Dupont*, Sieur de Neuville.
In 1661 and 1662 Louis XIV had made himself acquainted with several reports on New France; he had granted hearings
again in a new dwelling belonging to Jacques Testard* de Montigny and located near the chapel of Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours
GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR, CHARLES-ANTOINE (also called the
GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR, JOSEPH-MARIE (he signed J. M. Tonnancour), army and
Le Moyne* de Bienville. In turn Gravier, a good linguist, was impressed by Bienville’s knowledge of Indigenous languages. He left the Gulf Coast colony in February 1702
Aubert* de Gaspé. He studied there from 9 Aug. 1802 to 21 Aug. 1807, five years being the period then required before licensing as an advocate, barrister, attorney, and solicitor
Charon* de La Barre. Hodiesne took his vows in the presence of the superior, Louis Turc de
Nov. 1820. E. H. Dahl et al., La ville de Québec, 1800–1850: un inventaire de cartes et plans (Ottawa, 1975). Desjardins, Guide parl. P.-G. Roy, Fils de
([Montreal, 1896?]) and “Nouvelle méthode sérothérapique pour le traitement de la lèpre grecque, Dr Carrasquilla (Colombie),” L’Union médicale, 26 (1897): 37. He is co-author with Duncan Donald
Juchereau* Duchesnay, seigneur of Beauport, and of Marie-Louise Fleury de La Gorgendière; d. 12 May 1871 at Sainte-Marie-de-la-Beauce and buried in the parish church
.
James S. Pritchard
[The most detailed sketch of Kanon’s antecedents and career is in the text and notes of Jean de
.
La Colle was a civil and war chief of the Monsoni division of the Woods or Swampy Crees, with its main village at Rainy Lake in the vicinity of Fort Saint-Pierre built by Pierre Gaultier de
was organist of the church in Berthier. At seven he was able to play the piano accompaniment for singers at a charity concert. A short time later the family moved to Saint-Thomas-de-Pierreville
Émery de Caën at the time when the latter had come to grief while reconnoitring near Quebec in July 1629. Robert Le Coq accompanied the missionaries as soon as they returned among the
.”
On 2 May 1729 Maurepas wrote to Beauharnois* de La Chaussaye, the intendant of the Marine at Rochefort
), Reg. des baptêmes, mariages et sépultures, 9 févr. 1830. IBC, Centre de documentation, Fonds Morisset, 1, 15868/884; 2, L445.2/A923.8/1–4. J.-E. Bellemare, Histoire de la Baie-Saint
Côte-des-Neiges Cemetery.
After finishing his classical education at the Séminaire de Nicolet, of which his uncle, Abbé Joseph-Onésime
-Suzanne de La Bazanière, by whom he had three daughters; d. 3 June 1748 at Saint-Malo, France.
Born into the bourgeoisie, Louis Levasseur
Maillard received his ecclesiastical training at the Séminaire de Saint-Esprit in Paris. He was there in 1734 when the Abbé de L’Isle-Dieu chose some seminarists to lend to the Séminaire des Missions
northward. He was also to visit the Spanish outpost at Santa Cruz de Nutka in Friendly Cove (Nootka Island, B.C.), where a confrontation between his compatriot Esteban José
Séminaire de Québec. In this capacity Martineau was responsible for supplying the seminary with foodstuffs, building materials, fabrics, and other goods. He purchased these from merchants in the town or its
Joseph* became a doctor and his sister Marie-Louise, named de Saint-Augustin, the superior of the Hôtel-Dieu in Quebec. Alexis spent his childhood in the faubourg Saint-Roch at Quebec and was
Pampalon, a builder and contractor, and Joséphine Dorion; d. 30 Sept. 1896 in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Que.
Alfred Pampalon would certainly not be
sent him to the Séminaire de Québec. Here he completed classical studies (1816–25) and theology (1825–28). He was ordained priest on 28 Sept. 1828
of Antoine Parant and Geneviève Bois; d. there 11 Feb. 1855.
Antoine Parant was a brilliant student at the Petit Séminaire de
[La Croix] sent him, at his request, a nun of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame, who took over the direction of a boarding school for girls, and in 1686 he sent him Abbé Geoffroy, who acted
of New France for Île Saint-Jean with power to hear civil and criminal cases. The island was still held by the Comte de Saint-Pierre, and Dubuisson had been appointed to help avoid the involved legal
Petit Séminaire de Québec, where he remained until 1795. His brothers Louis and François-Ignace also attended this institution.
Étienne was attracted
, master mason and contractor; baptized 3 Oct. 1699 at Saint-Charles-de-Charlesbourg Charlesbourg, Que.), son of Michel Renaud, dit Cannard, and Marie-Renée Réaume; buried there on 15
1888 Conservative newspapers recalled that in 1885, at the time of the Louis Riel affair, he had remained loyal to the Conservative cabinet, and had firmly opposed the meeting on the Champ-de-Mars in
.
In 1777 Jacques-Guillaume Roque entered the Séminaire de Saint-Charles in Toulouse, where he did all his theological studies. Subsequently he obtained a doctorate in canon law from the Université de
had already participated in a number of financial ventures and in January 1881 had founded the Banque de Lyon et de la Loire, which from its inception made rapid progress. However, as a result of some
-Grey papers (Doughty), II, 456–58. Le Courrier de Montréal, 17 mars–21 mars 1880. Le Nouveau Monde (Montréal), 16 mars–21 mars 1880
SIMON DE LONGPRÉ, MARIE-CATHERINE DE, dite de Saint-Augustin, nun of the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec, daughter of
TISSERANT DE MONCHARVAUX (Montchervaux), JEAN-BAPTISTE-FRANÇOIS, officer in the colonial regular troops; b. 1696 or 1697 in the parish
. 28 April 1838 at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade (La Pérade), Lower Canada, son of François-Xavier Trudel and Julie Langevin; d. 17 Jan. 1890 in Montreal, Que
also instrumental in creating a second missionary project, the seminary of the Société des Missions Étrangères de la Province de Québec. In 1997 she was declared venerable by Pope John Paul II
.
François-Elzéar Vallier landed at Quebec along with Bishop Dosquet*, coadjutor to Louis-François Duplessis de Mornay, bishop of Quebec
, cannot be confirmed. The assertion that he had been pianist to Marie-Louise de Bourbon, Duchesse de Montpensier, is more credible.
The young musician
; d. 25 April 1913 in Saint-Thomas, near Joliette, Que.
Joseph-Alfred Archambeault did his classical studies at the Collège de
.
After attending school in Fribourg and Mélan, Switzerland, Louis Babel entered the noviciate of Notre-Dame-de-l’Osier in France on 4 May 1847. He made his final vows on 8 May 1848 and then
.
After completing his studies at the Petit Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse in Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville (Sainte-Thérèse), near Montreal, in 1868, François-Xavier Boileau departed for Europe with a
CHABERT DE JONCAIRE, LOUIS-THOMAS, esquire, called Sononchiez by the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee), member of the
), soldier, accountant, writer, magazine owner, and professor; b. 23 Nov. 1852 in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Laval), Lower Canada, son of Joseph Chartrand, a joiner, and Virginie Lacasse; m. 1
Poulin* de Courval Cressé and Charlotte-Louise Lambert Dumont; m. 2 Jan. 1792 Marie-Victoire Fafard Laframboise in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada, under a contract providing for husband and
trade, arrived in New France in 1756 with the Régiment de La Sarre as a servant. In 1760 he was authorized to settle at Trois-Rivières and to do business as a merchant. Pierre-Édouard spent nearly
*. Having studied at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal from 1811 to 1819, he chose to go into law. He was called to the bar on 6 Dec. 1828, but it is not known if he practised at this time. In 1830 he was
jp; b. 29 Aug. 1762 in St Brelade, Jersey, son of Brelade Janvrin, a merchant, and Elizabeth de Lecq; m. 16 Dec. 1799 Esther Elizabeth Filleul (1780–1864) in St
LANOULLIER DE BOISCLERC, NICOLAS, agent for the Compagnie du Castor and the