1791. ANQ-Q, CE1-61, 11 janv. 1811; CN1-285, 8 janv. 1811. Les bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest (Masson). Docs. relating to NWC (Wallace). Five fur traders

on Rue Atlantic, and from 1889 a store with five storeys on Rue de Brésoles. Some of the products were packaged at the latter, a number of its own brands having been launched. It appears that it was

both separately and in Can., Parl., Sessional papers, 1905, no.36b. The French report has been republished as “Document: Rapport de la Commission royale sur l’immigration des journaliers

ironworks on the east bank of the Rivière Batiscan, near Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan. Along with these various concerns he pursued a political career: elected for Buckingham in 1796, he sat in the Lower

. Roy, Hist. de Lauzon, 5: 162–64. P.-G. Roy, Glanures lévisiennes (4v., Lévis, 1920–22), 1: 33–35; Profils lévisiens (2 sér., Lévis, 1948), 2: 74–75. “Historique

Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue, Rivière-du-Loup (Louiseville), where he maintained a large household. He considered himself an agricultural innovator and a model for his Canadian neighbours. His farms were run

 Gresley. Du Val’s son Peter John purchased the company on 8 Oct. 1825 and proceeded to expand its operations, constructing additional fishing stations at Havre de Gaspé and Newport, Lower

Denys* de Bonnaventure, commander of the naval detachment which was supposed to combine with Duvivier’s land force for an attack on Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, that the latter had already withdrawn

. Antoine Gagnon, who came from a family of farmers, entered the Petit Séminaire de Québec when he was ten, having first attended his parish school. Highly intelligent, he completed his classical and

coastal waters of the province on behalf of François Du Pont* Duvivier in 1744, Paul Marin de La Malgue in 1745, La

.” In 1805 Grant retired, settling at Sainte-Anne-de-Bout-de-Île (Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue), Lower Canada, in a great stone house now known as the Thomas Moore House. He moved around 1820 to Lachine, where

(Montreal, [1866]), and of a report on the Montreal, Portland and Boston Railway Company at ANQ-Q, PQ, TP, Bureau des chemins de fer. PAC, RG 30

. Higgins left Yale in early 1860, intending to return to California. A chance meeting with Amor De Cosmos*, owner of the British Colonist

Luther Hamilton Holton* and Jacob De Witt*, Holmes was more inclined to be

Sulte*, Paul Stevens*, and Alfred Duclos* De Celles, all of whom

the church of Saint-Roch; d. 29 July 1905 at Quebec and was buried 1 August in the cemetery of Notre-Dame de Belmont in Sainte-Foy

, extracts in French have appeared in several articles, notably “Du voyage de J. Lambert en Canada (1810),” La Bibliothèque canadienne (Montréal), 3 (1826): 130–32; “État de la

. Joseph-Pierre-Michel Lecourt studied at the Séminaire de Nicolet from 1840 to 1844, and then trained as an architect and engineer with Frederick Hacker, a British architect living at Quebec. When he was 21

1760 his name was recorded in the ledgers of the parishes of Saint-Pierre-du-Portage (Assomption-de-la-Sainte-Vierge), at L’Assomption, and Purification-de-la-Bienheureuse-Vierge-Marie, at Repentigny. In

. 1857. Le Journal de Québec, 31 juill. 1852. Morning Chronicle (Quebec), 17 Nov. 1887. Canada directory, 1851; 1857–58. Lovell’s Canadian dominion directory

son De Bellefeuille, recalls the highlights of the career of a spirited young man who shared the lives of great explorers and empire builders and who played a significant if not central role in the huge

-Henri de Trémaudan that Scott “did not believe that we would have the pluck, as he

ties with the French. Nissowaquet’s bond with his sister’s son, Charles-Michel Mouet de

practising law in partnership, first with Joseph-Évariste Prince in 1882–83, John Constantine O’Donnell from 1884 to 1891, and Charles De Guise in 1895, and then from 1898 to 1905 with Charles

La Patrie the day after his death, he had been taught the motto Dieu et le Roi. The article added that the brilliant student at the Collège de Clermont-Ferrand “took top prizes in

with the ministry to the mission of Saint-Nicolas, near Quebec, a charge he kept even when he became parish priest for Saint-Antoine de Tilly in November 1720. He had to deal with large

, urging the Admiralty to print as soon as possible his sailing directions for the straits of Juan de Fuca and Georgia since numbers of ships were entering the straits “really knowing nothing of the

Leuven (Louvain, Belgium), Charles-Jean Seghers file. Arch. de la Propagation de la Foi (Paris), Vancouver, f.202, Seghers à Certes, pièce 12618 (30 déc. 1878), pièce 12655 (13 juill

studied there. She was content in that environment, where she was influenced by a nun, Mother Marie de Lourdes, and preachers, especially Paul

brilliant student at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, and during these years he formed a strong friendship with François-Magloire

Morin, and they had two sons; d. there 27 March 1926. Georges Vézina studied at the Petit Séminaire de Chicoutimi from 1898 to 1902

the first administrator of the Asile de Beauport and in 1864 founded the Belmont Retreat, a clinic for the treatment of alcoholics. William began his secondary studies at the High School of Quebec, and

died at the age of 39. In 1859, after primary schooling in his village, he was admitted to second year (Syntax) at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe. His academic record was mediocre in the year he

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. In September 1818 his parents enrolled Côté in the Petit Séminaire de Québec, but the disappearance of the honour rolls for the period makes it impossible to assess his achievement. Nor is

HAVY, FRANÇOIS, merchant and entrepreneur; b. 1709 in the Pays de Caux, France; d. at Bordeaux, France, on 12 Dec

school board and the municipal council. His mother, the daughter of a notary, had studied briefly with the Sœurs du Sacré-Cœur. In 1867 they placed their son in the Petit Séminaire de Montréal, run by the

Walsh*, continued his studies at the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Montreal, where he resolved to acquire a fluency in French. On 2 July 1851 he was ordained at St Mary’s Cathedral in

politician; b. 17 Sept. 1826 at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade (La Pérade), Lower Canada, son of Pierre-Antoine Dorion* and Geneviève

. Argall was back in Virginia in 1610 accompanied by Lord De La Warr and was appointed to the council by the governor. He was later driven off his course on a voyage to Bermuda, sailed and fished

him by the will of his mother, who had died in 1821, in part from the failure of clients such as Philippe-Joseph Aubert* de

widowed mother in 1825 and was educated at the Séminaire de Nicolet. He then studied law in the Montreal office of the prominent Tory attorney, Charles Dewey

(Catherine?) Schuyler; cousin of Abraham De Peyster*; d. 26 Nov. 1822 near Dumfries, Scotland

1859 he entered the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe, where he completed his final year (Rhetoric) in 1865. He is reported to have distinguished himself there “by his outstanding talent and industry.” One of

, Mary Ann Scott, purchased a stone house on Rue de la Fabrique, Gray paying in cash the cost price of nearly £600. On 23 Jan. 1765 he was appointed by Governor

of Canada, of which he would be honorary president from 1920 to 1938. He was the president of the Baron de Hirsch Institute and Hebrew Benevolent Society of Montreal from 1912 to 1914, and of the

Le Normant de Mézy. When Le Normant returned to France in 1737, Laborde continued working under the next financial commissary, Francois

 Selkirk’s diary (White). “Inventaire des biens de feu Luc Lacorne de Saint-Luc,” J.-J. Lefebvre, édit., ANQ Rapport, 1947–48: 66. Quebec Gazette, 16 June, 3

. Peachy’s early output was strongly influenced by Baillairgé. The evidence can be seen in the work he did for the Séminaire de Québec, the Ursuline convent, and the fabrique of Notre-Dame at Quebec

Gaudet*, Poirier was profoundly affected by the work of François-Edme Rameau de Saint-Père, a French sociologist he admired. He began to be known as a historian in 1874, when he published