Rastel* de Rocheblave in the New North West Company (sometimes known as the XY Company) [see John Ogilvy*]. Initially stationed at Grand

of his excellency the governor, of all the French inhabitants, and of a multitude of Indians. He was called Brother Charles, after our first syndic, Father Charles de Boves

Montreal in the summer of 1703 to complain to Rigaud de Vaudreuil of their situation: Cadillac had

Petit Séminaire de Valognes, where he spent two years as study master for the senior pupils. In 1893 he was sent to Nova Scotia to teach philosophy at the Collège Sainte-Anne in Church Point. Two years

. Howley, 17 Feb. 1899, 2 Nov. 1902. NA, MG 17, A25, “Inventaire des principales séries de documents intéressant le Canada, sous le pontificat de Léon XIII (1878–1903), dans les

Senior, Redcoats and Patriotes: the rebellions in Lower Canada, 1837–38 (Stittsville, Ont., 1985), 214. J.-C. Lamothe, Histoire de la corporation de la cité de Montréal depuis son origine

wherein I left capitan de la Barbotier, my deere friend, and all his company.” May reached Falmouth in August 1594. Thomas

Kaskaskia mission – was assigned as chaplain to the expedition of Charles Juchereau de Saint

Wayne) of a force under Augustin Mottin de La Balme, who was attempting to re-establish French control in the Ohio valley. The tribes south of the Great Lakes received their supplies from the British

1687 Missenden was required, with other Company employees, to present himself at Whitehall. “The concerne of this Compa. against the French,” i.e., the capture by de

and given the name of Louis. In July 1627 he went to join the Indians who had gathered at Cap-de-la-Victoire for the fur trade. The Montagnais had

. Michel Moncoq was one of eight well-educated children: both his sisters became nuns, he and a brother priests, and his twin brother may have become a physician. He entered the Grand Séminaire de Caen

born between 1772 and 1795 in Varennes, Pointe-aux-Trembles (Montreal), Saint-Eustache, and Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville (Sainte-Thérèse), but Paul is not one of them. On 28 April 1802 “Hypolithe

, and from 1818 to 1819 he studied at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal. There is no clear trace of his career in the next years, but it is known that he went to Great Britain. He is believed to have

McDougall, a lieutenant in the 84th Foot, and his wife, – Shaw; d. 25 Oct. 1818 at Fort Bas-de-la-Rivière (Fort Alexander, Man

de Vaudreuil to appease his anger over the murder of the missionary and the soldier by the Ottawas. The governor refused his submission and the offer of two Ottawas as slaves. Instead, he demanded the

McCallum*, from whom he bought 1,666 gallons of “Esprit de Beauport” for £500 in 1801. In 1799 Painter had installed his business firm in a building on Rue du Sault-au-Matelot, which he did not buy until

de Monts and Champlain, together with other Frenchmen and 20 sailors, embarked 18 June 1605 from Île

John Guy’s expedition to Trinity Bay and was among those ship-wrecked at Green Bay (Bay de Verde) on the way back. Nine days later, near starvation, they regained Cuper’s Cove, having walked

July he went to Quebec with Émery de Caën. On 25 August he returned to Tadoussac, which he left on 13

. Michel Paquin AJTR, Greffe d’A.-B. Pollet, 1730–1753. ANQ, NF, Coll. de

. André Vachon AJQ, Registres d’état civil de Sainte-Famille (I.O.), 3 févr

Academy, northwest of Montreal. While serving three years in this position, he studied theology. Ordained a minister of the Church of England in 1865, he served at Saint-Henri-de-Mascouche (Mascouche) in

farmer, and Jenny (Janet) Smith; m. first 11 Sept. 1889 Mary Alma Wattie (d. 1902) in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Que., and they had one daughter, who predeceased her father; m. secondly

 Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe and then went to work at the Montreal newspaper La Minerve as head of shipping. His formal schooling was limited, but he developed a taste for reading and

, “Liste des engagés pour le Canada au XVIIe siècle (1634–1715),” RHAF, VI (1952–53), 391. Raymond Douville, “Chirurgiens, barbiers-chirurgiens et charlatans de la région

Spaniards at Havana, Cuba, in 1762, in West Florida from 1764 to 1768, and in Ireland in 1769. In December 1764 Ross was sent from Louisiana to Fort de Chartres (near Prairie du Rocher) in the Illinois

months in the south of France, where the beauty of the landscapes overwhelmed her. She stopped briefly in Prats-de-Mollo, a village in the Pyrénées-Orientales, which at that time was full of Republican

companions, Louis, a young Frenchman in the service of Du Gua de Monts, and Outetoucos, a Montagnais chief

the Sorel shipyards) and the barge Sincennes. The new company was called “La Société de Navigation de la Rivière Richelieu.” Sincennes became the captain, in which capacity he not only

 Feb. 1842. John Stephenson attended school in his native town, notably at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal, and began his medical training with

, judge, and professor; b. 7 Oct. 1836 in Sainte-Marie-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce (Sainte-Marie), Lower Canada, eldest son of Pierre-Elzéar Taschereau and Hémédine Dionne; grandson of Thomas-Pierre

, ordered the equipment to set up a printing shop, which he installed at 21 Rue de la Montagne. The death of Samuel Neilson*, owner of

1, Montréal, 1916), 1: 99–101; É.-Z. Massicotte, Athlètes canadiens-français; recueil des exploits de force, d’endurance, d’agilité, des athlètes et des sportsmen de notre race

JJ (Laverdière et Casgrain), 282–303. G. Lanctot, “Une accusation contre Mgr de Laval,” SCHEC Rapport, 1944–45, 11–26.

final two-volume edition appeared. The 1807 edition has twice been reprinted (New York, 1968 and 1970). An abridged version of Weld’s account and one by François-Alexandre-Frédéric de

de la province du Bas-Canada . . . (n.p., 1815; repr. Montréal, 1980). Débats de l’Assemblée législative (M. Hamelin), 1 (1869): 37, 72, 167, 174, 179, 229, 233, 253

, D8; MG 26, A; MG 27,1, D5: 8–10;178; MG 30, D1, 31. Que., Parl., Doc. de la session, 1872, no.4: 140–41. Ottawa Citizen, 22 Sept. 1871; 11, 22–23

master of novices in the De La Salle noviciate at Castletown (Republic of Ireland). He was to spend the next 12 years there and to distinguish himself by perseverance at work and boundless energy

ANDREWS, ISRAEL DE WOLFE, United States consul, special agent, and lobbyist; b. at Eastport, Maine, in May 1813; d. 17

exploits over the enemy.” On 16 March 1649, he was present at Saint-Louis when the fatal Iroquois attack took place and was heard to upbraid stoutly those Hurons who would abandon the Jesuits Jean de

, became a member of the House of Assembly, Patriote, court clerk, and protonotary in Trois-Rivières. Third in a family of ten children, Barnard entered the Séminaire de Nicolet in 1846, but broke off his

Beaupré’s body in a shed at Parc Bellerive in Montreal. Apparently the circus that had been exhibiting it had abandoned it after going bankrupt. It was sent to the anatomy department of the Université de

second wife, Julie-Louise Lebrun de Duplessis; d. 28 Nov. 1867 at Fredericton. Julia Catherine Beckwith’s mother, whose apparently well-to-do

-ISAÏE (baptized Isaïe, he sometimes signed Jules-Isaïe Benoît de Livernois, and sometimes J. B. de Livernois

. 1814; Presbytériens, St Andrews, (Montréal), 8 March 1862; Greffe de J. C. Griffin, 7 avril 1853; Greffe de J.-M. Mondelet, 22 sept. 1823. Atwater

BOUCHER DE BOUCHERVILLE, Sir CHARLES (baptized Charles-Eugê

. On 25 Jan. 1740 he wrote to the admiral of France: “My cousin the Sieur Hocquart . . . has embarked at Quebec on the ship Comte de Matignon of La Rochelle the so

son of Ralph Brecken and Matilda Robinson; m. there 20 June 1826 Margaret Leah de St Croix, and they had three sons, including Frederick de St

Journal of Education for Lower Canada, founded in 1857 for educators. Several of these articles appeared in French in the Journal de l’Instruction publique