Caron* and Joséphine De Blois; m. there 25 June 1867 Alice Baby, and two of their children survived him; d. 20 April 1908 in Montreal

Windsor, in Nova Scotia . . . (Halifax, 1836). L.-J. Papineau, “Lettres de L.-J. Papineau à Robert Christie,” BRH, 34 (1928): 296–320, 347–77. Gleaner, 4–11

.), Christopher Dunkin papers. Can., prov. du, Parl., Débats part. sur la confédération. Débats de l’Assemblée législative (M. Hamelin), [I]. Advertiser and Eastern

. They had been invited by Bishop Armand-François-Marie de Charbonnel* to serve the growing number of Irish Catholics in the

Oakes* to conduct the trade at Michilimackinac (Mackinaw City, Mich.). Four years later he acquired exclusive trading rights at that place and Baie-des-Puants (Green Bay, Wis.) from Pierre de

documentary; she was intentionally making a pictorial record of what she saw. “I took no sketch of a place I never wish to recollect,” she wrote at Cap-de-la-Madeleine

seigneury of Bécancour, he bought a great deal of land, mainly at Trois-Rivières and Cap-de-la-Madeleine. At this period, however, Hart shared with Moses

Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye and his successors began to tap the western trade during the 1740s, however, the HBC became more concerned with what was occurring out in the vast

was enough work for everyone. During his tenure as chief engineer Samuel Keefer laid out the Beauharnois Canal, directed the enlargement of the Lachine Canal, rebuilt the lock at Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue

that any prospective union must encompass the interests of both colonies. In January 1865, however, the assembly was persuaded by Amor De

. 1792; CN1-284, 29 nov. 1787, 13 juin 1796; P1000-27-502. Arch. du séminaire de Trois-Rivières (Trois-Rivières, Qué.), Fonds Hart, OC-4, Agents des Hart. AUM, P 58, J2/150. BL, Add

. A year later, on 5 July 1820, a surrogate court sitting at Port de Grave (or at Bareneed) summoned Lundrigan to appear before it, but he declined to attend. Constable William Keating later

Hertel de Rouville. It was popularly believed that these two looked to Mabane for guidance. With his fellow judge and councillor, John Fraser, Mabane was a member of the committee of council

between his appointment in August 1752 and the following June; Monckton and Jean-Baptiste Mutigny de Vassan, his counterpart at Beauséjour, exchanged notes, deserters, and runaway horses. Undoubtedly both

. Mme Feller engaged herself in the Société des Missions Évangéliques de Lausanne which was founded in 1828. On the advice of the London Bible Society, this society sent to the Indians of Lower

ANQ-M, CM1, John Ogilvy, proved 5 Oct. 1819. ANQ-Q, CN1-16, 4 nov. 1814; CN1-26, 11 mars 1802. Les bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest (Masson), 2: 23. Docs

France, he did not speak French fluently, and he seems to have used it only to address the francophone Anglican Abenakis of Saint-François-de-Sales (Odanak). He no doubt stimulated zeal in the women of his

Des Friches* de Meneval surrendered. He had only about 70 men, and no guns mounted, and resistance would have been useless. On 22 May the “journal” of Phips’s proceedings

prestigious appointment of aide-de-camp to Amherst. Early in August he was sent to England with the dispatches announcing the fall of Fort Niagara (near Youngstown, N.Y.). In 1760 he accompanied Amherst in the

Campbell*, Dr Aaron Hart David, the Reverend Abraham de Sola* of the Shearith Israel congregation (who performed his marriage

anglophones when, on 26 June, Windsor’s Evening Record reported what he had declared at the first meeting of the Congrès de la Langue Française held in Quebec City [see Stanislas-Alfred

back to the Continent, having been appointed an aide-de-camp to the Duke of Cumberland. In this capacity he was present at the battle of Laffeldt (21 June 1747) and carried Cumberland’s dispatch

TUYLL VAN SEROOSKERKEN (de Tuyll de Serooskerken), VINCENT GILDEMEESTER van, Baron van TUYLL VAN SEROOSKERKEN, land speculator and

health. He had had heavy responsibilities and had shown great concern for the safety and welfare of his troops. For his bravery and distinguished conduct at the front, Watson was awarded the Croix de

. In her writing, however, Wood did espouse his aesthetics, with their fin de siècle decadence. Like him, she attempted to fuse the sensual with the spiritual through symbolism. Her absence from

, a refrigerator, and bottles for blood. Back in Madrid, he set up the Servicio Canadiense de Tranfusion de Sangre in mid December. The team of three Canadians, an American woman, and a few Spanish

turnpike roads on the north shore (1863–81), and vice-president of the Asile de Sainte-Brigitte, a shelter for indigent Irish. At this point, on the strength of promises given by the leaders of the Liberal

. In the spring of 1784 Rousseau was in business as a merchant at Saint-Philippe-de-Laprairie. He bought at least six properties there, and lived in an apartment that he kept for himself in one of the

advocated, had led Amor De Cosmos* to raise the matter of union with Canada in the Legislative Council on 10 March 1867. Seymour had

.” Amherst saw his first active service as aide-de-camp to Ligonier in Germany during the War of the Austrian Succession. He was present at the battles of Dettingen (Federal Republic of Germany) in 1743 and

. J. Morgan, Sketches of celebrated Canadians. [E. A.] Baby, Mme C.-E. Casgrain, Mémoires de famille: l’honorable C.-E. Casgrain (Rivière

Mediterranean. In June 1809 he captured the adjutant general of France, Chevalier Charles de Boissi, and in October 1810 he took Lucien Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, who was attempting to escape to America

undistinguished, a major portion of the book on British North America having been drawn from the works of authors such as Pierre-François-Xavier de

claimed, for Beck’s conversion to Catholicism in 1883. He began editing the Catholic Northwest Review (Winnipeg) and represented the Collège de Saint-Boniface in the senate of the University of

Montreal during the last fifty years,” Canada Medical Record (Montreal), 11 (1882): 1–8. Édouard Desjardins, “Un duel résulta d’une polémique autour de l’Hôtel-Dieu et du Montreal General

. One of six children born to a public-spirited Irish-Catholic family, J. J. Cassidy was educated at St Michael’s College in Toronto (1854–60) and at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la

, “Noulan Cauchon: an appreciation,” Royal Architectural Instit. of Can., Journal, 13 (1936): 122. Gabriel Rioux, “Le milieu de l’urbanisme à Montréal (1897–1941): histoire d’une ‘refondation

a reward after the conquest of Canada [see Augustin-Louis de Glapion*]. In December of the following year Lord

, Macmillan dict. Caron, La colonisation de la prov. de Quebec, 2: 11–55. Christie, Hist. of L.C. (1848–55), vol.1.

. To this end Connolly visited the Sisters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul in New York, seeking their services, and was encouraged to hear that, if he could direct young women from Saint John to

children were sent to Grenoble, France, to be educated. Eugene then attended the Académie de Paris (bsc 1876) and the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, from which

recently completed Rideau Canal by means of its ownership of the lock at Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, near the junction of the Ottawa and St Lawrence rivers. By thus assuring themselves of easy access to

1830 in conformity with the 1829 primary school act. He had then received a classical education at Chambly, on the Richelieu, at the Collège de Saint-Pierre, founded in 1825 by Abbé Pierre-Marie

, 1888), 2: 423. Armstrong, Handbook of Upper Canadian chronology. F.-J. Audet, Les juges en chef de la province de Québec, 1764–1924 (Québec, 1927), 37–38. D. B. Read

River. The French party, financed by Aubert* de La Chesnaye and sanctioned by the governor of Quebec

: the eldest, Michael George Jr, would become headmaster of Clifton College in Bristol and a canon of Ely Cathedral, and Hugh de Twenebrokes would gain fame as a portrait

Light Division from 1812 until 1814. Appointed in 1812 aide-de-camp to Major-General James Kempt

retaliation for attacks on British shipping by the inhabitants, and followed up by burning the hamlets of La Malbaie and Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (La Pocatière). In September the company was

engaged in commerce, but he devoted much of his time to private teaching, to writing, and to work in freemasonry. In 1855 he had been initiated into the De Witt Clinton Lodge of freemasons in Northfield, Vt

(Caughnawaga, Que.) or Chambly, although even Missisquoi or Saint-François-de-Sales (Odanak) might have been considered as Montreal by the southern New Englanders