Fort de Chartres (near Prairie du Rocher, Ill.) and noted: “He is in a manner Ador’d by all the Nations hereabouts, and He is more remarkable for His integrity & humanity than either French Man

settled on Rue Saint-Georges (Côte d’Abraham). In September he opened the Academy of Painting and Drawing at the Galerie de Peinture de Québec, an art museum established that June by the painter Joseph

d’Imprimerie de Trois-Rivières, he became founding editor of La Concorde, which began publication on 2 May 1879. This paper reflected Turcotte’s own development and his intention to

-Rivières by the governor general, Charles Huault* de Montmagny, and François de

LE NORMANT DE MÉZY, JACQUES-ANGE (he signed Lenormant Demesi), financial commissary (commissaire ordonnateur

MORIN, AUGUSTIN-NORBERT, lawyer, politician, and judge; b. 13 Oct. 1803 at Saint-Michel (Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse

college, St Andrew’s, established in 1831. After MacEachern’s death in 1835, McIntyre entered the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe in Lower Canada. From there he proceeded to the Collège de Chambly and in

beginning apprenticeship was between 12 and 16. Delezenne’s shop was on Rue de la Montagne, a few steps from the Ranvoyzés’ house. From 1756 to 1759 Delezenne used the services of many silversmiths and

Monongahela (near Pittsburgh, Pa) in 1755 under Daniel-Hyacinthe Marie Liénard* de Beaujeu, and he undoubtedly served under

the spiritual protection of a patron saint and the local parish priest. By the late 1880s, Ottawa had at least four such societies, the Union Saint-Antoine de Padoue, the Union Saint-Thomas, the Union

, although without proof, that she was a descendant of the French family of Janson, to which belonged Charles-Auguste-Marie-Joseph de

Maseres’s plan, and, offended by his attacks, Maseres published in August 1773 Mémoire â la défense d’un plan d’acte de parlement pour l’établissement des loix de la province de

. Seeking his fortune, Ainsse drifted down to Fort de Chartres (near Prairie du Rocker, Ill.) and later moved to Fort St Joseph (Niles, Mich.), where his uncle Louis-Thérèse Chevallier was a prominent

; m. secondly 10 Oct. 1893 in Saint-Germain-de-Rimouski (Rimouski), Que., Marie-Ursule Côté, widow of Rodolphe Cyprien Tanguay; m. thirdly 6 Feb. 1896 Marie Geneviève-Alphonsine

BELLECOURT (Bellecours, Belcourt), GEORGE-ANTOINE, priest and missionary, b. 22 April 1803 in Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du

BUM, Coll. Baby, Corr. générale, Edward Bowen to Judge Pyke, 5 May 1820; lettre de Guérout et Lemesurier à Louis Gareau, 20 déc. 1820; lettre de l’abbé Joyer à Mlle de Lavaltrie, 19

), subdist. St Antoine Ward (A): 16. Le Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe (Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec), 20 juill. 1901. Daily Leader (Eau Claire, Wis.), 11 Oct. 1884. La Presse

Hyacinthe-Poirier Leblanc de Marconnay, published 21 articles on education from 23 July

of Montreal, member of the provincial parliament, and mayor of Montreal; b. 17 Jan. 1827 at Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan (Montcalm County, L.C.), of Irish parents, Francis Cassidy and Mary

on monarchy, as well as a number of books on the Coutume de Paris and seigneurial practices. All these appurtenances confirm that Chandler was indeed a worthy representative of the new British élite in

, Pedro de Barcelos, João Fernandes “Labrador,” the brothers Gaspar and

, 1819). F.-J. Audet, “Commissions d’avocats de la province de Québec, 1765 à 1849,” BRH, 39 (1933): 584. Canada, an encyclopædia (Hopkins). [G. E. Day], A genealogical

 Nov. 1820; 24 May, 5, 28 June, 27 Aug., 23, 25 Oct. 1821; 13 Jan., 30 June 1823. Caron, “Inv. de la corr. de Mgr Hubert et de Mgr Bailly de Messein,” ANQ Rapport

Buteux* from as early as 1634. In 1885, with other Jesuit students, Devine moved to the newly founded Scolasticat de l'Immaculée-Conception in Montreal. He was able to persuade the rector to buy a

his house on Rue de l’Arsenal, to use for dissection at his convenience. For many years the mortal remains of convicted criminals were taken there after execution. Douglas nearly died of typhus in the

martyred child; b. 31 May 1909 in Sainte-Philomène-de-Fortierville (Fortierville), Que., daughter of Télesphore Gagnon, a farmer, and Marie-Anne Caron; d. there 12 Feb. 1920 as a

Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Quebec, where it has been found on the Îles de la Madeleine, in the Gaspé, and on the north shore of the St Lawrence. It appears in Conrad Laforte’s Catalogue de

Quebec City’s tercentenary celebrations and in establishing what would become a national park; he also enjoyed the support of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de la Cité de Québec. But at a

* and Selim Franklin, obtained 137 and 106 votes respectively; the defeated third candidate, Amor De Cosmos*, polled 91. After

. Émile Grouard started his theological studies in France prior to emigrating in 1860 to the Canadas, where he finished his preparations at the Grand Séminaire de Québec. Ordained priest at Boucherville on

. James Hunt arrived at Quebec from Dartmouth in June 1803 and immediately set up as a sail-maker in a rented shop near the Landing Place, or Cul-de-Sac, in Lower Town. Since shipbuilding was only just

children. One son, Major Jean-Baptiste Hébert, was a farmer, builder (notably of the Séminaire de Nicolet), Patriote, and member of the House of Assembly. Their grandson Nicolas-Tolentin

. Toussaint-Antoine-Rodolphe Laflamme did his classical studies at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal from 1835 to 1845, was articled to Lewis Thomas

–6); St Vincent de Paul in Salmon River (1906–7); and St Bernard, his home parish (1907–12). At the latter he distinguished himself through his support for the temperance movement and

Faribault*, Philippe-Joseph Aubert* de Gaspé, and several others, who used to meet in Charles Hamel’s store on Rue Saint-Jean

(Montreal, 1872), translated into French as Rapport sur le chemin de fer de colonisation du Nord, Montréal à Ottawa avec embranchement à St. Jérôme (Montréal, 1872). For a more complete

-Gabriel Vallette* de Chévigny], to specify the quantity and quality of wood needed for the yards, and to choose the regions to

William Lochhead, a farmer, and Helen Campbell; m. 14 Aug. 1889 Lillias Grant in Windsor, Ont., and they had one son; d. 26 March 1927 in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Que

Plessis*, to study for the priesthood at the Grand Séminaire de Québec. His expenses defrayed by subscription among Island Catholics, Bernard passed ten years there, and on his ordination in June

in matters of public finance and municipal affairs, in 1871 he helped disclose a scandal in the government concerning the Asile de Beauport [see Joseph

Quéré* de Tréguron]. But ownership of the land at Lac des Deux Montagnes, where the mission was established in 1721, was to become a source of conflict between the priests and the natives [see

AN, Col., C11A, 108, f.172. ANQ-M, État civil, Catholiques, Notre-Dame de Montréal, ler juill. 1779; Greffe de P.-F. Mézière, 19 juill. 1779; Greffe de Pierre Panet

d’Irumberry* de Salaberry. He was promoted corporal in January 1813 and sergeant the following month. Acting on his father’s counsel and making up for lack of education with courage, he distinguished

-Benjamin Papineau, the fifth in a family of ten, five of whom died in infancy, studied from 1801 to 1807 at the Petit Séminaire de Québec, where his elder brother

Terrebonne, renowned for its production of wheat and flour. In 1805 he opened a store and potashery opposite the church in Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville (Sainte-Thérèse

commerce from 1874 to 1878. On 12 June 1878 his warehouses are known to have been looted by strikers from the Quebec building yards, who unsuccessfully demanded higher wages; Le Journal de

. The second in a family of 15, Marie-Louise Richard was five years old when she began attending the Académie de la Visitation, which was operated by the nuns of the Congregation of Notre-Dame. She

. Noël-Joseph Ritchot received his early education at local schools and then worked on the family’s farm. In 1844, at age 18, he enrolled at the College de L’Assomption. According to an obituary, “He

sound mind, diligent, and conscientious about his duties. Two years later, on 1 Oct. 1749, the directors of the seminary of Quebec chose him to become parish priest of Notre-Dame de Québec, a signal

Library, ms coll. 30 (J. N. Wallace). Les bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest (Masson). Docs. relating to NWC (Wallace). Simon Fraser