, N.S.), son of Louis de Gannes* de Falaise and Marguerite Leneuf de La Vallière et de Beaubassin; d. 23 Oct

. Marguerite Jean The Arch. générales des Sœurs de Sainte-Croix (Saint-Laurent, Qué

merchant of consequence, and Marguerite Bourg; d. 1752 at Port-La-Joie (Fort Amherst, P.E.I.). Joseph-Nicolas Gautier, dit Bellair

coast; Pierre died in Africa; their youngest brother, Jean-Baptiste, ultimately settled in Rustico (P.E.I.); and one of their sisters, Marguerite, died in France

, son of Pierre Gigault, an innkeeper, and Marguerite Wait; m. 12 July 1870 Isabella Dillon (d. 14 Dec. 1930) in Saint-Mathieu (Belmil), Que., and they had four daughters, and two

Quebec, son of Pierre Gingras, a tavern-keeper, and Marguerite Gaboury and brother of Édouard; d. 18 Feb

region in Lower Canada. Around 1800 he stayed briefly at Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie (L’Acadie), and then in 1803 settled at Saint-Luc, where he lived until early in 1815

Chomedey de Maisonneuve, Jeanne Mance, and Marguerite

popish person: the story of Roman Catholicism in Nova Scotia and the church of Halifax, 1604–1984 (Halifax, 1984). Marguerite Jean, Évolution des communautés religieuses de

. 1651 at Vienne (province of Dauphiné), son of Bertrand de La Colombière, a magistrate, and Marguerite Coindat; d. 18 July 1723 at Quebec

Lataupine. Ten children were born of the second marriage, but only five of all Lajus’s children reached adulthood. His two daughters, Marguerite-Ursule and Élisabeth-Simone, married into the mercantile and

. Father Le Caron was named superior of the convent of Sainte-Marguerite, near Gisors, and died there of the plague on 29 March 1632, aged 46; that very day was signed the Treaty of Saint

Marguerite Nicollet, daughter of Jean Nicollet* de Belleborne; d. 29 June 1717

. He was the son of Joseph Le Marchand de Lignery, esquire and Marguerite Du Sillar. He began his military career as a lieutenant in the Régiment d’Auvergne in 1675. In 1683 he transferred to

 1730, at Saint-Ours, in the presence of many representatives of the Canadian nobility, Charles Le Moyne de Longueuil had married Catherine-Charlotte, the daughter of Marguerite Legardeur de Tilly

Royale; b. probably in the mid-1680s; m. in Martinique in the 1730s Marguerite Girault Du Poyet, by whom he had two daughters and a son; d. 9 Oct. 1744 in Louisbourg, Île Royale (Cape

. 1841 in St Boniface (Man.), son of Louis (Louison) Letendre, dit Batoche, and Marie Hallet; m. 19 May 1863 Marguerite Parenteau in St Norbert (Man.), and they had 13

LEVASSEUR, NOËL, master wood-carver, b. 1680 at Quebec, son of Noël Levasseur, carpenter, and Marguerite Guay and grandson of

Normant* Du Faradon, Mme d’Youville [Marie-Marguerite Dufrost* de Lajemmerais], and Étienne

Lorimier* and Louise Schuyler; m. 26 Nov. 1827 Marguerite Rousseau in Saint-Régis (Akwesasne); d. 4 Oct. 1845 in Montreal. Jean

Port-Royal. She died in 1703, and in 1707 he married a widow, Marguerite Bourgeois (daughter of Jacques), with

Marguerite Sarrazin; d. 9 April 1871 at Quebec. Marie-Anne-Marcelle Mallet’s childhood was upset by her father’s premature death on 23 April

Maurin, a merchant, and Marguerite-Geneviève Mounier; d. sometime after 1765, probably in France. François Maurin arrived in Canada in

maid!” She portrayed this dilemma more fully and tragically in her story “Marguerite Kneller: artist and woman,” where the possibility of enjoying both a happy marriage and a brilliant artistic career

, GEORGE, businessman; b. 21 July 1853 in Saint John, son of Thomas McAvity and Isabella Sandall; m. 1 Feb. 1887 Ida Marguerite Mills (1866–1928) in New York City, and they had

member during the last few years). In her work within this federation, she came into contact with several renowned feminists of the Montreal bourgeoisie, including francophones Marguerite Thibaudeau

. 1734 in Marseilles, France, son of Jean-Noël Natte and Françoise Gassin; m. first 6 Feb. 1758 Marguerite Ducheneau, dit Sanregret, at Quebec, and they had three daughters; m. secondly

1829 the first school for girls in western Canada was opened at St Boniface, with Angélique and Marguerite Nolin as teachers. The students were mostly daughters of French and Cree or Ojibwa parents

O’NEILL, MARGARET (baptized Marguerite Neill), named Mother Agatha, teacher and member of the

), Oblate of Mary Immaculate, Roman Catholic missionary, and priest; b. 22 Nov. 1824 in Marseilles, France, son of Esprit-Étienne-Charles-Henri Pandosy, a sea captain, and Marguerite-Josephine-Marie

Methodist minister; b. 14 July 1818 at Quebec, son of Pierre Parent, a carpenter, and Marguerite Le François; d. 18 Feb. 1907 in Troy, N.Y

Marguerite Clément on 23 April 1680 at La Prairie, in New France, and settled in the Quebec region. Marc-Aurèle studied at the Petit Séminaire

Quebec, son of François Resche and Marguerite Pinard; d. 2 April 1770 at Quebec. Pierre-Joseph Resche entered the third form at the Petit

, 1820–1914, ed. L. R. Fischer and E. W. Sager ([St John’s], 1979), 253–71. Marguerite Woodworth, History of the Dominion Atlantic Railway ([Kentville, N.S.], 1936

of Pierre Rottot, a merchant, and Marie-Marguerite (Mary) Short; m. first 28 May 1849 Sara O’Leary, daughter of James O’Leary, a physician, at Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada, and

. On 11 Jan. 1733 in Louisbourg Villejouin had married Anne, daughter of Louis de Gannes* de Falaise and Marguerite Leneuf de

 Dec. 1858 in Pointe-Lévy (Lévis), Lower Canada, son of Léon Roy and Marguerite Lavoie; m. 26 May 1885 Lucienne Carrier in Lévis; they had no children; d. there 8 May 1913

which carried social status but did not entail any naval responsibilities. Two years later, on 25 November, Deschaillons and his 19-year-old fiancée, Marguerite, daughter of Pierre

’ first wife died in 1705. Having been thwarted in a wish to marry a 17-year-old girl, he married Marguerite Legardeur, daughter of Charles

for Marguerite Allis’s Not without peril, a novel . . . founded on the life and adventures of Jemima Sartwell, one of the first settlers in Vermont (New York, 1941), and for

road to Lachine three miles from Montreal, and he had also been co-owner of the seigneury of La Salle since 1829. By the terms of his will the usufruct of his estate was left to Marguerite, the

Canada, son of Jean-Baptiste Senécal, an innkeeper, and Marie Huet; m. 17 May 1853 Marguerite Labelle in Montreal, and they had several children; d. there 30

marriage, contracted in 1698 with Marguerite Damours, he married the young Marie-Anne de La Porte de Louvigny, who bore him seven children. His family was established at Montreal, and probably Montigny

, Marguerite Maillet et al., édit. (Moncton, 1979). Georges Arsenault, Complaintes acadiennes de l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard ([Montréal], 1980), 119, 123–24, 126–29. René

Marguerite de Noyon [Abigail Stebbins] of Deerfield, Massachusetts. Esther was next taken to Trois-Rivières, where the Ursulines were eager to receive her

, at Montreal, François-Madeleine d’Youville married Marie-Marguerite Dufrost* de Lajemmerais. They had six children

of the two was baptized in 1891 as Joseph-Charles-Honoré-Léon (known as Léon), no doubt in honour of his father and his godfather, Joseph-Charles Beauchamp. His sister Marguerite (Margherita) was born

, Richard Denys de Fronsac, as lieutenant, to be assisted by his mother, Marguerite Lafite. She had married Nicolas Denys on 1 Oct. 1642 in the parish of Sainte-Marguerite, at La Rochelle, and

John Campbell, probably in 1763. His eighth child, Marie-Marguerite (whose mother, also Marie-Marguerite

religious, and she was successful; Jeanne was requested to go to the parlour as often as she thought fit. Other important women wished to make Jeanne’s acquaintance, notably Charlotte-Marguerite de