widely known. The society’s main task was, however, to establish a museum of Canadian archaeology and numismatics in the building known as the Château de Ramezay, whose construction went back to the year

* de Messein. Later he went to live on the west bank of the Memramcook River, at a place now called Cormier Cove, on lands belonging to Joseph

. Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau did his classical studies at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1818 to 1827. He was articled in April 1827 to Joseph-François

accused Carignant of having established relations with the Americans; he was arrested and taken to Quebec. In his defence he submitted a certificate of loyalty signed by such residents of Montreal as Luc de

Mercier* and Dominique-Antoine-René Thaumur de La Source. But Abbé Calvarin

CATALOGNE, JOSEPH DE, soldier and officer in the colonial regular troops; b. 5 May 1694 at Montreal, son of

CHABERT DE JONCAIRE DE CLAUSONNE, DANIEL-MARIE (he signed Joncaire Chaber), Indian agent, interpreter, and military

the administration there. In addition he maintained good relations with at least one high official of the Conseil Supérieur of Louisbourg, Francois-Marie de

-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup, and they had one son and two daughters; m. secondly 23 Feb. 1881 Caroline Coulombe in Louiseville, and they had one son; d. there 13 May 1927

of Louis Dessane and Marie Maurel ; m. in 1847 Irma Trunel de la Croix-Nord by whom he had nine children, with three boys and four girls surviving infancy; d. Quebec, 8 June 1873

, Histoire, I, 279–81, 310–11, 326–27. JR (Thwaites). François Elesban de Guilhermy, Ménologe de la Compagnie de Jésus . . . Assistance de France, comprenant les missions

à la biographie des prêtes du séminaire de Québec, avec références en marge,” 165–68; Lettres, M, 25, N, 95, O, 26, S, 101; mss, 17, p.478 (Documents relatifs à Mgr de

speakers in his party and a formidable debater. When a large celebration was held at Quebec on 21 Sept. 1898 unveiling a monument to Samuel de

, and Louise Dandurand; d. 21 Dec. 1838 in Montreal. Joseph Duquet began his classical studies at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal in 1829

. Achille Fortier began studying music with Abbé Stanislas-Alfred Sauvé, a teacher at the Petit Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse northwest of Montreal. From 1883 to 1885, in Montreal, he took singing and harmony

. Carman Miller ANQ-M, État civil, Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue (Montreal), 1840–62; Greffe de J. C. Griffin, 4 août

Louis Hébert, died in 1639. On 12 Oct. 1660, Joseph married Marie-Charlotte de Poytiers. Not long afterwards he was captured by the Iroquois, perhaps by the same band who killed his

, and by official displeasure with Jacques-Ange Le Normant* de Mézy, his chief critic

altercation with Pierre-Jean-Baptiste-François-Xavier Legardeur* de Repentigny, an officer in the

 years by the time of his ordination, the bishop put him in charge of the parish of Notre-Dame-de-l’Annonciation at Ancienne-Lorette at the beginning of 1727. He had some legal quarrels with his

superior of the missions of Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Îles de la Madeleine, St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, and part of New Brunswick. Jones

Prevost de La Croix, the financial commissary, proved to be a useful business connection. Dissatisfied with the quality of materials sent from the royal stores at Rochefort, Prevost began to

Catholic Commercial Academy of Montreal, attended by the sons of respectable families, and then at the École Polytechnique de Montréal, graduating in 1884 with “high honours

Demarest’s presence in the colony before 8 April 1728 when he married, at Louisbourg, Marie-Suzanne de La Bazanière of La Rochelle. She was the daughter of Pierre de La Bazanière, a

Public Archives of Canada. Scrolls are supposed to have been ordered by Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros* de Léry in 1727

from Auger de Subercase the grant of a seigneury at Cap Fourchu (Yarmouth, N.S.). As a salary he

Papineau, and an active member of the Fils de la Liberté [see Leblanc], and was to be

of the French expedition under the Marquis de Nesmond to invade New England by sea, temporarily brought peace to the frontiers. Major March, moving

. This slave, the property of François Poulin de Francheville, was baptized 28 June 1730

De Bonne*] were presented. Monro voted with the English party. He did not stand for election in 1808, commenting that “the situation, I feel, would materially interfere with my future arrangements

MORIN DE FONFAY, JEAN-BAPTISTE (usually known as Morin

[Claude-Charles Le Roy de Bacqueville do La Potherie], Voyage de l’Amérique (4v., Amsterdam, 1723), IV, 117–30. Livingston Indian records (Leder) 194, 198. NYCD

Collège Saint-Raphaël from 1802 to 1806, and at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal from 1806 to 1811. He then began his legal training under a brother of Pierre-Stanislas

weight each year. This commitment was not met after 1650, but Dumesnil made no mention of that in his report. It is, therefore, not surprising that the Conseil de Québec, set up by the king, did not

de Québec from 1833 to 1842. He became a lawyer on 21 Oct. 1846, having divided his time as a student among law, literature, and journalism. In the periodicals of his day he published

 Gazette de Quebec, 1764–1823; novembre–décembre 1834. La Minerve, novembre–décembre 1834. Missiskoui Standard (Frelighsburh, [Que.]), 1835–39. Montreal Gazette, 1823

de Ramezay, museum and portrait gallery (Montreal, 1958), nos.722, 1589. Catalogue of the Manoir Richelieu Collection of Canadiana, comp. P. F. Godenrath (Montreal, 1930), nos. 110

Prouville de Tracy came down from Quebec at the head of a punitive expedition and burned the centres of population of the Mohawk canton with all their stores. Ossernenon was rebuilt under the name

Iroquois. The Seneca and Onondaga envoys also asked that Father Jacques Bruyas, Chabert de Joncaire

Desjardins, dit Desplantes, who put in a good word for him with the Ursulines of Quebec in July. Triaud worked for them, doing his most famous picture, La procession de la Fête-Dieu à

. Alexis-Frédéric Truteau made his first communion on 25 May 1818, and was confirmed in June 1819 by Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus, first Catholic bishop of Boston. He received a classical

, and 11 Feb. 1730, when his widow took Jean de Latour, a notary, as her second husband. Tétro exemplifies two characteristics of the officers

AJM, Registre d’état civil. AVM, Biographies de conseillers. Le Courrier de Montréal, 1er sept. 1880. Fauteux, Patriotes, 390–91.

Williams*, a Puritan minister who was taken prisoner during Major Jean-Baptiste Hertel* de Rouville’s expedition against

Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Que., son of Ernest Léger and Alda Beauvais; d. 13 Nov. 1991 in Montreal. The son of a general merchant, Paul-Émile

AUGÉ, ÉTIENNE, merchant-trader; b. at Saint-Louis-de-Lotbinière (Lotbinière, Que

seigneury; d. 29 April 1852 in Berthier-en-Haut. Louis-Marie-Raphaël Barbier studied at the Séminaire de Nicolet from 1805 to 1807. In 1808

 juill. 1816, 23 sept. 1820, 20 mars 1829; CN6-29, 26 mai 1796. AP, Saint-Louis (Terrebonne), Reg. de l’assemblée des marguilliers, 3 nov. 1805. Lionel Bertrand, “L’étrange aventure de

of Charles Deschamps* de Boishébert, a captain in the colonial regular troops. The two men worked together to

 Sept. 1673, and Bouvart was given the task of assisting Father Joseph-Marie Chaumonot*, the priest to the Hurons at Notre-Dame-de