of Abbé Jean Lyon* de Saint-Ferréol, a friend who had recently been appointed superior of the seminary in Quebec. As it was feared

Newfoundland cod fisheries. Charles was never master of a ship, but he became well versed in nautical matters. In 1765 the three brothers joined James Pipon de Noirmont, Philip’s brother-in-law, and Thomas

 October (16 October, N.S.) to deliver an ultimatum to Buade* de Frontenac to surrender. Savage was “carried

.), Registre de l’hôpital Saint-Boniface, 1872. Archives paroissiales de Saint-Boniface (Man.), Registres des baptêmes, mariages et sépultures. Begg’s Red River journal (Morton), 1–148, 212

, 1876). “Les ‘dépouilles’ du père jésuite Cazot,” BRH, 26 (1920): 286–88. J.-E. Roy, “La liste du mobilier qui fut saisi en 1800 par le shérif de Québec, à la mort du père

winter of 1704–5, however, a French expedition, led by Auger de Subercase, attacked the English

Gazette (Montreal), 1 Dec. 1868. Morgan, Sketches of celebrated Canadians, 447–48. P.-G. Roy, Les juges de la prov. de Québec, 507. L. B. Shippee

, 31 Dec. 1857; 26 Sept. 1861; 28 Aug., 4 Sept. 1879. Political appointments, 1841–1865 (J.-O. Coté). F.-J. Audet, “Commissions d’avocats de

. José Igartua ANQ-MBF, Greffe de L.–C. Maillet, 11 juill. 1777

*, the artist, worked as an apprentice sign-painter in his shop during 1841, and Todd taught students both at the Séminaire de Québec and at Loretto Convent (Loretto Abbey) in Toronto. Todd was also

, commanded by Simon-Pierre Denys* de Bonaventure. Joseph

. François-Madeleine Vallée was trained in the engineering sciences, including surveying and hydrography. In 1723, by lettre de cachet, he was exiled with his family from France to Île Royale (Cape

 July n.s.) he was completely surprised by a force of French soldiers and Canadians under the command of the Chevalier de

 1768 to command Fort de Chartres (near Prairie du Rocher) in the Illinois country, and he reached the post on 7 September. He remained at Fort de Chartres until the summer of 1771, when he was

Denys* de La Ronde and Jacques d’Espiet de Pensens, sent from Île Royale in the summer of

his De orbe novo, Decade VII, composed in 1524, referred to the discovery of the “Bachalaos” by Sebastian Cabot in the 16th year back (anno ab hinc sexto decimo), i.e., in 1508 or

the residence at Trois-Rivières. In 1663, he was named by Bishop François de Laval* vicar general of that part of the diocese of Quebec that

-Didace, Que.) and rented from Charles Edward Dunn, owner of the seigneury of Lanaudière, the manor-house and mills in the concession of Crête-de-Coq (Sainte-Ursule, Que.). He went to live there at the end

Rigaud de Vaudreuil for permission to remove all the Indians there and at Bécancour, together with their missionary, Father Aubery, to Pigwacket. He had the further hope of attracting some “Loup

 Gua de Monts to Acadia in 1604; b. in Paris; d. some time after 1611. According to

). Montreal Daily Star, 26 Dec. 1888. F.-J. Audet, Les députés de Montréal, 19, 68, 295–97. Borthwick, Hist. and biog. gazetteer, 190. Morgan, Sketches of

(Thwaites), LXIX, 131, 291; LXXI, 163. “Lettres du père Aulneau,” APQ Rapport, 1926-27, 266, 271, 276. Ahern, Notes pour l’histoire de la médecine, 57–63.

again: on 30 Jan. 1764 at Saint-Pierre, Île d’Orléans, he wed Claire Jolliette, widow of François Volant de Chamblain, a ship’s captain. At 37

insects, and new species of butterflies.  r.d.] Arch. de la Soc. entomologique du Québec (dép. de biologie

]). Morgan, Sketches of celebrated Canadians, 483–85. O’Byrne, Naval biog. dict. (1849), 109–10. Quebec directory, 1847–49. Chouinard et Drolet, La ville de Quebéc, vol

poor health. There was speculation concerning divisions of opinion among the leaders of the government. In a letter to Le Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe in February 1870 Bruce denied the

more than the earthly.” His Une lisière de la forêt – matin (current location unknown) was accepted in the 1882 Salon, a mark of favour for one so recently arrived

de la région de Québec; Les juges de la prov. de Québec. Buchanan, Bench and bar of L.C.; The Buchanan book; the life of Alexander Buchanan, Q.C., of Montreal, followed by an account of the

year at St Dunstan’s College in Charlottetown, he spent three years at the Collège Saint-Louis in Saint-Louis de Kent, N.B., founded by Marcel-François

 March 1841, 31 March 1843. F.-J. Audet, “Les législateurs du Bas-Canada.” E. H. Dahl et al., La ville de Québec, 1800–1850: un inventaire de cartes et plans

he was hired by the Séminaire de Québec through the influence of his brother Thomas-Laurent*, who was its superior. He was sent that

. The youngest of a family of 14 children, Charles William Carrier entered the Collège de Lévis in 1853, the year of its opening [see Joseph-David

. Chingouessi came to Quebec in July of 1698 to report to Governor Buade* de Frontenac that his neighbours, the Kiskakons and

. Harder (New York, 1971). Langelier, Liste des terrains concédés. Hormisdas Magnan, Dictionnaire historique et géographique des paroisses, missions et municipalités de la province de Québec

, 115. PRO, CO 42/32–33. Quebec Gazette, 16 April 1795. Joseph Desjardins, Guide parlementaire historique de la province de Québec, 1792 à 1902 (Québec, 1902). PAC

in Quebec probably in 1739. The following year Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye asked for a chaplain to replace Father Jean-Pierre Aulneau

of Saint-Étienne, Toulouse, France, son of Philippe Dejean, a legal officer, and Jeanne de Rocques de Carbouere; m. first 12 Jan. 1761 Josette (Marie-Joseph) Larchevêque in Montreal, Que.; m

DESCOUTS (Decous, Decoust), MARTIN, surgeon; originally from Salies (Salies-de-Béarn), France; fl. 1682–1745

annual register, 1884. Jean Hamelin et al., Répertoire des grèves dans la province de Québec au XIXe siècle (Montréal, 1970), 19. The mercantile agency

Desdames, a former assistant clerk in the service of the de Caën family and commandant of the post since

. His remains and those of Jean de Quen and Jean

établissement de la foy, I, 53f., 56f., 101, 111, 115, 124, 155. Sagard, Histoire du Canada (Tross), I, passim. Jouve, Les Franciscains et le Canada: aux Trois-Rivières

. On 5 May 1751 he obtained from the Bureau des Commissaires Royaux du Grand Amiral de France at Brouage a certificate authorizing him to serve as a surgeon on seagoing vessels. With this document

. M.-J. et G. Ahern, Notes pour l’hist. de la médecine. [Catherine Burke, dite de Saint-Thomas], Les ursulines de Québec, depuis leur établissement jusqu

-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, then as major (1812) and lieutenant-colonel (1815) of the Sainte-Anne battalion. In addition he was given the office of paymaster of the battalion in April 1815. That year he

, Mémoire (Tailhan), 84ff. “Les ordonnances du Gouverneur de Lauzon,” APQ Rapport, 1924–25, 391. Campbell, Pioneer priests, II, 377. Rochemonteix, Les Jésuites et la Nouvelle-France

-Thérèse-de-Blainville (Sainte-Thérèse), Lower Canada. Charles Frederick Grece immigrated to Montreal in the autumn of 1805 as part of a costly but

La Rocque de Roberval’s expedition. In 1555 he was still going to sea, because a document describes him as master of the Marguerite Bonaventure sailing out of Saint-Malo. This

(Montréal, 1894). Western Law Times (Winnipeg), 5 (1894), no.1: 63–64. Montreal Daily Star, 28 May 1894. P.-G. Roy, Les juges de la prov. de Québec. F.-J

, mariages et sépultures, 5 févr. 1776. Arch. de la Soc. hist. de Saint-Boniface (Saint-Boniface, Man.), Dossier Picton; Fonds Champagne. PAC, MG 25, 62. PAM, HBCA, E.5/1