. Lévite Thériault was the only son of François-Régis Thériault, militia captain, justice of the peace, mill owner, and prosperous farmer. After studying at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière in

, administrator, and politician; b. 29 Sept. 1881, probably in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Que., and baptized the same day in the parish of Sainte-Geneviève (Montreal), son of Amable Viau, a farmer, and

essayist; b. 2 May 1802 in the parish of Notre-Dame de la Nativité, Lower Canada, son of Étienne-François Parent, a farmer, and Josephte Clouet; d. 22 Dec. 1874 at Ottawa

, weightlifter, performance athlete, policeman, firefighter, and co-owner of circuses; b. 10 Oct. 1863 in Saint-Cyprien (Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville), Lower Canada, son of Pierre Cyr, a farmer, and

of Charles-Louis-Roch de Saint-Ours*, legislative councillor, an association to improve educational opportunities in the Chambly River

d’Irumberry* de Salaberry]. In the colony and in London its petitions met with a certain indifference from the authorities, who were more responsive to the interests of landowners and aware of the urgent

Montreal company “Caledonia Foundry” and bought the Saint-Pie-de-Guire ironworks in 1874; George McDougall, who from 1876 to 1879 operated the Saint-Maurice ironworks in partnership with Alexander Mills

the cabinet fell. Two weeks later Charles-Eugène Boucher* de Boucherville formed a new ministry, with Robertson once again as

“La Barateuse,” “The Winnower,” and many others. In the same way Courbet wanted “living art” in his “Stonebreakers,” “Vendange à Ornans,” and “Paysans de Flagey revenant de la foire.” Novelists

Pierre-Amable De Bonne*. He supported the party, except on two controversial issues – the financing of prisons in 1805 [see

(Quebec City) and was buried on the 22nd in Notre-Dame de Belmont cemetery in Sainte-Foy (Quebec City). Background and education

following year her husband purchased the seigneury of Sainte-Anne-De La Pérade, where the family spent the summer months. In addition to attending to

traditionally been loyal to France. In Louisiana the Jesuits became involved in a none too edifying controversy with the Capuchins: Father Nicolas-Ignace de

BNQ, Société historique de Montréal, Collection La Fontaine, Lettres, 480, 484, 491 (copies in PAC). Le Canadien (Québec), 16 déc. 1844. Gazette (Montreal), 16 Oct

BEAUBOIS, NICOLAS-IGNACE DE, priest, Jesuit missionary; b. 15 Oct. 1689 at Orléans, France; d. 13 Jan. 1770 near

. 1887 in Montreal, Que. At the Séminaire de Nicolet, which he entered in 1836, Charles-Odilon Beauchemin was not a poor student but he was a

AN, Col., E, 277, ff.17–20; Section Outre-Mer, G1, 466, pièces 8, 13, 24, 25, 26, 27. Diocesan Archives (Baton Rouge, La.), Registres de St-Charles des Mines (Grand-Pré), 1707–1748 (baptêmes

moved to Rue de la Fabrique where he taught piano, violin, flute, and flageolet in English and French. In June 1822 he was importing these instruments from London and offering them for sale; in

(Congrès international des Américanistes, Nancy, 1875). R.-Y. Creston, Journal de bord de Saint-Brendan (Paris, 1957). Jón Dúason, Landkönnun og Landnám Íslendinga i Vesturheimi

released by Governor Le Febvre de La Barre to return home by way of New England. In

being the first person in the northwest to construct a flour-mill, located at his headquarters at Bas-de-la-Rivière (Fort Alexander, Man.). During the conflict with the Hudson’s Bay Company in the Red

American cause by circulating in the Montreal region a Lettre adressée aux habitans de la province de Québec, ci-devant le Canada; this pamphlet had been printed for the first Continental Congress

daughters; d. 24 April 1882 at Ottawa, Ont. Joseph-Olivier Coté studied at the Séminaire de Québec from 1831 to 1835 when he left to study

, was evacuated from Louisbourg after the siege of 1745 during which his father died. In 1749 he returned to Louisbourg with the family of the merchant Philippe de Beaubassin, who had married his eldest

first socialist group as a cell of the Socialist Labor party, an American organization led by Daniel De Leon. In a manifesto distributed to Montreal workers on Labour Day 1894, Darlington and Kerrigan

acadien). Perkins, Diary, 1797–1803 (Fergusson), 76, 169, 191. Antoine Bernard, Histoire de la survivance acadienne, 1755–1935 (Montréal, 1935), 238. P.-M. Dagnaud

never repeated it. The picture’s fate is unknown. Fassio was drawing-master at the Petit Séminaire de Québec for the academic year 1839–40. Nothing is

HOERNER, OLYMPE (Tanner), educator and Protestant missionary; b. 3 Oct. 1807 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland

ANQ, Greffe de Louis Chambalon, 5 août 1694; Greffe d’Étienne Jeanneau, 1674–1743; Greffe de Guillaume Roger, 6 août 1698. Édits ord., II, 453. Jug. et

Delhalle]. They retired with gifts from Father Marest, who explained to Rigaud de

. In 1778–79 Labadie studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec. He divided his time between his classical studies and the teaching of reading and writing. But illness forced him to leave the institution

AC, Montréal, État civil, Catholiques, Notre-Dame de Montréal, 13 févr. 1890. Gazette (Montreal), 17 Sept. 1873, 16 Sept. 1881. Montreal Daily Witness, 4

the founding of Quebec, exchange of furs took place at Trois-Rivières. The same thing occurred in 1620, 1621, and 1622; from 1623 to 1629 the spring fair was held at Cap-de-la-Victoire, near the

later in the cemetery of Notre-Dame de Belmont at Sainte-Foy. After classical studies at the Collège de L’Assomption from 1845 to 1852, Siméon Le

days of 1837, when he was 21 years old, he became the youngest member of the Fils de la Liberté. This association, set up on 5 Sept. 1837, comprised more than 700 young men of Montreal. Half

of land in return for the government’s cancellation of the droit de quint, which the nuns had not yet paid; she also had the manor house at Île Saint-Bernard rebuilt. In addition

Histoire du Canada . . . , Philippe-Joseph Aubert* de Gaspé, author of Les anciens canadiens, and

, her life and times,” Weekly Cape Bretoner (Sydney), 29 Sept. 1956: 17. [Joseph] de La Roque, “Tour of inspection made by the Sieur de La Roque; census, 1752,” PAC Report

AN, Col., C11A, 12, f.225; 13, f.322; Section Outre-Mer, G1, 407, 466 (recensements de l’Acadie, 1693, 1698, 1700). “Mass. Archives,” V, 452. PAC, MG 9, B8, 24 (registres de

Tombelles and councillor of Laon, and of his second wife, Rose de La Salle, Jacques Marquette descended from two distinguished families of warriors and officials, his father’s being one of the most

boarder, he maintained steady habits of work and was consistently among the best pupils. In May 1857 he was admitted into the Congrégation de la Très Sainte Vierge and the following year was made

at Michilimackinac, to move to Detroit also. Michipichy’s effectiveness in the negotiations was diminished because he could not get along with Étienne de

concentrate on the grain and flour trade of the south shore of the St Lawrence below Quebec. In 1796 he had become seigneur or co-seigneur of L’Islet-de-Bonsecours at a cost of £438, which he paid in cash

was able to teach in French, did in fact meet the hiring requirements. But he did not get a teaching position at Berthier-en-Haut until 1833. He ended his career at the Académie de Berthier [see

*, and the superior of the Canadian mission, Father Pierre de Lauzon. They embarked at La Rochelle on 29

some time through correspondence with Jean-Baptiste Lahaille*, professor at the Séminaire de Québec. Nooth died at Bath, where he had

-Marie Nédélec studied at the Grand Séminaire de Quimper in France, and was ordained priest in Quimper on 24 July 1859. He devoted himself to teaching in his diocese before entering the Oblate

de Vaudreuil as “a man of intrigue,” Ouenemek was a consistent ally of the French at least during the early phase of his career. In 1696, for example, he was a prominent member of a war party that

introduced a bill on the abolition of slavery, but his colleague Pierre-Amable De Bonne succeeded in keeping

. Joseph-Léonide Perron studied at Collège Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir in Marieville. He then enrolled at the Montreal branch of the Université Laval to study law, obtaining his llb