before a commission presided over by the lieutenant general of police, Antoine de Sartine. Finally, after 15 months of imprisonment, examinations, and cross-examinations, on 10 Dec. 1763 M

COTTÉ (Côté), GABRIEL, merchant and furtrader; baptized 12 June 1742 at Saint-Louis-de-Kamouraska (Kamouraska, Que.), son of

. Crémazie.” More venturesome than his elder brother, Octave worked to develop the business; in 1847 it was installed at 12 Rue de la Fabrique, and soon became one of the most important centres of

AHSJ, Annales de sœur Marie Morin, 1697–1725; Annales de sœur Véronique Cuillerier, 1725–1747; Déclarations de nos anciennes Mères pour constater la profession religieuse et le décès de nos sœurs

DELORT (Delord, de Lord, de Lort), GUILLAUME, merchant, councillor of the Conseil Supérieur of Île Royale (Cape Breton Island); b. at

of Joseph Desjardins and Marie-Josephte Prévost; d. 14 Nov. 1867 at Saint-Michel-de-Vaudreuil (Vaudreuil), Que. François-Xavier

DUCHESNEAU DE LA DOUSSINIÈRE ET D’AMBAULT, JACQUES, intendant of New France (1675–82), chevalier, councillor to His Majesty, a

La Minerve, he came with the squadron escorting the troops sent under the Comte de Rochambeau to help the American colonies during the War of Independence, and then out of love for liberty went

 1745 he served as captain and aide-de-camp to Sir James Campbell, commander of the British cavalry. The same year he was promoted major and lieutenant-colonel in the army, and saw service in the

and Marie-Anne Denis; d. 28 Nov. 1882 at Saint-Laurent, Île d’Orléans, Que. Michel Forgues entered the Petit Séminaire de Québec as a

, composer, office holder, and author; b. 7 Nov. 1834 in the parish of Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup (Louiseville), Lower Canada, fifth of the nine children of Charles-Édouard Gagnon, a notary

Forced to abandon his studies because of a heart lesion, de Saint-Denys Garneau (1912–43) became associated with the Roman

. Marie-Joseph-Eugène-Alphonse Gasté graduated from the lycée at Laval, France, in 1851 and entered the Grand Séminaire du Mans. He taught at the Collège de Château-Gonthier in 1854–55 and was

Geoffrion began his classical studies in 1855 at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe. In 1866 he graduated in civil law from McGill College in Montreal, where he had been a brilliant student, especially under

, according to Abbé Tronson’s letter to Dollier de Casson: “Father Séraphin, who came to see me twice at

GIROUARD, GILBERT-ANSELME, merchant and politician; b. 26 Oct. 1846 in Sainte-Marie-de-Kent, N.B., son of Anselme Girouard

studies in Lower Canada at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe in 1849, continued them at the Jesuits’ Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass., and completed them at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal. From 1859

de l’Institut canadien pour 1868. This 30-page pamphlet was put on the Index in July 1869. The firmness with which Greeley had all

GUICHART, VINCENT-FLEURI (also called Guichart de Kersident), Sulpician priest and

under Lieutenant-Colonel Charles-Michel d’Irumberry* de Salaberry. Guy’s continued interest in the militia after the war

satisfactorily, since his appointment was renewed regularly until 30 April 1822, when he gave up his post. Harper then entered the Séminaire de Nicolet

. The only other hat-maker in Montreal at the time was a Parisian, Jean-Baptiste Chaufour. Neither man enjoyed a considerable trade; they were, according to Governor Charles de

Deschamps* de Boishébert’s company; the marriage contract signed a few days earlier mentioned that he was “a wood-carver born in Old France.” Jacson

Coulon* de Villiers de Jumonville in the Ohio valley. Although his role in this venture remains unclear, he was taken prisoner and sent to Virginia. Robert

. François-Xavier-Stanislas Lafrance’s first ambition had been to become a doctor but the typhoid outbreak of 1837 changed his mind, and in September of that year he entered the Petit Séminaire de Québec. The

in Boucherville, a village which then had a primary teacher for boys. After secondary studies at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal from 1808 to 1815, he took the priestly habit and taught there for

had become a member of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada. Together with Joseph-Rémi Vallières* de Saint-Réal he

family had been settled in the parish of L’Ange-Gardien on the Côte de Beaupré for four generations. Unable to make a living on the family farm, which had been divided into small pieces through the

in contact with his friends in Canada, particularly with Buade* de Frontenac, who gave him news of the colony in a

.” Jacques Rouillard ANQ-M, CE601-S15, 20 juin 1899. BCM-G, RBMS, Notre-Dame de

upon. Undated sketches held by the Séminaire de Québec testify to the contribution that Jean-Baptiste-Antoine and his brother made to ship decoration. The drawings are of carving for the stern of a ship

sons and one daughter survived him; d. 1 May 1930 in Montreal. Charles Marchand attended the Collège de L’Assomption from 1902 to 1906

Augustin Le Gardeur de Courtemanche in the development of Labrador; b. 1663, son of Pierre Martel de Berhouague and Jeanne de Hargon of Bastide-Clérance in Navarre (diocese of Bayonne); d

years of his childhood on his father’s farm at Sainte-Geneviève. He then lived at Saint-Clément-de-Beauharnois, where his father soon established a business. In 1829, after a good business training in the

scurvy, smallpox, and dysentery. After the war Oliva practised medicine in Saint-Thomas-de-Montmagny (Montmagny, Que.), but in 1792 he and his family moved to Quebec City, where he practised for the

de Vaudreuil dispatched lieutenant La Porte de Louvigny to the upper lakes to impose a

. Charles-Marie Boissonnault PAC, RG 4, B28, 48, 9 June 1811. Ahern, Notes pour l’histoire de la médecine, 231

. Charles-Marie Panneton received his schooling at the Collège de Joliette, where his family had moved when he was a child. Showing musical talent, he was sent back to Montreal for private lessons with one of

is part of the irony of Barthélemy Petitpas’s career that he could be branded by a Frenchman as a “bad [type capable] of doing things that are most prejudicial to our interests” (Pierre-Auguste de

apothecary; b. 5 Feb. 1754 in Warsaw (Poland); m. 14 Nov. 1786 Marie-Anne Aubut in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (La Pocatière), Que., and they had 14 children; d. 22 April

-Trembles. After attending the parish school, he studied for a year at the Petit Séminaire de Québec. At the age of 14 he became a clerk in the law office of Hilaire Miot-Girard at Quebec. He finished

Mother Juchereau de Saint-Ignace. But he found himself too much in the public eye, and decided to return to seclusion. Leclair, the parish priest of Cap-Saint-Ignace, offered him

. ASHS, Documents, adresse aux électeurs, 1872; Documents, témoignage de J.-A. Gagné, 22 août 1872; Documents, Institut des artisans de Chicoutimi; Dossiers Price, nos.4, 6, 16, 17, 70, 325

. Jean-Charles Prince received his classical education at the Séminaire de Nicolet from 1813 to 1822. He began to study for the priesthood in 1822. In 1823–24, while taking theology courses as a seminarist

with Camille Lemoyne de Martigny and Charles-Édouard Marchand. From 1901 to 1910 he was in practice with Thibaudeau

France for a few years, Ramsay had an excellent grasp of French. His task was to identify the articles of the Coutume de Paris that were still in force in Canada East. But on 25 Oct. 1862 Ramsay was

, Registre d’état civil de Notre-Dame de Québec. AJTR, Registre d’état civil de Trois-Rivières. AQ, NF, Coll. de pièces jud. et not., 251; NF, Dossiers du Cons. sup., Mat. crim., III, 193ff.; NF, Registres de

entered the noviciate of the Oblates at Notre-Dame-de-l’Osier in the department of Isère, where he made his profession on 8 Dec. 1851. He finished his studies at Marseilles, and on 27 June 1852

Marine, notary; b. 1695 or 1699 at Trois-Rivières, son of Jacques Rondeau and Françoise Baudry; m. in 1733 Marie-Josephe, daughter of Alexandre Le Borgne de Belle-Isle and Marie-Josephe d’Abbadie de

Brown, printer and owner of the Quebec Gazette/La Gazette de Quebec. After Brown’s death in 1789, Roy continued to work there for Samuel