ANQ-Q, CE301-S62, 9 févr. 1862; CE301-S66, 18 oct. 1876; Index BMS, dist. judiciaire de Québec, Metropolitan Church (Québec), 27 juill. 1925; P541. Gazette (Montreal), 19

officer; b. 30 Aug. 1757 at Quebec, son of Jean Taché* and Marie-Anne Jolliet de Mingan; m. 25 Sept. 1785 Marie-Louise Decharnay, a

Louis-Prudent*; m. there 26 May 1874 Marie-Zoé Marcotte, and they had six children; d. 19 March 1924 in Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, Que

notarial records. He put a notice in the Quebec Gazette/La Gazette de Québec on 25 May 1815 announcing his intention “to resume business as a notary public . . . on the

, that he entered the college at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière in 1854, at the age of 12. There, under the influence of Abbé Pierre-Stanislas Vallée, a teacher at the college and an enthusiast of military

Pierre de Troyes in 1686. As captain of the Dering [I] Young was instructed to leave eight or ten hands at Churchill River to establish a settlement and then to winter at York 150 miles to the

Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Roch de Ramezay* for a journey to the Nipigon country. Perhaps he was encouraged by his father, who

–57. “Papiers d’État – Bas-Canada,” PAC Rapport, 1891: 171, 177–79. Quebec directory, 1822. P.-G. Roy, Les avocats de la région de Québec, 77. Tremaine, Biblio

and Michilimackinac. He had acquired farms in the Montreal region, including one on the Côte de Liesse on Montreal Island and another in the seigneury of Châteauguay, both purchased in 1779. In 1788 he

 mars 1828, 1er févr. 1831. Arch. de l’évêché de Gaspé (Gaspé, Qué.), Boîte Carleton, corr., 1794–1870, 24 août 1831; 3 juill., 3 août 1832. PAC, MG 30, D1, 9: 572

navigations (1903–5), VIII, 283–90 (English version of Cartier’s third voyage). André Thevet, Les singularitez de la France antarctique, autrement nommée Amérique: & de plusieurs terres & isles

André himself entered the Séminaire de Québec in 1797, destined for an ecclesiastical career. In 1804 Doucet became the subject of a jurisdictional dispute between Antoine-Bernardin Robert, superior of

Illinois,” “Montreal in 1693,” and similar subjects. In addition, Duncan provided the water-colour illustrations for Viger’s “Costumes des communautés religieuses de femmes en Canada

they had two sons and three daughters; d. there 18 Aug. 1911 and was buried 21 August in Notre-Dame de Belmont cemetery in Sainte-Foy, Que

Gosselin was a student at the Petit Séminaire de Québec and was awarded the Prince of Wales prize in 1863. He was ordained to the priesthood on 30 Sept. 1866 at the age of 22. After serving as

, 30 sept. 1849. Arch. de la Chancellerie de l’Archevêché de Montréal, 773.115 (Catholic Women’s League of Canada/Plan national – Corr. générale, 1893–1925). Arch. de la Congrégation de Notre

duel from Clément-Charles Sabrevois* de Bleury, a member of the House of Assembly for Richelieu, to Charles-Ovide Perrault

as Émile Chartier*, the first vice-rector of the Université de Montréal

Centre d’Études Acadiennes, Univ. de Moncton, N.-B., Fonds Valentin Landry. L’Évangéline (Digby, N.-É.; Weymouth Bridge, N.-É.; Moncton, N.-B.), 1887–1910 (a microfiche index for the period 1887

community of the Society of Saint-Sulpice. He then undertook a variety of tasks, including that of bursar at the Séminaire de Reims. He was still there when the revolution broke out in 1789. Following the

object that appeared in Le Journal de Québec on 17 October. Sasseville left the old shop of Laurent Amiot, on Rue de la Montagne, around 1852 and established himself on Côté du Palais

Rigaud de Vaudreuil, returned to New England in June 1705 with Captain Augustin Le

between Albany and Montreal. During the hearing Lÿdius named other Montrealers and even Pierre de Lauzon*, the Jesuit missionary at Sault-Saint

learning the language of the Indians had been few and interrupted. He had been supplied by “Monsieur de la Motte” (Nicolas, son of Pierre Aigron

Saint-Pie-de-Guire ironworks on the south shore of the St Lawrence, which he purchased in 1874 and kept going until 1881. In 1880 he had begun operating a larger industrial complex at Drummondville

Factory (Ont.), a Hudson’s Bay Company post where the CMS had established a mission in 1851. He left again almost at once for Little Whale River (Petite Rivière de la Baleine, Que.), another company

insurance: 346 shares in the Quebec Bank, 25 in the Caisse d’Économie Notre-Dame de Québec, and 150 in the Quebec Fire Assurance Company

ROBINAU DE PORTNEUF, PHILIPPE-RENÉ (better known under the name René Portneuf), parish priest; baptized 13 Aug

 Devoir, 5 janv. 1931; and Ville de Montréal, “Old Montréal”: www.vieux.montreal.qc.ca (consulted 9 March

extensive lands in Cap-de-la-Madeleine as a reserve for the ironworks to ensure its supply of wood and ore. The assembly, especially the member for Trois-Rivières, René-Joseph Kimber, resented the favouritism

, and in the surrender of Montreal the following year. In the autumn of 1760 he was quartered at Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud and became friends with the family of Michel

was back at Quebec in time to leave again on 4 May 1652 on a frigate with Father de Quen. He returned 10

valuable experience for his future career. In 1834 he was at Pointe de Lévy, where he worked in the flour-mills. He apparently combined this occupation with the management of a similar mill on the Rivière

Intendant of New France from 1686 to 1702, Jean Bochart de Champigny (d. 1720) saw to the well-being of settlers, the

, jp, editor, publisher, and author; b. 2 or 3 Dec. 1754 in Louisbourg, Île Royale (Cape Breton Island), fifth of 14 children born to Jean-Baptiste-Philippe d’Estimauville de Beaumouchel

during the Franco-German War of 1870–71 and then, in fulfilment of a vow made to ensure his sick mother’s recovery, he entered the noviciate of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate at Notre-Dame-de-l’Osier to

engagé of the Hudson’s Bay Company, was born in Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan (Saint-Jacques), Lower Canada, to Joseph Chevaudier, dit Lépine, and Marie-Anne Pellerin. His mother, the daughter of an

Séminaire de Québec and the Hôtel-Dieu several lots, one of which was a beach lot, at La Canoterie in Lower Town. In February 1780 he leased the farm at Berthier for rent in kind, including half the

Buade* de Frontenac. He was first sent to the mission at the falls of the Chaudière River which was directed by Father

Lieutenant Governor Luc Letellier* de Saint-Just brought the Liberals under Henri-Gustave

Vallières de Saint-Réal to help form “a Society, not entirely ‘Antiquarian’ but Historical rather and Canadian,” the principal objects of which would be “the early history of Canada, and

Sainte-Cécile in Trois-Rivières (1913–14), and the cathedral of Notre-Dame-de-Fourvières in Mont-Laurier (1917–19). In 1922 they restored the church of Saint-Denis (in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu). As well

, after completing his theology in 1750 at Cahors, France, arrived at Quebec on 15 August of that year. He took two more years of theology at the Séminaire de Québec before going in 1752 as assistant

3 canoes and 19 men, with a cargo worth £1,350, to Michilimackinac and on to La Mer de l’Ouest (a term still used at this time to mean Manitoba and the territory beyond). The following

Huault de Montmagny. Father Bressani, at the head of 250 Hurons, was to go and ask for help. The assemblage arrived at Quebec at the end of July 1648. All that the governor could do

, 135, 141, 145, 147, 153, 157, 161, 163, 210, 234, 245, 268, 270–72, 288, 311; 158: 626, 638; 184: 749–846. “Les dénombrements de Québec” (Plessis), ANQ Rapport, 1948–49: 125. L’Aurore des

 1810; 2 May 1811; 20 Feb., 12 May 1823. E. H. Dahl et al., La ville de Québec, 1800–1850: un inventaire de cartes et plans (Ottawa, 1975), 125, 159, 212

, Fonds Morisset, 2, C226/E25.5/1. “Les dénombrements de Québec” (Plessis), ANQ Rapport, 1948–49: 174. Geneviève G. Bastien et al., Inventaire des marchés de construction des archives

-Anne-de-Beaupré, L.C., son of Élisabeth Lessard and Augustin Caron, a well-to-do farmer and mha for Lower Canada; d. 13 Dec. 1876 at Saint-Colomb-de-Sillery (Que

Casgrain* and Monsignor Henri Têtu, and he spent his childhood years at the manor in L’Islet. He did the classical program at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière from 1857 to 1864 and studied