Forillon” in the diocese of Avranches, France, son of Jacques Digé and Jeanne Augé; d. 14 July 1813 in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (La Pocatière), Lower Canada

, 21 (1967–68): 281–311. Alfred Dumouchel, “Notes d’Alfred Dumouchel sur la rébellion de 1837–38 à Saint-Benoît,” BRH, 35 (1929): 31–51. Amury Girod, “Journal kept by the late Amury Girod

rivers and forests. He soon left this post and entered the seminary of Metz; he was then admitted into the noviciate of the Oblates at Notre-Dame de l’Osier (department of Isère), and made his profession

. John R. Porter ANQ-M, Doc. jud., Registres des audiences pour la juridiction de Montréal, 28B, f.83v; État civil

. Of Scottish descent, Alexandre Fraser grew up in a Roman Catholic family that was fully integrated into French Canadian society. He did his classical studies at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la

soon became a regular part of the assistance offered by the Grey Nuns to the people of Montreal, especially the working class. She kept a daily record of her experiences entitled “Journal de la salle

Chartier de Lotbinière, and the Conseil Supérieur. He preached several sermons in which he attacked the council, comparing the members of this tribunal to the tyrants and persecutors of the early

GAULTIER (Gauthier, Gautier) DE VARENNES (Devarenne, De Varenne), JEAN-BAPTISTE, priest, procurator of the seminary of Quebec, canon

France, but François Dollier de Casson, superior of the Sulpicians in New France, succeeded in

GODEFROY DE LINCTOT, DANIEL-MAURICE, officer in the colonial regular troops

GUIBORD, JOSEPH, typographer, member of the Institut Canadien; b. 31 March 1809 at Sainte-Anne-de-Varennes

, Étude généalogique sur Jean Guyon et ses descendants (Montréal, 1927). É.-Z. Massicotte, “Les arpenteurs de Montréal sous le régime français,” BRH, XXIV (1918), 304. [Mme Pierre [F. L

Archives de la Congrégation de Notre-Dame (Montréal), Biographie des sœurs décédées depuis le 17 août 1855 jusqu’au 14 juin 1871 (typescript); Correspondence de Mère Sainte-Madeleine

Collet* and during the crossing must have been present at the death of François Charon* de La Barre, the founder of the

JUCHEREAU DE SAINT-DENIS, NICOLAS, seigneur, colonizer, business man, member of the council of the colony for the fur trade, director

Fauteux* states, however, in his work Patriotes de 1837–1838 that Lacoste did not return to public life until 1849). He again represented the same county from 25 Sept. 1849 to 23

-Dame de Québec, Marie-Louise Braün, niece of Charles-Alphonse-Pantaléon Pelletier, and

de Notre-Dame, where his sister Jeanne was a recluse, and to the Brothers Hospitallers of which he was a founder, along with

LE COQ DE LA SAUSSAYE, RENÉ, agent and lieutenant of Antoinette de Pons, Marquise de Guercheville, in Acadia; normally resided at

LE GOUÈS DE SOURDEVAL, SÉBASTIEN, commandant on Île Saint-Pierre; b. 1657 at Bayeux in the lower part of the province of Normandy; d

(Norridgewock, now Old Point, Madison, Me.). Around 1734 he spent some time at the Abenaki mission of Saint-François-de-Sales (Odanak, Que.), according to the information contained in his short treatise

. As a soldier in the company commanded by Henri de Chastelard de Salières, Lenoir left La Rochelle at the end of May 1665 with some of the troops of the Carignan-Salières regiment, and, after

.” Around 1825 the Letendres came from Rocky Mountain House (Alta), known by francophones as “poste de la montagne de Roches,” to settle at St Boniface. On 6 June of that year Letendre’s sons Jean

cemetery in Montreal. Louis-Onésime Loranger studied at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal from 1847 to 1851, and then at the Collège Sainte-Marie, also

LYON DE SAINT-FERRÉOL, JEAN, priest, a director of the Séminaire des Missions Étrangères in Paris, France, superior of the seminary of

Bishop Dosquet*. He landed at Saint-Joachim on 13 August, reached Quebec by land the next day and was appointed parish priest of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, where he went on 25 August

garrison chaplain at Plaisance (Placentia, Nfld.). Governors Philippe Pastour* de Costebelle and Joseph de

Séminaire de Québec from 1805 to 1810, Philippe Panet entered his father’s office on 3 Dec. 1811 to study law. However, he broke off his studies at the time of the second American invasion and went

. Joseph Parant received his classical education at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1806 to 1816. In 1818 he was in London studying medicine along with Jean Blanchet and Augustin Mercier. After returning

guard in a storehouse on Perrault’s property, and he billeted passing officers, for example the Chevalier de La Pause

education at the Collège de Montréal from 1836 to 1844, then began to study theology at the Grand Séminaire of Montreal. He completed his formal education at the Sulpician seminary in Paris, 1847–49. At the

PICHOT (Pichon) DE QUERDISIEN (Kerdisien de) TRÉMAIS, CHARLES-FRANÇOIS, commissary of the Marine charged with conducting the inquiry in

PONCET DE LA RIVIÈRE, JOSEPH-ANTOINE, priest, Jesuit, and missionary; b. 7 May 1610 in Paris, son of Jean Poncet de La

notary and clerk of the court of Montreal, and the second, Paul-François, was ennobled under the name of Raimbault de Saint-Blaint (or Simblin), which his descendants bore. By his second marriage, to

ROCBERT DE LA MORANDIÈRE, ÉTIENNE, king’s storekeeper, subdelegate of the intendant

ROUER DE VILLERAY, LOUIS, soldier, clerk of court, notary, secretary of Governor

clerical duties, the director of fortifications, Jean-François de Verville*, found he no longer had need of Sabatier, and the financial

Isaac de Razilly’s Fort Saint-François at Canseau, Thomas incited the Indians through talk and plying them with

Babie*, an ancestor on his father’s side, had come from France with the Régiment de Carignan-Salières; his numerous descendants had made careers for themselves in the armed forces, the civil service

funds enabling him to continue his education in Europe. At the Conservatoire de Paris during the 1873–74 and 1874–75 sessions Couture worked on harmony

. Little is recorded about Georges-Alma Dumont as a youth. Through his mother, who was the daughter of Lambert Tessier, dit Lavigne, and a descendant of Urbain Tessier, to whom Paul de

reservation, in 1838 he unhesitatingly offered a substantial sum to assist the Collège de L’Assomption, which had opened five years before. Faribault served as well in the Lavaltrie battalion of militia. In

parish municipality of Saint-Laurent, where his father would serve as mayor from 1885 to 1890. Édouard completed the sixth year of studies (Rhetoric) at the Petit Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse and afterwards

bursar (1827–29) at the seminary of Marseilles. On 31 May 1828 he was ordained priest by Charles-Fortuné de Mazenod, bishop of Marseilles. Shortly afterwards he was appointed novice-master at Saint

. 1 Feb. 1882 at Montreal. After classical studies at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal from 1831 to 1840, Maurice Laframboise articled in law and

LE MOYNE DE SERIGNY ET DE LOIRE, JOSEPH, naval officer, knight of the order of Saint-Louis, joint commander of Louisiana, governor of

lieutenant of Andigné* de Grandfontaine’s company, and it is as such that he formed part of the Carignan-Salières regiment and

ROCH, JOSEPH-AVILA, Roman Catholic priest, teacher, and first superior of the Société des Missions Étrangères de la Province de Québec

 14 he began his classical studies at the Petit Séminaire de Québec, although he left before the second and final year of Philosophy. In 1842 he went to New Orleans to study civil engineering, but after

Major-General Francis de Rottenburg*, in 1811. For some years he lived at Quebec, where garrison life was considered pleasant; in his