priest and missionary; b. 19 March 1766 in Messas, France, son of Jacques Desjardins de Lapérière, a merchant, and Marie-Anne Baudet; d. 30 Aug. 1848 at Quebec
. 6 June 1753 in Messas, France, son of Jacques Desjardins de Lapérière, a merchant, and Marie-Anne Baudet; d. 21 Oct. 1833 in Paris
mission at Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud (Saint-François-Montmagny). The tasks Sister Sainte-Élisabeth was subsequently given in her community are evidence of the quality of her work as a teacher
Cavelier* de La Salle (1684–1687), the second with Pierre Le Moyne
d’Entremont de Pobomcoup; d. 24 Nov. 1760.
Following the death of their father in 1714, Joseph Du Pont Duvivier, his elder brother
DUCHARME, CHARLES-JOSEPH, Roman Catholic priest, educator, and founder of the Petit Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse; b. 10 Jan
promising them that he would execute Séguin’s design for the vaulting of the church of Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures. The vaulting, which was of a type not widely employed by wood-carvers trained in Quévillon’s
colony at Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal, N.S.) in 1606–7. He had participated with Jean de
Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie (L’Acadie), and Jean-Emmanuel Dumoulin at Trois-Rivières. He was admitted to the notarial profession on 17 April 1824 and began his career at Dorchester (Saint
ELIZA Y REVENTA, FRANCISCO DE, naval officer and explorer; b. 1759 in El Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain; m. Saturnina Norberta
. 21 May 1750 at Louisbourg, Île Royale (Cape Breton Island), son of Jean-Baptiste-Philippe d’Estimauville de Beaumouchel, an officer in the colonial regular troops, and Marie-Charlotte d’Ailleboust
. Among his patients were the Anglican bishop Jacob Mountain*, the superior of the Séminaire de Québec, Jérôme
. It was a fairly modest operation, with two small fishing installations at Pointe-Saint-Pierre and Saint-Georges-de-la-Malbaie (Saint-Georges-de-Malbaie), and a third, set up around 1865, at Longue
FORBIN-JANSON, CHARLES-AUGUSTE-MARIE-JOSEPH DE, Roman Catholic priest; b. 3
Lyon de Saint-Ferréol. From that time on, until his final departure for France in 1742, the irrepressible canon would be involved in all the disputes which were to trouble the church of Quebec
Besnard; m. on 21 Sept. 1714 in Montreal Marie-Madeleine Chorel de Saint-Romain, dit d’Orvilliers; buried 24 Nov. 1750 in his birthplace
Garakontié reveal him struggling to preserve the general peace of 1653, and Father Jean de Lamberville* later credits him with giving the Jesuit
king’s name by Intendant Jean Bochart* de Champigny. The following year Gastineau Duplessis and his brother were employed
Lefebvre*, took a particular interest in him. After graduating in 1873, Gaudet began to study for the priesthood at the Grand Séminaire de Montréal, but, to the great disappointment of his mother, he was
of the Oneidas. His official title in the Iroquois federal council may have been Deyo’ha’gwen de’, meaning Through the Opening or Open Voice; d. c. 1 June 1766 at Fort Stanwix (near
before 1630 at Saint-Jacques de Dieppe, Normandy; d. 15 Oct. 1665 at Quebec.
Son of Pierre Gloria, “bourgeois and merchant of the
Quebec. He was Governor Buade* de Frontenac’s confessor and was at his bedside until he breathed his last on 28
Society of Jesus at Tournai (Belgium) on 30 Sept. 1744. Between 1746 and 1752 he taught grammar classes at the Collège de Namur and classics and rhetoric at Cambrai; from 1752 to 1756 he studied
modest circumstances. As is usual in a devout Christian milieu, he felt the call to the priesthood early in life. He attended the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1777 till 1785, and then began theological
), sergeant in the French garrison at Port-Royal in Acadia, temporary English commandant there, 1690–3; ensign in the company of Claude-Sébastien de
.
Like many of his generation, Jacques Labrie received an elementary education through the endeavours of the parish priest in his village. At 14 he entered the Petit Séminaire de Québec, where he proved a
-Joseph Chaussegros* de Léry, the king’s engineer in New France. Also present were various French military officers
Nov. 1812) in the parish of Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, and they had 17 children, 11 of whom survived infancy; d. 13 July 1855 in Pointe-aux-Trembles
.
After classical studies at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal (1837) and at the Petit Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse (1839–47), Godefroy Laviolette was commissioned a surveyor on 25 July 1848. Two
Archives paroissiales de Saint-Albert-de-Gaspé (Qué.), Registres des baptêmes, mariages et sépultures, 2 août 1872. Private Archives, Mlle Gertrude Sutton-Le Boutillier (Gaspé, Qué.), Papiers
De Guerne), Spiritan, priest, and missionary; b. 5 Jan. 1725 at Kergrist-Moëlou (dept of Côtes-du-Nord), France, son of Yves Le Guerne; d. 6 Dec. 1789 at Saint
LE SUEUR, PIERRE, donné of the Jesuits, explorer, trader, coureur de bois; b. c. 1657 in Artois, France, son of
Juchereau* de La Ferté, Sister Saint-Joseph wrote to the superior of the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec, Marie-Charlotte Aubert de La Chesnaye, dite de Saint-Michel, asking her “to approve of her
facsimile reprint of the (Œuvres de Champlain that year.
In June 1869 Leggo patented a new method for reproducing photographs, known as granulated
LEPALLIEUR DE LAFERTÉ, MICHEL, legal practitioner, court officer, jail-keeper, acting clerk of court, royal notary, judge of
François, were priests and teachers of philosophy and science, the former at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe and the latter at the Séminaire de Nicolet. Désaulniers received his secondary education at the
. 1775 in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Que., son of Joseph-Marie Létourneau and Marie-Françoise Cloutier; d. 21 April 1838 in the parish of Saint-Thomas (at Montmagny), Lower Canada
MARSOLET DE SAINT-AIGNAN, NICOLAS, interpreter, clerk in the fur trade, ship’s master, trader, and seigneur; baptized 7 Feb. 1601
MARTEL DE BELLEVILLE, JEAN-URBAIN, clerk, merchant, director of the Saint-Maurice ironworks; b. 8 Jan. 1708 in Quebec, son
, among whom he founded a Confrérie de la Sainte-Famille in 1676.
The Senecas had attacked the Illinois and killed several French traders at the end of
.
Geneviève Rocan
Arch. des Sœurs de la Charité d’Ottawa, Chroniques de la maison mère, s.c.o., 1. Arch
Lartigue selected him to teach English at the Collège de Saint-Hyacinthe. There McMahon was able to study theology and learn French. After his ordination to the priesthood in Montreal on 18
thought.” Bacqueville de La Potherie [Le Roy], who had doubtless met him, described
Holy Trinity (Québec), 1 Sept. 1820, 20 Aug. 1870; Greffe de William Bignell, 6 août 1840, 4 janv., 6 nov., 2 déc. 1843, 28 oct., 26 nov
Hart* in 1809, and when Jean-Baptiste Boucher de Niverville granted him land there in 1811 he lost no time in setting up his workshop. That year the fabrique of La Nativité-de-Notre
NOUË, ANNE DE, officer of the Privy Chamber, and then priest, Jesuit, missionary; b. 7 Aug. 1587 near Rheims; frozen to
priest known to his parents, and, far from standing in his way, they sent him to study at the Petit Séminaire de Québec. It was probably the appointment of his uncle, Abbé Jean-Baptiste Paquin, as director
Wilfred), pianist, conductor, administrator, and civil servant; b. 20 June 1896 in the parish of Sacré-Cœur-de-Jésus, Montreal, son of Elzéar Pelletier and Zélire Sévigny; m. first
) River in Labrador (Que.), in partnership with Jacques de Lafontaine de Belcour, a merchant and