, gentleman usher of the black rod, and Anne-Françoise Normand; d. 8 Dec. 1861 at Saint-Hyacinthe, Que. After studies at the Séminaire de

CHARTIER DE LOTBINIÈRE, EUSTACHE (baptized François-Louis), Recollet, cordelier, and member of the Knights of Malta

CHENNEQUE, MARTIN (he also signed Dechennequi or de Chennequi, Chennequy

des Éleveurs d’Animaux de Race Pure de la Province de Québec, and he missed its annual meeting only once in 40 years, because of his first wife’s death. As well, he sat on the boards of the

DENYS DE VITRÉ, THÉODOSE-MATTHIEU, ship’s captain and pilot; baptized 8 Nov

no trace of an apprenticeship contract has been found. On 7 Feb. 1809 Desrochers married Marie-Josephte Rocan, dit Bastien, at Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Laval); his master, Quévillon, and

. 19 Sept. 1852 in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Lower Canada, son of Calixte Dion, a farmer, and Angèle Picard; d. 8 Oct. 1918 in Côte-des-Neiges (Montreal

, George Manly Muir, clerk of the Legislative Assembly; he was a militant Catholic, active in the Society of St Vincent de Paul. During the course of numerous visits to Quebec prisons, Muir had

. When Mesplet undertook in June 1778 to publish La Gazette du commerce et littéraire, pour la ville et district de Montreal, he enlisted the talented and educated Jautard as

. 4 Feb. 1673 in the parish of Saint-Vincent de Nay, France, son of Jean Lajus and Anne Vigneau; buried 12 March 1742 in the chapel of the Quebec Recollets, reburied in Notre-Dame, Quebec, in

LAROCQUE DE ROCHBRUNE, ALPHONSE-BARNABÉ (baptized Barnabé), physician and office holder; b

, near Trois-Rivières, oldest son of François Lefebvre Duplessis Faber and Madeleine Chorel de Saint-Romain, dit d’Orvilliers; d. 20 July 1762 in Rochefort, France

LENEUF DE LA VALLIÈRE DE BEAUBASSIN, MICHEL (the younger), captain, major, knight of the order of Saint-Louis, fourth son of

Aubert* de Gaspé relates that for some days the poor Recollets were to be seen wandering about near the ruins. On 14 September Bishop Hubert secularized the Quebec Recollets who had made their

later. In the mid 1840s Élodie Paradis’s father moved to the concession of La Tortue, near the village of Saint-Philippe-de-Laprairie, to support

 Marchand* de Lignery, Jean Lemire Marsolet, and François Augé. Jacques only made a round trip to Michilimackinac (Mackinaw City, Mich.) via “La Grande Rivière” (Grand River, Ont.), but Paul, for 300

WHEELWRIGHT, ESTHER (rebaptized Marie-Joseph), dite de l’Enfant-Jésus

DESCHAMPS DE BOISHÉBERT ET DE RAFFETOT, CHARLES, officer in the colonial regular troops; b. 7 Feb. 1727 at Quebec, son of

DUBOIS BERTHELOT DE BEAUCOURS, JOSUÉ (Jean-Maurice-Josué), naval officer and officer in the colonial regular troops, chief engineer of

d’Ailleboust* de Coulonge; d. and buried 8 April 1730 at Montreal. Marie Morin was one of a family of 12 children, the eldest of whom

. 1782 on Île aux Grues, Que., eldest son of François Painchaud, a seaman, and Angélique Drouin; d. 9 Feb. 1838 in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (La Pocatière), Lower Canada

Péan* de Livaudière and Marie-Françoise, daughter of François-Antoine Pécaudy* de Contrecœur; d. 21 Aug

the Séminaire de Québec: the seminary records note under the date 18 Nov. 1768, “it has been decided that . . . Créquy should enter [his year of] philosophy next Easter if [he is

ALLARD DE SAINTE-MARIE, JEAN-JOSEPH D’, officer in the colonial regular troops; b. c. 1670 in Provence; m

, where he joined such other leading practitioners as Louis de Lotbinière Harwood*, Amédée Marien, Oscar-Félix Mercier, Télesphore

BLAISE DES BERGÈRES DE RIGAUVILLE, RAYMOND (baptized Rémond, he sometimes signed des

BOUGAINVILLE, LOUIS-ANTOINE DE, Comte de BOUGAINVILLE, army officer; b. 12 Nov. 1729 in

Danré* de Blanzy found only 158 minutes in his registry. This was very little on which to bring up a family of 14 children. Fortunately, on 26 Aug. 1702, he had received another commission

. Maud Hody Archives of the Bishop’s House, Yarmouth, N.S., Registre de

. Elzéar Bédard did his classical studies at the Séminaire de Nicolet from 1812 to 1814, and then at the Petit Séminaire de Québec. His studies completed in 1818, he took holy orders and, with his friend

J.-A. Lebœuf, Complément au Dictionnaire généalogique Tanguay (1re série, Montréal, 1957), 39. É.-Z. Massicotte, “Les chirurgiens, médecins, etc., de Montréal

Séminaire de Montréal, and then to teach at St Charles College in Baltimore, where he stayed in 1860 along with Étienne-Michel Faillon

schooling with private tutors up to the fifth year (Belles-Lettres) of the classical program. From 1832 to 1835 he finished his classical studies at the Collège de Chambly

DELAUNAY, CHARLES, coureur de bois, tanner., b. in Quebec, 30 May 1648; d. in Montreal, 26 Feb. 1737

accused the laureate of plagiarism. Desaulniers published poems in the Montreal periodicals Le Journal de Françoise, Le Passe-Temps, La Revue populaire, and La Revue moderne

in fact revealed by the local registers. To comply with the invitation of the provincial commissioner, Father Gabriel de

Montreal, and they had a son and a daughter; d. there during the night of 2–3 July 1938, and was buried on 5 July in the cemetery of the Montreal parish of La Visitation-de-la

Liénard* de Beaujeu, was killed early in the combat, it was Dumas who took command of the fewer than 900 men, including about 600 Indians, and routed the much larger British force. For this feat he was

, Charles de Sabrevois*. Gervaise’s land was just below the mouth of the now-vanished Ruisseau de la Vieille Reine (about two miles

GODEFROY DE NORMANVILLE, THOMAS, interpreter, brother of

HORNÉ (Deborné), dit Laneuville, JACQUES DE, soldier, royal notary, and process-server; b. in 1664

JUCHEREAU DE SAINT-DENYS, CHARLES, (known between 1689 and 1698 as the Sieur de Beaumarchais), lieutenant and captain

Huault* de Montmagny. In February 1684, in command of the Beauport militia, he took part in the ill-starred expedition of

LA ROCHE DAILLON, JOSEPH DE, Recollet priest, first missionary to the Neutrals, son of Jacques de La

, colonizer, preacher, and author; b. 9 March 1845 in Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan (Saint-Jacques), Lower Canada, son of Joseph Cassé, a farmer, and Marguerite Mirault; d. 28 Feb. 1921 in

AJQ, Greffe de Claude Auber, 3 janv. 1689; Greffe de Romain Becquet, 24 févr. 1679; Greffe de Pierre Duquet, 17 juillet 1672, 30 juin 1683; Greffe de François

. Lorit arrived in Canada in 1664 as a voluntary indentured worker, and was sent to the Jesuits’ seigneury at Cap-de-la-Madeleine. Probably because of a speech defect which earned him the nickname of

MENOU D’AULNAY, CHARLES DE, sea captain, lieutenant to

) MacDonell, a Scottish artillery lieutenant, and Marie-Anne Picoté de Bélestre; d. 1866 at Saint-Anicet, Canada East. In 1812, the year his

. Pierre Oger was born in the devoutly Roman Catholic region of Anjou, one of a family of five children. He studied first at the Petit Séminaire de Mongazon and later at the Grand Séminaire, both in Angers