port district and relocated further west, in a three-storey building on the corner of Rue de la Commune and Rue de Callière. Thus he retained his clientele

[La Croix*] had conferred the diaconate upon him on 30 Nov. 1688 and the priesthood on 18 December, the superior, Henri de

for an expedition in 1720 to the islands of Poulo Condore off the coast of present-day Vietnam. In 1720 he was promoted infantry captain in the Régiment de Navarre and awarded the cross of Saint-Louis

Roman Catholic church and modern artists (notably Le Corbusier, Henri Matisse, and Fernand Léger). This initial contact with Europe, in his youth, was crucial for Borduas. He discovered the École de Paris

that city,” he was a founder of the Chambre de commerce du district de Montréal and the Italian Immigration Aid Society. In 1906 he was received by Pope Pius X and the Italian king, Victor Emmanuel III

finally took up residence in 1691 at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade (La Pérade), near Trois-Rivières, where he died in either 1715 (according to Cyprien

LOUIS-OLIVIER, lawyer, politician, and office holder; b. 26 Sept. 1840 in Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne

theological studies. These studies were continued in 1809–11 at the Séminaire de Nicolet, where he also taught the third and fifth forms (Method and Belles-Lettres). After a few months at the Grand Séminaire de

RIGAUD DE VAUDREUIL DE CAVAGNIAL, PIERRE DE, Marquis de VAUDREUIL, officer in the colonial regulars and last governor general of New

. The sixth of ten children, Louis-Nazaire Bégin attended the model school in Lévis in 1855 and the Collège Industriel de Saint-Michel (in Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse) in 1856. In 1862 he received the

. 1818 in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade (La Pérade), Lower Canada, son of Pierre-Antoine Dorion* and Geneviève Bureau; m. 12 Aug

settled at Quebec in 1730. He became one of the principal businessmen in the colony and the largest ship-owner in the port of Quebec; his marriage to Marie-Anne Jolliet de Mingan, the granddaughter of Louis

AMYOT, GEORGES-ÉLIE, manufacturer, businessman, politician, and philanthropist; b. 28 Jan. 1856 in Saint-Augustin-de

Leménager (the husband of his sister-in-law Élizabeth Bourgeois), Gabriel Herbert, Alexis-Théodore de La Burgue, Jacques Grenet, and Henri Renouard, Frenchmen who in the first half of the 19th century taught

AULNEAU (de La Touche), JEAN-PIERRE, priest, Jesuit; baptized 21 April 1705 at Moutiers-sur-le-Lay

Guillet* de Chaumont. After his marriage in August 1723 the eldest Barsalou son, Joseph, took possession for the duration of his minority of the

. Pierre Chauvin de La Pierre , and the native chief Batiscan and his companions, who had been awaiting him. The Indians rejoiced with song and dance, and Champlain held a feast for them

for a time as a guest of planters Jean-Charles de Pradel and Étienne Boré, and also of the Capuchins. In July 1766, “indisposed of body, but sound of mind, memory and understanding,” Baudouin was

Little]. When these efforts proved successful in 1855, the size of the assembly was increased. Bemister contested and won the newly created district of Bay de Verde in the election that year. He

. Répertoire des mariages de Saint-André de Kamouraska, 1791–1968, Armand Proulx, compil. (La Pocatière, Qué., [1970]). P.-H. Hudon, Rivière-Ouelle de la Bouteillerie; 3 siècles de vie (Ottawa

Ecuier*, the parish priest of Sainte-Anne in Yamachiche from 1802 to 1820, and for nearly 50 years he belonged to the “Chantres de Machiche.” Beloved and widely respected, he died on 30 Jan

CHARBONNEL, ARMAND-FRANÇOIS-MARIE DE, Roman Catholic priest, Sulpician, bishop, and office holder; b. 1 Dec. 1802 at Château

CHARITÉ, ESPÉRANCE, FOI (Charity, Hope, Faith), young Montagnais girls adopted by Samuel de

Séminaire de Québec, where he had been enrolled since 1898. He presumably then went to work at the Imprimerie Chassé, which had been founded by his father and now was being run by his mother, who had become

. In 1796 he was keeping a general store on Rue de la Montagne (Côte de la Montagne) at Quebec, and in October of that year he joined merchant François

Clut entered the Oblate noviciate at Notre-Dame-de-l’Osier, France, on 7 Dec. 1853 and, after taking his vows a year later, studied theology at Montolivet. He came to North America in 1857 at the

the king’s ships and rebuked their contempt for the court to which they were answerable. He protested too against Martin de Lino’s remarks that certain articles of an ordinance could not be complied

with some of his family, in the Anglo-Micmac war of 1749–53. Following the erroneous statement of the Chevalier de Johnstone*, a number of

[Laumet*], the commandant, who later reported that he had “sent her under guard to the Chevalier de [Callière*] who sent her down to

form the Maison Canadienne de Commerce as a national wholesaling enterprise; Cuvillier was conspicuous by his absence. During a hotly disputed by-election in Montreal that spring Cuvillier energetically

, Bourges, and Paris. After taking his vows as a spiritual coadjutor on 2 Feb. 1670, he set out for Canada, where for nine years he carried on his ministry among the French at Laprairie, Cap-de-la

 1840, 3 Feb. 1877, 1 Aug. 1896. J.-J. Beauchamp, Répertoire général de jurisprudence canadienne . . . (4v., Montreal, 1914–15), I: 675. The Lower Canada

René Robinau de Portneuf and Augustin Le Gardeur de Courtemanche approached

Montreal, Lower Canada). Although in 1818 François Decoigne could be described as “the celebrated Mons De Quoine,” little is now known of his life or

held in Quebec City in April 1918 under Georges-William Jolicœur is deposited at ANQ-Q, E17/361, 1918, no.1661; it bears the title “Enquête tenue devant le coroner pour le district de Québec le 8

. Apart from his official printing Desbarats received the commission to reprint Samuel de Champlain*’s works, edited by Abbé Charles-Honoré

Desroches, descendant de Charles Desroches et de Nathalie Marcotte, 29 juin 1982. L.-P. Audet, Histoire de l’enseignement au Québec (2v., Montréal et Toronto, 1971); Le

the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe (1887–93) and the Séminaire de Nicolet (1893–96), Paul-Victor-Emmanuel Doyon entered the Dominican order in 1896 under the name of Constant. He did his

at the Petit Séminaire de Sainte‑Thérèse. His outstanding results enabled him to attend the faculty of law at McGill University, where he twice won the Prince of Wales Medal. He was called to the bar

of Chartres, France, son of Claude Duparc de Tenanguer, and Jeanne de Meur; d. 31 Jan. 1742 at Quebec. Jean-Baptiste Duparc descended

, son of Isidore Désilets, a farmer, and Marie Morasse (Perenne de Moras); d. 4 March 1860 at Quebec. Aimé Désilets

. C. C. Lyschander, Dend Grpnlanske chronica (Kpbenhavn, 1726). Oleson, Early voyages, 100. P. de Roo, History of America

George in 1756. In March 1757 he successfully commanded its 500-man garrison against a force three times as large attacking under François-Pierre de

. Hector Fabre studied with the Brothers of the Christian Schools in Montreal from 1842 to 1845, and then went to the Collège de L’Assomption. After one semester (September to December 1845) he

1503 shows Greenland as “Terra de Labrador” and the Labrador–Newfoundland region as “Terra de Corte Real,” implying that Greenland had been discovered by the labrador, João Fernandes before

de la Montagne. In March 1795 he hired 14-year-old James Sullivan as an apprentice for a period of six years. In accordance with an unusual and interesting condition that Sullivan’s father had put

de Caën, and from July 1626 to July 1628 was in charge of the farm set up by Champlain at Cap

ANQ-Q, Greffe de J.-A. Panet, 18 sept. 1782; Greffe de J.-C. Panet, 2 août 1763; Greffe de J.-A. Saillant, 28 mars 1775. PAC, MG 11, [CO 42], Q, 61/2, pp.265, 270

FRASSE DE PLAINVAL, LOUIS (also known as Louis Nathal), soldier, police chief, singer, actor, and impresario; b. 1841

. Instructions to bring his family “and Mr. French, the Minister, too” had not arrived when Albany was captured by Pierre de