the Académie Girouard, and afterwards at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe from 1888 to 1890. He then entered the juvénat (which prepared adolescent students before they became novices) run by

during the summer of 1748 with Christophe de Lalane, a director of the Séminaire des Missions Étrangéres who had been sent temporarily to Quebec as superior. Soon a member of the council of the seminary

PROUVILLE DE TRACY, ALEXANDRE DE, Marquis (or Chevalier), seigneur of Tracy-le-Val and Tracy-le-Mont (Picardy), king’s counsellor

assistance of his uncle Benjamin Pâquet, a rich merchant and farmer who encouraged members of his family to take up a religious vocation, he was able to continue his studies at the Petit Séminaire de Québec in

to happen, “he would immediately cease to be a director of the seminary.” Meanwhile, at Dosquet’s request he had had La vie de la sœur Bourgeois . . . printed in Avignon. This

. He was, among other things, a justice of the peace and a member of the Chambre de Commerce du District de Montréal and of the Club de Chasse et de Pêche de Saint-Jérôme. In politics, he was a faithful

Renaud* d’Avène Des Méloizes, officer in the colonial regular troops, and Angélique Chartier de Lotbinière; m. 5 Jan. 1767 Agathe-Louise de Fresnoy, and they had three children; d. 30

RICHARD, MARCEL-FRANÇOIS, Roman Catholic priest and educator; b. 9 April 1847 in Saint-Louis-de-Kent, N.B., son of Pierre

been set up in 1877 by the railway’s promoters, including Ross’s two brothers, to exploit forest resources and widen their commercial network. In 1906–7 Ross was also honorary president of the Société de

RÉMY (Rémy de Saint-Rémy), PIERRE, priest, Sulpician, first priest to be ordained in Montreal, ecclesiastical superior of the sisters of

, Frémont had arrived in Montreal in 1904 and after 1916 worked in Prince Albert as assistant editor of Le Patriote de l’Ouest. The editor-in-chief at the time, Oblate father Achille Auclair, had

Claude de Saint-Étienne de La Tour who had been persuaded to join the English and Scottish cause and who was returning at the same time to obtain the approval of Sir

SERREAU (Sarreau) DE SAINT-AUBIN, JEAN, soldier, sailor, and seigneur; b. 1621 in the province of Poitou; d. 29 March

, dite de Tous-les-Saints, Hospitaller, first Indian girl to enter the religious life; b. 1642; d. 3 Nov. 1657 at Quebec

of Bishop Armand de Charbonnel*. In the same year, the Christian Brothers had founded another school, St

Pécaudy* de Contrecœur, with Indian allies, had paddled down the Allegheny River, driven off a few dozen English who had started a fort at the forks, and there began to build Fort Duquesne. The killing

finally assumed the name of Sisters of St Anne) was so successful in its recruiting that in 1853 it had 34 members and was transferred from Vaudreuil to Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan (Saint-Jacques

Taschereau* and Marie-Louise-Élizabeth Bazin; m. 29 Jan. 1805 Françoise Boucher de La Bruère de Montarville at Boucherville, Lower Canada; d. 8 Oct. 1826 at

-de-Monnoir. Its founder, Abbé Édouard-Joseph Crevier, guided him “into the way of love of God and country.” Thibault and his fellow students enthusiastically adopted the ideas of journalist Stanislas

; d. 7 March 1729 at Cap-de-la-Madeleine. Paul Vachon entered the Petit Séminaire of Quebec on 9 Nov. 1668, when he was 12

VAILLANT DE GUESLIS, FRANÇOIS, priest, Jesuit, missionary; b. 20 July 1646 at Orléans, France; d. 24 Sept. 1718

Vallières* de Saint-Réal and Andrew Stuart*. Vanfelson stood again in 1829 in a by-election held for the seat left vacant by Vallières de Saint

exploits. In 1867 he was a militia captain and the coroner at Saint-Bruno de Chambly. Viger was undoubtedly a popular and legendary hero, “one of the figures whose memory playwrights and novelists were to

watch out for the interests of Montrealers. In 1893 he supported a petition from the Chambre de Commerce du District de Montréal to replace the various taxes on business with a land tax, and then he took

La Court de Pré-Ravillon], but this is the first known English voyage to the western coast of Newfoundland and to Anticosti

BARRIN DE LA GALISSONIÈRE, ROLAND-MICHEL, Marquis de LA GALISSONIÈRE, naval officer, commandant general of New France; b. 10

Augustin Le Gardeur de Courtemanche at his trading post on Baie de Phélypeaux (previously Baie des Espagnols and later Brador Bay), on the north shore of the St Lawrence, at the entrance

be his parents, François-Réal Angers* and Louise-Adèle Taschereau, were married in Sainte-Marie-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce (Sainte-Marie) on

journeyman, and Félicité Roy; d. 9 Oct. 1865 at Montreal. When Cyrille Boucher was born the parish of Saint-Rémi-de-La-Salle, created by

de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, where he was a boarder. While it is not known how he learned to sail, it can be reasonably assumed that his father taught him the basics. He began his career as a pilot

DES FRICHES DE MENEVAL, LOUIS-ALEXANDRE, governor of Acadia, fl. 1687–1703. We

, gendarme of the king’s household, coureur de bois, explorer, founder of western posts, captain in the colonial regular troops; b. c. 1639 at Saint-Germain-Laval; d. in Montreal

LE MOYNE DE LONGUEUIL, PAUL-JOSEPH, known as the Chevalier de Longueuil, seigneur

MARTÍNEZ FERNÁNDEZ Y MARTÍNEZ DE LA SIERRA, ESTEBAN JOSÉ, naval officer and explorer; b. 9 Dec. 1742 in Seville, Spain; m

Membertou Membertou, or Mabretou, as he was called by the explorer Samuel de

education at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1829 to 1840. At the conclusion of his studies a natural aptitude for business led him to accept a position as clerk with the firm of Babineau et

BIENCOURT DE SAINT-JUST, CHARLES DE, baron, vice-admiral of Acadia and successor to his father as commander of the settlement at Port

 – de commodo et incommodo – preparatory to a redistribution of parish districts. At that time he accompanied as clerk the attorney general, Mathieu-Benoît

DENYS DE LA RONDE, LOUIS (he signed La Ronde Denys), officer in the navy and in the colonial regular troops; b

MONSEIGNAT, CHARLES DE (Monseignac), manager for Robert

could provide for the child’s education, however. In 1834 Gédéon’s parents sent him to the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe, where, despite a good beginning, he was a mediocre student. This school record may

TAFFANEL DE LA JONQUIÈRE, JACQUES-PIERRE DE, Marquis de LA JONQUIÈRE, naval officer, governor general of Canada; b. 18 April

, masonry, and woodworking.” At any rate, the “Livre de Comptes” of the seminary of Quebec, recording his arrival in Quebec on 22 Sept. 1675, calls him “a stone mason” and notes that he is “engaged

her articles that had appeared in La Patrie between 1891 and 1895, entitling it Chroniques du lundi. At the same time, she had a hand in writing “Coin de Fanchette,” the paper’s

 Quebec. By the time Henri-Raymond Casgrain entered the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière on 23 Feb. 1843, he had acquired from his mother a

-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery. The grandfather of Joseph Charlebois was a native of Saint-Joseph-de-Soulanges (Les Cèdres), Que. Joseph’s father was

of the province’s Council of Agriculture for four years; a director of the Société Générale des Éleveurs d’Animaux de Race Pure de la Province de Québec, founded in 1895; the first secretary of the

. 1851 in Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville (Sainte-Thérèse), Lower Canada, son of Paul Filiatreault and Mathilde Charest; m. 24 Nov. 1877 Octavie Desmarais in Montreal, and they had three daughters

was born, was a good student, first at the Collège Saint-Raphaël in Montreal from 1773 to 1780, and then in theological studies at the Grand Séminaire de Québec. He was ordained priest by the bishop of

secondary and post-secondary education at two prestigious French institutions: the Collège Notre-Dame de Sainte-Croix de Neuilly (Neuilly-sur-Seine) (1872–79) and the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris (1879–81), where