Viger* and Jacob De Witt* in order to ensure that Canadians would have financial resources committed to stimulating and encouraging trade and

school run by the Sulpicians in Montreal and then in 1758 entered the Petit Séminaire de Québec. In the summer of 1759, before the British bombardment of Quebec began, he took refuge at the Séminaire de

Aubert* de Gaspé, Histoire de la mère Marie-de-l’Incarnation . . . by Abbé Henri-Raymond Casgrain*, and

, Thérèse, had married her 40-year-old cousin, Joseph. A year later, John Anthony was born; two other sons, Joseph and Guillaume-Benjamin, followed. The three boys attended the Collège de Montréal and

province of Quebec in 1859, he enrolled in the Collège de Beauharnois, which was run by the Brothers of the Christian Schools, and then in the Petit Séminaire de Montreal, where he did his classical studies

some time. When traders from Pennsylvania moved into the Ohio valley, Governor Ange Duquesne* de Menneville of New France launched

1859 at Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan (Saint-Jacques), Lower Canada, son of Joseph Dupuis and Euphrasie Richard; m. first 26 Sept. 1882 Albertine Francœur (d. 30 May 1915) in the Montreal

. Sojourns on the Côte-de-Beaupré and in Charlevoix During the summer of 1900 Gagnon travelled to Sainte-Pétronille on Île d’Orléans to visit Walker. He

 Sept. 1815 Gagnon married Catherine Cartier, daughter of a prosperous farmer from Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie (L’Acadie). He already owned two properties and had at his disposal more than 14,000

, Les Franciscains et le Canada (1615–1629). Hugolin Lemay, “L’œuvre manuscrite ou imprimée des Récollets de la mission du Canada (Province de Saint-Denis), 1615–1629

(Montréal, 1892). Louis-Édouard Glackmeyer studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec and on 13 Dec. 1815 was admitted to the profession of notary. Employed in 1815 as an assistant in the office of the law

, a farmer, and Marie-Louise Duret; m. 9 Oct. 1923 Dorilda Fortin at Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours-de-L’Islet (L’Islet), Que., and they had five children; d. 18 Sept. 1956 in Montreal

Jean de Lauson (senior) and Pierre Robinau, as a replacement for Louis d

. The cabinet formed by Charles-Eugène Boucher* de Boucherville on 21 December included Hall as provincial treasurer and

Pélissier some time before 1771. As early as 1770 at least, the firm of Johnston and Purss was conducting business from a rented site on the king’s wharf, adjoining the Cul-de-Sac in Quebec’s Lower

. 19 Oct. 1732 at Quebec. In 1676 Noël Jérémie was clerk at Métabetchouan, a trading-post which Pierre Bécart de Granville had just set up

. Kinousaki was apparently one of the speakers at the war council that Charles Le Moyne* de Longueuil held at Detroit in 1700

, ecclesiastical superior of the Hôtel-Dieu at Montreal, 1676–78, and of the sisters of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame, 1676–77; b. at Écouis, in the diocese of Rouen; d. 1718 at the Abbaye Saint-Victor, Paris

A. Roy, Inv. greffes not., XI, 120, 121, 135, 224. É.-Z. Massicotte, “Les arpenteurs de Montréal,” BRH, XXV (1919), 223. Tanguay, Dictionnaire, I, 365; VI

French colonial period whose activities have been documented. The records of Notre-Dame de Québec show that in 1707 he cleaned the silver and the following year he repaired a chalice and a ciborium

 March 1805; 1808: 23, 45; 1809: 23, 27, 49, 65; 1812; 1815–16; 1818–20; 1823–26; 1828. “Manifestes électoraux de 1792,” BRH, 46 (1940): 99. Recensement de Quebec, 1818 (Provost), 246

Juchereau de Saint-Denis had crossed the present state of Texas to the presidio of San Juan Bautista (near Piedras Negras, Mex.), but his attempts at establishing trade had been blocked by the

; he carried on the Gazette and became a prominent politician. After his education at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1875 to 1877 and

descended from Pierre-Louis d’Odet, the seigneur of Orsonnens in the canton of Fribourg. Protais d’Odet d’Orsonnens, Louis-Gustave’s grandfather, came to Canada in 1813 with De Meuron’s Regiment, which

-Antoine Olivier probably served his apprenticeship under a master goldsmith in Amiens. In 1688 he enlisted in the company of fusiliers which François de

) in Montreal, and they had three sons and three daughters; d. there 12 May 1916. Joseph-Aldric Ouimet attended the Petit Séminaire de

Archives des Franciscains de Québec, Dossier Potentien Ozon. ANDQ, Registres des baptêmes, mariages et sépultures. BN, MS, Fr. 13875, 15775, f.3. Jug

. Roy, Les avocats de la région de Québec, 339. Storied Quebec (Wood et al.), IV, 283–84. Charles Langelier, “J.-B. Parkin, c.r.,” BRH, III (1897), 82–89

. As a student at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal from 1867 to 1875, Perrault showed some aptitude for music, which may have been fostered by his godfather, Sulpician musicologist Joseph-Julien

Quebec. Claude Pijart’s father was the jewellery dealer of Queen Marguerite de Valois and the leading figures at court. Claude was first educated at

Palais, Rue Sous-le-Fort, and Rue de la Montagne for between £30 and £150 a year, and rented out space on the King’s Wharf as well. In April 1789 they sold a lot and stone house on Rue des Pauvres

Collège de Montréal from 1796 to 1803. Frédéric-Auguste was noted for the purity of the French he learned there, but, unlike his fellow pupil, Louis-Joseph Papineau, he probably imbibed also the

Huault de Montmagny had him buried beside Champlain

between his home in the parish of Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici (also known as Sainte-Angèle-de-Saint-Malo) and the Petit Séminaire de Québec, where he was accepted at the age of 12 and excelled in his

. 26 June 1875 in Saint-Jean-de-Matha, Que., son of Zotique (Zothique) Renaud, a law student, and Dorothée La Salle; d. unmarried 3 Oct. 1932 in Montreal and was buried there two days

. Pierre Beullac et É.-F. Surveyer, Le centenaire du Barreau de Montréal, 1849–1949 (Montréal, 1949), 69–71. Lareau, Hist. de la littérature canadienne, 389–91.

French boats leaving for the exchange of furs, which took place that year at Cap-de-la-Victoire, at the mouth of the Rivière des Iroquois (Richelieu). When the trading was finished (2 August), the

, Les bases de l’histoire d’ Yamachiche, 1703–1903 . . . (Montréal, [1903]). Napoléon Caron, Histoire de la paroisse d’Yamachiche (précis historique

Nova Scotia. The Sigognes encouraged learning for their children. Jean-Mandé, in particular, showed promise and eventually decided upon a vocation in the priesthood. At the Petit Séminaire de Tours he

that “he always did well at school,” studied at the Séminaire de Saint-Brieuc; he was ordained priest in March 1739. Returning to his native parish, he became friendly with another priest, Abbé René-Jean

. In the autumn of 1778, with the aid of a bursary, Plessis entered the Petit Séminaire de Québec. By its rigorism and emphasis on the practice of the priesthood, the program of studies instilled in

Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade (La Pérade). Bellet’s third marriage, in the chapel of the Hôpital Général at Quebec on 4 March 1822 to Mary Robinson, a widow, probably developed from his mercantile

entered the Séminaire de Nicolet. His father probably hoped that by sending him to this institution, rather than the Collège des Trois-Rivières, he would protect his son from the influence of the local

Séminaire de Montréal from 1828 to 1830, Joseph Desautels subsequently acquired a knowledge of canon law under the direction of Bishop Jean-Jacques

Drapeau, a farmer, and Marie-Joseph Huard, dit Désilets; m. 14 Oct. 1782 Marie-Geneviève Noël* in Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly

he moved to Ottawa, probably to be closer to his daughter, who had been married since 1904 to Louvigny de

-Hubert Prume, then accepted him at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique in Liège, where he obtained high marks at the age of nine. His uncle died soon after, and Frantz added Prume to his surname. He

Hervieuxs, Magnans, Courreaud de La Costes, Babys, Charly Saint-Anges, Pothiers, La Cornes, Gamelins, and Quesnel Fonblanches. Consequently Le Comte Dupré grew up in a commercial milieu, and it

officers and men alike. After serving with his regiment in the West Indies in 1794, he was appointed aide-de-camp to the king in January 1795. Promoted major-general three years later, on 17 March 1803

establish a regular paid police force in Montreal; as a result, in August Louis-Nicolas-Emmanuel de