1864 in Saint John, one of the six children of Henry Jack and Annie Carmichael Johnston; great-grandson of Thomas Millidge* and

), Acadian heroine, wife of Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour; baptized 18

obtaining a large land grant on the Saint John River [see Beamsley Perkins Glasier]. Whether Jadis

was based above all on apprenticeship but was also given at the beginning of the 18th century by the school at Saint-Joachim, near Quebec [see Louis

Sainte-Marie-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce (Sainte-Marie), Canada East, son of Elzéar-Henri Juchereau* Duchesnay, a lawyer and

Maryanna Ludwika Liebermann; d. 4 Aug. 1870 at Saint-Ours, on the Richelieu River, Que. In 1830–31, despite his youth, Alexandre-Édouard

LA ROCQUE (Larocque), CHARLES, Catholic priest, third bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe; b. 15 Nov. 1809

LEFEBVRE, EUGÈNE (Charles-Pierre-Eugène), Roman Catholic priest, Jesuit, and missionary; b. 12 Dec. 1854 in Saint-Guillaume

LESAGE, DAMASE (baptized Damas Hardy), piano manufacturer; b. 28 March 1849 in Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville

POTIER DUBUISSON, ROBERT, subdelegate of the intendant on Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island); b. 14 Dec. 1682 on Staten

fire-ships. A month later, while at Saint-Augustin (Saint-Augustin-de-Québec), he was the victim of an unlucky accident; a French soldier, taking him for an Englishman, fired upon him, hitting him in the

), merchant and bourgeois of Montreal, fur-trader, seigneur, entrepreneur in the Saint-Maurice ironworks; b. 7 Oct. 1692; d. November 1733 in Montreal

in Sainte-Scholastique (Mirabel), Que., son of Wilfrid Prévost, a lawyer and future legislative councillor, and Angélique-Reine Marier; m. 19 Nov. 1895 Gabrielle Gagnon in Montreal, and they

SAINT-PÈRE, AGATHE DE (Legardeur de Repentigny), manufacturer; b. 25 Feb

, Malecite chief; fl. 1775–80 in the Saint John valley (N.B.). During the American revolution the Malecite Indians seemed important to the European

England Elizabeth Wilkey, and they had seven children; d. 15 Jan. 1870 in Saint John, N.B. A potter’s son, Joseph White Jr established a

AUBERT DE GASPÉ, IGNACE-PHILIPPE, officer in the colonial regular troops and seigneur; b. 4 April 1714 at Saint-Antoine-de

BRIEN, JEAN-BAPTISTE-HENRI, physician and Patriote; b. 1816 in Saint-Martin (Laval), Lower Canada

COMPAIN, MARIE-LOUISE, named Saint-Augustin, sister of the

, Pierre, was captain of a slaver and died in Jamaica, a prisoner of the British, during the Seven Years’ War. The second son, Claude, a priest and brilliant teacher, was parish priest of Saint-Pierre in

August 1670 to November 1671 being modelled on the Recollet church in Paris, still extant as the Villemin Military Hospital opposite the Gare de l’Est. In 1692 the Quebec church was sold to Bishop Saint

; b. 16 Oct. 1806 at Saint-Vallier, Lower Canada, daughter of Charles Fisbacht, a day-labourer originally from Luxembourg, and Marie-Geneviève Nadeau; d. 1 Sept. 1885 at Quebec

SAINT-AUBIN, JOSEPH-THOMAS (the name usually appears as simply Joseph Tomah, Toma, Tomer

SHAW, LORETTA LEONARD, teacher, missionary, lecturer, and author; b. 19 July 1872 in Saint John, daughter of Arthur Neville

SÉNÉCAL, JOSEPH-AZARIE, architect and contractor; b. 14 Nov. 1841 in Saint-Marc on the Richelieu, Lower

Charles* and Richard*; d. 20 Feb. 1831 in Portland (Saint John), N.B

Colborne, to lead an expedition against Saint-Denis and Saint-Charles, dissident villages some 20 miles east of Montreal on the Richelieu River, he arrived at Sorel by steamer on 22

River, Lower Canada, son of Timothée-Amable La Rocque and Marie-Angèle Paré; d. 18 Nov. 1887 at Saint-Hyacinthe, Que. Joseph La

; b. 27 Oct. 1846 in Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir (Marieville), Lower Canada, son of Albert Larocque, a farmer, and Geneviève Dagneau; d. 15 Aug. 1926 in Sherbrooke, Que

REGNARD DUPLESSIS, MARIE-ANDRÉE, dite de Sainte-Hélène, Nun Hospitaller

SAINT-PIERRE, TÉLESPHORE, newspaperman and writer; b. 10 July 1869 in

Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; m. 27 Oct. 1808 Susanna (Susan) Harriet Wiggins in Saint John, N.B.; d. 7 Sept. 1847 in Lincoln, N.B. The son of Lemuel

and with a team of young members of his community immediately took charge of the institution for deaf and mute pupils. Located at Coteau-Saint-Louis (also called Saint-Louis-du-Mile-End), it was

ARNOLDI, PHEBE (rebaptized Apolline), named de Sainte-Angèle (Diehl), teacher, shopkeeper, and

Jacques-Cartier (Portneuf County). These activities did not in the end take him away from the logging business, since in 1846 he bought the sawmill on the Rivière Cachée, in the Saint-Maurice region; this

 Sept. 1724 at Montreal. Michel Bruslé entered the noviciate of the Recollets of the province of Saint-Denis when he was 16 and made his profession in

, René Damours received a land grant in Acadia extending along both banks of the Saint John River from Medoctec (Meductic) to Grand-Sault (Grand Falls), a distance of over ninety miles. He devoted less

DAVIS (Device), MARIE-ANNE, dite de Saint-Benoît, English captive, Ursuline; d

Marie Potier; d. 14 April 1784 at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade (La Pérade, Que.). Claude Devau, dit Retor, was banished from France

-Antoine Dorion set up a flourishing lumber business at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade (La Pérade) that assured him a comfortable living. In 1829 the legislature of Lower Canada passed a schools act providing for

Acadia, Placentia (Plaisance), and Île Royale (Cape Breton Island), councillor of the Conseil Supérieur of Île Royale, king’s lieutenant and commandant of Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), knight of

Hazen* Jr and Deborah Murray, a daughter of Colonel John Murray*; d. at Saint John, N.B., 15 Aug. 1874

LE SUEUR, PIERRE, priest, Sulpician, founder of the town of L’Assomption (Que.); b. 28 Feb. 1684 at Saint-Éloi (?), diocese of

Daniel Greysolon* Dulhut’s lieutenant at Fort Saint-Joseph (on the west shore of the St Clair River), he was present when Olivier

ODELIN, JACQUES, Roman Catholic priest and polemicist; b. 5 Aug. 1789 in Saint-Constant, Que., son of

previous year for candidates born in the United States, but he left the Society of Jesus shortly afterwards. Returning to Montreal, he taught for a year at the Collège Sainte-Marie, and asked a second time

RICHARD, LOUIS-EUSÈBE, merchant, legislative councillor; b. 1 March 1817 at Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand (Nicolet), L.C., son of

ROBERT, CLÉMENT, priest, Sulpician, first visitor from Saint-Sulpice to Canada; b. at a date unknown, in the diocese of Angers; d

SAINT-ÉTIENNE DE LA TOUR, CHARLES DE, trader and soldier; b. between 1663 and 1668 at Cape Sable in Acadia; d. 1731 at Louisbourg

Saint-François-Xavier mission at Prairie-de-la-Magdelaine. Tonsahoten had been baptized by Father Léonard