DE SOLA, CLARENCE ISAAC, businessman, Zionist leader, and author; b. 15 Aug. 1858 in Montreal, third son of Abraham

DIÈREVILLE (Dierville, Dière de Dièreville), French surgeon and writer, author of an account of a voyage to Acadia; b. in France

DUPUY DE LISLOYE, PAUL, esquire, soldier, seigneur, king’s attorney, and special lieutenant of the provost court of Quebec; b. c

Commercial Academy of Montreal from 1872 to 1878. He did his classical studies at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal from 1878 to 1884, and then began his theological training at the Grand Séminaire de Montréal

; b. 3 April 1840 in Saint-Pie, Lower Canada, son of Pierre Gendreau, a blacksmith, and Adelaïde Normandin; d. 11 Sept. 1918 in Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Que

Canada, son of Guillaume Nantel, a tanner, and Adélaïde Desjardins; d. 30 July 1929 in Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville (Sainte-Thérèse), Que. In

-Louis de Pourroy* de Lauberivière. Panet had certainly received a fairly advanced education, for eight months after

-Étienne-de-Beaumont; d. likely 2 or 3 Sept. 1758 at Gaspé. Banished from the kingdom of France, Pierre Révol arrived in Canada on the king’s

of Thomas-Jacques Taschereau* and Marie-Claire de Fleury de La Gorgendière; m. there first 26 Jan. 1773 Marie-Louise

. 24 May 1756 at the Saint-François-de-Sales mission (Odanak, Que.). Joseph Aubery at 17 years of age entered the Collège Louis-le-Grand in

LA BROSSE, JEAN-BAPTISTE DE, Jesuit, priest, missionary, and professor; b. 30 April 1724

. On 18 Aug. 1783 Adhémar and Jean De Lisle* de La Cailleterie informed the governor that they had been “lawfully elected” as

(department of Pas-de-Calais), and began his noviciate under the direction of Father Gabriel de La Ribourde*. He continued his studies at

Landry* in Quebec City, and they had four sons and two daughters; d. there 13 Jan. 1934 and was buried three days later in Notre-Dame de Belmont cemetery, in Sainte-Foy (Quebec City

study and such an earnest turn of mind that his father had no hesitation in sending him in 1785 to the Petit Séminaire de Québec. Demers found

HUET DE LA VALINIÈRE, PIERRE, Roman Catholic priest and Sulpician; baptized 10 Jan. 1732 in Varades, France, son of Charles

farm on the third row of concessions at Sainte-Louise. After three years of a commercial course and a year of classical studies at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, he returned to his father’s

superior of the Séminaire de Lisieux, retaining this office until 1725. At this period the Society of Saint-Sulpice supplied the Séminaire des Missions Étrangères with some of its members, and Abbé Dosquet

DUQUESNE (Du Quesne, Duqaine, Duquêne) DE MENNEVILLE, ANGE, Marquis DUQUESNE, naval officer and governor general of New France; b

classical education in France at the Petit Séminaire de Meung-sur-Loire. In 1789 he decided to enter the priesthood and began his theological studies with the Sulpicians in his home town. He made friends with

LAFONTAINE DE BELCOUR (Bellecour, Bellecourt), JACQUES DE (he signed Delafontaine), member of the Conseil Supérieur

Notre-Dame de Belmont cemetery at Sainte-Foy, Que. Adolphe-Basile Routhier’s ancestors had come from the Saintonge region of

St Anne mission (Alberta); b. 14 Dec. 1810 at Saint-Joseph-de-Lévis, L.C., son of Jean-Baptiste Thibault and Charlotte Carrier; d. 4 April 1879 at Saint-Denis-de-la

ALLENOU DE LAVILLANGEVIN, RENÉ-JEAN, canon, vicar general, theologal, and official; b. 1685 or 1686 at Pordic (dept. of Côtes-du

ACAM, RLB, 2, p.54. Archives de l’archevêché de Saint-Boniface (Man.), Notes de Mgr Cloutier sur les commencements de l’histoire religieuse de ce pays. Cours donnés les jeudis par Mgr Taché à partir du

-Stanislas Bédard and Luce Lajus; d. unmarried 14 April 1833 in Paris. Joseph-Isidore Bédard began studying at the Séminaire de Nicolet at the age

Assembly and was defeated by Pierre-Paul Margane* de Lavaltrie in the county of Warwick, where the vast majority of voters were

. Having begun his studies at the school of Sainte-Geneviève (Montreal), Joseph-Philéas Filion continued them in that city at the Collège de Saint-Laurent, where he very likely took part in amateur

1697 and brought to Saint-François-de-Sales (Odanak), in New France. Gill was not overly diligent at elementary and secondary school; his marks were

of Johnny (Jean) Guay, a merchant, and Marie-Émilie Tremblay; m. 2 Sept. 1889 Maria Morin in Saint-Louis-de-Métabetchouan (Chambord), Que., and they had six children; d. 18 Sept

principal of the boarding-school at the Collège de Clermont. He was made responsible for setting up a mission of the Society of Jesus in Canada, and in

, and in 1823 he decided to return to Europe. That year he entered the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Paris, where he took the philosophy program and began his theology. He studied along with Henri

. 27 Oct. 1890 at Saint-Anselme. After studying at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1847 to 1856, Louis-Napoléon Larochelle embarked on a

LIÉNARD DE BEAUJEU, DANIEL-HYACINTHE-MARIE, officer in the colonial regular troops, seigneur

MARTIGNY, FRANÇOIS DE (baptized François-Xavier de Martigny, the name he sometimes signed), physician, surgeon

MINIAC (Mignac, Mignaque, Minire, Deminiac), JEAN-PIERRE DE, Sulpician, priest, missionary, vicar general, and archdeacon; b

-Roch-de-l’Achigan, Lower Canada, son of Protais d’Odet d’Orsonnens and Louise-Sophie Rocher; m. first 22 Feb. 1841 Marie-Louise-Adeline Dorval in L’Assomption, and they had seven children; m

Perrault l’aîné, and Charlotte Boucher de Boucherville; d. 7 Aug. 1812 in Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada. Jacques-Nicolas Perrault

biographical article is, by necessity, based on records dating from after the fire. Centre du Patrimoine (Winnipeg), 0092/001 (Codex historicus de l’Île

deserted and took shelter at the Maison du Refuge de Forest, a seminary founded in Brussels by French bishops in exile. He was assisted in getting from there to London, where he was welcomed by Jean-François

hospital pharmacist, Sister Maillet had to be creative to treat her patients. In her journal, the “Commencement de notre fondation,” she recounts that to care for the sick, “having no medicines, [she could

. Jean-Baptiste Thavenet entered the Séminaire de Bourges in 1782 and was ordained priest in 1789. In May 1785 he had been admitted into the Society of Saint-Sulpice to do his solitude (noviciate) in

Perrot* de Rizy, adjutant of the Quebec militia. Desauniers devoted most of his energies to maritime trade and the fitting-out of ships. In 1733 he

was appointed royal judge, Maurice Poulin* de La Fontaine king’s attorney, and Ameau clerk of court; Quentin Moral was

society in November 1863; his first papers in its Transactions were on the gold-fields of Nova Scotia and of the world, and the bitumen of Point de Lévy. He continued to publish in this subject

persuaded the Hurons, allies of the French, to kill their Fox prisoners rather than keep them as slaves. For this diplomatic coup Arnaud received warm praise from Governor Charles de

of Amor De Cosmos*, serving until George Anthony Walkem*’s government

Marseilles, France, by Charles-Joseph-Eugène de Mazenod, the coadjutor bishop of Marseilles and founder of the Oblates. Father Aubert had been a preacher at Aix-en-Provence since 1834; in 1840 he became

Boucher, a mariner, and Marie-Anne Mattel, an innkeeper; m. 12 Feb. 1759 Marie-Joseph Tremblay in the parish of Saint-Louis (at Saint-Louis de-l’Isle-aux-Coudres, Que.), and they had seven sons

Testament, and the Imitation de Jésus-Christ. Jean-Antoine Bouthillier had married Claire Parent, a widow, on 20 Feb. 1808. The