de La Malgue. He was captured, charged, convicted, and incarcerated for six months at Annapolis Royal “in a frightful dungeon, laden with chains.” In February 1746 he managed to escape, just
LEFEBVRE, JEAN, merchant and entrepreneur; b. 1714 in the Pays de Caux, France; d. 1760
four children, he made an impression on everyone, both at the local school in New Carlisle and at the Séminaire de Gaspé, where he began his classical studies in September 1933. When he arrived at
Wilson took legal action against him, and the Court of Common Pleas ordered the seizure of his property, which at that time included his two houses and the seigneuries of Rivière-de-la-Madeleine and Grande
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Auger de Subercase, from Placentia (Plaisance). With only 50 or 60 men he repulsed the enemy, who retired with the loss of 200 men. Moody was admirably supported during the siege by his
difficult to assess, and the bankruptcy of 1773 shows what they all came to. He reported to his assembled creditors, in a balance sheet of 8 Nov. 1773 entitled “État à Peu Près de mes Malheureuses
évolution: historique du développement de l’architecture et de l’environnement montréalais (Montréal, 1974).
before proceeding to the Collège de Saint-Hyacinthe in Lower Canada, where he took one year of Philosophy; he then entered the Grand Séminaire de Québec to pursue his theological studies. When he was
teacher. In 1866 he entered St Dunstan’s College to prepare for the priesthood. Three years later he went on to the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Montreal for his theological training. He was ordained
1866. Classes began on 26 September in a small residence at the corner of Rue Craig (Rue Saint-Antoine) and Rue de Bleury. McEachran had set himself the goal of making his veterinary school
Malchelosse*, as Les députés de Montréal. In 1930 Maysie Steel MacSporran submitted her ma thesis, “James McGill: a critical biographical study,” to McGill Univ. The
theological training in Ireland since he was a student at the Séminaire de Québec only from September 1820 until his ordination to the priesthood by Bishop Joseph-Octave
Museum of Fine Arts, formerly Art Association of Montreal: spring exhibitions, 1880–1970, comp. E. de R. McMann (Toronto, 1988). Royal Canadian Academy of Arts: exhibitions and
abortive attempt on the life of Jean-Vincent d’Abbadie de Saint-Castin in 1692. Shortly
.
As a result of this expedition Jacques Noël asked for the monopoly of the mines and the fur trade; he was at that time in partnership with Étienne Chaton de La Jannaye, a sea captain who had
Camera [camarade] de Jeanson” had been found. The spelling of the Onondaga name appears to be in the English style, and the story behind the report remains a mystery; the body was not Ohquandageghte’s
not known, but in 1642 she is mentioned as being 13 or 14 years old. In 1640 her uncle, Joseph Teondechoren, brother of Chiwatenha, placed her in the care of Marie de l’Incarnation [see
July, one of La Grenouille’s sons became seriously ill at Quebec. Father de Brébeuf and Father de
Company, the Young Men’s Literary Association, and the St Vincent de Paul Society. His will left bequests both to the Halifax Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor and to the St
; 15 Oct. 1795; 18 March 1802; 28 Aug. 1806. F.-J. Audet, “Les législateurs du Bas-Canada.” Desjardins, Guide parl. Jules Bélanger et al., Histoire de la
, dit Rottot, on 18 Nov. 1786. Surprisingly, the ceremony had been performed by Anglican minister David-François de
federation won the right to bargain collectively with two of the biggest employers in Quebec, the Dominion Textile Company and the Montreal Cotton Company, which owned the spinning mill in Salaberry-de
., House of Assembly, Journal and proc., 1829: 424; 1844, app.50: 127; Legislative Council, Journal and proc., 1843, app.7: 23. J.-O. Plessis, Journal des visites pastorales de
., [Pierre de] La Chasse, recensement des sauvages de l’Acadie, 1708. Nova Scotia Museum, Acc. 31.24; Accession books, I, no.3287; mss
signed Pinsoneault), Roman Catholic priest, Sulpician, and bishop; b. 23 Nov. 1815 at Saint-Philippe-de-Laprairie, Lower Canada, son of Paul-Théophile Pinsoneault and Clotilde Raymond; d. 30
Séminaire de Québec and then began his notarial training in the office of Jean-Antoine Panet*, continuing it with Olivier
.-J. Audet, “Les législateurs de la province de Québec, 1764–1791,” BRH, XXXI (1925), 485.
the Compagnie de Filature Sainte-Anne. He advised these mills on the use of water and steam power and on the layout of their machinery. He was also an agent for Hercules turbines and had installed this
, 1890: 265, 267, 281–86, 288. Quebec almanac, 1792–97. P.-G. Roy, Inv. concessions, 3: 156. Le centenaire de la paroisse de New-Richmond, 1860–1960 (s.l., 1960
trade, the registers of Notre-Dame de Montréal testify, when they were married at the same wedding service, 18 Jan. 1841. Jean-Baptiste married Sophie Lefebvre, daughter of Jean-Baptiste
missions of Athabasca. The 1850s were a period of expansion of Oblate missions in the North-West, culminating in the establishment of Saint-Cœur-de-Marie at Fort Good Hope near the Arctic circle on the lower
Archives paroissiales, Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier (Berthierville, Qué.), Registres des baptêmes, mariages et sépultures, 23 sept. 1822. HBRS, XIX (Rich and Johnson). Tassé, Les Canadiens de
surgeon at Baie-Saint-Paul. In 1762 or early in 1763 he moved to Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, but a few months later he decided to settle in Château-Richer. Over 20 years he succeeded in securing a financial
the Straits of Mackinac, they met a force of 120 French and Indians led by Olivier Morel* de La Durantaye. Outnumbered
July 1779, 25 March 1813. Azarie Couillard-Després, Histoire de Sorel de ses origines à nos jours (Montreal, 1926), 158–61. Historical record of the Thirty-Fourth, or
is no evidence, however, to show that the restitution duly ordered by the Lords Justices was actually made; and the case of the chief claimant, Joannis de Hiriberry, dragged on till 1722, when it
de Varennes et de La Vérendrye, his family, and his successors developed French trade in the west, the Hudson’s Bay Company felt increasingly threatened by the “pedlars” in the interior. To meet
Derré de Gand and “Mlle Repentigny” [Mme Pierre Legardeur de Repentigny
came without any definite ecclesiastical appointment, and as the rector of Quebec, the Reverend David-François De Montmollin
malignités du sieur de Courville,” BRH, L (1944), 72. E. J. Devine, Historic Caughnawaga (Montreal, 1922), 239–40, 248–51. Lanctot, History of Canada, III. J.-G
. Shortly after he was born his father moved to Quebec. Louis attended the Petit Séminaire de Québec, as did his half-brother Pierre-Flavien
. Wabbicommicot reported to an English trader at Toronto in the winter of 1762–63 that Luc de La Corne*, known as La Corne Saint-Luc, had
the Dutchman, northwest fur-trader; baptized 23 April 1738 at La Tour-de-Peilz, canton of Vaud, Switzerland, son of Adam Samuel Vuadens and Marie-Bernardine Ormond (Ermon); d
Hertel de Rouville silently approached the sleeping town. With snow piled high against the stockades, they entered the town easily, and began their attack. According to one estimate they
but called himself Renaud, settled at the Saint-Thomas-de-la-Pointe-à-Lacaille (Montmagny) mission in the region that would become Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud. On 25 Nov. 1693 he married
Veyssière at Trois-Rivières and David-François De Montmollin* at Quebec, seem to have got on well with the bilingual
secretary, trustee, member of the board of governors (in 1903), and president (from 1908 to 1912) of the Baron de Hirsch Institute and Hebrew Benevolent Society of Montreal, a major philanthropic umbrella
colleagues on the Court of Common Pleas, Edward Southouse and René-Ovide Hertel* de Rouville, “countenanced, in their usual complaisant