Manitoba. In 1874 La Rivière took the leading role in founding the Société de Colonisation de Manitoba, whose first president he became. Expecting a large number of French Canadians to move to the west

. Godfroy Langlois’s father was a merchant and politician of considerable importance in Sainte-Scholastique. After elementary school, Godfroy was enrolled at the Petit Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse in the fall

. de géographie de Québec, Bull. (Québec), 1 (1881), no.2: 82–90; A school history of Canada; prepared for use in the elementary and model schools (Montreal, 1870; 7th ed

-M; Molson papers at the Château de Ramezay (Montreal) and in the McCord Museum; the William Molson coll. in McGill University Libraries; and manuscript material at QUA and documents in the registry

Rambau*, editor of the Montreal paper L’Ami du peuple, de l’ordre et des lois, noted the recent publication of the volume, which he termed “as dull as [it is] untruthful.” It

Sister Esther-Marie-Joseph de l’Enfant-Jésus [Esther Wheelwright], is described by Rivers as “one of the

, 64102–14; RG 4, A1, 26: 8681–83; 62: 20007–8, 20011, 20015, 20019, 20024, 20028; RG 4, B33, 18; RG 8, I (C ser.), 1895: I, 19, 25, 32. Québec, Ministère de l’Énergie et Ressources, Service d’arpentage

Gates*, in calling for retention of the constitutional status quo. Having been appointed a justice of the peace in 1830, he was among a number of Canadian magistrates, including Pierre de

 Feb. 1883 in the parish of Saint-Jacques (Montreal), son of François-Olivier Rinfret, a lawyer, and Marie-Julie-Albina (Albina) Pominville; m. 4 June 1908 Berthe Lemoyne de Martigny in

. After the separation, Ida and her six children resided with Mary and Mary’s son, Sam Cohen. William lived on Rue Cadieux (Rue de Bullion) near Rue de La Gauchetière, a downtown neighbourhood that was

to the Abitibi region of Quebec. In the spring of 1913 he teamed up with three other men and travelled by train to Latulipe (Amos), and then by boat up the Harricana River to the shores of De

considered the Stuart brothers “friends of the Canadians.” In addition, Stuart served as the lawyer for the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Montreal, which had to defend the title to its assets against the

fashion of French society. One of the Parisian cousins, Marie-Louise Bigot, married a Brulart de Sillery at the end of the 17th century. It was with

1823 in Fraserville (Rivière-du-Loup), Lower Canada, son of Charles Taché, a merchant, and Louise-Henriette de Labroquerie (Boucher de La Broquerie); d. 22 June 1894 in St

-de-Sorel and Montreal with the Yamaska at the beginning of 1858, between the Saint-François River and William Henry with the Cygne, and between Quebec and Montreal with the Ottawa

peuple, de l’ ordre et des loisof Montreal, he was editor of Le Canadien of Quebec City from 1847 to 1849 and started several periodicals in Quebec City, whose brief lives did not

. Joseph Bouchette’s name does not appear on the list of pupils who attended the Petit Séminaire de Québec, and a number of historians have therefore concluded that he received little schooling. Many aspects

. Napoléon Bourassa had an unusually long schooling for his time. The period he spent with the Sulpicians at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal, from 1837 to 1848, enabled him to develop a rare literary talent

of Nova Scotia; b. 1684 or 1685 in the province of Languedoc, France, probably at Castres, son of Jean Mascarene and Margaret de Salavy; m. Elizabeth Perry of Boston, Massachusetts (d. c

Amor De Cosmos* and John Robson*, those in favour of uniting with the Dominion of

Puisaye*, Comte de Puisaye. Blackwood maintained excellent relations with the well-established trading houses in the colony such as E. Gray, and

Francis College in neighbouring Richmond. In 1864 his family relocated to Montreal. Brymner completed his studies at a private school and at the Petit Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse in Sainte-Thérèse-de

/12, lettre de J. B. Forsyth à H.-L. Langevin; AP-G-219/1, 26 Oct. 1832, 20 April 1841. ASQ, Seigneuries, 12, no.38. McCord Museum, Notman Photographic Archives, no

Hertel* de Rouville taken hostage; however, once again public opinion forced Wooster to release his prisoners. Ultimately he decided to rid the city of its most prominent loyalists and on 6

writer rests primarily on three of his larger works: The enamorado (Summerside, 1879), De Roberval, a drama (Saint John, 1888), which includes a

shoemaking machine. At the end of the century he joined the Union des Cordonniers-Machinistes, a strong union which in 1899 became a member of the Fraternité des Cordonniers Unis de la Puissance du Canada

century later, it became Canada’s national anthem. First performed at the national convention of French Canadians organized by the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de la Cité de Québec, this patriotic song soon

 Oct. 1604 at Beauvais; d. 24 Nov. 1665 at Cap-de-la-Madeleine. Simon Le Moyne entered the Jesuit noviciate at Rouen on 10

Aberdeen Univ. Library (Aberdeen, Scotland), ms K.48. AC, Québec, Testament olographe de George Longmore, 20 Aug. 1811 (see P.-G. Roy, Inv

ROTTENBURG, FRANCIS (Franz) DE, Baron de ROTTENBURG, army officer and colonial administrator; b

establish the Chambre de Commerce du District de Montréal. Very active in the new association, Shallow was a member of the board from 1887 to 1896. He participated in the import-export commission in 1887, and

de Québec, to whose students he had for a number of years been offering prizes for excellence. To handle such a wide range of course offerings, times

was promoted captain in the 42nd Foot on 16 Feb. 1756, and in April of that year his regiment reached North America. By May 1757 Abercrombie was aide-de-camp to the Earl of Loudoun, commander

World War (Toronto and Buffalo, N.Y., 1974), 146. Bernard Dansereau, “Congrès des métiers et du travail du Canada, comité exécutif, province de Québec, 1889–1937,” RCHTQ [Regroupement des Chercheurs

Phebe*, who lived with him, and John Justus Diehl, Arnoldi was residing at Saint-Philippe-de-Laprairie. That post seems to have been a busy one, where numerous silversmiths producing trade silver, for

Edward Island Agriculturist (Summerside), 22 June 1891. Summerside Journal, 21 Feb. 1867. CPC, 1887: 358–59, 364; 1897. Georges Arsenault, Les Acadiens de l’Île

experimenters in astronomical photography, and his solar photographs were admired by the ranking solar astronomers of England, including Warren De La Rue. In 1869 Ashe led a small party to Jefferson

/1507: ff.7–12; 1711508: ff.1–9; WO 28/6: f.183; 28/7: ff.71, 73, 90, 94 (mfm. at PAC). “Les dénombrements de Québec” (Plessis), ANQ Rapport, 1948–49: 16, 66, 119. Kingston before War of

in Toronto before enrolling in classical studies at the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Montreal, where his extracurricular activities included contact sports such as boxing. Upon graduation in 1845 he

Archives paroissiales de Saint-Norbert (Man.), Journal tenu par le Rév. Mons. N.-J. Ritchot, ptre. HBC Arch. A.6/27, 31 March 1848; A.6/37, 17 April 1862; A.12/45, 11 Aug., 11

situated on Rue de la Grande-Parade. They not only imported drugs and medicaments from an apothecary in Bristol, England, but also prepared their own with the help of assistants. Their customers came

fur trader Charles Aubert* de La Chesnaye. In 1815 and 1816 Brehaut acquired, on Rue Saint-Louis, two dwellings of note

representation. Lynne Champagne Arch. de la Soc. hist. de

. des Frères Maristes du Canada (Château-Richer, Québec), 205.092 (dossier frère Césidius). Le Devoir, 25 sept. 1933. “Le C. F. Césidius, stable (1845–1933),” Notices biogr. de l

De Cosmos*, an antigovernment “reformer.” Cary went on to serve as Douglas’ de facto minister of finance in the Vancouver Island assembly from 1860 to 1863. When in 1861 the Colonial

, served as his father’s aide-de-camp when the latter was stationed in the Canadas. Clitherow remarried in 1825, taking as his wife Millicent Pole of Gloucestershire. He inherited the family estate at Boston

. Doris Drolet Dubé et Marthe Lacombe, Inventaire des marchés de construction des Archives nationales à Québec, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (Ottawa, 1977), 208

disputes with its leader. On the other hand, he had great praise for the Comte de Sainville’s surveying and mapping in the Mackenzie River delta. In 1909 he had only scorn for Robert Edwin Peary’s claim to

charity in Montreal, the Young Men’s Hebrew Benevolent Society, later known as the Baron de Hirsch Institute. He was also chairman of the advisory committee of the Ladies’ Hebrew Benevolent Society and

(Republic of Ireland), son of Theophilus DesBrisay (baptized Samuel-Théophile de La Cour de Brisay) and Magdalen de Vergese d’Aubussargues; m. c. 1753 Ellen Landers (Landen), and they