BRESLAY, RENÉ-CHARLES (Charles-René) DE, priest, Sulpician, missionary, vicar general of the bishopric of Quebec; b. June 1658 in

 Oct. 1766 in Écija, Spain, son of Salvador Dieguez Cardero and Antonia Romero; m. Gregoria Rosalia de la Vega, probably in 1798; d. in or after 1810 in Spain

9 March at Rivière-Ouelle. Charles-Eusèbe Casgrain attended the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1812 till 1816. He then studied at the Séminaire

Charon de La Barre, brought him back with him in 1700 after a voyage to France. It is now known that before coming to Montreal Chaboulié spent some years at Quebec and even was almost

CHARRON DE LA BARRE, CLAUDE (baptized Claude Charon), business

CHASSIN DE THIERRY, FRANÇOIS-NICOLAS DE (he signed Thierry de Chassin), officer in the colonial regular troops; b. at Versailles, France

Letellier* de Saint-Just, the minister of agriculture, negotiated with its owner to get him to change his attitude. They asked him to let them choose another name for the journal, as well as a new editor

de Denonville on a journey to Fort Frontenac (Cataracoui, now Kingston, Ont.), landing at frequent intervals to observe and calculate latitudes and to draw a map. During the next year, he was fully

Marie Arbour; d. 10 July 1863 at Montreal. Nicolas Dufresne was a brilliant pupil at the Collège de Montréal from 1797 to 1806. At the

. Jean-François-Régis Déléage attended the Petit Séminaire de Monistrol-sur-Loire, Haute-Loire, and the Grand Séminaire du Puy. On 24 Feb. 1847 he entered the noviciate of the Oblates at Notre

the west, grandmother of Louis Riel*; b. 15 Aug. 1780 in Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup (Louiseville), fifth child of

headquarters to Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan (Saint-Jacques) the previous year. When her three-year term expired, she was appointed to the mission the sisters were about to establish in Victoria, Vancouver Island

East, son of Nicolas Gervais, a farmer, and Catherine Tellier; d. 12 April 1888 at Montreal, Que., and was buried two days later in the cemetery of Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier parish in

GRILLOT DE POILLY, FRANÇOIS-CLAUDE-VICTOR, army officer, military engineer; b.15 March

LA RICHARDIE, ARMAND DE (the name also appears as Richardie

LAGARDE (Delagarde), PIERRE-PAUL-FRANÇOIS DE, Sulpician, priest, and missionary; b

well-known La Rochelle outfitter, Joseph-Simon Desherbert de Lapointe, dated 14 June 1744, constitute the earliest document to provide significant information on his career. Lamaletie

Christian family who lived in Saint-Roch ward. In the autumn of 1855 his father enrolled him in the commercial program taught by the Brothers of the Christian Schools in the newly opened Collège de Lévis

the Petit Séminaire de Quebec in 1831 and proved a brilliant student. On 2 Oct. 1838 he began studies at the Grand Séminaire leading to the priesthood. The same day he was appointed to teach

LAUZON, PIERRE DE, priest, Jesuit, missionary, superior of the Jesuit missions in New France; baptized 13 Sept. 1687 at

. Théophile Lavoie was educated at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière from 1847 to 1856 and spent the year 1857–58 taking law at the Université Laval. At the age of 24 he entered the noviciate of the

. Fréchette was to pay for his studies at the Séminaire de Québec, from 29 Sept. 1810 to 9 Feb. 1813. After ordination on 12 June 1813 at Quebec, Madran served as assistant priest

legislative councillor for Lower Canada, and of Julie Boucher de La Perrière; d. 9 Nov. 1874 at Pointe-du-Lac, Que. After completing a

in 1689. Buade* de Frontenac immediately appointed him first corporal of his guards, and two years later granted

MASCLE DE SAINT-JULHIEN, JEAN (the name usually appears as St. Julien, but he signed St. Julhien

to the Annuaire de l’université Laval he had already discontinued his medical studies before the opening of the academic year in 1857

Perrault l’aîné, and Charlotte Boucher de Boucherville; m. 17 Sept. 1804 Marie-Louise Taschereau, daughter of Gabriel-Elzéar

PERÉ, JEAN, merchant from La Rochelle, France, explorer, prospector, coureur de bois, interpreter, guide; b. 13

. 1796 at Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud (Saint-Pierre-Montmagny, Que.), son of Philippe Picard Destroismaisons and Rosalie Fournier; d. 5 April 1866 at Saint-François, Île d’Orléans

de Saint-Sulpice in Paris, Poncin left for Brest and Canada on 3 April 1750; he reached Montreal on 23 August. Poncin was first

. 18 Aug. 1842 in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Laval), Lower Canada. Joseph Pépin, a remarkable craftsman, practised at the time when

, Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue, Rivière-du-Loup (Louiseville), Sainte-Anne, Yamachiche, and Saint-Joseph, Maskinongé. He was entrusted from 1720 to 1723 with the office of superior of the Franciscan monastery in

Angélique Chartier de Lotbinière; d. 1 Dec. 1792 at Blois, France. Almost nothing is known about Angélique Renaud d’Avène Des Méloizes’ childhood

the Séminaire de Nicolet from 1848 to 1856, he studied law in Montreal under Toussaint-Antoine-Rodolphe Laflamme* and

Riverin*, the representative in France of the Compagnie de la Colonie from 1702 until his death in 1717. In addition, his maternal grandfather, Simon Mars, had been a merchant in La Rochelle

of Quebec and was buried two days later in the chapel of the Séminaire de Québec. Antoine-Bernardin Robert studied first at the Collège Saint

 août 1936. Maurice Basque, Des hommes de pouvoir: histoire d’Otho Robichaud et de sa famille, notables acadiens de Port-Royal et de Néguac (Neguac, 1996); Entre baie et péninsule: histoire

noble family of Rouer de Villeray. Rouër did his classical studies at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal and in 1838 decided on a career in law. He began his training with the solicitor general of Lower

 Sept. 1663. The following September, however, he, along with Louis Rouer de Villeray

, dit Gautier, but he signed Saint-Germain), secular priest; b. 1 April 1788 at Sainte-Famille-de-Boucherville (Boucherville, Que.), son of Jean-Baptiste Saint-Germain and

SAINT-PÉ, JEAN-BAPTISTE DE, priest, Jesuit, missionary, superior of the Jesuit missions in New France; b. 10 Oct. 1686 in Pau

SAINT-ÉTIENNE DE LA TOUR, CHARLES DE (the family name may well have been Turgis), trader, colonizer, and governor of

Stuart* and Marguerite Dumoulin; m. there 8 June 1842 Charlotte-Elmire Aubert de Gaspé, daughter of Philippe-Joseph

Université de Montréal. In conjunction with the faculty of medicine and with the support of the university authorities, she organized the courses in public health and dietetics, as well as the first university

, eldest son of Pierre d’Ailleboust* d’Argenteuil and Marie-Louise Denys de La Ronde; d. 13 Oct. 1761 in

children, three of whom died in infancy; d. 30 Dec. 1908 in St Boniface, Man. Thomas-Alfred Bernier was educated at the Séminaire de Saint

BÉLANGER, DINA (baptized Marie-Marguerite-Dina-Adélaïde), named Marie Sainte-Cécile-de-Rome

 Rochelle merchant, Joseph-Simon Desherbert de Lapointe. He may have returned soon after to France but, having decided to settle in Canada, he married Élisabeth-Cécile, daughter of merchant Étienne Thibierge

at Montreal, Que. After receiving an education at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe from 1821 to 1830, Louis Giard taught as a cleric at the Collège

council of the École Polytechnique in Montreal. An honorary member of the Société d’Hygiène Française de Paris since 1885, he was a life governor of the Montreal General Hospital and Notre-Dame