published several articles in the British American Journal of Medical and Physical Science (Montreal) in 1847–48. Bureau d’enregistrement de l’île d’Orléans (Saint-Laurent, Qué.), Registre B, 3, no

Joseph Fiset and Adélaïde de Varennes; d. 18 April 1909 in Chéticamp, N.S., and was buried there. The son of a prosperous farmer, Pierre Fiset

partial paralysis disabled him in 1893. By 1881 he had land of his own, and he was able to provide land in Paquetville for the sons of his first marriage and an education at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la

, Conseil législatif de Québec, 9, 298. Chapais, Histoire du Canada, V. O. D. Skelton, The life and times of Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt (Toronto, 1920). L.-P. Audet

, 1784–1793, ed. L. F. S. Upton (2v., Toronto, 1963–65), II, 167, 169. “Visite générale de la paroisse de Québec: commencée le 30 juillet 1792,” ANQ Rapport, 1948–49

company in the 27th Foot and during the Jacobite rebellion in Scotland served as an aide-de-camp to the regimental commander Major-General William Blakeney. Haviland was promoted major in 1750 and

and Commercial Advertiser (Quebec), which was published from April 1837 to March 1838. There is a portrait of Hawkins at the Hôtel de Ville in Quebec

. In June 1748, for example, a party led by Joseph Marin* de La Malgue captured boats and a detachment of men loading coal

in 1781. Some years later he was in business on Rue Saint-Jean. In 1787 he was able to afford £1,000 for a two-storey stone house on Rue de la Fabrique in addition to another house behind it which

Montreal on Place Près-de-Ville. By 1826 he was described as a resident of Montreal, but he still lived part of the time at Berthier-en-Haut, where he was captain and paymaster in the militia and where his

Carleton rewarded him in 1776 with an appointment as his aide-de-camp and that summer entrusted him with dispatches to London; in November he received a captain’s commission in the 8th Foot. Le

faced much the same problem as his predecessor, Isaac-Louis de Forant*. Over the years they had established an independence which the new

 août 1917. Guide odonymique de la ville de Quebec, 1608–1988 (Quebec, [1989]). London Gazette, 14 Aug., 6 Nov. 1917. C. G. Machum, Canada’s V.C.’s; the story

captain in the 104th Foot and on 29 Oct. 1812 he was appointed aide-de-camp to Sheaffe, the new administrator of Upper Canada. Many of Loring’s responsibilities in this position were routine, but with

 May 1879–May 1880. Montreal Daily Star, 26 Jan. 1917: 3. Napanee Star (Napanee, Ont.), 6 March 1901. Jean de Bonville, La presse québécoise de 1884 à 1914; genèse

Oblate juniorate of Notre-Dame de Lumières. He entered the noviciate at Notre-Dame de l’Osier on 14 Aug. 1844 and took his vows on 15 Aug. 1845. Assigned to the missions in the Oregon Territory

intelligence did not go unnoticed by the kindly and solicitous Curatteau, who, anticipating a bright future for him, persuaded his parents to send him to the Petit Séminaire de Québec in the autumn of 1767 so

PINSENT, Sir ROBERT JOHN, lawyer, politician, and judge; b. 27 July 1834 in Port de Grave, Nfld, son of Robert John

. From 1805 until 1811 Quirouet acted as adjutant for the parish of Sainte-Anne, at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (La Pocatière), in the Kamouraska battalion of militia, from 1810 the Rivière-Ouelle

 1727, Sauguaaram signed it. He wrote to Governor Charles de Beauharnois, however

.” On 4 May 1759 Wolfe appointed Smythe one of his aides-de-camp for the campaign against Quebec. The British force arrived at Île d’Orléans on 27 June and the siege of Quebec began. On 22

 Moyne* de Longueuil. Located in Upper Canada upriver from “Red House,” Pointe-à-l’Orignal extended six miles back from the river and nine miles along its shore. It was one of only two seigneurial

 Émilie Tremblay), par. 25, 59, 65, 70. Auguste Achintre, Portraits et dossiers parlementaires du premier parlement de Québec (Montréal, 1871). [Arthur Buies], Chroniques

-de-Valleyfield. In 1903 he championed international unions on the same podium as Joseph-Alphonse Rodier*, Joseph

), 217. P. W. Gates, The farmer’s age: agriculture, 1815–1860 (New York, 1960). Hist. de la corporation de la cité de Montréal (Lamothe et al

more than 40 Penobscots who went with the Jesuit Pierre de La Chasse* to visit Governor

described Joe Montferrand as “a magnificent portrait of Canadian customs.” In September 1904 Cazeneuve left the Théâtre National Français to organize a season at the Auditorium de Québec. He left the

François Gravé Du Pont to seek out his cabin “à la poincte de Sainct Matthieu” three days after their arrival at Tadoussac 24 May 1603. With some 80 or 100 of his people, Anadabijou

attack on Saratoga, probably that conducted in 1745 by Paul Marin* de La Malgue. Atiatoharongwen’s father became a servant in

until 1668; then, after a short sojourn at Beauport they settled at Côte Saint-Michel, Notre-Dame-de-Foy, in 1669. At this time they numbered about 210. They settled at Ancienne-Lorette in 1673. They

Moose River Bevan and Adams discovered the site of the post which Pierre de Troyes* had captured from the HBC in 1686

Palliser papers (Spry). Édouard André, “Nécrologie,” L’illustration horticole (Ghent), XXIV (1877), 71–72. Ernest Cosson, “Notice sur les voyages et collections botaniques de M. Eugène

Immaculate, missionary, and educator; b. 20 April 1858 in St-Eugène, Upper Canada, son of Joseph-Olivier Bédard and Rose-de-Lima Leblanc; d. 20 Dec. 1932 in New Westminster, B.C

criticized the Onondagas for telling Charles Le Moyne de Longueuil that the French could

11C, 11–14; Section Outre-Mer, G1, 407; 408, ff.322, 360; 409; 466, pièce 76 (recensement de l’île Royale, 1749), 79; G2, 188, f.368; 206, dossier 462; G3, 2041/1

Sagard, Histoire du Canada (Tross), I, 44. Dionne, Champlain, II, 47, 423, 436, 471. Roy, La ville de Québec, I, 57f.

 recensement de 1851 dans la seigneurie de Beaurivage, St-Gilles, St-Sylvestre,” BRH, 58 (1952): 87-92, and “Une exposition agricole qui tourne mal, meurtre de Corrigan à S. Sylvestre en 1855,” 56

Aubery, and Simon Girard* de La Place had displayed before him. At about this time also the first Acadian settlers

successor, Armand-François-Marie de Charbonnel*, arrived in Toronto in 1850, he was alarmed at the plight of the sisters and

DORION, VINCISLAS-PAUL-WILFRID, lawyer, journalist, political orator, and judge; b. 2 Oct. 1827 at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade

year he took part in the Premier Congrès de la Langue Française at Quebec. With regard to political activity, Doucet did his utmost

messengers to Louisbourg to ask the governor, Joseph de Brouillan, dit Saint-Ovide [Monbeton*], for his advice

. Between 1872 and 1892 Émilie Drolet bore 12 children (one of whom was still-born). Until 1889, when Drolet purchased a modest property on Rue Richardson (De La Salle) for $1,000, the family had to move

 Journal de Québec, 13 mai 1843; 1er, 15 juin, 8 août 1844; 28 nov. 1846; 4 déc. 1847. Quebec directory, 1848–58. P.-L. Martin

Senate did not prevent Drummond from being active in the Bank of Montreal, as vice-president from 1887 to 1896, de facto president from 1897 to 1904 while Lord Strathcona

. Timothy Hibbard Dunn was raised on the Dunn family property along the Rivière Maskinongé on the north shore of the St Lawrence River, west of Trois-Rivières, in the concession known as Crête-de-Coq

been taken by de Troyes the previous year. Back in England by October 1687, Edgcombe was able to report

de mentalités associées aux modifications des modes de gestion dans l’industrie manufacturière canadienne de 1900 à 1930” (mémoire de ma, univ. Laval, Québec, 2000). R

and owner of Le Journal de Québec, and they had 11 children, four of whom survived him; m. secondly 8 Jan. 1912 Marie-Cécile Pouliot, widow of Eugène Globensky, in

industry. In 1740 and again in 1747 he served in place of Jean-Victor Varin* de La Marre as controller of the Marine. For these