École Potvin, Desjardins attended the Collège de Lévis from 1864 to 1870, completing the four-year commercial course and the first year of the Latin one. His academic record shows that he was capable of

. The first member of the Birtz family to come to New France arrived around 1750 with the Régiment de Béarn. After the conquest of the colony by Great Britain, this Étienne Birtz resumed his trade as a

and Marie Mius d’Entremont de Pobomcoup; d. 28 May 1776. Following a brief interlude in France after the surrender of Port-Royal to

Mélanges religieux (Montréal), 1843–1845. Allaire, Dictionnaire. Alexis de Barbezieux, Histoire de la province ecclésiastique d’Ottawa et la colonisation dans la vallée de l’Ottawa

material in the new paper that Mesplet was getting ready to launch, the Montreal Gazette/Gazette de Montréal. In February 1794, when the

de La Flèche (1740–44), and arrived in Canada on 17 Aug. 1744. After teaching for five years at the Jesuit college in Quebec, he tried missionary life at Sault-Saint-Louis (Caughnawaga) in

might have spent her entire career in the United States had it not been for the visit to Philadelphia in 1851 of Toronto’s Bishop Armand-François-Marie de

Catholic parish and in the Catholic charity, the St Vincent de Paul Society. During the 1860s he was a member of the council of the Ottawa Board of Trade and a director of the Ottawa Gas Company

that he and Father Jean-Pierre Choné were to establish a mission at Pigeon River at the west end of Lake Superior. From Sault Ste Marie, Frémiot travelled west with Father Choné and Brother Frédéric de

.), perhaps as a helper in a trading company. On 19 March 1768, following two years of theological studies at the Séminaire de Québec, he was ordained by Bishop

Legardeur de Repentigny, to France as its delegate to seek certain changes in the trading monopoly, and at the same time, if possible, to obtain the return to the colony of the Recollets. Although

). From an early age Vital-Justin Grandin felt a religious vocation, and in 1846 he entered the Petit Séminaire de Précigné with the intention of becoming a parish priest. In 1850 he decided to be a

fine reputations. Ferdinand studied the violin under Léon de Saint-Lubin, concert-master of the Königstadt theatre from 1830 to 1847, and eventually joined its orchestra. He later had lessons from two

GUILLET, LOUIS, notary and politician; b. 28 Jan. 1788 at Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan (Que.), son of Jean

. On 12 August the expedition, having sailed south along the coast, arrived in Nootka Sound (B.C.) where Pedro de Alberni was in charge of the Spanish settlement of Santa Cruz de Nutka. Here Haenke

around 1690 and at first took service as a domestic, but he had much greater ambitions. He was already running a business in Quebec on Rue du Cul-de-Sac in Lower Town in 1695

.” Andrée Désilets AJQ, Greffe de E. G. Meredith, acte de vente des

 Journal de Québec, 31 janv. 1860. Beaulieu et Hamelin, La presse québécoise, 1: 107–8, 118, 132. Fauteux, Patriotes. Montreal directory, 1842–60. Quebec directory

received its letters patent on 15 April 1694. On 25 April 1701, at the same time as François Charon* de La

Dupré; m. there 3 Nov. 1808 Charlotte-Hermine-Louise-Catherine d’Irumberry de Salaberry, and they had six sons and five daughters; d. 17 Aug. 1838 in Petite-Rivière-Saint-Charles

Marin de La Malgue at Fort de la Rivière au Bœuf (Waterford, Pa.) with a protest against the French military advance toward the Ohio. Suffering some hurt, Kaghswaghtaniunt made the return

1792. What happened in the next three years is not clear. In the 1795 census he is given as living at 16 Rue de la Fabrique and is listed simply as a clerk with C. C. Hall and Company. Had his

. Buade* de Frontenac hoped to make peace between the Ottawas and the Sioux, as warfare between them interfered with the fur trade. He asked that they direct their energies against the Iroquois

-Hyacinthe, Que. Shortly after his father’s death on 31 Oct. 1792, young Larocque, who had studied at the Collège de Montréal, was sent to

. Arrangements for his voyage and third probationary year in the field would be made with the procurator in Paris, Father Jean de Lamberville

baptismal name remains a mystery. Nor is anything known about his education, though it is possible that he studied at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal, where an Israël Ménard was enrolled in 1857–58. He was

members of the Chambre de Commerce du District de Montréal, a francophone association incorporated the next year. He served as its president from 1894 to 1896. In 1892 this group created the Merchants

the Séminaire de Québec from 1782 to 1784. He was given the tonsure before the holidays of 1783, possibly so he could become study master, living during the summer at the seminary’s holiday house at the

his agent take possession of the Îles de la Paix (which were part of the seigneury of Châteauguay) and had some of the trees cut down. The matter was taken to the courts, which decided in her favour

Letellier* de Saint-Just which had just brought the Liberal Henri-Gustave Joly* to power. It was Lynch who, with Edmund James

 oct. 1840–12 avril 1841, 29 déc. 1848–12 mai 1851, 7 juill. 1869. Langelier, List of lands granted. Liste de la milice du Bas-Canada, pour 1829 (Québec, [1829

Calvarin* and Dominique-Antoine-René Thaumur* de La Source, to go to the Sainte-Famille mission which the

Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière in Lower Canada, where he remained for eight years. Michaud was ordained in Saint John, N.B., on 16 June 1867

[Laumet] absence, the temporary commandant of Detroit, Véniard de Bourgmond, had fatally

 Laviolette, whose parents came from Azay-le-Rideau, near Tours, France, married Marguerite Sauriot (or Sauviot) on 16 Sept. 1658, at Ville-Marie (Montreal). Joseph-Alfred attended the Académie de Berthier

 April 1844. F.-J. Audet, Les députés des Trois-Rivières (1808–1838) (Trois-Rivières, 1934), 12–17. Ivanhoë Caron, “Inventaire des documents relatifs aux événements de 1837 et 1838

in that region. Upon his arrival O’Hara became head of a fishery in Baie de Gaspé. The following year he was appointed justice of the peace. In 1767

English and the Micmacs in Nova Scotia: “Motifs des sauvages mikmaques et marichites de continuer la guerre contre les Anglais depuis la dernière paix” (“Motives of the Micmac and Marichite Indians for

between 1738 and 1744. He commanded the company’s Ville de Québec, which sailed between Canada and France via Louisbourg in 1738, and its Saint-Louis and Imprévû in 1739

PERTHUIS (sometimes Perthuis de La Salle), JOSEPH, merchant-trader, member of the Conseil Supérieur of Quebec

Vallières* de Saint-Réal was presiding, Picotte asked a question on which he had to render a decision. Given to irony and fluent in several languages, Vallières de Saint-Réal tried to ridicule Picotte by

Chomedey de Maisonneuve their intention to go to Trois-Rivières to formulate plans for the future and to determine if the French were to keep their promise of assistance against the enemy

POUTRÉ, FÉLIX, labourer, spy, and merchant; b. 3 Sept. 1814 at Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie (L’Acadie

. Cedric L. Haines Arch. de l’évêché de Bathurst (Bathurst, N.-B.), Papiers Robichaud. Centre d’études acadiennes, univ. de

 May 1901 in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade (La Pérade), Que. John Jones Ross attended the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1844 to 1847. He left after

(Montauban), État civil, Saint-Jean-Villenouvelle, 31 oct. 1730. AJQ, Registre d’état civil, Notre-Dame de Québec, 8 avril 1755. AN, Col., C11A, 108, ff.1–90. ANQ, Greffe de R.-C

of Quebec. By his own statement he had received his master’s letters from the Académie Royale de Chirurgie in Paris. He is also believed to have served in the French army, since a document dating from

 January in Notre-Dame de Belmont cemetery in Sainte-Foy (Quebec City). Joseph Sirois spent his childhood in Quebec City, where his father was a prominent

. John Bolingbroke Sparrow left his home town around 1876 for Montreal, where he opened a fruit store at the corner of Rue de Bleury and Rue de La Gauchetière, beside a bill-posting business that

SUZOR (Suzor de Bièvre), FRANÇOIS-MICHEL, doctor; b. 26 May 1756 in Romorantin-Lanthenay, France, son of François Suzor, a