Céloron de Blainville, the commandant, realizing that two smiths were needed for the rapidly growing community and the neighbouring Ottawas and Ojibwas, advanced Amiot the funds to continue

Great and Little Whale rivers (Grand Rivière de la Baleine and Petite Rivière de la Baleine) in 1815, the beginning of the company’s plan to explore “one part of the country after another” in an attempt

battles of the Peninsular War, gaining a medal and ten clasps, the position of aide-de-camp to General Thomas Picton, the rank of captain, and a pension because of four wounds

. 9 Aug. 1845 in the parish of Saint-Grégoire (Mont-Saint-Grégoire), Lower Canada, son of Isaac Bessette and Clothilde Foisy; d. 6 Jan. 1937 in Notre-Dame-de-l’Espérance hospital in

. Toward the end of his career as an assemblyman, Blake became increasingly involved with the Charlottetown Board of Trade. Invited in March 1887 by Jacques Grenier, president of the Chambre de Commerce

Bermen* de La Martinière. On 10 July of the following year, when bound for Charlton Island, the Happy Return was lost in the ice in

curse the British authorities. In 1777 his parents sent him to study at the Petit Séminaire de Québec, where a whole new world opened before him

BRECKEN, FREDERICK DE ST CROIX, lawyer, politician, and office holder; b. 9 Dec. 1828 in Charlottetown, second son of John

sloop Friendship to carry a report to the Board of Trade on Auger de Subercase’s attack on

. In 1763, the minister of Marine, the Duc de Choiseul, had reversed the French government’s policy of suspending payments on the paper money of New France. Reinforced by the loss of Canada, this policy

–19, Jan. 1869. Almanach de Québec . . . , 1820, 1852–53. Quebec directory, 1843–69. Antonio Drolet, Les bibliothèques canadiennes, 1604–1960

index, 1651–1841: 245, 642. “Les dénombrements de Québec” (Plessis), ANQ Rapport, 1948–49: 32, 87, 131, 182. Quebec Gazette, 1794–1824. Quebec Mercury

; Crapaut; Petitchouan; “La Mer Monte”; Amiscouecan; “Vieille Robe de Castor.” The French called him “Le Cadet,” because of his extreme neatness in dress and fine French manners, and also “Le

rebuilding of the factory, destroyed in 1782 by Jean-François de Galaup*, Comte de Lapérouse – a project that was too much of a burden

. of the Prov. of Que., 1879. Morgan, Bibliotheca Canadensis, 83. R.-O. Paradis, “Étude biographique et bibliographique de William

Lefebvre de Bellefeuille]. When Cox arrived at Quebec with his family in August, Canada was threatened with attack by American forces and he was immediately put to work training recruits. It was

prepared by an employee of the PFC on the northwest coast, Gabriel Franchère*’s Relation d’un voyage à la côte du nord-ouest de l’Amérique

.” Amantacha dit Louis de Sainte-Foi, was baptized at Rouen during the time that Father Daniel was a teacher at the college. Certain historians have asserted that Father Daniel had prepared

mainly in charities promoting public welfare and health in Montreal: the Baron de Hirsch Institute and Hebrew Benevolent Society of Montreal, of which he was a benefactor and the president in 1908 and

Samuel Vetch* and others to Quebec to arrange with Governor Philippe de

, Acadiens de l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard ([Charlottetown], 1956). Conventions Nationales des Acadiens, Recueil des travaux et délibérations des six premières conventions, F.-J. Robidoux, compil

 Commercial Gazette (St John’s), 23 Sept. 1854. E. H. Dahl et al., La ville de Québec, 1800–1850: un inventaire de cartes et plans (Ottawa, 1975). Quebec almanac

, for the years 1875–76 . . . (Montreal, 1875). J.-B.-A. Allaire, Histoire de la paroisse de Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu (Canada) (Saint-Hyacinthe, Qué., 1905). C. H

. PAC, MG 24, B2; RG 1, El, 36–45; L3L; RG 4, A1; RG 68. Private arch., J.-P. Kesteman (Sherbrooke, Que.), J.-P. Kesteman, “Histoire de Sherbrooke

and 1811 Foster was in Jamaica as aide-de-camp and military secretary to the lieutenant governor, Sir Eyre Coote, and the governor, the Duke of Manchester. After returning to England he served

). Bas-Canada, chambre d’Assemblée, Journaux, 1835–36, app.E. Montreal Gazette, 17 April 1865. P.-G. Roy, Les juges de la prov. de Québec, 233.

. His personal fortunes were distinctly improved. In 1810 he was still a tenant; in 1816 in quick succession he bought a lot with two stone houses on Rue Notre-Dame and a piece of land on Rue de l’Hôpital

-Marie-des-Hurons, that he wrote his letters, which were published in 1660 by Jean-Baptiste de Rocoles. In the Huron country, according to the testimony of Father

, quartier Saint-Louis, 1830–56. PAC, RG 31, A1, 1851, 1871, Quebec. [J.-C. Taché], Le Canada et l’exposition universelle de 1855 (Toronto, 1856). Journal of Education for Lower

Fraser* of Arichat, he entered the Grand Séminaire de Québec and was ordained priest on 19 Feb. 1853. At Quebec Girroir demonstrated his talent for speed-skating by defeating an American champion

at Saint-Eustache, daughter of Dr Auguste-France Globensky and Marie-Françoise Brousseau, dit Lafleur de Verchères; d. 29 April 1873 at Montreal

MacDonald* at St Mary’s Church in Hamilton. In 1851 he also became vicar general to Bishop Armand de Charbonnel* of

appear to have been a post (southwest of Togo, Sask.) variously called Cuthbert Grant’s House, the Upper House, Fort de la Rivière Tremblante, and Aspen House. In 1795 Alexander Mackenzie’s efforts

.” Lykke de la Cour AO, RG 55, 1-2-B, liber 36: f.9. Medical College of Pa

: f.30; E.5/1; E.6/2: f.137; E.24/4; MG 2, B3; MG 7, D8. Les bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest (Masson), vol.1. HBRS, 2 (Rich and Fleming); 3 (Fleming). Le Manitoba

General Charles de Beauharnois*, who was wrangling with Hocquart at that time over a number of appointments in their

Holburne. The presence in Louisbourg harbour of a large French naval force under Comte Dubois de La Motte [Cahideuc

Hartt and Prudence Brown; m. in 1869 Lucy Lynde of Buffalo, N.Y., by whom he had two children; d. in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 18 March 1878

command at Detroit at what he felt to be a critical juncture in the western campaigns. Haldimand did not want to remove the commandant, Major Arent Schuyler De Peyster, or to insult him by requiring

, however, he was named aide-de-camp to George II. Hay became colonel of the 33rd Foot on 20 Nov. 1753 and major-general on 22 Feb. 1757

. de manuscrits relatifs à la N.-F., II. Documentary hist. of Maine, IX. Hutchinson, Hist. of Mass.-bay (1768), II. Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll

. Sylvie Dufresne, “Le Theatre Royal de la rue Côté: 1851–1913,” Groupe de recherche en art populaire, Travaux et conférences, 1975–1979 (Montréal, 1979), 67–171. Franklin Graham

the post in June by the commandant, Arent Schuyler De Peyster, and sent back. In December he was accused of having aided the escape of Thomas Bentley, a Kaskaskia (Ill.) merchant arrested for

esquisse de sa position géographique, ses productions, son climat, ses ressources, ses institutions scolaires et municipales, ses pêcheries, chemins de

IMBERT (Imber), BERTRAND, merchant; b. 7 July 1714 at Bayonne, France, son of Pierre Imbert and Saubade Castera (de Cassera

three years later with the tercentenary of the arrival at the Saint John River of Samuel de Champlain* and Pierre

Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye in this country during the 1730s is not known.) La France spent the winter of 1740–41 with the Crees of the Lac Ouinipigon area and that of 1741

, Univ. de Moncton, N.-B.). Centre d’Études Acadiennes, Fonds P.-A. Landry. PANB, MC 1552; RS115, 13/8–9. Le Moniteur acadien, 1867–1926. L’album souvenir des noces d’argent de la

Abbé Manach’s group of Micmacs and took part in the Acadians’ resistance, under Charles Deschamps* de

, sous la direction de Jean Daigle (Moncton, N.-B., 1993), 299–340. Legislative Assembly of N.S. (Elliott). N.S., House of Assembly, Debates and proc., 1879–86. J. P. Parker