notre-Dame de Bonsecours chapel in 1692

education at the école de latin opened in 1805 at Saint-Denis. About 1819 he was in Montreal as a clerk in the employ of Félix Vinet-Souligny, grain merchant and shipowner

POULIN DE COURVAL CRESSÉ (Cressé de Courval), LOUIS-PIERRE, assistant builder in the royal shipyards, seigneur; b. 8 April

childhood Dominique, the second youngest, was no doubt influenced by his brothers Michel and Antoine*, both of whom studied at the Séminaire de

ROUER DE VILLERAY, BENJAMIN (he signed Villeray), officer in the colonial regular troops; b. 1701, son of Augustin

trade silver. Jewellery and trinkets, in fact, constituted his basic stock, although as early as 1767 he was making the occasional piece of church silver. Schindler soon opened a large workshop on Rue de

TARIEU DE LANAUDIÈRE, XAVIER-ROCH (also called François-Xavier-Roch), office

1873 to 1882 as a physician at the dispensary of the Sœurs de la Charité de Québec on Rue Saint-Olivier, and from 1876 to 1885 as a vaccinating physician in Champlain and Saint-Pierre wards

Caudebec, France, son of Nicolas-François Le Mercier, lieutenant-colonel of infantry in the Régiment d’Agenois, and Charlotte Le Rebours; m. Françoise Boucher de La Bruère (La

MARIN DE LA MALGUE, JOSEPH (usually referred to as Marin fils

ten years old, he was enrolled in the recently founded Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière to begin his secondary education, but he stayed there only three months. He then entered the Petit Séminaire

CHARLEVOIX, PIERRE-FRANÇOIS-XAVIER DE, Jesuit priest, teacher, author of the Histoire et description générale de la Nouvelle

-Hénédine, Lower Canada, son of Joseph Brousseau, a farmer, and Flavie Gagnon; d. 18 April 1920 in Saint-Damien-de-Buckland, Que. Even

mla for Kamouraska, and Édouard Quertier*, the curé of Saint-Denis, sponsored Dionne’s studies at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la

born of his second marriage. In 1823, at the age of 14, he was enrolled by his parents in the Petit Séminaire de Montréal, where he proved a brilliant classical student. On leaving the seminary in