at the Saint-François-Xavier mission at Prairie-de-la-Magdelaine. Won over by their example and by his conversations with them, he arrived at the mission with them in the spring and asked permission to

by Louis-René Chaussegros de Léry, and including Jean-Marie

, Que. Michel-François Valois studied at the Collège de Montréal from 1816 to 1821, and like the young men of the period who attended classical colleges

. É.-J.[-A.] Auclair, Saint-Jérôme de Terrebonne (Saint-Jérôme, Qué., 1934), 105–6, 342–45. Hélène Champoux et Mario Nadon, Saint-Jérôme, en mots et en images; 150

most famous son of Charles Le Moyne* de Longueuil et de Châteauguay and of Catherine Thierry. He had two

BÉGON DE LA PICARDIÈRE, MICHEL, commissary of the Marine, councillor in the parlement of Metz, France, inspector general of

supremely beautiful religion: work.” In 1860 Tarte entered the Collège de L’Assomption. When he completed his sixth year (Rhetoric) in 1865, he won two prizes for French and two for Latin. He did one year of

Picoté de Belestre. We do not, however, know what his particular responsibility was. Dollard was perhaps contemplating becoming a settler. At the end of 1659

GAULTIER DE VARENNES ET DE LA VÉRENDRYE, PIERRE (also called Boumois, and he signed Laverandrye

Séminaire de Montréal, where he studied from 1807 to 1812. The following year, at the age of 14, the boy became a clerk in the hardware store of Arthur Webster, who ran one of the biggest commercial

Riel*. He delivered a stirring address at the Champ-de-Mars rally on 22 November, and then accepted nomination as a candidate in the July 1886 federal by-election for Chambly, which would

Roquemont de Brison in the name of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés. Two months later, at the mouth of the St. Lawrence, Roquemont was obliged to surrender to the

. Tardivel’s aunt would always take an interest in him, paying for his education at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe and in 1881 helping him to buy a printing-press for his newspaper, La Vérité

supervision and an attack, made by the newly arrived M. de Bermen* de La Martinière of the Compagnie du Nord, was repulsed

ANDRÉ, LOUIS, Jesuit priest and missionary; b. 28 May 1631 at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France; d. 19

*, and later took part in a coastal raid at La Hève and in the destruction of Fort Saint-Louis, the trading post of the Compagnie des Pêches sédentaires de l’Acadie [see

ANQ, Fonds Berczy (collection privée). Archives de l’Université de Montréal, Collection Baby, Correspondance générale. ASQ, Fonds Verreau, Ma Saberdache; Fonds Verreau, 19, liasse 2. Bibliothèque

. L’Opinion publique (Montréal), 3 août 1876. Histoire de la Corporation de la Cité de Montréal, depuis son origine jusqu’à nos jours . . . , J.-C. Lamothe et

 Minerve (Montréal), 20 août 1873. P.-G. Roy, Fils de Québec, III, 96–97; Les juges de la province de Québec, 57. Cornell, Alignment of political groups. Monet

BUADE, LOUIS DE, Comte de FRONTENAC et de PALLUAU, soldier, governor-general of New France; one of the more turbulent and influential

asylum of their own accord after a few days. Although such reforms were being promoted at the same time by the superintendents of the Asile de Beauport

Fort-Royal (Fort-de-France), Martinique, and in 1762 at Havana, Cuba. Most of Busby’s remaining time with the 27th Foot was spent in Canada, where he

upon to replace notary Jean-Guillaume De Lisle as clerk of the fabrique. On 22 May

CORTE-REAL, MIGUEL, Portuguese explorer, second son of João Vaz Corte-Real, m. Isabel de Castro, two daughters; b. c

which was to found Sainte-Marie-de-Ganentaa, allowed him to add certain details about the natural resources of the country and the customs of the inhabitants. After the failure of this mission, Father

 Dec. 1877 in Montreal, son of Alphonse-Clovis Décary, a notary, and Rose de Lima Serre, dite St-Jean; m. first 16 April 1901 Éva Lallemand in Montreal, and they had three sons; they

creation of county associations. According to the Journal du cultivateur et Procédés de la Chambre d’agriculture du Bas-Canada, he was the first to suggest that in agricultural competitions there

have identified Watering-Place Bay with Chedabucto Bay, between Cape Breton Island and Nova Scotia, where there are three relatively large islands (Madame, Janvrin, and Petite-de-Grat); but since the

. 1648 at Angers, France, daughter of René Gallard, king’s counsellor to the bench of the provost court of Angers, and of Claude de Faye; d. 10 March 1725 in Montreal

, taking part in repulsing the attack made by Claude de Bermen* de La Martinière in September 1684, and supervising the

, supervised his education, enrolling him in the third year of the preparatory course at the Petit Séminaire de Québec in 1863. A gifted boy, Théophile skipped the next grade, Latin Elements, and still

Archives paroissiales de Sainte-Famille, Île d’Orléans, Registres des baptêmes, mariages et sépultures, 1806, B, no.7. ASGM, Ancien Journal, II, 132; Chapitre des fondations, 1843–1872, 17

. And all the evidence inclines us to believe that he was bound to the Society by the promise of the donnés (“given men”). We find him at the Saint-Joseph de Sillery mission, near Quebec, from

; B28, 48–52; RG 7, G15C, 24: 31, 274; 29: 190; RG 8, I (C ser.), 287: 72–73, 88–148, 195–96, 212; 288: 104–6, 149; 372: 59–60; RG 68, General index, 1651–1841. “Les dénombrements de Québec” (Plessis

, the two Mohawks were delivered 18 May to Governor Huault de Montmagny, who ordered them

head clerk of the Communauté des Habitants; brother of Jean Juchereau de Maur; baptized 30 Aug

, and politician; b. 7 Feb. 1740 in Beauport, near Quebec, son of Antoine Juchereau Duchesnay, seigneur, and Marie-Françoise Chartier de Lotbinière; d. there 15 Dec. 1806

Marie-Narcisse Lemaire Saint-Germain, and they had at least three children; m. secondly 8 Nov. 1834 Sophie Ménéclier de Montrochon in Trois-Rivières; d. 25 April 1835 in Saint

of Allain Landry and Anastasie Dupuis (Dupuy), a descendant of Charles de Saint-Étienne* de La Tour; d. 12

. He next studied Latin with notary Thomas Bédard in Lotbinière, and in 1854–57 he took the classical program at the Petit Séminaire de Quebec, from the fourth year (Versification) to the sixth year

. André Garon BNQ, Société historique de Montréal, Collection La Fontaine

created by Mathieu de Goutin, who was laying claim to Cobequid, as he wanted to set up there an outlet for

was promoted post captain in 1690 and in May 1692 was present at the battle of La Hougue off the Pointe de Barfleur (dept. of Manche), France

, f.410; 76, ff.122–23; 114, f.251; F2B, 11. “Recensement de Québec, 1744” (APQ Rapport). “Recensement du gouvernement de Québec, 1762” (APQ Rapport). P.-G. Roy

of the European impact on Indian culture. In 1620 he was taken as a child to France by the Recollets, baptized, and given the name Pierre-Antoine, with the Prince de Guémenée acting as his godfather

in this atmosphere that Louis Perrault grew up. At the end of his studies at the Collège de Montréal in 1826, he was undecided whether to seek a career in law or in business

three months, alleging that certain irregularities had been committed in a trial presided over by Jean-Baptiste Fafard de La Framboise, the deputy king’s attorney

of Plessisville. Having to contend with the influence of the representatives of three counties, Henri-Gustave Joly* de

, and Agathe de Lacelle; m. Angélique Beauchamp; d. 20 Dec. 1813 in Kingston, Upper Canada. By the mid 1760s Charles Réaume had

, for on 9 July 1686 (o.s.) the chevalier de Troyes, after capturing the Moose and Rupert River posts, appeared at Albany and demanded that Sergeant surrender. He refused but proceeded to put up