Condé (Condé-sur-l’Escaut, dept. of Nord), France, son of Jean-Baptiste Franquet and Marie-Marguerite de Romby; d. 12 April 1768 at Condé

, his parents proudly agreed. In 1837 he entered his second year (Syntax) at the Séminaire de Nicolet. At that time the seminary was one of the most

JANSSOONE, FRÉDÉRIC (baptized Frédéric-Cornil, called Brother Frédéric-Yves or Frédéric de Saint-Yves

LAVAL, FRANÇOIS DE, bishop in partibus of Petraea, vicar apostolic in New France (1658–74), first bishop of Quebec (1674–88

the Christian Schools. After pursuing classical studies from 1867 to 1874 at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal, where he was strongly influenced by the Sulpicians and especially by his spiritual director

. He came across islands which appeared fertile to him by comparison with Newfoundland, among them Île Brion where he perhaps set up another cross, and on 26 June he reached the Îles de la Madeleine

to 1780 at the Petit Séminaire de Québec. Despite an oral tradition transmitted by Abbé Lionel Lindsay, it is unlikely that he had worked in François

, office holder, and jp; b. 3 April 1776 in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Que., son of Jean-Baptiste Blanchet, a farmer, and Marie-Geneviève Destroismaisons; m

studying at the Sulpician seminary in Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, and in March 1852 he went to the Collège de la Providence in Amiens, which was run by the Jesuits. On his return to Canada in

partnership with his brother Pierre, and they established themselves at Quebec on Rue de la Fabrique. Then Dénéchau went on his own, entering the import-export trade. His business enabled him to accumulate a

1907 Mercier had been appointed to the board of governors of the École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal, an institution recently created by the premier of Quebec, Lomer

-Marie-de-Monnoir (Marieville), Que., one of the 14 children of Noé Ponton and Émélie Dandurand; d. unmarried 11 Dec. 1929 in Montreal and was buried on 14 December in Bromptonville, Que

in England in 1796 and signed Quetton St George thereafter, until his return to France in 1816, when he began to sign Quetton de St Georges

. In 1812 Rodier entered the Petit Séminaire de Montréal. After completing the elementary classes there, he began classical studies in 1814. He was a serious pupil who paid close attention to his

associated in 1678 with Father François de Crespieul in the difficult missions in the Saguenay region. This

VERVILLE, JEAN-FRANÇOIS DE, engineer, knight of the order of Saint-Louis; b. in France, probably after 1680; m. Madeleine

AMARON, CALVIN ELIJAH, Presbyterian minister, educator, newspaper editor, and author; b. 4 Sept. 1852 in De Ramsay (Saint

Catherine Cairns. The following year the couple, who were then living on Rue de la Montagne in Quebec, received from Cuthbert one piece of land in the seigneury of Berthier, and two others in that of Sorel

yard from the bankrupt estate of shipbuilder William King. Two years later he bought Powell Place (Bois de Coulonge) from Henry Watson Powell, a British officer, for £500 cash and the promise of £1,500

BISSOT DE VINSENNE (Vincennes), FRANÇOIS-MARIE, second ensign in the regular troops of Canada and half-pay lieutenant in those of

shipwrights in 1840, 800 members of the Société amicale et bienveillante des Charpentiers de Vaisseaux de Québec [see Joseph Laurin

store at Pointe de Roche which he used as a trading-post and warehouse for his goods. From 1818 he served as middleman for Charles Robin and Company in the Caraquet region. The firm, which was based at

, Robert-Errol*. He withdrew from the civil service in 1875, and died at Quebec. He was buried at Saint-Colomb-de-Sillery. In the forefront of the

at La Tour (dept of Puy-de-Dôme), France; d. 20 Oct. 1798 in Montreal (Que.). Gabriel-Jean Brassier entered the Grand Séminaire

living at Saint-Cyr and that he reached Canada at a youthful age, perhaps in 1641, having lived at some earlier time in the home of “one of our mothers of Tours,” according to Marie de l’Incarnation

began giving private lessons in organ, piano, and harmony, an activity which he would continue until his death. At the time he was assistant organist for the Congrégation des Hommes de Ville-Marie and

Perrault*, in Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada, and they had 13 children; d. 2 May 1852 in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (La Pocatière), Lower Canada

primary school in Beauharnois before beginning classical studies at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal in September 1836. The principal of the seminary at that time was Joseph-Alexandre

the priesthood on 20 May 1837 at the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Paris. He stayed at the Irish college until August 1838, when he was assigned to parish ministry in Drogheda (Republic

, with property valued at 14,020 livres. Dunière embarked on operations in real estate with the purchase of lands at Saint-Thomas-de-la

; RG 8, I (C ser.), 184: 34, 181; 604: 231. Can., Parl., Sessional papers, 1868–75 (annual reports of the Dept. of Militia and Defence). G. [-É.] Cartier, Discours de sir George Cartier

received the priesthood from Bishop François de Laval – becoming the first Jesuit to be ordained a priest in

Gauthier*, a woodcarver, and Euphrosine Gendron; m. first 25 Oct. 1864 Marie-Erménie Bourret in Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup (Louiseville), Lower Canada; m. secondly 6 Feb

. Casgrain], Mémoire sur les missions de la Nouvelle-Écosse, du cap Breton et de l’île du Prince Édouard de 1760 à 1820 . . . réponse aux “Memoirs of Bishop Burke

AAQ, 210A, II: 277–80, 304–7; III: 142–44, 154–55, 166–69; 311 CN, V: 3, 5–6, 8a, 9, 11, 15, 29, 33; 312 CN, V: 2, 51. Centre d’études acadiennes, univ. de Moncton (Moncton, N.-B.), Fonds Macdonald

, Louis-Joseph Godefroy de Tonnancour, René-Ovide

, so much in the tradition of her patron, St Vincent de Paul, very fruitful. In 1894 the home was transferred to larger quarters, and the move

Michel de Villebois de La Rouvillière, tells us of a missive sent by “that rogue Potenssien” to the superior of the Recollets, Valérien

the task of writing a history of Canada. Thus, around 1907, Hébert published Deuxième livre de lecture, a work that was approved for use in Acadian schools in the Maritimes. With fellow

, who for many years had been “in a decline.” His father, an artisan who had been at the Collège de Montréal with Louis-Hippolyte

going to lodge a complaint with the heads of the Compagnie des Marchands de Rouen et de Saint-Malo about the behaviour of its agents, who were hindering the spread of the gospel. This task completed

. Dominique Mondelet arrived in New France in 1757 after serving for three years in the French navy. The following year he made a declaration that he was a sergeant in the Régiment de la Reine and a saddler by

year Orontony went in person to press their wish on Governor Charles de Beauharnois. The

, until the time of Governor Le Febvre de La Barre’s invasion of the Mohawk country

PETITCLAIR, PIERRE, notary’s clerk, writer, and tutor; b. 12 Oct. 1813 in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures

. François Romain belonged to the third generation of a family whose forebear had come from Italy to New France early in the 18th century. After studies at the Petit Séminaire de Québec, which he cut short in

Le Moyne* de Longueuil, Baronne de Longueuil, and her husband David Alexander Grant, who had just died. In addition to his house in Montreal, at his death in 1835 Selby owned some land on the

Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1851 to 1859, and then entered the Université Laval, where he graduated in law in 1862. An essay in rhetoric that he wrote on the library of Alexandria earned him several

to buy most of Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour’s interest in Nova

De Witt*, and most of the craftsmen, farmers, carters, and day-labourers in the riding. Almost all were Canadian or Irish. Bagg had mustered the businessmen and office holders, only a