Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, Lower Canada, eldest son of Dr Joseph-Olivier Laurendeau and Céline Dostaler; m. 23 Sept. 1879 Marie-Georgianna Mérizzi in Napierville, Que.; d. 19 Aug

Marguerite Péroine; d. 26 Sept. 1749 at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade (Que.). According to his own testimony Yves Phlem grew up at Morlaix, where

-uncle, Antoine Bédard, curé of Saint-Charles-Borromée parish in Charlesbourg. He was admitted to the Petit Séminaire de Québec in 1834 and then studied theology at the Grand Séminaire. Ordained to the

Joly* de Lotbinière and Pierre-Alexis Tremblay endeavoured to prove that important concessions had

and a remaining brother, he was entrusted to the care of his maternal grandmother. He pursued classical studies at the Séminaire de Nicolet from 1863 to 1870, winning the prize for best all-round pupil

. In 1897 it screened the first movies filmed by Thomas Alva Edison, and there was a presentation of the “historiographe” [see Henry de

command of Charles Deschamps de Boishébert shortly before the deportation of the

-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup (Louiseville), L.C., son of Louis Caron, farmer, and Euphrosine Béland; d. 24 Sept. 1878 at Nicolet, Que. Like

-Françoise Juchereau de Saint-Ignace, who reported the event, added: “without doubt he gave him well merited praise, for one could not say enough good of this great man.” She wrongly attributed to

The record books of the township of Clare are in the possession of Mr Jean-A. Comeau, Little Brook, N.S. Centre acadien, Collège Sainte-Anne (Church Point, N.S.), paroisse de Sainte-Marie

Buisson de Saint-Cosme (1667–1706) to found missions in Louisiana under the direction of Abbé François de Montigny*. According to

Derome was a brilliant student at the college of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, and already showed his literary talents by winning French essay prizes and writing for newspapers. On 19 Oct. 1842

. From about 1661 instruction had been given in New France by the king’s hydrographer [see Boutet* de Saint-Martin

.” On 28 Jan. 1745 the governor, Charles de Beauharnois, and Intendant Gilles

1607 Henri IV had allowed Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt to continue

been left in command of the fort by Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour

; baptized in October 1606 at Saint-Aubin de Tourouvre (Perche), son of Pierre Gagnon (Gaignon) and Madeleine-Renée Roger; d. 20 April 1690 and was buried two days later at Château-Richer

GAUTHIER, AMABLE, sculptor and architect; b. 11 Nov. 1792 at Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Nicolet, L.C., son of

GENAPLE DE BELLEFONDS, FRANÇOIS, carpenter, legal practitioner, jailer, process-server, acting clerk of court, royal notary, clerk of

Robinau* de Villebon, governor of Acadia, built Fort Saint-Joseph (known as Fort Nashwaak, now Fredericton) in 1692, he brought to the area a number of Acadian and Canadian settlers, including Gabriel

AC, Québec, État civil, Catholiques, Lourdes de Blanc-Sablon, 19 oct. 1919. ANQ-Q, CE2-2, 13 juill. 1830. Gaston Carrière, Histoire documentaire de la Congrégation des

François Gravé Du Pont, who was going to France, a relation dated 15 July and addressed to Cardinal François de Joyeuse; in this relation, following a few remarks on the topography

LA MAISONFORT DU BOISDECOURT, ALEXANDRE DE, Marquis de LA MAISONFORT

receiving a classical education at the “juniorate” of Notre-Dame-de-Lumières, Vaucluse; and at the Petit Séminaire of Embrun, Lucien-Antoine Lagier followed his brother Jean-Marie and on 14 Aug

. 1903. L.-J.-N. Blanchet, Une vie illustrée de Calixa Lavallée (Montréal, 1951), 4, 10. C.-P. Choquette, Histoire de la ville de Saint-Hyacinthe (Saint-Hyacinthe, 1930

LE BLANC, PIERRE, co-founder of Pointe-de-l’Église (Church Point, N.S.); b. c. 1720 at Grand Pré

to Baie-Verte (N.B.) under the command of Michel de Sallaberry. Unfortunately the vessel ran aground

LYONNE (Lionne, Lyonnes), MARTIN DE, Jesuit priest and missionary; b. 13 May 1614 in Paris; met his death by accident On 16

at Saint-Sébastien de Nancy, in the duchy of Lorraine, son of Pascal Marcol, provost of Nancy, and Catherine Lorson; d. 17 Oct. 1755 at Quebec

. Rochemonteix wrongly identifies him with Father Imbert de Masso, his predecessor in this office. In September 1610 Father Massé was selected to accompany

Gaillard “to go privateering aboard La-Nostre-Dame-de-Victoire against the enemies of the state, in the vicinity of Cape Breton, Newfoundland, the Grand Banks, and elsewhere.” In 1713 he

neophyte of importance in the colony; he presented himself for baptism at Quebec on 8 Dec. 1638. He adopted the name of Noël in honour of M. de Sillery. His wife decided to call herself Marie

Séminaire de Philosophie in Montreal. He first entered the Jesuit noviciate at Sault-au-Récollet (Montreal) on 6 April 1877. He was sent to the noviciate at West Park, N.Y., which had been founded the

matters with a great number of citizens of Trois-Rivières and Cap-de-la-Madeleine. In particular he had quarrels with

in the War of 1812. In October 1812 as a militia captain Pinsonaut was put in charge of organizing the Chasseurs de Saint-Philippe, a unit in the Châteauguay élite company. He served for two years

; born, according to his own statement, at Lachine, the son of Jean Sagean and Marie Larrante (or Maria Rende); last identified in 1711 when he owned a lot at Fort Louis on the Rivière de la Mobile

railway. Four steamboats were built between 1888 and 1894. In 1897, in cooperation with the Quebec and Lake Saint John Railway Company, Scott helped found the Société de Colonisation et de Rapatriement du

. Maurice O’Bready Archives judiciaires de Saint-François (Sherbrooke, Qué

Louise Soumande de Saint-Augustin, the first superior of the Hôpital Général of Quebec; d. 19 April 1706 at Quebec. Louis

TÊTU, CHARLES-HILAIRE, merchant and postmaster; b. 22 June 1802 at Saint-Thomas-de-Montmagny (Montmagny, Que.), son of

in Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne (Terrebonne), Lower Canada, son of Émilien Vanier, a baker, and Lucie Soucisse (Soucie); m. first 11 July 1881 Olivine Pariseau (d. 29 July 1929) in the

place that became Sault-au-Récollet; Viel’s body was recovered from the water a few days later and buried at Quebec. The accounts of Sagard, Jean de

-Denis (Saint-Denis sur le Richelieu), Livres de comptes, I (1755–1821), 1774: f.20v. Arch. des Religieuses hospitalières de Saint-Joseph (Montréal), Affaires temporelles de la communauté, Comptabilité

Annuaire de l’Institut Canadien pour 1868 . . . Gonzalve Doutre reassured the members of the institute. According to him, the aim of the decree by the Index was merely to withdraw the 1868

probably b. on that day) in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, Lower Canada, son of Jean-Baptiste Garneau, a physician, and Nathalie Rinfret, dit Malouin; m. first 24 Oct. 1870 Élodie

Séminaire de Pont-Croix from October 1851 to August 1856, and then at the Grand Séminaire de Quimper. On 15 Feb. 1859 he entered the Oblate noviciate in Nancy and one year later took his perpetual vows

and studying theology. He finished his theological course at the Grand Séminaire de Québec, where he was ordained on 5 Nov. 1893

, Bachand and a few prominent citizens set up the Chamber of Commerce of the district of Saint-Hyacinthe. But it was by starting the Banque de Saint-Hyacinthe that Pierre Bachand took the greatest part in the

mathematics courses given at the Petit Séminaire de Québec by priests Jean-Baptiste Lahaille* and Thomas-Laurent

Châteauguay, Lower Canada, son of François Benoit, a farmer, and Julienne Sainte-Marie; m. 4 Nov. 1871 Rose de Lima (Délima) Dussault in the parish of Notre Dame in Montreal, and they had three sons and three