. 1847. Centre for Research on French Canadian Culture (Ottawa), C2 (Assoc. Canadienne-Française de l’Ontario, formerly the Assoc. Canadienne-Française d’Éducation de l’Ontario). LAC, RG 31, C1, 1901
, Macmillan dictionary, 642. Lareau, Hist. de la littérature canadienne, 181–83. Lit. hist. of Can. (Klinck), 215–16. Horace Têtu, Historique des journaux de Québec (2e
.
Routh married first, probably on 26 Dec. 1815, at Paris, Adélaïde-Marie-Joséphine Lamy (Laminière), granddaughter of the secretary general of the Gardes de Corps of Louis XVI. She died
.
Smallwood was a member of four foreign scientific societies: La Société Météorologique de France, the Pulkova astronomical observatory, Académie Royale de Belgique, the National Institute of the United
Bilodeau
ANQ-O, ZQ127/25, 3 mars 1886. Musée Minéralogique et Minier de Thetford Mines, Qué., G. W. Smith, “La famille Smith et la
, Montreal, 1863–1900. Michel Gauvin, “The municipal reform movement in Montreal, 1886–1914” (ma thesis, Univ. of Ottawa, 1972). RPQ. Rumilly, Hist. de
the British Colonist on 26 August, Amor De Cosmos described the proposed buildings as “something
.
Thomas Walker, who had emigrated to Boston in 1752, came to Montreal in 1763 and established himself as a merchant. He purchased a fine stone house on Rue Saint-Paul, near the Chateau de Ramezay, and
: spring exhibitions, 1880–1970, comp. E. de R. McMann (Toronto, 1988). Royal Canadian Academy of Arts: exhibitions and members, 1880–1979, comp. E. de R. McMann (Toronto
de la Commission de la conservation du Canada (1909–1921) (Ottawa, 1994; contains a detailed bibliography on White, the conservation movement, and the publications of the Commission of
during the French attack on the island in 1762 [see Charles-Henri-Louis d’arsac de
at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, second son of Edward Bradstreet and Agathe de Saint-Étienne* de La Tour; m
cemetery of Notre-Dame de Belmont at Sainte-Foy.
After studying for a short time at Cap-Santé, Pierre Garneau left for Quebec in 1839 and went to
Scottish origin, Samuel McCallum Genest spent his youth in his birthplace, where he studied with the Brothers of the Christian Schools and at the Séminaire de Saint-Joseph des Trois-Rivières. His father, a
Aug. 1718 in Yverdon, Switzerland, second of four sons of François-Louis Haldimand, receiver for the town, and Marie-Madeleine de Treytorrens; d. there unmarried 5 June 1791
–1823. Quebec Herald and Universal Miscellany, 15 Dec. 1788, 16 Nov. 1789. Caron, “Inv. de la corr. de Mgr Plessis,” ANQ Rapport, 1927–28, 1928–29, 1932–33
an English essay. In 1879 he entered St Francis de Sales Seminary in Milwaukee, Wis., but a year later he resumed his theological studies at St Michael’s. He completed his licence in theology
he could threaten Montreal, thus diverting soldiery from Quebec’s defence. The governor of New France, Rigaud de Vaudreuil, apprehending this stratagem, dispatched a reconnoitering force southward
family groupings struggling for control of patronage, and Smith espoused his father’s long-standing antipathy to the De Lancey party. A Presbyterian, he opposed such Anglican enterprises as the
Court of Quebec for the name by which he had always been known), plumber, union leader, and politician; b. 28 Oct. 1864 in the Montreal parish of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, son of Alfred Varville, a
Vancouver Island and later joined Amor De Cosmos* in the Confederation League. He was also an early supporter of decimal currency. When Vancouver
Chapleau]. The Crédit Foncier was capitalized at $5 million and incorporated provincially later in 1880 with Chapleau as vice-president and Würtele, Jean de Beaufort, and Isidore
André [Alfred Bessette*]. In 1902 he entered the Séminaire de Saint-Joseph des Trois-Rivières for classical studies. There he distinguished
encouragement, attended the Séminaire de Rimouski from 1889 to 1895; in 1893 he obtained the Prince of Wales Medal. He then went to the Université Laval in Quebec City, where he studied law from 1895 to 1898. At
gifted pupil, not much of a worker but a great reader. He was even active within the Congregation de la Bienheureuse-Vierge-Marie-Immaculée. He was to state at the end of his life that he lost his faith at
but adopted a son and daughter; d. 19 May 1906 in Bellevue (St-Isidore-de-Bellevue), Sask.
Gabriel Dumont is remembered principally for his
British possessions north of the Potomac River, beginning with St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, the Îles de la Madeleine, and Cape Breton Island, which were important because of the fisheries
Rue Sherbrooke and Rue Saint-Laurent; several lots inherited from his father in the faubourg Sainte-Marie in Montreal; an estate on the Côte de la Visitation on Montreal Island; and Île Saint
.
In Wacousta, Sir Reginald Morton, an English nobleman, comes to British North America to seek revenge for the loss of his fiancée to a fellow officer and friend, Charles de Haldimar
unyielding ultramontane with a caustic wit, he gave young Henri the run of his library, and his reading would encompass the works of Louis Veuillot, Joseph de Maistre, and Jules-Paul
rallying-call for the Fils de la Liberté, an association of French Canadian militants, to which Cartier belonged [see
, Charles Baillairgé was thus born into a celebrated family. As a day-boy at the Petit Séminaire de Québec he was restless with the slow pace of learning and impatient to satisfy his innate curiosity for
, the coast of Labrador from Belle Isle to Cape St Lewis, the Belle Isle coast of Newfoundland, Anticosti, the Îles de la Madeleine and other St Lawrence islands, Baie des Chaleurs, the New
children, enrolled at St Dunstan’s College in Charlottetown, where he excelled in literature. In 1880 he began studies at the Séminaire de Québec; he graduated with the highest honours and was ordained
Aumasson* de Courville. In 1842 the Literary and Historical Society sent him to Albany, N.Y., to copy documents relating to New France which it intended to publish. Cochran was busy in the mid 1830s as
improvement of bilingual schools, spearheaded by the Congrès d’Éducation des Canadiens Français de l’Ontario [see Napoléon-Antoine
were significant, according to Philippe-Joseph Aubert* de Gaspé. The new ferry altered the habits of Quebec’s inhabitants, for
. 1793 in Fort de la Rivière Tremblante (near Kamsack, Sask.), son of Cuthbert Grant*, fur trader, and a Métis woman, probably of Cree and
Viger and Jacob De Witt founded the Banque du Peuple, and in January of the following year the
enter the priesthood. Following a year of study at the Séminaire de Philosophie in Montreal, he enrolled at the Grand Séminaire there. He was ordained on 21 Sept. 1901 in Richibucto. Because of his
, beginning with the volume on Pontiac and going on to René-Robert Cavelier* de La Salle in The discovery of the great west
also contracted for logs from the Rivière de l’Achigan above L’Assomption, and by 1851 he was investing considerable capital in saw log production on the Ottawa River. That year he contracted with
franchise of the St John Street Railway Company, an enterprise with horse-drawn vehicles and a head office on Rue d’Aiguillon, in the Upper Town. Similarly it signed a service contract with Notre-Dame de
, All heart: notes on the life of Dr. Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott, m.d., pioneer woman doctor and cardiologist (Sainte-Anne-de
Mutual Benefit Association, the Roman Catholic section of the Board of Education of Manitoba, and the Knights of Columbus. He represented the Collège de Saint-Boniface on the council of the University of
, Hist. de la prov. de Québec, vol.12: 172–78; Hist. de Montréal, vol.3. Joseph Schull, Laurier, trans. H.‑J. Gagnon ([Montréal], 1968), 357–61.
paleontologist, paleontology was a recent branch of knowledge. To appreciate his contribution to science, two things must be remembered: Georges Cuvier and Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck [Monet] had died 25 years
societies. He was appointed an official representative of the Société d’Ethnographie de Paris, honorary local secretary of the Victoria Institute, London, and corresponding member of the Société Américaine de
Commerciale de Québec, which was run by the Brothers of the Christian Schools at Quebec. He subsequently joined L. et C. Têtu et Compagnie (later Têtu et Garneau [see Pierre