. On 7 Oct. 1783, at Varennes, Desrivières Beaubien married Marie-Appolline Bailly de Messein, who came from one of the leading merchant families of the locality. As dowry she brought her share

. Élisabeth de Moissac ANQ-M, État civil, Catholiques, Saint-Martin (Laval, Qué

, 14 déc. 1898. Arch. de la ville de Montréal, Fonds de la ville de Maisonneuve, dossier 1-1. BE, Hochelaga, reg., A5: 27; D10: 715. La Patrie, 12, 14 déc. 1898. La

when he was elected in 1857 as a government candidate, but he was defeated in 1861 by Charles de Cazes*, the first French-speaking

Buies attended the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière from 1849 to 1854, the Séminaire de Nicolet in 1854–55, and the Petit Séminaire de Québec in 1855–56. When he was 16, he went to Berbice at the

sur la forme judiciaire actuelle de la Province de Quebec.” Examining the establishment of civil government, he enumerated for Hillsborough the dangers of giving too many powers to justices of the peace

LAUMET, dit de Lamothe Cadillac, ANTOINE, seigneur in Acadia, captain in the colonial regular troops, sub

Jean’s marriage to Marguerite Talon, a member of the prestigious Parisian branch of that family. Marguerite was the daughter of Jean Talon, receveur général des bœttes et monnoyes de France, and

Jean-François Gaultier’s childhood and education. Canon Pierre Hazeur* de L’Orme met him in Paris in 1741, and from a letter of 11

Jacques Archambault, a farmer, and Catherine Raimondvert; m. first 9 Aug. 1839 Éloïse (Élise) Roy, at Saint-Roch-de-l’Achigan; m. secondly 17 July 1848 Marguerite-Élisabeth Dugal, at

made him a native of the place, all the more because “this town of unprogressive people” held little appeal for him, as he declared in a mainly autobiographical talk at the Montreal Cabinet de Lecture

, Republic of Ireland); d. 29 Nov. 1820 in Halifax, N.S. Educated at the Université de Paris, Edmund Burke was ordained in 1775 or 1776 and

spent in Paris, where after his noviciate he followed the philosophy and theology courses at the Collège de Clermont; he also taught for four years in the same college. He was ordained priest in 1633

deep concern to Le Vasseur Borgia. In the house on 6 March 1815 he had argued with conviction in favour of the adoption in Lower Canada of British civil law and the repeal of the Coutume de

studied with the botanist Bernard de Jussieu in the park of the château of Versailles, and in 1779 he worked at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. From

according to his own account, he became a forage inspector of the army in upper Alsace and in 1745 was appointed to organize hospitals on the Lower Rhine and in the Netherlands, where he met Jean-Louis de

Plattsburgh, where he contributed to various papers and served as American correspondent for Le Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe. In

Chapleau* and Louis-Olivier Taillon*. He completed the program in 1857–58 at the Séminaire de Nicolet. One of his professors there was

, and bishop; b. 4 Dec. 1830 in Saint-Pal-de-Mons, dept of Haute-Loire, France, second son of Blaise Durieux and Mariette Bayle; d. 1 June 1899 in New Westminster, B.C

to accept the disciplinary rules of the schools he attended. As a result, he went from the Petit Séminaire de Québec to the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, and from there to the Séminaire de

13, began his classical studies in the Collège Saint-Raphaël, Montreal, in 1781 and completed them in the Petit Séminaire de Quebec from 1788 to 1790. His mother being unable to bear his continued

Perrault*, known as Perrault l’aîné, and sister-in-law Charlotte Boucher de Boucherville. The children were sent as boarders to the Ursulines and the seminary in Quebec, and thus received the

*, Louis-Joseph Massue*, and others in organizing the Caisse d’Épargnes de Notre-Dame de Québec (incorporated in 1855 as the Caisse d’Économie

TONTY, HENRI (de), voyageur, trading post commander, officer in the colonial regular troops; b

CASAULT, LOUIS-JACQUES, priest, professor, superior of the Séminaire de Québec, rector of Université Laval; b. 17 July 1808

the Association des Dames de la Charité and, later, in the Montreal Asylum for Aged and Infirm Women and in the Asile de la Providence. Luce, married

; his advantageous marriage to a member of the Talon family – the influential advocates general of France – had made him a relative of the future minister of Marine, the Comte de Pontchartrain

she was four, she was living with her family in Paris, where it is thought that the Barthes were on visiting terms with such celebrities as Alphonse de Lamartine. Émilie’s schooling began on her return

BISAILLON (Bezellon, Bizaillon), PETER (baptized Pierre), coureur de bois; b. c. 1662 in Saint-Jean

CARROLL, HENRY GEORGE, lawyer, politician, judge, and office holder; b. 31 Jan. 1865 in Saint-Louis-de-Kamouraska

his classical education at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1830 until 1839, when he began to study law in the office of James George Baird. In 1841 he published at Quebec a handbook, Notions

. CHAPAIS, Sir THOMAS (baptized Joseph-Amable-Thomas), civil servant, journalist, historian, and politician; b. 23 March 1858 at Saint-Denis (Saint-Denis-De La

.). After a year of spiritual training in Roehampton (London), Drummond returned to Canada. On 7 Aug. 1885 he arrived in St Boniface, Man., to teach at the Collège de Saint-Boniface, just taken over

 Jan. 1799 in Verchères, Lower Canada, son of Joseph Crevier Duvernay and Marie-Anne-Julie Rocbert de La Morandière; d. 28 Nov. 1852 in Montreal

post to Fisher. A few days later Fisher received permission to put out the Quebec Gazette, published by authority / La Gazette de Québec, publiée par autorité

National. After spending a few years in Ottawa as an mp, he was appointed to the bench and he later became lieutenant governor of Quebec. Jules attended the Petit Séminaire de

 Rocque obtained a classical education at the Collège de Saint-Hyacinthe, aided, as was his cousin Charles La Rocque*, by a bursary from

LANOULLIER DE BOISCLERC, JEAN-EUSTACHE, controller of the Marine, chief road commissioner (grand voyer); b. 1689 or 1694 in

ward. He gradually moved up the ladder until he became foreman in the cookie factory that Charest would later establish on Rue Sauvageau (De Mazenod). Leclerc continued to work for Charest until he

, for in September 1806 he went into partnership with Pierre-Amable Archambault, another important merchant, and set up the Fabrique de Potasse de L’Assomption. Three years later Leroux further

Petit Séminaire de Québec in 1790–91, Gabriel became a clerk in the large import firm of John Macnider, on Rue de la Fabrique at Quebec. A man of initiative, he quickly rose to the position of

. Wilfrid-Bruno Nantel followed in the footsteps of his brother Guillaume-Alphonse* at the Petit Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse, where he

from the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris in 1877 and completed his training with courses in engineering. Several years later he met the premier of Quebec, Joseph-Adolphe

cemetery there. Jacques-Édouard Plamondon attended the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1876 to 1884. He won a number of year-end awards: second prize

. 1828; CN1-35, 8 févr. 1817; CN1-79, 23 mars 1807. AP, La Nativité-de-Notre-Dame (Bécancour), Cahiers des recettes et dépenses de la fabrique, 1764–85, 1786–1832; Saint-Antoine-de

Cramahé, Governor Murray’s representative, had closed the enterprise down in the spring of 1765, dismissed the director, François Poulin de Courval, and the workmen, and left only a few soldiers

director of the scholasticate that was established with eight novices on 24 Aug. 1887, in the mother house on Rue Côté in Montreal. Two months later the group moved to the premises known as Mont-de

out a pamphlet, Theory and facts: a complete review of the development of Canada under protection (Montreal), and a book entitled Histoire du commerce canadien-français de Montréal, 1535

RIGAUD DE VAUDREUIL, PHILIPPE DE, Marquis de Vaudreuil, musketeer, commander of the troops, naval captain, governor of Montreal

IRUMBERRY DE SALABERRY, CHARLES-MICHEL D’, army and militia officer, politician, seigneur, office holder, and