LANCTÔT, MAGLOIRE, lawyer and judge; b. 4 March 1823 at Saint-Constant de Laprairie, L.C., of the marriage

LATERRIÈRE, MARC-PASCAL DE SALES, doctor, seigneur, and politician; b. 25

village in the area, as did the Hurons, under the care of Father Étienne de Carheil. The military commandant of

MARTEL DE MAGOS (Magesse), JEAN, soldier, merchant, trader, seigneur, clerk in the king’s stores, b. c. 1650 in France, d

 Borgne de Belle-Isle; his purpose was to see the places mentioned in his commission. He had left Belle-Isle at Port-Royal, after making over his powers to him, and had sailed for Boston to

[Viennay-Pachot*] house (1686), sited on Place Royale which was dedicated in the same year. In 1688 he took part in the rebuilding of the Ursuline convent, built the belfry of Notre-Dame-de-la-Victoire

. Outlaw commanded the Success in 1685 and on the voyage out encountered two French ships from Port Nelson under Claude de

ACAM, RCD, 137; RDM, 7; RLB; 901.079. J.-B.-A. Allaire, Histoire de la paroisse de Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu (Canada) (Saint-Hyacinthe, Qué., 1905). [Ignace Bourget], Mémoire pour

, “garçon orfèvre,” as his assistant for four months. To date, a cup and a spoon have been attributed to Payne. The spoon bears a very Parisian touch-mark of a crowned fleur de lis over the letters SP

introduced as early as 1713; b. 28 June 1657 at Sainte-Anne de Beaupré, son of Georges Pelletier (baptized 1624 at Dieppe); Georges had come to New France in 1652 and married in 1656 Catherine

annuels des maisons et des personnes de la province de France de la Compagnie de Jésus; Lettres originales, codex Gal. 109 I, ff.54–55, lettre autographe du P. Julien Perrault au P. Mutius

Liénard de Beaujeu. Estèbe inspected the grant, and in September the concession was extended three or four leagues to Rivière Thekaapoin. In

Martel* de Brouague and Pierre Trottier* Desauniers, who were exploiting concessions along the coast of Labrador, and Raby

Normale de Montreal for a period of five years at the annual salary of £245, plus accommodation. The normal school opened its doors on 5 September, and

. Rivet had long worked under Charles de Monseignat, beginning in 1706 as chief clerk of the tax-farm of the

family came from Paris some time around 1627 where Charles, a printer and bookseller like his father, had married Marie Pichon, the widow of Philippe Gauthier de La Chenaye. We know of four of

companies, banks, societies, and on boards in Quebec, including president of the City Building Society, 1857–59, vice-president of the Caisse d’Économie de Notre-Dame de Québec from 1858, director of the De

Le Febvre* de La Barre. However, with his forces beset by disease and unable to withstand an attack La Barre was forced to treat Tekanoet well. Le Barre sent Tekanoet to the

Catherine de Médicis, he later became historiographer and cosmographer to the king. A bogus scholar and a naive compiler of facts, he recorded indiscriminately everything he read or heard, while at the same

TIBIERGE, MARIE-CATHERINE, dite de Saint-Joachim, Hospitaller, superior of the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec; b

Charlotte-Françoise Juchereau* de Saint-Denis, daughter of Nicolas Juchereau de Saint-Denis

unhappy survivors of the Huron tribe were living at Jeune-Lorette, Lac-des-Deux-Montagnes, and Father Armand de La

. 1659 at Gilly-lès-Cîteaux, France, son of Claude Sarrazin, an official at the Abbey of Cîteaux, and of Madeleine de Bonnefoy; d. 8 Sept. 1734 at Quebec of a malignant fever probably

him to make, among other things, a monstrance and some ampullae for holy oil – which have since disappeared – for the church of Saint-Charles-de-Lachenaie

RAMEZAY, CLAUDE DE, esquire, lieutenant and captain in the colonial regular troops, commander of the troops, seigneur, knight of the

BIGAULT D’AUBREVILLE, LOUIS-NICOLAS-EMMANUEL DE (he signed Emmanuel d’Aubreville), army officer and office holder; fl

, and they had four sons; d. 25 Feb. 1900 in Louiseville. After studying at the Séminaire de Nicolet from 1845 to 1847, Édouard Caron

. Emmanuel Couillard-Després was a sixth-generation descendant on his father’s side of Guillaume Couillard* de Lespinay, son-in-law

. Jules Decorby entered the noviciate at Notre-Dame-de-l’Osier in France on 30 April 1861, made his religious profession as an Oblate of Mary Immaculate on 3 May 1862, and took his perpetual vows

many respects to that of his father. After studying at the Séminaire de Nicolet from 1840 to 1846, and at the Jesuit college in Fordham (New York), he was called to the Lower Canadian bar on 3 May

FORANT, ISAAC-LOUIS DE, naval officer, knight of the order of Saint-Louis, third governor of Île Royale (Cape Breton Island); b

Marie de Saint-Basile. Marie des Sept-Douleurs remained superior general of her community’s houses in France and Louisiana until her death on 29 Jan. 1900

feelings, he passed on to Nicolas and Pierre. As early as 1751 Nicolas was employed by Claude-Élisabeth Denys* de

LA GOUDALIE (La Gondalie), CHARLES DE, priest, Sulpician, missionary; b. c. 1678 at Rodez, France; d. c. 1753 in

LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, FRANÇOIS-ALEXANDRE-FRÉDÉRIC DE, Duc de LA ROCHEFOUCAULD-LIANCOURT, Duc d’ESTISSAC, author; b. 11 Jan. 1747

Fédération Nationale Saint-Jean-Baptiste. She would make her most significant contribution, however, to the Association Professionnelle des Employées de Magasins, of which she was to be elected vice-president

LE MARCHAND DE LIGNERY, CONSTANT, esquire, lieutenant and midshipman in France, lieutenant and captain in Canada, knight of the order

construction of a new church, more modest than the preceding one, which had not been completed. During this year 1682 Gaultier de Bruslon had been appointed parish priest of Trois-Rivières; Xiste Le Tac

on his own, however, with books brought to him by his friends, and soon he was contributing to various newspapers. In 1900 the collective anthology of the École Littéraire de Montréal, Les soirées

, and warden of the St Vincent de Paul Penitentiary, and Rose de Lima Painchaud; they had no children; d. 24 May 1919 in Sault-au-Récollet (Montreal North

Meloche did his classical studies up to the sixth year (Rhetoric) with the Jesuits at the Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal, except for 1866–67, when he was at the Collège de L’Assomption. During the same

des Saints-Noms de Jésus et de Marie in Longueuil, Que., and St Boniface, Man.; the Arch. des Sœurs Grises in St Boniface and Edmonton; the Arch. de l’Archevêché de Saint-Boniface; the Arch

, jp, and judge; b. 26 Nov. 1778 in Sainte-Marie-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce (Sainte-Marie), Que., son of Gabriel-Elzéar

entered the Petit Séminaire de Québec, where he distinguished himself. He was articled in 1832 to his cousin Joseph-André Taschereau* and

. Horace Archambeault did classical studies at the Collège de L’Assomption from 1867 to 1875 and completed them at the Petit Séminaire de Québec. He then enrolled at the Université Laval, where he obtained a

, politician, and author; b. 24 March 1848 in Saint-Joseph-de-Lanoraie (Lanoraie), Lower Canada, son of Louis Beaugrand, dit Champagne, a mariner, and Marie-Josephte (Joséphine) Marion; m

and chatelain of, Gières near Grenoble, and of Jeanne de Cluzel; admitted 3 June 1583 into the noviciate of the Society of Jesus, at the Collège in Tournon; d. at the noviciate of Avignon, 17

Aubert* de La Chesnaye, one of the tax-farmers, who, in the spring of 1679, sent Louis Jolliet to explore

, under the patronage of the Abbé de L’Isle-Dieu, the bishop of Quebec’s vicar general in France. He received the tonsure on 27 May 1769 and minor orders on 9 June 1770, as did his step-brother

crypt of the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe. Claver Casavant studied at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe from 1867 to 1871. He then learned the rudiments