. References are made to a silversmith named “Saint-Paul” in the account books of the parish churches of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré in 1732, of Les Écureuils in 1744, and of Saint-Pierre, Île d’Orléans, in 1746. An

. 1823 in Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Lower Canada, son of Damase Larue, a notary, and Marie des Anges Lefebvre; m. 2 May 1859 Henriette Couture in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Lower Canada, and they

.” In 1870 the first Canadian edition of the Œuvres de Champlain appeared. This edition, which Laverdière had been shaping and recasting since 1864, was according to Narcisse-Henri-Édouard

LE MOYNE DE MARTIGNY, VITE-ADÉLARD, notary, administrator, and financier; b. 24 Dec. 1826 in Varennes, Lower Canada, son of

Huault de Montmagny on 10 Mar. 1646, and on 31 October of the same year Abbé Le Sueur obtained for himself the grant of an adjoining piece of land situated on the Sainte-Geneviève hill

. In 1655 he received from the grand seneschal, Jean de Lauson*, title-deeds to a piece of land with a river frontage of three arpents

LESAGE, DAMASE (baptized Damas Hardy), piano manufacturer; b. 28 March 1849 in Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville

. ANQ-Q, AP-G-219/1–4; État civil, Anglicans, Cathedral of the Holy Trinity (Québec), 28 May 1861; Greffe de John Childs, déc. 1836; Greffe de E. B. Lindsay, 22 mai 1826, 21

a stay in the country. The Lévesque family accordingly went to live in Berthier-en-Haut (Berthierville). The following year young Charles-François entered the Petit Séminaire de Montréal, where he

L’ESPÉRANCE, CHARLES-LÉOPOLD-ÉBÉRARD DE, Baron of the Holy Roman Empire, lieutenant in the Swiss Régiment de Karrer; b

MAREUIL, JACQUES DE, half-pay lieutenant of a detachment of colonial regular troops, amateur actor; he arrived in Canada in the spring

that Martin used to descend to the St. Charles River to water his animals. His property amounted to 32 acres in all, 12 received from the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France in 1635 and 20 as a gift

Abraham Martin*, dit L’Écossais, and Marguerite Langlois, godson of Charles de

classical and theological education at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe, and after ordination to the priesthood on 9 Feb. 1851, taught philosophy there for more than four years. He then served in

McLOUGHLIN, MARIE-LOUISE, named de Saint-Henri

, according to the census of Quebec, he was living with his wife in a house on Rue de la Montagne. This same census tells us that Pagé was not only a silversmith but also a watch maker. Where or how he learned

figures of Montreal in his time, Peltier in 1852 had married, at Notre-Dame de Montréal, Suzanne Ellen Van Felson, daughter of a judge, George

POTOT DE MONTBEILLARD, FIACRE-FRANÇOIS, artillery officer; b. 23 Dec. 1723 at Semur

SASSEVILLE, FRANÇOIS, silversmith; b. 30 Jan. 1797 at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (La Pocatière, Que.), son of Joseph

SOUPIRAN, SIMON, barber-surgeon to the hospital and public of Quebec, senior churchwarden of Notre-Dame de Québec

SURIA, TOMÁS DE, artist; b. May 1761 in Madrid, son of Francisco Suria and Feliciana Lozana; m. 15 Dec. 1788 Maria

-François de La Faye*], who remained under the direction of Saint-Sulpice, and later the Brothers Hospitallers of the Cross and of St

TASCHEREAU, JOSEPH-ANDRÉ, lawyer, politician, and judge; b. 30 Nov. 1806 at Sainte-Marie-de-la-Nouvelle

1831, he taught at various colleges of the society in France and Italy. From 1833 to 1837 he was rector of the Collège de Chambéry in Savoy, and held the same office at the Collège d’Aoste in Italy until

. Sewell, Jenkin Williams*, Pierre-Amable De Bonne*, and James

-ward of the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec, the first stone of which was laid on 15 Oct. 1654 by the governor-general, Jean de Lauson*. Vachon

-Hurons (Wendake), Lower Canada, son of Gabriel Vincent and Marie Otis (Otisse, Otesse, Hôtesse); m. 14 Aug. 1848 at Saint-Ambroise-de-la-Jeune-Lorette (Loretteville) Marie Falardeau (Falardau

AMANTACHA, baptized as Louis de Sainte-Foi, a Huron educated in France, later a friend and aide of the Jesuit

seems to have arrived at Montreal in 1657, together with the first Sulpicians, who made him their representative in the bailiff’s court. In 1657 also, following the assassination of Jean de

 1815. Michel-Amable Berthelot Dartigny studied at the Séminaire de Québec from 1749 to April 1751 and again from January 1754 to July 1757. On 24

. Louis-Théodore Besserer was a pupil at the Petit Séminaire de Québec, then studied under Félix Têtu to become a notary; he was admitted to the profession on 28 Aug. 1810. Antoine Roy describes him as

and Guillaume, also carpenters, who were Jesuit donnés. (Charles was brought to Sainte-Marie, the Huron mission, as architect in 1640.) François received a grant of land at Cap de la Madeleine

Péan de Livaudière, Charles-Marie Couillard de Beaumont, and Marguerite Forestier. The second report put an end to a difficult division of the seigneury of Beaumont after the sale of the

* d’Aulnay brought with him on one of his voyages. Bourgeois’ father, also named Jacques, was an army officer at Port-Royal and was the brother-in-law of Germain Doucet, Sieur de La Verdure, Aulnay’s

BRAS-DE-FER DE CHATEAUFORT, MARC-ANTOINE, Knight of Malta, acting commandant of New France from

Denys* de Fronsac, whose widow, Françoise Cailleteau, had married Pierre Rey Gaillard, an artilleryman, in Quebec City in 1694. The latter was much more interested in the trade in pelts than in his

Parish of Notre-Dame-de-la-Victoire at Lévis in 1850. When the church and presbytery were being built and the cemetery enlarged, they backed the parish priest Joseph-David

Paris 3 Sept. 1624. After taking his first vows in September 1626 he was sent to the famous Collège de Clermont (Paris), where he was to

Rimouski in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec; d. 26 June 1887 at La Malbaie. Simon-Xavier Cimon studied at the Petit Séminaire de

age who originally came from Rouen, Cusson settled down at Cap-de-la-Madeleine. By 1667 the couple owned 7 head of cattle and 28 acres of land under cultivation, a quite extraordinary achievement

DELABORDE (de La Borde, La Borde), JEAN, king’s attorney; b. 1700 or 1701 in the parish of Saint-Germain-le-Vieux, Paris, France

. 1869 in Saint-Henri-de-Mascouche (Mascouche), Que., son of Melaine Delfausse, a seigneurial agent and postmaster, and Josephine Mount; m. 14 May 1908 Aline Contant, daughter of Alexis

 Aug. 1844 at Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan (Saint-Jacques, Montcalm County), L.C., son of Joseph Dupuis, a farmer, and Euphrasie Richard, of Acadian ancestry; d. 24 Aug. 1876 at Montreal, Que

. Théogène Fafard’s family was well established in the Montreal area in the early 1870s. In 1872, after three years at the Collège de Montréal, Fafard began to study at the Montreal School of Medicine and

of Ville-Marie on 20 Aug. 1681, at the same time as the surgeon Jean Martinet de Fonblanche. The agreement stipulated, among other things, that for three-month periods and at an annual salary

GERMAIN, CÉSAIRE, notary and school inspector; b. in 1808 at Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Laval), L.C., son of Jean-Baptiste

Robinau* de Villebon’s journals, sometimes in association with another privateer, Baptiste (Pierre Maisonnat

. Through his mother, brothers, and sisters, he was linked with several families of merchants: the Magnans, the Marins de La Malgue, the Pothiers, the Le Contes Dupré, and the La Cornes. On 8

LA CROIX, HUBERT-JOSEPH DE, doctor, botanizer; b. 1703, son of Dominique de La Croix and Catherine Clément, both from Liège

, 6, f.18. Louis Bertrand de Latour, Mémoires sur la vie de M. de Laval, premier évêque de Québec (Cologne, 1761), 203–4. Caron, “Inventaire de documents,” APQ Rapport, 1939