de Pontevès. Mme Doreil died on 19 April 1754, leaving her husband with three young children. The following year he was named commissary of wars in New France

traditional accounts, though they vary as to the exact date, it was about 1770 that François Doucet’s family went from Salem, Mass., to what was later called Pointe-de-l’Église (Church Point); church records

his marriage with Anne Cloutier, which was celebrated on 12 July 1637 in the parish of Notre-Dame de Québec, he had three daughters; by his second marriage, with Marie Chapelier, which was

Quebec, where he was brought by a lawsuit that could not help but worry him, he put up at the Hôtel Fréchette on the Côte de la Montagne. During the night he fell from his fourth floor window and

. Henri Faraud received a classical education at the minor seminary of Notre-Dame-de-Lumières at Goult. He took his perpetual vows in 1844 and then spent two years studying for the priesthood at Notre-Dame

. 1860 in Paris. Léon Gingras went through the various stages of classical studies at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1820 to 1828. According to

Globensky, of Polish extraction, and Marie-Françoise Brousseau, dit Lafleur de Verchères; m. first Élisabeth Lemaire Saint-Germain, by whom he had four daughters and one son, and secondly

universal exposition in Paris. For the occasion he published a book entitled France-Canada: bibliographie canadienne; catalogue d’un choix d’ouvrages canadiens-français accompagné de notes

HIRIBERRY, JOANNIS DE (less frequently spelled Hiribery, Hirriberry, with numerous other variants), “bourgeois merchant

. In August 1847 he delivered a lecture to it entitled “De la position et des besoins de la jeunesse canadienne-française,” in which he denounced with singular courage the injustices suffered by

Lacoste*, a notary and politician, and Catherine de Labruère (Boucher de La Bruère); d. unmarried 7 Nov. 1854 in Boucherville. From

of the Compagnie Razilly-Condonnier; consequently he probably arrived in Acadia with Commander Isaac de Razilly as early as 1632. Le Creux was in command of Fort Saint-François at Canseau and

Moreau de Brésoles, and Marie Maillet. He reached Quebec on 7 September, and proceeded to Ville

mission was abandoned in 1650. In March 1649 he helped to bring from Saint-Ignace to Sainte-Marie the remains of the martyrs Jean de

College, Carlow, and around 1817 immigrated to Lower Canada with a large family group. By October of that year he had begun teaching English at the Collège de Saint-Hyacinthe, where he also studied for the

crypt of the chapel of the Séminaire de Québec. Michel-Édouard Méthot did well at the parish school, and then began his classical studies at the Petit

De Smet*. With De Smet, four other Jesuit priests (including Michael Accolti), one brother, and six sisters of Notre-Dame de Namur, Nobili sailed from Antwerp, Belgium, aboard the

, and merchant, and Angélique Brown; m. first 9 Sept. 1834 Julie-Aurélie Boucher de La Bruère at Boucherville, Lower Canada; m. secondly 19 Jan. 1847 Clarice Duval at Trois

, they reached Montreal on 7 November, in time to observe barricades in certain streets because of the troubles of 1837. The disciples of Jean-Baptiste de La Salle were welcomed by Bishop Jean

Champlain and Du Gua de Monts discovered the river in 1604; d. before 1616

Suzanne Vanier, of Notre-Dame-de-Vitry (Champagne); baptized 1670; buried 17 Jan. 1732. On 10 May 1689, at Boucherville, when he was a

AUBERT DE LA CHESNAYE, CHARLES, merchant, fur-trader, seigneur, financier, member of the Conseil Souverain of New France, ennobled by

BRISAY DE DENONVILLE, JACQUES-RENÉ DE, Marquis de DENONVILLE, colonel and brigadier of the Queen’s Dragoons, inspector-general of

studies at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (La Pocatière), where he was enrolled from 1852 to 1862, Guillaume Amyot chose a career in law. Like many of his colleagues, he dabbled in

L’Assomption, Lower Canada, son of Louis Archambault, a farmer, and Angélique Prud’homme; m. first 11 Jan. 1853 Odile Leblanc in Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan, Lower Canada; m. secondly 29 April

Archambault; m. 1 Oct. 1860 Azilda Robitaille in Saint-Roch-de-l’Achigan, Lower Canada, and they had 11 children; d. 20 March 1904 in Montreal

attended St Dunstan’s College in the city. He reportedly taught for a few years in Acadian schools on the Island before pursuing his studies at the Collège de Saint-Laurent, near Montreal. In his early

Angibault dit Champdoré, who had been sent by Du Gua de Monts in 1608 to pick up any

), labourer and legendary figure; b. 17 April 1845 in Saint-Stanislas-de-la-Rivière-des-Envies (Saint-Stanislas), Lower Canada, son of Pierre Ayotte (Ayotte, dit Simon), a farmer, and

diocese of Chartres. He arrived in Canada 7 Sept. 1666. During all the time he spent in the country Bailly was associated with the Congrégation de

obtained his classical education (1888–95) at the Collège Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir, in particular through the generous support of Louis-Philippe

BISSOT DE VINSENNE (Vincennes), JEAN-BAPTISTE, second ensign in the colonial regular troops, agent of New France among the Miami

frequented “the Palais [de justice in Paris] for three years,” was employed at Quebec as king’s scrivener in the office of the Marine. He held this post until 1726. During the ocean crossing he had struck up a

BOISVERT, EDMOND (baptized Abraham-Edmond), known as Edmond de Nevers, lawyer, writer, journalist

merchant; baptized 25 March 1676 at Montreal, son of Abraham Bouat and Marguerite de Névellet; buried 18 May 1726 in the same town

Séminaire de Quebec in 1765, the year it reopened. The scarcity of clergy probably accounts for the fact that Brassard Deschenaux began studies leading to the priesthood in 1769, received the tonsure in 1771

studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1841 to 1850 and on 1 Aug. 1850 began a five-year apprenticeship in chemistry and pharmacy to his brother-in-law, pharmacist Pierre-O. Giroux. In 1855

five or six days later, according to Captain La Vallière (probably Louis Leneuf de La Vallière), the only eye-witness. On 15 July

Plessis, who was then secretary to the bishop of Quebec, he requested admission to the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Montreal. He was made a member on 28 Sept. 1792 and spent

Luc Letellier* de Saint-Just, became lieutenant governor of Quebec. Horace’s father, a successful businessman engaged in the

Recollet monastery in Trois-Rivières, he became chaplain at Fort Saint-Frédéric (near Crown Point, N.Y.) at the beginning of 1747. From 1750 to 1753 he ministered to the parishes of Sainte-Marie-de-la

Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France, where their fourth child was born. In 1746 Carrerot sailed as a writer in the squadron of the Duc d’Anville

-Thomas de Montmagny, L.C., son of Louis Casault and Françoise Blais; d. 2 July 1876 at Quebec. Louis-Adolphe Casault’s ancestors had come

Maquet; Father Augustin-Louis de Glapion was the sole teacher for secondary studies. (The English

. Chase-Casgrain studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1867 to 1873 and spent the following year as a medical student at the Université Laval. Having transferred to the faculty of law, he remained

CHAUSSEGROS DE LÉRY, GASPARD-JOSEPH (baptized Gaspard), army

COUILLARD DE LESPINAY, GUILLAUME, carpenter, seaman, and caulker, son of Guillaume Couillard and Élisabeth de Vesins, son-in-law of

Guillaume de Caën in the Compagnie de Ventadour and was engaged in fishing off Cape Breton. He had several skirmishes with the Basques, which resulted in some loss of life

Jacques Degeay, who had already received the tonsure, entered the Séminaire de Saint-Irénée in Lyons, which was directed by the Sulpicians. His teachers considered him both innocent and somewhat stubborn

DENYS (Denis) DE LA TRINITÉ, SIMON, member of the Conseil Souverain, second son of Jacques Denys de La Thibaudière and Marie