[Circé*] and Georgine Gill [Bélanger*], known as Gaétane de Montreuil

school. From 1876 to 1882 he attended the Collège de L’Assomption and then he entered the Oblate noviciate in Lachine (Montreal). After he made his initial vows in 1883 he studied theology and philosophy

CLOUTIER, FRANÇOIS-XAVIER, teacher, Roman Catholic priest and bishop; b. 2 Nov. 1848 in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, Lower

COUVERT, MICHEL-GERMAIN DE, priest, Jesuit, missionary; b. 5 Jan. 1653 in the diocese of Bayeux, France; d. 1715 at

DE SOLA, ABRAHAM, clergyman, professor, author, editor, and publisher; b. 18 Sept. 1825 in London, England, the sixth

(Procès-verbaux de l’Association des instituteurs de la circonscription de l’école normale Jacques-Cartier de Montréal); mars 1857, 31; juin 1857. Adélard Desrosiers, Les écoles normales primaires de la

. Little is known about the life of Léopold Devisme before he came to Lower Canada. He studied at the Université de Paris and then is believed to have taught for about ten years in London, England. The first

Viger, when the latter was minutely annotating and completing the manuscript of Faribault’s Catalogue d’ouvrages sur l’histoire de l’Amérique, et en particulier sur celle du Canada

La Rocque de Roberval’s expedition, which left La Rochelle 16 April 1542. It was probably on the return trip, at the end of the summer, that he ventured on a cruise in

*, lieutenant to the chief surgeon Félix de Tassy, contested Gaschet’s competence before the provost court. Gaschet had to sit for an examination, which he passed, it seems, since he continued to practise his

parish priest of La Prairie de la Magdeleine and was officially installed the following September. Geoffroy was in France from 1695 to 1697, settling

Compagnie de la Colonie to go to Detroit. Two years later he travelled to the same post for Cadillac [Laumet*]. By 1726 Giard had made his way to

Saint-Thomas-de-Pierreville (Pierreville, Que.). Ignace Gill worked as a clerk in the store of Michel Lemaître, then in that of the Mackenzies at Baie

Marest*. In 1720 and 1721 he was a missionary at Saint-Joseph (near St Joseph, Mich.). He returned to Quebec in 1722 to replace Father Pierre de

called “habittant” in the 1666 census, and of Louise Racine (b. at Quebec in 1641); b. 3 Oct. 1659 and baptized two days later in the parish of Notre-Dame de Québec; d. 1687 in

KÉROUAC (Kirouac), LÉON, school-teacher; b. in 1805 at Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud (Montmagny

LA RIBOURDE, GABRIEL DE, Recollet priest, missionary, chaplain and companion of

LAMORINIE (La Morénerie, Morimé), JEAN-BAPTISTE DE, priest, Jesuit, missionary; b. 24 Dec. 1704 or 1705 in Périgueux

Le Normant* de Mézy, who described him, perhaps a little flatteringly, as a “very steady fellow, honest and straightforward.” Throughout his Louisbourg career Lartigue showed a remarkable

AN, Col., C11B, 4, f.76, 8, ff.120, 125; 10, f.12. Hugolin [Stanislas Lemay], “Table nominale des Récollets de Bretagne, missionnaires et aumôniers dans l’île Royale (1713–1759),” RSCT

given him there; in 1671 the Iroquois gave Governor Rémy de Courcelle two Potawatomi slaves to

was first curate for three years in Notre-Dame de Montréal parish, then for two years he was parish priest of Saint-Joachim-de-la-Pointe-Claire on Montreal Island. In 1715 he became the first parish

father to let him join the ranks of the papal army after its defeat at Castelfidardo, Italy. He had then entered the Collège de Couet, in the department of Loir-et-Cher in France, to complete his classical

he signed the report of the meeting of leading citizens in that year; his presence is then noted from time to time until 1629. By that date he was an assistant clerk for the de

MARTINET DE FONBLANCHE, JEAN (sometimes and quite wrongly called Tourblanche), surgeon of the Hôtel-Dieu of Ville

he had relatives in the various villages. At Fort de Chartres (near Prairie du Rocher, Ill.) he purchased the Canadian inheritance of one of them, and, as a young man of property, returned to his

probably attended the church of Saint-Joseph that was consecrated by Bishop Charles-Joseph-Eugène de Mazenod. In 1816 Mazenod had founded the missionaries of Provence, a group which 10 years later was

Taschereau, at Sainte-Marie-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce (Sainte-Marie), Lower Canada; buried there 4 June 1832. On 8 April 1801 the

, and jailer, originally from Chartres, France; date of birth unknown, son of Jean Pottier and Marguerite de Sainctes; buried 11 July 1711 at Trois-Rivières

RAGEOT, GILLES, clerk of court, notary, seigneur; baptized 14 Nov. 1642 at Saint-Jean-de-l’Aigle, diocese of Évreux (Orne, France

engineer in Governor Buade de Frontenac’s service, soldier, cartographer, and architect of

RÉMY DE COURCELLE (Courcelles), DANIEL DE, Sieur de Montigny, de La Fresnaye et de Courcelle

February of the following year a French force under Jacques Le Moyne* de Sainte-Hélène attacked Schenectady. That summer

SOUBRAS, PIERRE-AUGUSTE DE, financial commissary, subdelegate of the intendant of New France, and first councillor of the Conseil

), Immaculée-Conception (Montreal, 1896), Sainte-Angèle-de-Saint-Malo (Quebec City, 1900), and others in Ontario, at Alexandria, Cornwall, and Port Arthur (Thunder Bay), as well as in Saskatchewan, at Prince

Claude-Sébastien de Villieu. Evidently deeply affected by the slaughter Waxaway later

CHARON DE LA BARRE, FRANÇOIS (baptized Jean-François, he signed fs Charon

in the chapel of the Séminaire de Québec. The story of John Holmes, whom his contemporaries as well as later generations considered one of the great

PASTOUR DE COSTEBELLE, PHILIPPE, French officer, governor of Placentia (Plaisance), then of Île Royale (Cape Breton Island); b. 1661

writer; b. 24 Dec. 1820 in the parish of Saint-Louis, Kamouraska, son of Charles Taché, a merchant, and Louise-Henriette de Labroquerie (Boucher de La Broquerie); m. 1 July 1847

AILLEBOUST DE CERRY (Cery, Cerry d’Argenteuil), PHILIPPE-MARIE D’, mariner and merchant; b. 21 Oct. 1702 at Montreal (Que

Marguerie. His body was carried down by the current and recovered on 10 June opposite the Saint-Joseph de Sillery mission, where the burial took place. His possessions at Trois-Rivières were

Talon granted him a commission as court officer and sergeant. On 23 Oct. 1678, at the request of Bishop François de

Prouville* de Tracy undertook at that time to attack the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) made an impression on the Mohawk and the Oneida, and in the summer of 1666 they sent ambassadors to Quebec to ask for

Collège de L’Assomption, and then began the study of law at Quebec in 1858, completing it in 1862. He had moved to Sherbrooke in 1861, and in that year and the next he taught for a few months at the Collège

judicial career began on 23 Jan. 1673, when by virtue of a commission from Dollier de Casson he

office holder; b. 10 Aug. 1864 in the parish of Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption-de-Bellechasse in Berthier-en-Bas (Berthier-sur-Mer), Lower Canada, son of Édouard Carbonneau, a carpenter, and

. Louis-Joseph-Charles Cazeneuve received his classical education at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal from 1806 to 1814; he was considered a good pupil in Latin, Greek, and rhetoric. On leaving the college

de Vaudreuil yielded to this demand and agreed to send Pierre de Liette with Chachagouesse to the

to claim that he had worked “for three years in the offices of the Marine during M. de Seignelay’s time”; he did not specify at what period, probably around 1685. On 1 July 1690 we find