Marie du Sacré-Cœur in 1853. After the mother house transferred to Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan (Saint-Jacques) that year, she alternated between teaching in Vaudreuil and serving in various capacities at

. Foretier made his principal purchases in 1765. With his partner at that time, Joseph Périnault, he bought two parcels of land from Marie-Anne-Noële Denys de Vitré – her three-quarters of the sub-fief of

daughter named Éva; d. 11 March 1928 in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Que. Louis Jobin was the first child born to Jean-Baptiste Jobin and Luce Dion

child, Jean-Étienne, was born. The previous year Painchaud had left Carleton to take charge of the parish of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (Sainte-Anne

of the St Lawrence, Montmagny, Cap-Saint-Ignace, and Trois-Saumons (Saint-Jean-Port-Joli) on the south shore of the St Lawrence, Trois-Pistoles, Saint-Germain-de-Rimouski (Rimouski), Saint

immediately appointed professor of philosophy and natural sciences at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal. Although he was young, inexperienced, and largely untrained, he did have access to the detailed lecture

SAFFRAY DE MÉZY (Mésy), AUGUSTIN DE, chevalier, governor of New France 1663–65 (the first to serve directly under Louis XIV

. Louis-Victor Sicotte received his secondary education at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinths from 1822 to 1829. Information on his activities during the next few years is incomplete. It is known that he

Canadian middle class, Eugène-Étienne Taché attended primary school in Saint-Thomas and then the Petit Séminaire de Québec in 1846–47. Since his father was a cabinet minister and legislative councillor, he

MONTCALM, LOUIS-JOSEPH DE, Marquis de MONTCALM, seigneur of Saint-Veran, Candiac, Tournemine

CAVELIER DE LA SALLE, RENÉ-ROBERT, explorer, founder of Lachine, seigneur of Cataracoui, discoverer of the mouths of the Mississippi

Quebec school of art. Young Baillairgé could not have completed his training at the school, since its supposed sponsor, the Séminaire de Québec, had at that time only a farm and a country retreat at Saint

a capital of $90,000 as the Compagnie Manufacturière de Saint-Hyacinthe. But Barsalou was not among the new shareholders. He rejoined the ranks in 1874 and became increasingly identified with the

Tessier, 10 juill. 1883, 2 mai 1889, 31 mai 1890. ANQ-Q, T11-1/24, nos.2255–56 (1878); 25, nos.2478 (1880), 2487 (1881). Arch. de la Ville de Québec, QD2, rapport de Henry O’Sullivan, 7

primary school near the garden of the fort on the Plains of Abraham. At nine he entered the Séminaire de Québec, where he proved a brilliant pupil with obvious literary talent. Chauveau said little

-Auguste-Marie-Joseph de Forbin-Janson*. On 21 Oct. 1854 he was appointed a member of the provincial

. 7 Nov. 1657 at Trois-Rivières, son of Pierre Denys de La Ronde and Catherine Leneuf de La

lucrative. To catch belugas the islanders formed groups of 10 to 15 men, each group being called a pêche (fishery). In 1778, following dissensions among various partners, the Séminaire de Québec

, which were followed by the centralized marking of examinations, and he rounded up some brothers to review the textbooks, which were based on the ideas of Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, and to “bring them

LE NORMANT DE MÉZY, SÉBASTIEN-FRANÇOIS-ANGE (he signed Lenormant Demesi), colonial official, b. 20

.” Furthermore, in 1844 and 1845 he published two instalments of a work he had compiled and arranged, Lyre sainte: recueil de cantiques, hymnes, motets, &c. He also brought out at Quebec in 1845

Quebec Medical Journal/Journal de médecine de Québec. An enterprising young man, he hoped to make his bimonthly periodical the strongest bond for the medical profession in Lower Canada. He

school in L’Isle-Verte, and then attended the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1834 to 1840, but he did not complete the course of studies. On 2 July 1850, at Cacouna, he married Arthémise Dionne, the

consisted of buildings in Winnipeg valued at $13,000, farms at Charlesbourg, near Quebec City, and in the municipality of Saint-Roch-de-Québec-Nord (Quebec City) ($23,025), and his residence ($14,000), as

 March 1890 in Assemetquagan (Routhierville), Que., son of Joseph Brillant, a railway maintenance worker, and Rose-de-Lima Raiche; d. 10 Aug. 1918 in France

Hillaire de La Rochette), and of others in a set of duplicate records which he was to keep for this purpose. The controller was all the more necessary because the agents at Quebec were not

began his career at the Tignish village school in 1851. Eighteen months later he returned to his studies, this time at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière in Lower Canada. He came back to Prince

Le Marchand* de Lignery to fight the Foxes in the Great Lakes region. In face of an enemy who kept slipping away, the contingent had to be satisfied with burning villages and destroying crops

DIESKAU, JEAN-ARMAND (Johan Herman?), Baron de DIESKAU, army officer, governor of

officer, politician, and seigneur; b. 5 May 1743 at Quebec, son of Hubert-Joseph de Lacroix* and Anne-Madeleine Dontaille; d

[LA Croix]. The following year he was entrusted with the task of setting up again the missions to the Montagnais in the Saguenay region, which for 18 years, since Father François de

Buade* de Frontenac, the Recollets” syndic, the construction of the hospice went on for two years, under the displeased eye of the bishop, who was only waiting for a pretext to intervene. This pretext

LÉGARÉ, JEAN-LOUIS, businessman, office holder, and rancher; b. 25 Oct. 1841 in Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan (Saint

Stepmother,” appeared serially in the Literary Garland in 1847, and the next year, in the same periodical, came “Ida Beresford,” which was later translated by Joseph-Édouard Lefebvre de Bellefeuille

Gresko Arch. Deschâtelets, Oblats de Marie-Immaculée (Ottawa), Oregon, c-vii, 2 (Durieu’s system), Durieu à Le Jacq, 23

. Joseph Papin was a brilliant pupil at the Collège de L’Assomption from 1835 to 1842; he then studied law in the office of Joseph-Ferréol Pelletier in Montreal and was called to the bar on 21 Dec

Postgraduate Medical School. In 1893 he crossed the Atlantic to pursue his studies in France, in particular at the medical faculty of the Université de Paris and at the Institut Pasteur, where he took a keen

which Mesnard, who was his senior, is believed to have insisted. Venne also drafted the plans for the presbytery (completed in 1895) and the two successive buildings of the church of Sacré-Cœur-de-Jésus

de Musique et de Déclamation in Paris in order “to lose his southern accent.” Going to the West Indies for a few weeks, he remained on the island of Haiti for five years; there he launched newspapers

been settled at Quebec since 1741. According to his father’s diary, Thomas began to attend the English school at the age of eight. Then he probably studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec while his

]). Centre d’Études Acadiennes, Univ. de Moncton, Fonds L’Assomption compagnie mutuelle d’assurance-vie; Fonds A.-J. Léger, 21.1; Fonds L’Évangéline; Fonds Pascal Poirier, 6.1-2, 6.1-6; Fonds F

of Ignace-Philippe Aubert* de Gaspé, in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Que., and they had 11 children, 4 of whom died in

new Jesuit residence at Nancy in October 1856. From 1861 to 1865 he was rector of the Collège de Laval in France. He finally retired to Nancy, three years before his death in 1868

great zeal. He endeavoured to give stability to a number of Indians by settling them at the Cap de Trois-Rivières, on the left bank of the St. Maurice River. In a letter dated 1640 he rejoiced to see

Canada’s century: a history of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (Toronto, 1993). Jean Turmel, Premières structures et évolution de la police de Montréal, 1796–1909 ([Montréal, 1971

CASAVANT, JOSEPH, organ builder; b. 23 Jan. 1807 in the parish of La Présentation-de-la-Sainte-Vierge (La Présentation

operation in the seigneury of Saint-Denis-De La Bouteillerie. A decade later he went into partnership with Amable Dionne*, a

. François-Xavier Choquet was born to a farming family in Varennes which placed a high value on education and permitted him to attend the Collège de L’Assomption from 1863 to 1869 and the Petit Séminaire de

Augustin-Louis de Glapion* – revealed his daughter as the sole guilty person and indicated that the crown attorney, Hector

generous benefactors of charitable works in Lévis. He was a churchwarden in 1852 when the parish of Notre-Dame-de-la-Victoire was created, and agreed that year to take part in the syndicate appointed by the