LÉVIS, FRANÇOIS (François-Gaston) DE, Duc de LÉVIS, army officer; b. 20 Aug. 1719 at the
Cours abrégé de leçons de chymie. The latter work, intended for the youth of the schools, was the first of its kind written by a Canadian and published in Canada. Having finally won over the parish
stage during a period when Montreal theatre was experiencing something of a golden age. In 1898 the brand-new Monument National, a project of the Association Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal, established a
, office holder, real estate agent, soldier, and philanthropist; b. 8 Nov. 1874 in Saint-Hilarion-de-Settrington (Saint-Hilarion), Que., son of Rieule Asselin and Cédulie Tremblay; m
later in the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery in Montreal.
William Chapman did his secondary studies at the Collège de Lévis from 1862 to 1867. In 1865
Robillard in Montreal, Que.; d. there 21 April 1890.
Edmond Lareau received his secondary education at the Collège Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir
through successfully. In his colleague Jacob De Witt he found the man to help him organize and direct the new
in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Lower Canada, son of Jean-Baptiste Chartier and Marie-Geneviève Picard Destroimaisons; d. 6 July 1853 at Quebec
LAFLÈCHE, LOUIS-FRANÇOIS, Roman Catholic priest, politician, educator, author, and bishop; b. 4 Sept. 1818 in Sainte-Anne-de
BEAUHARNOIS DE LA BOISCHE, CHARLES DE, Marquis de BEAUHARNOIS, seigneur of Villechauve, naval
June 1724, Marie-Madeleine Lefouyn, by whom he had no children; d. 15 Sept. 1738 at the Château de Carcé, near Rennes.
The intendant’s family
had been ordained, he sailed for Acadia and in the autumn of that year appeared at Louisbourg, Île Royale (Cape Breton Island). Le Loutre was supposed to replace Abbé Claude de La Vernède de
’Afrique, commanded by Simon-Pierre Denys de Bonaventure and carrying the new French governor
Jean Juchereau de Maur gave him an estate on Pointe Villeneuve, near Saint-Augustin de Portneuf, which he enlarged in 1677 and 1685; and on 3 Nov. 1672
ARNOLDI, PHEBE (rebaptized Apolline), named de Sainte-Angèle (Diehl), teacher, shopkeeper, and
by Joseph de Monic, administrator in Brouillan’s absence. His wife then went to Acadia, where she set up a
.
In 1782 Pierre-Jacques Bossu, dit Lyonnais, entered the Petit Séminaire de Québec, where he “applied himself to studying earnestly and steadfastly, a model of docility and good behaviour.” In
Fréchette*, and many others who would leave their mark on the world of journalism and the intellectual life of French Canada. Joining the Institut Canadien de Québec in February 1891 enhanced his
BOURLAMAQUE, FRANÇOIS-CHARLES DE, French army officer, governor of Guadeloupe; b
December, in company with Captain, the Viscount Louis Frasse de Plainval, chief of the Manitoba constabulary, he reached Fort Garry (Winnipeg) ten days later
in commerce in Montreal. Eager to have his son receive an education, he enrolled him that year in the Petit Séminaire de Montréal. Joseph-Narcisse left the seminary in 1822, and, it is thought
former commandant Henri-Louis Deschamps* de Boishébert. Nine years later he sold it because it was “too distant from the fort
, adjacent to the property of Jean Serreau* de Saint-Aubin. In August 1696 Chartier arranged to lease the seigneury of Mathieu
to Governor Brisay* de Denonville. In August 1691 the Onondaga chief and about 600 men, “like a river overflowing
Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye, one to Michilimackinac in 1735. He also became a leading merchant at the latter post. The business was probably tended in his absence by his wife and
. He soon returned to the parish of Notre-Dame, probably to assist M. François Citoys de Chaumeaux, who since 1712 had held simultaneously the offices of “secretary, bursar, and procurator of the
Can., Prov. of, Legislative Assembly, App. to the journals, 1847, 1: app. T, no. 96. Ramsay, Dalhousie journals (Whitelaw), 3: 65–66, 71. Père Pacifique [de Valigny] [H
Champlain, Œuvres (Laverdière), V, 328; VI, 5f., 22. Le Clercq, First establishment of the faith (Shea), I, 167; Premier établissement de la foy, I, 186. André Vachon
March 1922 at Quebec.
After studying at the Petit Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse, Joseph-Alphonse Couture enrolled in the School of Military Instruction
.
Andrée Désilets
AJTR, Registre d’état civil. Archives de la municipalité du
March 1616. After a short visit to Trois-Rivières at the end of June, he accompanied Samuel de Champlain
DU PONT DUCHAMBON DE VERGOR, LOUIS, officer in the colonial regular troops; b
Recensement de 1667. JR (Thwaites), XXVII, 101. JJ (Laverdière et Casgrain), 14–15, 312. Tanguay, Dictionnaire, I, 202.
short time. In 1880–81 he took a bilingual commercial course there and won numerous prizes. The following year he attended the Petit Séminaire de Montréal. Dumouchel finished his classical studies in the
de la Fabrique (where Rue Saint-Jean begins) and a second store – which he and Louis Dalaire owned – in Saint-Roch ward, and in linking Ottawa and Montreal, he began to set up a few regular
ESTOURMEL, CONSTANTIN-LOUIS D’, naval officer; b. 1691, son of Louis d’Estourmel and Marie-Aimée de Hautefort de Montignac; d. 6
at Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Nicolet. After studying law at Quebec in the firm of Andrew Stuart* and Henry
Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros* de Léry, who had been detailed to take a detachment of troops to Fort Detroit. The
, an Erie belonging to the Cat nation, responsible for the founding of the Saint-François-Xavier mission at Prairie-de-la-Magdelaine (moved in 1717 to Caughnawaga); d. 1673 at the mission
GINGRAS, LOUIS, secular priest and superior of the Séminaire de Québec; b. 5 Sept. 1796 at Saint-Olivier
GLANDELET, CHARLES DE, priest, writer, teacher, preacher, secretary to Bishop Saint-Vallier
, 343, 356. Ivanhoë Caron, “Les maîtres d’écoles de l’Institution royale de 1801 à 1834,” BRH, 47 (1941): 21–32. Patrice Gallant, Les registres de la Gaspésie (1752–1850) (6v
JUCHEREAU DE SAINT-DENIS, CHARLOTTE-FRANÇOISE, known as Comtesse de SAINT-LAURENT, daughter of Nicolas
Le Moyne* de Longueuil and his own godfather, Major Ignace-Michel-Louis-Antoine d
.
La Poippe was appointed commandant at Plaisance 20 Feb. 1670, to replace La Palme. The intendant of Rochefort, Colbert de Terron, and the minister, Colbert, gave him instructions to
LAMBERVILLE, JEAN DE, Jesuit missionary to the Onondagas, diplomat, b. at Rouen, 27 Dec. 1633; d. in Paris, 10 Feb
Marchands’ grocery store in one of them. At about the same time, Jean-Omer was taking a commerce course at the Académie de l’Archevêché, run by the Brothers of the Christian Schools. Brother Marcellian
. Marchand was active in the Association Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal, serving as its vice-president in 1848 and again in 1849, when he and others sought a charter for the organization. The following year