GALAUP, JEAN-FRANÇOIS DE, Comte de LAPÉROUSE, naval officer; b. 23 Aug. 1741 in the

GAULTIER DE LA VÉRENDRYE, LOUIS-JOSEPH (most often he used the name Joseph, and he was called the Chevalier from 1736 on), explorer, fur

Deschamps de Boishébert at Miramichi. In June 1762, however, he and his family were among Acadian prisoners being held at Fort Edward (Windsor, N.S

JÉRÉMIE, dit Lamontagne, CATHERINE (Aubuchon; Lepailleur de Laferté), midwife, botanizer

Lalemant entered the Jesuit noviciate in Paris 20 Oct. 1610; he studied philosophy at Pont-à-Mousson (1612–15) and theology at the Collège de Clermont (1619–23). In the interval he had been prefect of

LEBLOND DE LATOUR, JACQUES, painter and wood-carver who taught at the school of arts and crafts at Saint-Joachim, parish priest of

daughters; d. there 16 Dec. 1907. After primary education with the Frères de la Doctrine Chrétienne at Lévis, Lower Canada

survived their father; d. 30 July 1916 in Montreal and was buried 1 August in Sorel. Michel Mathieu entered the Séminaire de Saint

children; m. there secondly 28 Jan. 1918 Marie-Jeanne Langlais in the parish of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, and they had five children; d. there 8 Oct. 1936 and was buried in Notre-Dame de Belmont

1,200 livres a year, one-tenth as much as Talon received. In 1667 he was sent back to France on the king’s service and returned to Quebec two years later, during the intendancy of Claude de

[La Croix*] was invited to open the first Recollet convent and church at Montreal. The ceremony, attended by Louis-Hector de

Intendant Jacques Raudot* in his ordinance of 1709. Philippe You de La Découverte, the slave’s owner, was the object of a distraint upon this

SACCARDY (de Saccardy, Saccardie), VINCENT, engineer-general for the French king in Canada; baptized 26 Sept. 1630 at Tours

Jean Sulte, dit Vadeboncœur, a saddler and shoemaker, is thought to have arrived in Canada with the troops of Louis-Joseph de Montcalm

captive of the Iroquois for four years. He wanted to exchange him for his nephew, who was a prisoner at the Saint-François-Xavier mission at the Saint-Louis (Lachine) rapids. Immediately the Chevalier de

. Joseph-Édouard pursued his classical studies at the Séminaire de Nicolet from 1821 to 1829, then decided in favour of the priesthood. In 1831 he lost his right arm in an accident. This loss coincided with

. André Lâchance AHDQ, Registres des malades, 1709–12. AJQ, Registre d’état civil de Notre-Dame

 May 1723. In August of the same year he bought a lot at Prairie-de-la-Madeleine (Laprairie). His second child was baptized at Montreal on 12 Aug. 1724, and on 4 Nov. 1725 his

Kirkes after they had captured the supply ships of the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France in the summer of 1628, some of which supplies they left with Alexander’s colonists at Gaspé or Tadoussac

BABINEAU, FRANÇOIS-XAVIER, priest and teacher; b. 21 March 1825 at Saint-Louis-de-Kent, N.B., son of Joseph

Denys* de Bonnaventure to Île Saint-Jean in 1749. Bonnaventure had been instructed to take possession of the island, rebuild its fortifications, and promote settlement, which had languished. Berbudeau

BOIRET, URBAIN, priest and superior of the Séminaire de Québec; b. 6 Sept. 1731 in the parish of Saint

, however, be affirmed, for no document confirms such a hypothesis. Yet a contract from the parish archives of Saint-Charles-de-Lachenaie does suggest

. Boulduc landed 17 Aug. 1665 at Quebec with Andigné* de Grandfontaine’s company in the Carignan regiment. On 20 Aug

BOURDON DE DOMBOURG, JEAN-FRANÇOIS, officer in the colonial regular troops; b. 29

BOURGEOYS, MARGUERITE, dite du Saint-Sacrement, founder of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame de Montréal; b. 17

Charles-François Caron, the parish priest of Saint-Esprit (Montcalm County). In 1834 she taught at the local school; she continued teaching at Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Laval) when her benefactor was

December 1800 Pierre Bureau put an advertisement in the Quebec Gazette “to inform the Public, particularly Gentlemen travelling,” that at his house in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade (La Pérade) they could

* Desauniers obtained letters of emancipation and benefit of age for them in 1737. In 1738 the two young seigneurs named Jean de Latour, a royal notary

1795 at Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Laval, Que.), son of Vincent Chartrand and Marie-Charlotte Labelle; d. unmarried 26 March 1863 in his native parish

* de Boucherville, as attorney general from 22 Sept. 1874 to 27 Jan. 1876 and treasurer until 8 March 1878, six days after Lieutenant Governor Luc

COUAGNE, JEAN-BAPTISTE DE, surveyor and military engineer in Canada and Île Royale (Cape Breton Island); b. 1687 probably at

COUILLARD DE LESPINAY, LOUIS, fisherman, hunter, and seigneur; b. 1629, third child and eldest son of

authorities. On the recommendation of Jean-Louis Le Loutre*, with whom Daudin had studied at the Séminaire du Saint-Esprit in Paris, Abbé de

DENYS DE SAINT-SIMON, CHARLES-PAUL, provost marshal; b. 31 Jan. 1688 at Quebec, son of Paul

Thibault* published his Biographie de Stanislas Drapeau, auteur des “Études sur les développements de la colonisation du Bas-Canada” et promoteur des sociétés de secours

Bourdon* de Dombourg]. Gaudet’s claim is supported by another Dugas family tradition, according to which Joseph lived at Restigouche, in the Miramichi region (N.B.), and in the vicinity of Fort

. He resigned his office 17 March 1687 to succeed Henri de Bernières* at the head of the parish of Notre-Dame in Quebec. Four days

). Léon-Adélard Fafard studied at the Collège de L’Assomption from 1864 to 1872. After a year’s noviciate with the Oblates at Lachine, which ended on 27 June 1873, he took his perpetual vows on 29

Catholic Commercial Academy of Montreal, cradle of the École Polytechnique de Montréal [see Joseph-Émile

the knot,” Besnard replied that he had been speaking about the lacing of his hose. Sieur Chomedey* de Maisonneuve, as acting

Saint-Étienne-de-Beaumont (Beaumont) from 1745 to 1748. From 1748 to 1749 he was parish priest of Saint-Louis on he aux Coudres, and from 1749 to 1755 of Sainte-Anne-du-Petit-Cap (Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré

GRANDSAIGNES D’HAUTERIVES, HENRY DE, Vicomte de GRANDSAIGNES D’HAUTERIVES (named at birth Henri-Louis-Marie

GRASSET DE SAINT-SAUVEUR, ANDRÉ, merchant and secretary to the governor; b. 1724 in

(West Indies), the son of Rémy Guillouet and Anne-Marie Le Febvre de La Barre; married

HOUDE, FRÉDÉRIC, journalist and politician; b. 23 Sept. 1847 at Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup

IRUMBERRY DE SALABERRY, ÉDOUARD-ALPHONSE D’, military engineer; b. 20

Quebec, eldest son of Antoine Juchereau* Duchesnay and Julie-Louise Liénard de Beaujeu; half-brother of Jean-Baptiste

died in 1850, and on 21 Oct. 1868 Kierzkowski married Caroline-Virginie, daughter of the Honourable François-Roch de Saint-Ours and cousin of his first wife; the church granted them dispensation

LA CETIÈRE, FLORENT DE, upholsterer, tavern-keeper, soldier, royal notary, court officer, clerk of court, judge of seneschal’s court