(Boulevard de Maisonneuve). The very first year, 32 pupils, from four to fourteen years of age, registered at the establishment, where they were taught courses that included French, English, arithmetic

Adhémar; d. 6 July 1863 at Montreal. Patrice Lacombe studied at the Collège de Montréal from 1816 to 1825. He displayed there an aptitude

command of Paul Marin* de La Malgue. Lajus evidently was back in Acadia some years later, for he was at Louisbourg, Île Royale (Cape

the conquest. At his death he owned numerous properties, including a wholesale business on Rue de la Fabrique, a retail store on Rue Saint-Jean, and another in Saint-Cuthbert. After Augustin-René had

* he may have been the son of Jacques Le Prévost and Jeanne Fauvault, whose marriage took place on 25 Nov. 1669 in the church of Notre-Dame de Québec. Yet the couple, of whom there is no

Rolland, was a brilliant student at the Collège de Montreal from 1835 to 1843. He was drawn to poetry at an early age, and during the literary exercises at the prize-giving in July 1843 he read Le

LÉGER DE LAGRANGE, JEAN, surgeon, ship’s captain, merchant, and privateer; b. 19 June 1663 (n.s

Scottish fort at Port de la Baleine. In May 1629 Daniel had orders from Richelieu to sail with Isaac de

second christened François) of François Malherbe, dit Champagne, a seaman, and Marie-Anne Margane de Lavaltrie; d. there 17 May 1832

Fabre* appointed him director of the Société de Colonisation du Diocèse de Montréal, founded seven years earlier by François-Xavier-Antoine

. Orphir Peltier, the eldest of four surviving children in a family of 22, received his classical education at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal from 1834 to 1844. He then undertook legal training and was

de La Chesnaye. Petit arrived around 1690 and settled at Trois-Rivières, probably in the service of the merchant Étienne

jurisdiction of the exiled bishop of Saint-Pol-de-Léon, Jean-François de La Marche. Because of a shortage of clergy in the diocese of Quebec the British government had agreed that a number of French refugee

priests of the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice, but things worked out differently. On 31 October, in the presence of notary Thomas Barron and Denis-Benjamin

SENEZERGUES DE LA RODDE, ÉTIENNE-GUILLAUME DE, officer in the French regular troops

SORBIER DE VILLARS, FRANÇOIS, priest, superior, and vicar general; b. 8 Feb. 1720 in the former diocese of Uzès (dept of

VILLIEU, CLAUDE-SÉBASTIEN DE, officer serving in Acadia, garrison adjutant of the colony; date and place of birth and of death unknown

, épigrammes et autres pièces de vers, the first collection of poetry by a French Canadian to appear in Canada. Neither contemporary nor 20th-century critics have been disposed to acclaim the work. Bibaud

days of New France. He began his commercial studies at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière in 1867 and finished them at the Collège de Lévis in 1873. Around 1874 he went to work as a bookkeeper at

. Wilfrid Derome attended the Petit Séminaire de Montréal from 1890 to 1893 and the Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal between 1893 and 1896. He completed his classical studies at the Collège Joliette in 1898

LEBRUN (Le Brun) DE DUPLESSIS, JEAN-BAPTISTE, lawyer, notary, merchant, office holder, and pamphleteer; b. c

of a tanner in Saint-Henri (Montreal), Louis-Delphis-Adolphe Maréchal began his schooling there and in 1837 was accepted, without payment, as a day student at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal. He did

Beauharnois battalion of militia. He was aide-de-camp to Lieutenant-Colonel Charles-Michel d’Irumberry* de Salaberry at the

corner of Rue des Pauvres and Ruelle de l’Arsenal in Quebec. Third in a family of seven children, he suffered from delicate health and required attentive care from his mother, but he was brought up no less

in the Company of M. de Repentigny,” according to the nuptial agreements he signed with Marie-Angélique Gallien, dated 22 Jan. 1731 (in which he is called Jean Perrodot

children; m. secondly 26 Oct. 1859 Charlotte Verchères de Boucherville, widow of Auguste Quesnel, at Boucherville, Lower Canada, and they had five children; d. 3 Nov. 1896 at Quebec

DE WITT, JACOB, businessman, politician, and justice of the peace; b. 17 Sept. 1785 in Windham, Conn., son of Henry De Witt

 Sept. 1837 in the meeting held at the Nelson Hotel to found the Fils de la Liberté [see André Ouimet*]. His great popularity and

. 1 May 1709 at Quebec, the second son of Joseph de Fleury* de La Gorgendière and Claire Jolliet; m

young Emmanuel-Persillier received a classical education at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal, which his father had attended in 1828–29. He then studied at the Montreal School of Medicine and Surgery, which

RAZILLY (Rasilly), ISAAC DE, naval captain, colonizer, and governor in Acadia; b. 1587 at the Château d’Oiseaumelle in the

SALES LATERRIÈRE, PIERRE-JEAN DE, doctor, militia officer, jp, and

TURC DE CASTELVEYRE, LOUIS, known as Brother Chrétien, superior of the Brothers Hospitallers of the Cross and of St

with the Sulpicians at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal (1887–93) and then at the Séminaire de Philosophie (1893–95), receiving his baccalauréat ès arts from the Université Laval in Montreal. He

MERLE, JACQUES, named Father Vincent de Paul, Roman Catholic priest and Trappist; b. 29 Oct. 1768 in

MEULLES, JACQUES DE, seigneur of La Source, chevalier, intendant of New France (1682–1686), son of Pierre de Meulles, king’s

cultured family and received his first lessons from his father, a notary and in effect his private tutor until 1842. He entered the Petit Séminaire de Québec as a student in the third year (Method) and left

Antoine Adhémar* de Saint-Martin and Michelle Cusson; d. 19 Dec. 1754 in Montreal

ALQUIER (Dalquier) DE SERVIAN, JEAN D’, officer in the French regular troops; fl. 1710–61

BOUTEROUE D’AUBIGNY, CLAUDE DE, chevalier, intendant of New France 1668–70; b

Pierre Legardeur* de Repentigny and Claude Dudevoir, the first in association with Étienne Campot

BÉGON DE LA COUR, CLAUDE-MICHEL, officer in the colonial regular troops, governor of

Le Coutre de Bourville, the acting commandant of Île Royale, blamed him for neglecting his duties in favour of his own affairs; the following year, after a disagreement with the

Bouchard, he was one of the surgeons whom the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal had committed itself to placing at the settlers’ service free of charge. The general list of the contingent allocates

-le-Grand in Paris, he set out for Canada in 1674. The following year he was at Kentaké (La Prairie de la Magdeleine), where he distinguished himself as a preacher and spiritual director. There he

DAMOURS (d’Amours) DE CLIGNANCOUR, RENÉ, seigneur and fur-trader; b. 9 Aug. 1660 at Quebec and baptized the same day; son of

, Montreal, on 13 August of that year. Thanks to his report entitled “Relation d’un voyage de Paris à Montréal en Canadas en 1737” we are fairly well informed of the circumstances surrounding his

set up a business in Quebec, where he made friends among the people in his craft. Indeed, on 20 Nov. 1727 in the church of Notre-Dame de Québec, the silversmith Jean-François

had three sons and a daughter; d. there 11 Aug. 1892. After attending the Collège Saint-Marie-de-Monnoir in Marieville, Georges

civil, Anglicans, Christ Church (Montréal), 19 June 1794; Greffe de Louis Chaboillez, 21 déc. 1791, 28 janv. 1794, 24 nov. 1804; Greffe de P.-F. Mézière, 7 janv. 1764. ANQ-Q