LETELLIER DE SAINT-JUST, LUC (baptized Luc-Horatio), notary and politician; b. 12 May 1820 at Rivière
general; b. 24 Dec. 1712 at Vidalon (dept of Ardèche), France, son of Raymond Montgolfier, and uncle of Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne de Montgolfier, the famous inventors of the balloon
, emphasizing the importance in logic of searching for criteria of truth. Houdet in Montreal and Abbé Jérôme Demers* at the Séminaire de Québec were the
, editor, university administrator, and author; b. 7 Jan. 1846 in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Lower Canada, son of Jean-Baptiste Proulx, dit Clément, and Adéline Lauzon; d. 1 March
in nature. When still very young he learned the names of a great many plants and trees. In 1834 the award of a bursary enabled him to enrol in the Séminaire de Nicolet, where almost every year he won
RUETTE D’AUTEUIL DE MONCEAUX, FRANÇOIS-MADELEINE-FORTUNÉ (he sometimes signed Monceaux, and his contemporaries often
, the Collège de Saint-Laurent. He favoured the Swedish method, which uses a minimum of equipment. From 1906 to 1908 he also taught the students from the Montreal branch of the Université Laval, the Petit
DOLLIER DE CASSON, FRANÇOIS, cavalry captain, priest, Sulpician, military chaplain
; m. secondly 16 Feb. 1882 Ernesta de Cadilhac (d. 3 May 1914) in Rome, and they had three sons and a daughter; d. 20 July 1932 in Quebec City
LE MOYNE DE BIENVILLE, JEAN-BAPTISTE, officer, explorer, governor of Louisiana; baptized as an infant 23 Feb. 1680 in
the first of three descendants to sit on the Legislative Council, acted as his guardian after their father’s death in 1800. Pierre-Flavien had been admitted into the Séminaire de Québec the preceding
Versailles, JOSEPH (baptized Marie-Joseph-Louis de Gonzague
uncle Siméon-Germain Marceau, who was the curé of Saint-Simon, near Rimouski, Laurent Catellier studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1852 to 1859 and then enrolled in the faculty of medicine at
four days later in the parish of Saint-Porchaire in Poitiers, France; son of Jean Chauchetière, an attorney, and Élisabeth de La Noue; d. 17 April 1709 in Quebec City
CLÉMENT DU VUAULT (Vault) DE VALRENNES, PHILIPPE, captain in the colonial regular
the rudiments of Latin, and in 1897 he entered the second form (Syntax) at the Collège de Valleyfield. Abbé Lionel
– he was at 25 Côte de la Montagne in October 1790, on Rue Buade in October 1792, at 5 Rue Sainte-Famille in 1795 and at no. 19 in 1798, and on Rue Saint-Joseph (Rue Garneau) from February
involved in numerous businesses run by English-speaking capitalists in Montreal. He was vice-president of the Montreal Cotton Company, which had been established in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield in 1874; on its
seven, Joseph-Onésime Leprohon was deeply upset by his mother’s death. His father sent him to the Collège Saint-Raphaël (the Petit Séminaire de Montréal from 1806), where he did his classical studies
LORIMIER, CLAUDE-NICOLAS-GUILLAUME DE (known as Guillaume, Chevalier de Lorimier
Louis Damours* de Chauffours and Marguerite Guyon; d. 20 Aug. 1749 in Rochefort, France
business in 1808: he was then only 12 years old. A more reliable date is the year 1826, mentioned in Methot’s obituary in Le Journal de Québec, probably written by the newspaper’s editor
permitted, more and more little houses were put up, creating the “faubourg de la Providence.” In the early 1860s the nuns began caring for the insane.
In
the Association des Instituteurs du District de Montréal, and from 1900 he was its delegate to the commission administering the teachers’ pension fund. His superiors noted his dedication to his students
Séminaire de Montréal, probably without graduating. He initially studied cello with Louis Charbonneau and solfège with Frédéric Pelletier before taking singing lessons from Guillaume
Deerfield, Mass. Captured by Indians during the War of the Spanish Succession [see Jean-Baptiste Hertel* de Rouville] and
Iroquois by Buade* de Frontenac, governor of Canada – was taken back to Albany by Schuyler. The Iroquois called
the Séminaire de Québec, the Hôtel-Dieu, and the Hôpital Général, which after the Seven Years’ War had to repair their damaged buildings. He began his career as a carpenter quite early, at the age of 21
Bell* and Pierre-Joseph Godefroy de Tonnancour to deliver an address welcoming Dalhousie to Trois-Rivières. In 1827 Dalhousie set up a joint monument to James
BAILE (Bayle), JOSEPH-ALEXANDRE, Sulpician priest; b. 19 April 1801 at Saint-Genest de Bauzon, dept of Ardèche, France; d
as well, although they remained in the background, perhaps because of the strong aversion to Protestants shown by Governor Jacques-Pierre de
.
Joshua Bell’s career is difficult to trace. The name is known particularly through a brief account in Ægidius Fauteux*’s Patriotes de 1837
14 July 1836, at Saint-Joseph-de-Chambly, Boyer described himself as the “Sieur Louis Boyer, merchant.” His wife, Marie-Aurélie Mignault, was the daughter of the postmaster of Saint-Denis-sur
Sept. 1813.
Louis Charland entered the Petit Séminaire de Québec in 1785 and finished his studies there in June 1792. Shortly afterwards he
-Hyacinthe. The fact that he was at the same time mayor and president of the private utility, the Compagnie de l’Aqueduc de Saint-Hyacinthe, became a subject of some controversy when, during the spring of 1884
DES HERBIERS DE LA RALIÈRE (La Ratière), CHARLES, naval officer; b. c. 1700, only son of
.
In 1865 Dionne went to Quebec; obtaining a routine job (as a handyman) at the Séminaire de Québec, he immediately came to the attention of his employers and in 1866 he was promoted to the position of
business academy in September. Virtually from the outset it also had classes conducted in French and it was to become the Académie Commerciale de Québec. Far from contenting himself with its rapid success
Cove, N.S.), fifth son of Claude Duplaix (Duplex Silvain) and Catherine de Gonillon; m. 24 Feb. 1753 Geneviève Benoist at Louisbourg, Île Royale (Cape Breton Island), and they had 14 children
included Governor Rigaud* de Vaudreuil, Intendant Michel
Bachet; d. 30 June 1901 in Versailles, France.
Jean-Marie Gay began classical studies at the Collège de La Roche and completed them
.”
Corinne LaPlante
ANQ-M, CE602-S25, 18 juill. 1840. Arch. des Religieuses Hospitalières de Saint-Joseph (Montréal), Vie
until the following year. In 1742 Bishop Pontbriand [Dubreil*] sent him, along with Jean-Pierre de
; b. 9 Oct. 1849 in Saint-Jean-de-Boiseau, France, son of Julien Legal and Perrine David, millers; d. 10 March 1920 in Edmonton
Marine, Barthélemy Moufle de La Tuillerie, paid 800 livres, drawn from the funds remitted by the farmer-general of taxes of the Domaine d’Occident, to a certain Sieur Sarreau, who lived in
were victims of an establishment cut in 1694. (There is no record of this in the Archives du Génie.) It happened, however, that the Duc de Gramont had selected him as cartographer and engineer aboard
Dagneau Douville de Quindre, who brought to the matrimonial estate, held jointly, 15,000 livres in cash and personal property.
One of
Testu* de La Richardière, in carrying out the most extensive hydrographic surveys of the French régime. In 1735 they charted the Strait of Belle Isle, at that time known chiefly to fishermen
Olivier*, a judge and legislative councillor. When his studies at the Petit Séminaire de Québec were ended, young Perrault turned to trade and travel. He spent the winter of 1783–84 as a clerk at