the armistice, he quickly arranged with Pastour de Costebelle, governor of Placentia, for their return. With his reply Costebelle sent a case of wine. It is interesting to see throughout Trevanion’s

, commanded by Alexandre de La Maisonfort Du Boisdecourt. He participated in the

the Comte de Lapérouse [Galaup], and its officers and men taken prisoner to France

VAN NORMAN, JOSEPH, iron-founder and entrepreneur; b. 12 May 1796 at Sussex, N.J., son of John Van Norman and Sarah De Pue; m

Latham at St John’s in 1707, he reached the port the following year. He had very little time to improve the defences before the French attack under Saint-Ovide de Brouillan

 24, F71. PRO, FO 5/440; 5/442; 5/457 (copies at PABC); WO 54/250–59. Royal Military Academy (Woolwich, Eng.), Register of cadets, 1837–39. P. J. De Smet, Oregon missions and travels over

de la Rivière,” Manitoba Pageant (Winnipeg), 23 (1977), no.1: 8–17.

1929, by the provincial government for the future Musée de la Province in Quebec City. Walker, then at the pinnacle of his career, was henceforth

, author of the travel classic Eothen; or traces of travel brought home from the East, and acquaintanceship with Alexis de Tocqueville suggest a family interest in sophisticated travel writing

relieve the fortress [see Alexandre de La Maisonfort]. Two days later

Canada, son of Ebenezer Washburn* and Sarah De Forest; m. 12 April 1821 Margaret FitzGibbon; d. 29 Sept. 1837 in

of Alexander Wilson and Catherine-Angélique d’Ailleboust de Manthet; d. 4 May 1877 at Montreal, Que. Charles Wilson was a sort

(Toronto, 1878) and the lyrics for two compositions by local musicians: Fair Canada: patriotic song (Ottawa, 1873), set to music by George Frederick De Vine, and Under the snow

s from both sides of the house, including Sir Henri-Gustave Joly* de Lotbinière, Sir Charles

. During the next two years Wood engaged in operations against Union vessels blockading the coasts inside Chesapeake Bay. His achievements resulted in his being named naval aide-de-camp to his relation

Canada. Plomer Young entered the British army in 1805 and in 1806 became a lieutenant. In 1810 he participated in the capture of Île-de-France

Gaultier* de Varennes et de La Vérendrye and even more evident around 1790. The voyages of Mackenzie, who went down the river that bears his name right to the Arctic Ocean in 1789 and travelled

. In the assembly Young became a leader of the English party and, with Pierre-Amable De Bonne, acted

d’Arsac de Ternay’s attack in 1762 gave him the opportunity to chart part of the island’s eastern coastline, including St John’s harbour, Placentia road, Bay Bulls, Harbour Grace, and

. Hector-Louis Langevin was descended from a soldier in the Régiment de Carignan-Salières, which Jean Talon* settled in Bourg-Royal (Quebec) between

the Richelieu and the Ottawa. In 1815 Molson purchased a wharf with all its facilities at Près-de-Ville in Quebec from Robert Christie* and

Baron de Lahontan [Louis-Armand de Lom* d’Arce] and Jonathan Carver. He died impoverished in 1807. Peter Pond National

appointed several Canadians (such as Jacques de Lafontaine* de Belcour, whom he named attorney general and commissary for the south

Jean-de-Brébeuf, already the favoured school of the francophone elite and a centre for Catholic and youthful nationalist debate and thought in the 1930s. Charlie was a nationalist, supportive of the

*. Anxious to have bright Métis boys trained for the priesthood, Taché arranged in 1858 for Riel and three others, including Louis Schmidt, to attend school in Canada. At the Petit Séminaire de Montréal Riel

-438, 1869–1910). ANQ-M, CE1-91, 22 mai 1884. AVM, D015.22-4; D016.4; Procès-verbal du conseil municipal de Montréal, 15 févr

, Journal d’un Fils de la liberté, 2: 52. Le Canadien, 2 juin 1824; 4 janv., 25, 28 août 1833; 22 déc. 1837; 13 août 1845. La Minerve, 11 juill

Essex County, the vicar general of Upper Canada, Edmund Burke*, granted him the pew in the church of Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption reserved

. On his father’s side Noel Bear was descended possibly from Jean Serreau* de Saint-Aubin, a French seigneur in the Passamaquoddy

(d. 18 July 1847 in Toronto), and they had one daughter; m. secondly 14 Aug. 1850 Claire (Clare) Elizabeth de La Haye in Toronto, and they had six sons and five daughters; d

Letellier de Saint-Just was minister, that she received the official title of special immigration agent. Koerber found a sympathetic

English Canadian mainstream. The “de-greening” of the Irish, particularly in the Register, prompted Boyle to resurrect the Irish Canadian in June 1900, but the project faltered

company operating in Labrador and the lower St Lawrence region. To develop the Îles de Mingan and the seigneury of Saint-Paul he went into partnership with influential businessmen John

later he was importing wheat from Vermont through Quebec merchant John Samuel de Montmollin. For a short period from 1793 he was in partnership with his brother-in-law Myer Michaels, a fur trader. From

 Basil’s Church was built near his home in 1856 he attended it daily and organized in 1857 its chapter of the St Vincent de Paul Society. He was the chapter’s first president and retained the post until

 Chambre de commerce de Québec,” BRH, 27 (1921): 26–28. “The Royal William, 1831–33,” Literary and Hist. Soc. of Quebec

* and Louis-Joseph de Montcalm*. In July 1827 Forsyth was appointed to the Legislative Council on Dalhousie’s recommendation

Cape Breton Island, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and the Îles de la Madeleine. Before Bishop Burke died in 1820, he had offered Fraser a

. Johnson (Toronto, 1975), 286–301. Caron, La colonisation de la prov. de Québec, vol.2. C. M. Day, Pioneers of the Eastern Townships . . . (Montreal, 1863

to mark the tercentenary of Samuel de Champlain*’s founding of Quebec. Fresh from his battlefield victory, he decided to transform the

, 1882). Notman and Taylor, Portraits of British Americans, III. Atherton, Montreal, III. Lucien Brault, Histoire des comtés unis de Prescott et de Russell (L’Orignal, Ont., 1965

 Feb. 1912 in Holloway (London), England. As a young man, George Holmes came in contact with the Reverend William Chastel de Boinville

Morisset, 2, H894.5/L888.9; H294.5/P622/1. Quebec almanac, 1806: 53. Robert Derome, “Delezenne, les orfèvres, l’orfèvrerie, 1740–1790” (thèse de ma, univ. de Montréal

, “Les libéraux du Québec, leur parti et leur pensée (1867–1873)” (thèse de ma, univ. de Montréal, 1960). T. A. Burke, “Mackenzie and his cabinet, 1873–1878,” CHR

Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye was then establishing near Lac Ouinipigon (Lake Winnipeg). During this period Isham showed a shrewd independence of mind in his comments on the trade

De Haven*, commander of the expedition, and Passed Midshipman S. P. Griffin, the two vessels sailed from New York with instructions to search in the vicinity of Barrow Strait (N.W.T

. P.-G. Roy, Les juges de la prov. de Québec. Buchanan, Bench and bar of L.C. Rumilly, Papineau et son temps.

wife filed for divorce. In San Francisco, Kingsley became a soapbox speaker and a leading member of Daniel De Leon’s Socialist Labor Party (SLP). Kingsley and his SLP

on 15 April 1812 he appointed him provincial aide-de-camp with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the militia. In his memoir of the war William Hamilton

Des Herbiers de La Ralière]. Two years later Marguerite must have suffered great heartache when her son died shortly after his 13th birthday. She persevered and continued to