St James Cathedral until fire destroyed the building in 1857. He held various teaching positions, for 30 years at the Institut des Soeurs de la Congrégation Notre-Dame and for shorter periods at
– as all French speaking Protestants were designated – but this is untrue. He came from a family of French Huguenots, the de Bruyères, who were probably of noble birth and who had emigrated to
not considered healthy enough for heavy work on the land, and was early guided towards study. When the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière was opened on 1 Oct. 1829, he took up the
ANQ-M, CE2-5, 11 juill. 1833. Arch. du Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe, Qué., Fg-47 (fonds Aurélie Caouette). La Semaine religieuse de Montréal, 24 juill. 1905. La Semaine
. L’Événement, 7 avril 1927. Le Journal de Québec, 30 nov. 1877; 27 mars, 5 juill. 1880; 5 mai 1881; 22 févr. 1883; 25 janv. 1884; 27 févr. 1886. La Minerve, 27 févr. 1886. La Semaine
Montreal (Que.), and his son, Charles-Ange, attended one of the very few classical schools established in the town at that time. In 1743 Charles-Ange went to continue his studies at the Séminaire de Québec
Victoria Labrie in Saint-Patrice-de-la-Rivière-Pentecôte (Rivière-Pentecôte), Que., and they had nine boys and three girls; d. 17 Nov. 1923 in Godbout
, Jacques-Joseph Guiton de Monrepos, of stealing clothes from her employers, the Pommereaus, and
.
François-Étienne Cugnet’s father was dean of the faculty of law of the Université de Paris, an annual appointment, on four different occasions, and was particularly noted for his reform of the examination
DAZEMARD (Dassemat, Dazmard, Dazmat) DE LUSIGNAN, PAUL-LOUIS, captain in the colonial regular troops, commandant; b. at Champlain (Que
June 1603 in the parish of Saint-Saturnin, at Tours, France; d. 1688.
Nicolas Denys was the son of Jacques Denys de La Thibaudière and Marie
aid societies, the Union Saint-Thomas and the Union Saint-Pierre, and was president of a Catholic charity, the Société de Saint-Vincent-de-Paul of Ottawa. His most important work, however, was done with
of the entrance of the Strait of Juan de Fuca,” published in 1788 by Alexander Dalrymple, the hydrographer, which notes that he then held the rank of master in the Royal Navy
.
Georges Arsenault
Centre de Recherches Acadiennes de l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard (Miscouche, Î.-P.-É.), Fichier généal. LAC, RG 31
, meaning friend of the Iroquois, a principal chief of the Abenakis of Saint-François; b. 1719 at the Saint-François-de-Sales mission (Odanak, Que.); d. there 5 May 1798
Gazette/La Gazette de Québec was published. The subscriptions and the £50 paid annually by the colonial authorities for official announcements were insufficient to meet the sundry expenses and the
expectations, and in the summer of 1832 it was rumoured that Girod might be interested in assuming the editorship of the Montreal newspaper L’Ami du peuple, de l’ordre et des lois. The failure of the
Gosselin worked under the direction of Abbé Charles Plante and became bursar by appointment on 23 August 1730. But it seems clear that he had little aptitude for his task, for in 1733 François de
Phips*’s naval assault on Quebec in 1690, he had successfully mounted two batteries on the heights of the Cul de Sac in order to harass the disabled English vessels taking refuge below. In 1704
AD, Calvados (Caen), État civil, Asnelles, 25 déc. 1727. ANQ-MBF, Greffe de J.-B. Badeaux; Greffe de Benoit LeRoy. Invasion du Canada (Verreau). Quebec Gazette, 8
–81. ANQ-M, Greffe de F.-M. Lepailleur, 28 sept. 1734; Greffe de Michel Lepailleur, 18 nov. 1725; Registre d’état civil, Notre-Dame de Montréal, 18 nov. 1725, 29
-Alain Chartier* de Lotbinière, seigneur of Vaudreuil, Rigaud, and Lotbinière; they were married on 15
Vallières de Saint-Réal and Charles Panet and was called to the bar on 11 June 1833. On 4 June 1837 he went to a meeting held in the Marché Saint-Paul at Quebec to protest Lord
Petit Séminaire de Québec, Hector-Simon Huot articled with his brother-in-law, Louis Lagueux*, and was called to the bar on 2 May 1825. He
-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce (Sainte-Marie), Saint-Denis on the Richelieu, Terrebonne, and Berthier, as well as at the boarding-school of the mother house in Montreal. She was back in Lower Town when she was
L’Événement. According to Narcisse-Henri-Édouard Faucher* de Saint-Maurice, he was an “informed, firm, and
, Bonaventure (New Carlisle, Qué.), Registre d’état civil, paroisse Saint-Joseph-de-Carleton, 18 sept. 1868. N.B., House of Assembly, Journals, 1850–53. Les Couriers des Provinces maritimes
*. The latter two would publish articles by Marie in their respective periodicals in Montreal, Le Coin du feu and Le Journal de Françoise. In 1900 she became a member of the executive
business, did brilliantly in his studies at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1806 to 1814. He then went into law under the guidance of Joseph-Rémi
, dit Carcy, who had settled at Quebec, then at Beaupré. Largillier’s name is found for the first time in an act of the notary Jacques de La Tousche recorded at Cap-de-la-Madeleine on 20
the late René Legardeur de Beauvais (the younger), but he was never to occupy that post. In fact, while he was on board the Gironde to sail to Canada, he was ordered to go to Dunkerque to
Lefebvre entered the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe to prepare for the priesthood and on 9 Oct. 1876 joined the Jesuit order at its noviciate in Sault-au-Récollet (Montreal). He continued his studies
LESPINAY, JEAN-MICHEL DE, officer in Canada, then governor of Louisiana; he came originally from the region of Fougères in the province
stoves and 310,000 pounds of iron from the Saint-Maurice ironworks, which was later liquidated. The administrators of the Séminaire de Québec entered into numerous transactions with him: for example, he
Séminaire de Québec on 15 Nov. 1765. He began theological studies in 1773, serving at the same time as master of a class in the Petit Séminaire. Bishop
museum at Quebec and which was done at the same period by Jacques Leblond de Latour, no doubt permits us
MARGUERIE DE LA HAYE, FRANÇOIS, interpreter; b. at Rouen (Normandy), where he was baptized 12 Oct. 1612, son of
presented his son to the governor, Charles de Beauharnois. Although on this occasion and almost
Buade de Frontenac; b. c. 1650; d. 1698.
Ourehouare was a chief of the Cayuga villages which had been
they had six children; d. 19 April 1904 at Quebec and was buried in Notre-Dame de Belmont cemetery.
Ernest Pacaud came from a
Jean-Olivier Briand* on 29 May 1779 and in October was named parish priest of Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours at L’Islet, which he
avril 1889; Conseil, conseil de ville, règlements de la ville, no.286, article 19, 30 août 1889. BE, Québec, reg. B, 103, no.45983; 106, no.48120; 130, no.61666; 180, no.95356. L
market for paintings, and his own artistic talents.
Settling at Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, west of Quebec, for the years 1818–24, Roy-Audy finished his
Joseph-Pierre Rézé entered the Collège de Château-Gontier in France. Choosing the priesthood as his vocation, he did the final two years of the classical program (Philosophy) and studied theology at the
reproduced in Dictionnaire biographique du nord-est du Nouveau-Brunswick (6 cahiers parus, [Bertrand; Shippagan, N.-B.], 1983– ), 3e cahier: 57. Arch. de l’Évêché de Bathurst, N.-B., Neguac
. c. 1750; d. 2 Oct. 1818 in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Lower Canada.
John Sayer first appeared in the fur trade in the late
Boucher* de Grandpré and widow of Charles Hertel de Chambly; buried 21 May 1742 in Trois-Rivières.
Nothing positive is known of Jacques
themselves reflected in her songs, which were inspired by daily life and tinged with her optimism and joie de vivre. She expressed compassion for her audiences and gave them a message of hope in songs