QUEN, JEAN DE, priest, Jesuit, missionary, discoverer of Lac Saint-Jean, founder of the Saguenay missions, superior of the missions of

ROBINAU DE BÉCANCOUR, PIERRE, Baron de PORTNEUF, knight of the order of Saint-Louis, seigneur of Bécancour, king’s attorney, chief

fresh start to the distant mission on Île Royale, which after five years of existence was proving to be a failure, attributed to the poor administration of the founder, Sister de la Conception [Marguerite

; baptized 21 Dec. 1688 at Prairie-de-la-Madeleine (Laprairie, Que.), son of François Bourassa, dit La Ronde, and Marie Le Ber; m. there 23 Oct. 1710 Agnès Gagné, and

 July 1908 at Quebec. Jean-Docile Brousseau received his schooling at the Petit Séminaire de Québec and then commenced work as a bookseller. In

BUISSON DE SAINT-COSME, JEAN-FRANÇOIS (baptized Bysson), priest of the seminary of Quebec, founder

-Joseph Chaussegros* de Léry and known today as the Maison Montcalm, one built in 1728 on Place Royale for Joseph

DUBUC, SOPHIE-LOUISE, named Saint-Jean de la Croix, sister of the Congregation of Notre-Dame, teacher, and superior

few years in Reims, and experimented with the contemplative life. Eventually she made her way, in 1877, to the Institut des Servantes du Saint-Cœur de Marie, which had been founded in Paris in 1860 by

GAULTIER DE VARENNES, JACQUES-RENÉ (he signed DeVarennes), officer in the colonial regular troops; baptized 2 Oct

-Famille, Île d’Orléans (Que.), son of Gabriel Gosselin and Geneviève Crépeaux; m. first 22 Jan. 1770 Marie Dionne in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (La Pocatière), Que.; m. secondly 15 Jan

d’Auger* de Subercase. After the surrender of Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal, N.S.) to the English in 1710, Hiché returned to Quebec. As a trader he had business relations not only with Canadian merchants

Nicholas Juneau, a merchant, and Josephte de Villers; d. there, unmarried, 17 Feb. 1886. Félix-Emmanuel Juneau studied

LAJOÜE, FRANÇOIS DE, surveyor and geometrician, master mason, architect and

LE COURTOIS DE SURLAVILLE (Le Courtois de Blais de Surlaville), MICHEL

LE POUPET DE LA BOULARDERIE, ANTOINE, officer in the French regular and colonial regular troops, colonizer, and colonial official; b

. 9 Feb. 1667 at Quebec, son of Louis Rouer* de Villeray and Catherine Sevestre; d. 5 July 1744, a

SAINT-OURS DESCHAILLONS, JEAN-BAPTISTE DE, officer in the colonial regular troops, king’s

Montreal, Pierre-Antoine Tabeau received the tonsure on 23 Sept. 1800, and then did his theology at the Séminaire de Québec. He was ordained sub-deacon on 30 Oct. 1803 and deacon on 14 October

 July 1840 at Saint-Urbain-de-Charlevoix, Lower Canada, son of Olivier Thibeault, a farmer, and Carmelle Tremblay; d. there on 10 Aug. 1881

. It is curious that a soup-tureen made for the Sulpicians about 1775 (and now held by the Musée de l’Église Notre-Dame in Montreal) bears the stamp of not only Varin but also Robert

cemetery of the Clerics of St Viator. Cyrille Beaudry did his secondary studies at the Collège de L’Assomption and the Collège Joliette from 1848 to

), Cleric of St Viator, priest, educator, and administrator; b. 29 March 1826 in Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Rouville, Lower Canada, son of Antoine Drogue, dit Lajoie, a day labourer

college de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière from September 1860 to June 1870. Its director at that time was François Pilote*, an enthusiastic

BAILLY DE MESSEIN, CHARLES-FRANÇOIS, coadjutor bishop of Quebec; b. 4 Nov. 1740 at Varennes, near Montreal (Que.), eldest

BOUCHER DE NIVERVILLE, JOSEPH (sometimes called Joseph-Claude; he signed Chevalier Niverville), army

ALOIGNY, CHARLES-HENRI D’, Marquis de LA GROYE (La Grois) (baptized Charles), lieutenant, garrison adjutant

elected a church warden in the parish council of Notre-Dame de Québec. After the conquest he was occupied, with fellow bourgeois of the town, in re-establishing the religious institutions of the colony

in 1665 as a sergeant in the Carignan-Salières regiment, sent by Louis XIV and Colbert to fight the Iroquois. After peace had been signed at the end of 1666 between the Iroquois and Alexandre de

, from the parish of Saint-Jacques de la Boucherie, Paris; d. 25 Jan. 1761 at Charlesbourg, near Quebec. Claude Barolet arrived in

. After serving in Napoleon’s army, Jean-Claude-Léonard Baveux entered the Petit Séminaire de Monistrol-sur-Loire (dept of Haute-Loire), where he completed his studies, including theology. He prepared for

concluded in 1701. Along with the superiors of the Sulpicians and Jesuits, Father Bulteau signed the assembly’s official report, after the Chevalier de

), Recollet, missionary; b. 13 Nov. 1716 at Quebec, son of Denis Constantin, a bourgeois, and Louise Bacon; d. 28 March 1760 at Saint-Joseph de la Nouvelle-Beauce (Saint-Joseph de

ANQ, Greffe de R.-C. Barolet, 12 mars 1732; 13, 17 juin 1735; 21 juill., 2 nov. 1738; 17 juill., 31 oct. 1742; 16 avril, 27 déc

DAVIS (Device), MARIE-ANNE, dite de Saint-Benoît, English captive, Ursuline; d

-speaking milieu, he added the particle “de,” whence the name de Bartzch or Debartzch. Pierre-Dominique, an only son, studied at Harvard College in Boston

-Antoine Dorion set up a flourishing lumber business at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade (La Pérade) that assured him a comfortable living. In 1829 the legislature of Lower Canada passed a schools act providing for

Guillaume Couillard. In the colony he acted as a surgeon, and as an interpreter in the service of the Jesuits. In the 1634 Relation he is given the title of “Chirurgien de l’habitation

Du Pont and Marie Hérauld de Gourville. Two brothers, Michel Du Pont de Renon and Louis

DUCLOS DE CELLES, ALFRED (baptized Jean-Baptiste-Alfred), journalist, librarian, and historian; b. 8 Aug

attended the Petit Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse and then the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe, which he entered in 1850. After completing his classical studies at the Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal, he became

Trois-Rivières. Nothing is known of Jean-Gaspard Dumoulin’s childhood. He received his classical education at the Séminaire de Nicolet from 1842 to 1846

his sudden death at Beauport on 6 June 1689. On 26 Sept. 1661, in the parish of Notre-Dame de Québec, he had married Marguerite

-Adolphe-George. It was probably at this time that he inherited the first name by which he would henceforth be known: Georges. After pursuing classical studies at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal (1884–89

GOURDEAU (Gourdau) DE BEAULIEU ET DE LA GROSSARDIÈRE, JACQUES, merchant and bourgeois; baptized 8 July 1660 at Quebec, son of

the Collège de L’Assomption from 1842 to 1853, Louis-Amable Jetté attended the law school at the Collège Sainte-Marie, which was under the direction of François-Maximilien

LABRECQUE, PHILOMÈNE, named Marie de la Charité, domestic servant, tertiary Dominican, and founder of the

-des-Neiges cemetery there. Alexandre Lacoste did his classical studies at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe, where he enrolled in 1851. His

studies at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal (1869–76), Pierre-Eugène Lafontaine enrolled in the faculty of law at the Université Laval in Montreal, where in 1879 he obtained an llb

. Having been appointed to the Canadian missions, Le Baillif, member of a noble French family, left Honfleur around 8 May 1620 with Samuel de