IRUMBERRY DE SALABERRY, IGNACE-MICHEL-LOUIS-ANTOINE D’, army and militia officer, seigneur, politician, jp

Langevin, a day-labourer, and Catherine Leclaire; d. 11 April 1857 in Saint-Basile, N.B. Antoine Langevin entered the Séminaire de

the Îles de la Madeleine and Cape Breton. His long absence from St Mary’s Bay does not seem to have worried him, for he visited Thomas-François

in Saint-Roch-de-l’Achigan, Lower Canada, son of Isidore Marsan, dit Lapierre, a farmer, and Félonise Poitras; m. 11 July 1871 Marie-Elmire-Ernestine Viger in L’Assomption, Que., and

army, was the teacher. It was not until he was 16, however, that he entered the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière. There Abbé Thomas-Benjamin Pelletier, the prefect of studies, gave him his first

. Following classical studies at the Collège de Montréal (1798–1806), Pierre-Marie Mignault spent a year with his parish priest, Abbé François Chewier

. Sounded out in 1702 by Abbé Jean-François Buisson* de Saint-Cosme (1667–1706) about going to the missions in the

Marie-Clotilde Girardin; d. 8 Feb. 1843 in Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan (Saint-Jacques), Lower Canada, and was buried in L’Assomption

Dominique Rollin and Magdeleine Bouthellier (Bouteiller); m. 3 April 1815 Zoé Pétrimoulx in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Laval), Lower Canada; d. 1 Dec. 1855 in Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville

VILLENEUVE, ROBERT DE, engineer, cartographer, draughtsman, probably a pupil of Vauban, who recommended him at the beginning of 1685 as

ANDIGNÉ DE GRANDFONTAINE, HECTOR D’, officer in the Carignan-Salières regiment (1665–68), governor of Acadia (1670–73

; specialist in the Huron language, co- founder of the Confrérie de la Sainte-Famille, founder of the Notre-Dame-de-Lorette mission near Quebec; b. 9 March 1611 at Châtillon-sur-Seine (Côte d’Or

CHAUSSEGROS DE LÉRY, GASPARD-JOSEPH (Joseph-Gaspard), military engineer, seigneur, chief road commissioner (grand voyer), and

Delezenne is remembered because of her love affair with Pierre de Sales* Laterrière. She began seeing him after he moved to Quebec in

. 1870 in Saint‑Timothée (Salaberry-de-Valleyfield), Que., son of Gédéon-Benjamin Denault, a lock-keeper, and Léocadie-Caroline-Delphine Coursolles, widow of Théophile-Romuald Bergeron; m. 27 Aug

destroyed. Even when faced with these punitive sanctions, Hyatt remained near the Rivière de la Roche with the malcontents who persisted in claiming the right to stay where they were

LAUSON, JEAN DE, senior, governor of New France; b. c. 1584; d. 16 Feb

. Two biographical notes published during Ernest Lavigne’s lifetime indicate that he attended the school of the Frères de la Doctrine Chrétienne in Montreal and completed his education with private

NICOLLET DE BELLEBORNE, JEAN, interpreter and clerk of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés, liaison officer between the French and the

, who was parish priest at L’Islet from 1779 to 1829. He received his entire education at the Petit Séminaire and the Grand Séminaire de Québec. Ordained priest by Bishop Jean-Olivier

ROBINAU DE VILLEBON, JOSEPH, officer, captain, governor of Acadia; baptized 22 Aug. 1655 at Quebec, son of

Suzor-Coté, Marc-Aurèle de Foy (baptized Hypolite-Wilfrid-Marcaurèle Côté, he used the

Captain de Ville, which may also have carried Abbé Jean Le Sueur* and Jean Bourdon

the Collège de Saint-Hyacinthe, which had been founded by his godfather, parish priest Antoine Girouard*. He continued his studies at the

Governor Jean-Louis de Raymond’s road from Port-Toulouse (St Peters, N.S.) to Louisbourg. D’Angeac was

BEAUSOLEIL, CLÉOPHAS, journalist, publisher, office holder, lawyer, and politician; b. 19 June 1845 in Saint-Félix-de-Valois

). Joseph-Marie Bellenger received a classical education at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1800 to 1808, and he continued his studies at the Grand Séminaire from 1810. Having been ordained priest on 13

. Amable Berthelot was the third of seven children, four of whom died in infancy. From 1785 till 1793 he did his classical studies at the Petit Séminaire de Québec. Following in his father’s footsteps he

, that was installed two years later in the church of La Nativité-de-la-Sainte-Vierge d’Hochelaga. In 1926 Aimé Petrucci and Apollo Carli had left the

godfather Joseph Charbonneau. He received his elementary education in Saint-Damase and entered the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe in 1855. It took him 11 years to complete his classical studies, since he

, Spanish wines, molasses, tea, soap, butter, and fruit. When he met Marguerite Godefroy de Tonnancour, daughter of Louis-Joseph

miller at Cap-de-la-Madeleine; he was murdered in December 1808. By then Thomas was already a boarder at the Grand Séminaire de Québec. The parish

summer in Saint-Joachim at the country home of the Séminaire de Québec as a guest of the superior, Henri-François Gravé* de La

, Premier Charles-Eugène Boucher* de Boucherville appointed him commissioner of the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental

studies from 1861 to 1869 at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal. There, at age 12, it is believed, he was put in charge of the class in solfège and appointed organist of the Congrégation de la

. After completing classical studies undertaken at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1857 to 1866, Le Vasseur enrolled in the faculty of medicine at the Université Laval, but after three years, as he

of Quebec. In 1826 he also took an active part in founding the Société Médicale de Québec of which he became the first president. He was a regular contributor to the Journal de Médecine de Québec

by becoming a clerk. On 15 Dec. 1754 Jean-Victor Varin* de La Marre, subdelegate of the intendant, accorded him

, like his close relations, became a farmer. Before so doing, Proulx entered upon a classical education at the Séminaire de Nicolet in 1803. Little is

REGNARD DUPLESSIS, MARIE-ANDRÉE, dite de Sainte-Hélène, Nun Hospitaller

François d’Orléans, Prince de Joinville, and Prince Alfred of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha, another son of Queen Victoria. The Montreal Daily Witness, in evaluating his career, said that “as Mayor he

that engaged in manufacturing and banking. After classical studies at Angers and a year of philosophy with the Sulpicians in Nantes, he entered the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Paris, at the same time

, for Robertine Barry*’s Le Journal de Françoise in 1903–4, and for Le Canada in 1904. From 1903 to 1905 she

settled there. François Évanturel studied at the Petit Séminaire de Quebec from 1832 to 1841 and then was articled to René-Édouard

AUGER DE SUBERCASE, DANIEL D’, company captain and garrison adjutant in Canada, governor of Placentia (Plaisance) and then of Acadia

Ferland, a merchant, and Élizabeth Lebrun de Duplessis; d. 11 Jan. 1865 at Quebec. Little is known about Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Ferland’s

POUCHOT (Pouchot de Maupas, Pouchat, Pourchaut, Boucheau), PIERRE, military

), and his uncle, Jean-Baptiste Cugnet, had taught law at the Université de Paris, and his father, François-Étienne, had been a lawyer in the parlement of Paris before being appointed director

, Jacques de Chambly, with approximately 30 men. Aernoutsz, with 50 men

. The son of an illiterate habitant, Paul-Loup Archambault received his secondary education from 1800 to 1809 at the Collège Saint-Raphaël (which in 1806 became the Petit Séminaire de Montréal