. Jean Chabot attended the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1820 to 1828, and then from 26 Feb. 1829 studied law in the office of Elzéar Bédard

pamphlets on agriculture; d. 17 July 1885 at Ottawa, Ont., and was buried 22 July in the church of Saint-Denis-de-la-Bouteillerie at Saint-Denis, Que

Le Roy de La Potherie as “a personage of singular merit, with a bearing reminiscent of that of the Roman Emperors.” In his address to the tribes assembled at Montreal, he expressed

. 1935 in Montreal and was buried 27 April in his home village. Louis Coderre began his classical studies at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe in

Jean-Pierre De Saulles and Marguerite Crevier Décheneaux; d. 20 June 1835 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada. Having “made up his mind to

-Hubert. When he was 11, he started his classical studies at the Petit Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse (1864–67), and he completed them at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal (1867–72). In the fall of 1872 he

Father Simon began serving the parishes of Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours (L’Islet) and Cap-Saint-Ignace; on occasion he exercised his ministry at Île aux Grues and Saint-Thomas-de-Montmagny. He remained in

FRANQUELIN, JEAN-BAPTISTE-LOUIS, cartographer, king’s hydrographer at Quebec; b. c. 1651 at Saint-Michel de

classical and theological studies at the Séminaire de Québec and, from 1807 to 1810, further theological studies at the Séminaire de Nicolet, Rémi Gaulin served as secretary to Bishop Joseph-Octave

GAY DESENCLAVES, JEAN-BAPTISTE DE, priest, Sulpician, missionary; b. 29 Jan. 1702 in Limoges, France; d. sometime after 1764

GLAPION, AUGUSTIN-LOUIS DE, Jesuit and superior general; b. 8 July

after his father’s early death in 1888. Louis-Pierre did his classical studies at the Séminaire de Trois-Rivières and the Séminaire de Nicolet. In

Franciscains de Québec, Dossier Julien Guesdron. AN, Col., B, 20, f.176v. Archives de la Seine-Maritime (Rouen), G.9755, f.25 (clergé séculier). Rom. Bibli. Corsiniana, codex 912, Lettere. Recueil des

HUAULT DE MONTMAGNY, CHARLES, called by the Indians “Onontio,” first governor and lieutenant-general of New France

Cavelier de La Salle. Father Huet died suddenly at Vitry in Champagne on 16 Feb. 1655. G.-M

AJQ, Greffe de Claude Auber, 4 juillet 1665; Greffe de Romain Bequet, 31 août 1670; Greffe d’Étienne Jacob, 10 août 1726. AQ, NF, Coll. pièces jud. et not., 2016. ASQ

AJM, Registres d’état civil de Notre-Dame de Montréal (1715), 141, 142, 154. IOA, Cap-de-la-Madeleine, A-5, A-6; Trois-Rivières, A-9, B-11, B-12. É.-Z. Massicotte, “Quelques sculpteurs montréalais

Taillant de Lanaudière) at Lavaltrie, Lower Canada, and they had one child, Charles Barthélemy, who died in 1820 at five years of age; d. 21 June 1850 in Industrie (Joliette), Lower Canada

-Louis-de-Terrebonne (Terrebonne, Que.). Jacob Jordan came to Canada, before August 1761, with weighty credentials. At Montreal that year he was

 1862 he was admitted to the Petit Séminaire de Québec, where he was noted for doing well in music and science. Awarded the baccalauréat ès arts in 1868, he immediately entered the Grand

Father Germain Allart*, the minister of the province of Saint-Denis, Fathers Gabriel de

LANGUEDOC, FRANÇOIS (baptized François de Borgias), businessman, politician

. 3 March 1888 at Ancienne-Lorette, Que. After completing a classical education at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1824 to 1833, Joseph

Duclos* De Celles, Fabien Vanasse, Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel*, and Joseph-Gédéon-Horace Bergeron, he founded the Club Cartier

. Honorius Provost AJQ, Greffe de François Genaple, 17 mars 1703. Church

hardware, wallpaper, and carpets, and he worked for him from 1863 until 1869, when he went into business on his own at 8 Rue de la Fabrique. Leonard first gained fame for his decorative painting (in

MONBETON DE BROUILLAN, JACQUES-FRANÇOIS DE, governor of Placentia (Plaisance) and of Acadia, knight of the order of Saint-Louis; b

business dealings with the ruling group in Quebec society. He was also the churchwarden in charge of the parish council of Notre-Dame de Québec in 1743. On

family, Cendre Chaude received baptism at the Saint-François-Xavier mission at the Saint-Louis Rapids, which had been moved from Prairie-de-la-Magdelaine. He was soon chosen to be the fourth chief of the

in the fur trade and in 1752 had hired himself out to René de Couagne* to go on an expedition. By 1765 he was ready for action on a larger

SAINT-CLAIR, PIERRE DE, naval officer, a native of Normandy (probably of Avranches

Charles-Michel d’Irumberry de Salaberry; it formed the 9th and 10th companies in that

Smithsend also sailed. Bound for York Fort the ship was captured in Hudson Strait in July 1685 by Bermen* de La

partner in 1910. Most of his business endeavours remained concentrated in the Victoriaville region. When, in 1901, local notables set up the Club de

d’Irumberry* de Salaberry, from the neighbouring riding of Huntingdon, sided with the English party, Trestler unconditionally and unwaveringly supported the Canadians led by Pierre-Stanislas

informed Governor Charles de Beauharnois that he was granting a passage on the Éléphant

, mariages et sépultures, Notre-Dame de Montréal, 28 oct. 1670. Recensement de 1666. Catalogue de l’orefèvrerie du XVIIe, du XVIIIe et du

Andigné de Grandfontaine. Pursuant to these instructions, Walker handed over Pentagouet on 17 July 1670 to Andigné, Jemseg on 27 August and Port-Royal and Fort La Tour on 2

-Louise Maranda; d. there 17 Oct. 1797. Jean-François Hubert was educated at the Petit Séminaire de Québec and then in 1755 began

 Oct. 1875 in La Visitation-de-la-Pointe-du-Lac (Trois-Rivières), Que., son of Thomas (J.‑B.‑Thomas) Dufresne (Rivard-Dufresne), a farmer, and Marie-Victoire Dussault; m. 16 May 1899 Laura

; thus, seeing himself in such obvious and manifest danger and having already gone under the surface several times without leaving his mount, he remembered to call upon Notre-Dame-de-Foy, begging

. When Joseph-Pierre Gadbois was very young, his parents moved to Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), which he would consider his real home town. He attended the Petit Séminaire de Montréal from 1881 to

the Christian Schools in Beauharnois during 1848–50. From 1850 to 1857 he was enrolled at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal, where he was a prize-winning student. In 1857 he became a member of the

patriotic gimmickry of his Recueil de légendes illustrées (Montréal, 1896), a booklet of advertisements and stories: it included a version of Benjamin

directors of museums of accident prevention with whom he would maintain regular correspondence for several years. He brought back to Quebec a splendid illustrated album, entitled Collection de

. Louis Hémon belonged to a distinguished Breton family. His paternal grandfather was a teacher at the Collège de Quimper. His uncle Louis was the deputy for Quimper for 32 years, and a senator, and his

(baptized François-Xavier-Ferdinand), lawyer, politician, and judge; b. 9 April 1851 in Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-Lévy (Lévis), Lower Canada, son of Antoine Lemieux, a farmer, and

. Jean-Henry-Auguste Roux scarcely knew his father, who owned immense plantations in Martinique and usually lived there in the town of Fort-Royal (Fort-de-France). At the end of brilliant classical studies

DUBREIL DE PONTBRIAND, HENRI-MARIE, sixth bishop of Quebec; b. in Vannes, France, probably in January 1708, son of Joseph-Yves

rich in others, or had ups and downs but managed, like Cadet, to marry their daughters into families of the minor nobility. Françoise Cadet married François Esprit de Vantelon, son of a king’s councillor