attacking the French ship Le Profond, commanded by Pierre Dugué* de Boisbriand, in Hudson Strait, continued their voyage
1808; CN1-230, 20 oct. 1795, 9 nov. 1798; CN1-256, 20 Oct. 1786. BL, Add. mss 21803: 165–67; 21876: 126, 130. Bas-Canada, Statuts, 1795, c.5. “Les dénombrements de
done about driving the French from Placentia. When a French naval squadron under the Marquis de Nesmond appeared off St John’s in August 1697, neither side attacked. Gibsone returned to England
Coulon de Villiers, and formal terms of capitulation were drawn up and signed. Goldthwait then returned with his men to Annapolis Royal, where he apparently remained as a company commander until
, under the nom de plume of John Gape, to the New Brunswick Courier. These letters concentrated on attacking the inefficiency of the Crown Lands Office and the arrogance and alleged graft
ANQ-M, Greffe de J. G. Beek, 28, 30 mars 1787. HBC Arch. F.3/1, f.314. Private archives, E. A. Mitchell (Toronto), Cameron family papers, letters of James Grant to Æneas
them. It is a sympathetic account based on the writings of Claude-Charles Le Roy* de La Potherie
. A major in 1854, Harding served in the Crimea as aide-de-camp to General John Lysaght Pennefather; there he took part in the battles of Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman, when he was severely wounded
, Mass., third child of Moses Hazzen, merchant, and Abigail White; m. 5 Dec. 1770 Charlotte de La Saussaye in Montreal, Que.; they had no children; d. 5 Feb. 1803 in Troy, N.Y
ministry of Charles Boucher* de Boucherville over the Tanneries scandal [see Louis
bedchamber to the Duke of Gloucester, and finally as aide de camp to her husband. In 1702 he became captain and lieutenant-colonel in the Coldstream Guards, and three years after assuming this customary double
professional publicity campaign.
Hughes spent late 1919 and early 1920 touring the southern states, preparing for the arrival of Eamon de Valera
Jamot received his elementary education in his native town and in July 1849 graduated bachelier ès lettres from the Académie de Bourges of the Université de France. He then began studies in
Marin* de La Malgue]. The British responded in 1753 by sending the young George Washington to demand that the French withdraw from the area, which both powers claimed. Years later, Washington
Roquemont de Brison and captured them without loss in a short engagement. When news of these events reached Paris the Kirke brothers were burned in effigy because, having been born in Dieppe, they
1848, when this group started the Association pour le Peuplement des Cantons de l’Est, he acted with Joseph Doutre* as one of its two
de Subercase, attacked St John’s 21 Jan. 1704/5; but both Fort William and the South Castle survived the siege until the French withdrew, with heavy losses, on 23 February. During
of the Newfoundland School Society employed as a schoolmaster at Port de Grave on Conception Bay. He and his wife taught there with such success that within a year there were 150 pupils in the day
origin of the so-called Fenian Raid on Manitoba in 1871,” CHR, X (1929), 23–42. A.-H. de Trémaudan, “Louis Riel and the Fenian Raid of 1871,” CHR, IV (1923), 132–44.
Charlotte Howard and William de Montmollin Marler; m. there 9 April 1902 Beatrice Isabel Allan, and they had two sons and one daughter; d. there 31 Jan. 1940
Montreal would be assimilated. Thus he concentrated on educating the French-speaking intellectual and social élite. In 1847 Masson entered the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe. Ten years in this “centre of
ANQ-Q, CE1-61, 3 Nov. 1777, 21 Sept. 1779, 14 March 1782, 15 Aug. 1784, 25 Oct. 1786; CN1-262, 6 mars 1804. “Les dénombrements de Québec
biographies, 1870–1910 (Montréal, 1911), 49–54. Anastase Forget, Histoire du collège de L’Assomption (Montréal, [1933]), 541.
. A 50 per cent drop in trade in 1721–22 because French coureurs de bois prevented any of the leading upland Indians from coming to Albany, and some false and malicious reports, led the London committee
and his brothers Joseph and Duncan became farmers and traders in Pointe-de-Chêne (Ste-Anne-des-Chênes) in the 1850s.
By the late 1860s the
. He chastised the wicked and preached eloquently at the chapel, speaking “as well as Father de Bressany [see
Marin de La Malgue. Pote was captured with five of his crew, and was later allocated to a group of Hurons from Lorette, near Quebec. He was taken to Quebec via Chignecto, and the
of 1785 he was rejected by the voters of Annapolis Township in favour of a newly arrived loyalist, Stephen De Lancey*. A minor political
ensigncy in July. In 1760 he participated in the capture of Montreal. That, or the following, year he married Marie-Louise Réaume, the 19-year-old widow of Joseph Fournerie de Vézon; through his marriage
Canadian Baptist Archives (Hamilton, Ont.), [A. de L. Therrien,] “Pastors of the past in G.L.M.” (handwritten ms). The Baptist
; 8, 28 Dec. 1857. Pilot and Journal of Commerce (Montreal), 18 May 1850, 26 Dec. 1854. Le Pionnier de Sherbrooke, 6 juill. 1867
Groenlandica,” Meddelelser om Grpnland, udgivne af Kimmissionen for Ledelsen af de Geologiske og Geografiske Underspgelser i Grpnland
also issued in a French version, Réponse de l’hon. Honoré Mercier au pamphlet de l’association des “equal rights” contre la majorité des habitants de la province de Québec
, Sheppard; État civil, Anglicans, Cathedral of the Holy Trinity (Quebec), 28 Sept. 1809. Le Canadien, 12 juill. 1867. P.-G. Roy, Fils de Québec, III, 18–20
, ed. Ulrich Thieme, et al. (37v., Leipzig, 1907–50), XXX, 576. “Les estampes de Richard Short,” BRH, XXIV (1918), 279–80. M. H. Grant, A dictionary of British
. 1845, 15 Jan. 1847. Pilot (Montreal), 29 Jan. 1847. C. P. De Volpi and P. S. Winkworth, Montreal; a pictorial record . . . 1535
. Taylour made little systematic attempt to answer these questions as his arrival in Newfoundland on 16 Aug. 1709 found him plunged in troubles of a more serious nature. The attack by Saint-Ovide de
TESSOUAT (Le Borgne de l’Île), chief of the Allumette Island tribe of Algonkins (Kichesipirini), probably a successor of the
at the Institut d’Études Acadiennes, Univ. de Montcton, N.B., for his assistance in the preparation of this biography.
FD, Saint-Antoine-de
Scandal was becoming an issue. At a meeting held on the Champ de Mars in Montreal on 5 August White tried to defend the Conservative government from attacks precipitated by the scandal, but found the
., 3 April 1823. F.-J. Audet et Fabre Surveyer, Les députés de Saint-Maurice et de Buckinghamshire, 59–61. Bouchette, Topographical description of L.C., 386–91
also reported extensively on the area around Baie-Saint-Paul and its suitability for settlement.
In 1831 Baddeley explored the Îles de la Madeleine
. . . had become impaired” at St Vincent de Paul Penitentiary near Montreal. The federal government appointed Bedson to restore order and “smooth the way for the Warden about to be appointed.” On 21
Montreal and the resulting pamphlet gives the impression that he was more naive than malicious; notwithstanding his stated purpose, to honour Louis-Joseph de
. Cummings, Early days in Haliburton (Toronto, 1963), 3–4, 7–13, 178–80. Andrée Désilets, Hector-Louis Langevin, un père de la confédération canadienne (1826–1906) (Les cahiers de
McGill* in establishing a French royalist colony at Windham, Upper Canada, under Joseph-Geneviève de Puisaye*, Comte de Puisaye
and Wear) on 28 May 1814 he married the actress-dancer Sophia De Camp. His marriage connected him with prominent acting families. His wife’s sister Maria Theresa (Marie Thérèse), herself a
the fall of 1629, was occupied in repulsing the French privateers that were preying upon English fishing vessels in the harbours of Avalon. Shortly after Baltimore’s arrival at Ferryland, “de la Rade