-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal, and in 1868 was president of the Société de l’Union Saint-Joseph de Montréal. During the 1870s he held office as president of the Société de Colonisation de Montréal, and as
DESDAMES, THIERRY, deputy representative of the Compagnie de Montmorency and captain of Miscou; fl. 1622–46
Richelieu. After taking her first communion at the age of 12, she returned home; there she was again tutored privately by Abbé Jean-Marie-Ignace Archambault, a teacher at the Collège de Saint-Hyacinthe. Eager
Pelletier*; m. 14 June 1870 Marie-Malvina Gagnon in the parish of Notre-Dame-de-Liesse at Rivière-Ouelle, and they had five daughters and three sons; d. suddenly 11 June 1901 at Quebec
Brisay* de Denonville, by a good reputation. He was commissioned to take charge of “His Majesty’s affairs in the region of Montreal.” Denonville
GAUDRON DE CHEVREMONT, CHARLES-RENÉ, clerk in the office of the Marine, royal notary, judge; b. 5 July 1702 at Linas
Jean-Baptiste Gaultier de La Vérendrye (1713–36) was a French explorer who ventured west. In 1731, having co-founded a trading
-Odilon Gauthier, whose father was the treasurer of Quebec City from 1851 to 1868 and one of the founders of the society of St Vincent de Paul in Canada, studied at the Petit Séminaire of Quebec, and
Montreal; d. 15 Jan. 1777 at Saint-Jean-François-Régis (now Saint-Philippe-de-Laprairie, Que.).
In 1754 Claude Hantraye was sent to be
diaconate 27 April 1704, and on 25 April 1706, at the same time as his younger brother, Pierre Hazeur* de L’Orme
KING, JAMES, businessman and politician; b. 18 Feb. 1848 in Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Lower Canada, son of
AJQ, Greffe de Claude Auber, 7 juillet 1666. Université de Montréal, Coll. Bâby (land grants (concessions), 1626–1718). JR (Thwaites), passim. Dionne, Champlain, II, 338
agree neither on his ethnic origin nor on the date of his arrival in Canada. Undeniably, he “came from Scotland”; but, as a notarial contract designated him “Sieur de La Ramée, and as his brother
MELANÇON (Melanson), MARIE-VÉNÉRANDE, named de Sainte-Claire, hospital nun of the Hôtel-Dieu in Quebec and superior
NOYON, JACQUES DE, voyageur, coureur de bois, sergeant in the colonial regular troops; b. 12 Feb. 1668 in Trois-Rivières
Du Gua de Monts and Champlain established their settlement on Île Sainte-Croix in 1604. He
Aloigny de La Groye. For ten years Papineau served faithfully under Frontenac [Buade*] and
studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1789 to 1798. He then taught there while pursuing theology at the Grand Séminaire. He was not as gifted as his fellow-student Joseph
request of Des Friches* de Menneval. His instructions, dated 10 April 1688, stated he was “to have an examination
PAYEN DE NOYAN ET DE CHAVOY, PIERRE-JACQUES, officer in the colonial regular
.
Honorius Provost
JR (Thwaites), IX, 103; XI, 93. Papier terrier de la Cie des I.O. (P.-G. Roy). Jean
PUISAYE, JOSEPH-GENEVIÈVE DE, Comte de PUISAYE, Marquis de BRÉCOURT
PUYJALON, HENRY DE (named Jean-Baptiste-Henri at birth), naturalist and author; b. 15 March 1841 in Gluges
d’Irumberry* de Salaberry] and to render judges ineligible to sit in the assembly in 1808 [see Sir James Henry Craig*; Pierre
to Canada, with Abbé François de Salignac* de La Mothe-Fénelon
, politician, businessman, and philanthropist; b. 18 Dec. 1863 in Saint-Étienne-de-Beaumont (Beaumont), Lower Canada, son of Damase Turgeon, a sailor, and Christine Turgeon; m. 19 July 1887
permission from Governor Augustin de Boschenry* de Drucour to go to France with dispatches and to inform the minister of Marine of
VERON DE GRANDMESNIL, ÉTIENNE (he usually signed Grandmesnil and
BOURDON, JEAN (sometimes called M. de Saint-Jean or Sieur de Saint-François), seigneur
CATALOGNE, GÉDÉON (DE) (he signed “Catalougne,” the Béarnais way, but most official documents refer to him as
Denis-Benjamin*. Following his mother’s death in 1801, Côme-Séraphin was brought up by the Viger family. After attending the Petit Séminaire de Montréal from 1806 to 1816, he studied law under Denis
to have taken private lessons, beginning in 1837, and he managed to acquire sufficient education to become assistant editor of the Quebec Gazette/La Gazette de Québec five years
did the classical program at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière from 1845 to 1856, and then studied law for three years at the Université Laval in Quebec City. He was called to the bar of Lower
de Lanaudière and Louis-Joseph Godefroy* de Tonnancour left Trois-Rivières for Montreal, the habitants of Saint-Cuthbert
concerning him that has been preserved notes that he “has discharged his duty badly.” He was recalled in 1667 and replaced by La Palme (or de Palme
Audouart (1649–1663), Jean Durand (1653–1654), and Louis Rouer de Villeray (1653–1657) had no
several generations and many of them had been leading citizens. Little is known about the first 20 years of his life, except that he studied at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe from 1847 to 1851
Fontaine; d. 19 Jan. 1882 at Quebec City.
François-Xavier Bélanger received a classical education at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from
CARBONARIIS, GIOVANNI ANTONIO DE, Italian priest, probably sailed with
CARREFOUR DE LA PELOUZE, PIERRE-JOSEPH (baptized Joseph), army
CHALOUX, MARIE-ESTHER, named de Saint-Joseph, hospital nun of the Hôpital Général in Quebec and superior; b
, and Marie Dumesnil, both of whom were brought as immigrants to Montreal by Chomedey* de Maisonneuve in the 1650s. Jean
Varin* de La Marre, financial commissary. As early as 1750 Claverie made an arrangement with Bigot to build a warehouse, part of which would encroach upon the king’s land and which the king would
.
Before his marriage in 1707, David Corbin had travelled in 1705 to the Detroit area for the Compagnie de la Colonie. He was still a young man when he came to the attention of the administration – a
COUAGNE (Du Coigne), JEAN-BAPTISTE DE, fur-trader and interpreter; baptized 3 March 1720 at Montreal (Que.), son of René
CUNY DAUTERIVE (Auterive), PHILIPPE-ANTOINE DE, writer in the Marine and cashier at Montreal for the treasurers general of the Marine
DE HAVEN, EDWIN JESSE, naval officer and explorer; b. 7 May 1816 at Philadelphia, Pa
Born into a wealthy New York family, Abraham De Peyster (1753–98) unhesitatingly fought for the British after the American
councils held by Indigenous people before being shot by Ottawa (Odawa) warriors.
DELHALLE (De la Halle), CONSTANTIN, priest, Recollet