at Quebec, son of Joseph Girouard and Marie-Anne Baillairgé; d. 18 Sept. 1855 in Saint-Benoît (Mirabel), Lower Canada. Jean-Joseph

Thubières]; b. c. 1634 in Paris, in the parish of Saint-Sulpice; d. some time after 1693 in France. Allet

(Que.), son of Pierre Blais and Françoise Baudoin; d. 5 Sept. 1783 at Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud (Saint-Pierre-Montmagny, Que

name first appears in a notary’s minute-book in 1721, when he was building the foundations for a square-timbered house on Rue Saint-Flavien in Quebec. He was then still a minor and had to have his

Saint-Hilaire. He had a fortune which allowed him to give his eight children a private education in French, English, and deportment. As the children grew up, Victor Gadbois kept them informed of his

Lower Canada. He instructed her to take up residence at Saint-Laurent on Montreal Island. When the superior arrived in 1849, the community consisted of 19 sisters, 13 of whom were Canadian; when she left

GOSSELIN, CLÉMENT, carpenter and army officer; b. 12 June 1747 in Sainte

, advancing more than 21,500 livres to traders travelling to Detroit, to the Lake Michigan area, and to Louisiana. In 1731 he was directing his fur-trading interests from his Montreal home on Rue Saint

mission was abandoned in 1650. In March 1649 he helped to bring from Saint-Ignace to Sainte-Marie the remains of the martyrs Jean de

Sainte-Croix to explore the coastal region inhabited by the Armouchiquois in what is now the state of Maine, Panounias and his wife, an Armouchiquois, were engaged as interpreters and guides. This

the Hôpital Général of Quebec; b. 18 Dec. 1680 at Sainte-Famille, Île d’Orléans, son of Claude Plante and Marie Patenotre; d. 20 March 1744 in Quebec

of Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs in Paris; d. and buried 17 Jan. 1756 at Batiscan in the government of Trois-Rivières. We have little information

Saint-Gervais, Lower Canada. Nothing has been discovered of the early part of François Quirouet’s life. Since he had the same given name as his father

Léocadie Tremblay; d. 14 Sept. 1915 in Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville (Sainte-Thérèse), Que., and was buried three days later in the crypt of the cathedral of Saint-Jacques in Montreal

SAINT-OURS DESCHAILLONS, JEAN-BAPTISTE DE, officer in the colonial regular troops, king’s

SECOUDON (Secondon, Chkoudun), sagamo or chieftain of all the Saint John River Indians when

; b. at the end of 1722 or the beginning of 1723 at Sainte-Menehould, France, son of Claude Aumasson de Courville, an officer, and Judith de Chevreau; m. 6 June 1752 Marie-Anne, daughter

BERNARD, NOËL (Bernard Noel, Nuel Benar, Neville Bernard), Malecite leader; fl. 1781–1801 in the Saint John valley of New Brunswick

English school, and four years later he entered the Petit Séminaire de Québec. In 1827 Louis-Édouard was sent to the new Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière to finish his classical education; he then

Saint-Pierre, Ursuline, superior; b. 19 Aug. 1676 at Boucherville, Quebec, daughter of Pierre Boucher*, seigneur of

following autumn he was appointed parish priest of Nicolet. Brassard also had to serve an area including the present-day parishes of Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand and Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre. He ceased

December 1800 Pierre Bureau put an advertisement in the Quebec Gazette “to inform the Public, particularly Gentlemen travelling,” that at his house in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade (La Pérade) they could

Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets (Les Becquets), Lower Canada, fifteenth child of Joseph Chandonnais, a farmer, and Angèle Bibeau; d. 5 June 1881 in Montreal, Que

Dufy Charest control. Fearing that Charly Saint-Ange would misuse his authority, their guardian and trustee Pierre Trottier

-Vaudreuil, and Josephte Fraser, daughter of Judge John Fraser*; d. 19 Dec. 1880 at Quebec and buried at Saint-François-de-la-Beauce

February and March 1703 he served at Saint-François de Sales, on Île Jésus. Father Constantin was at Montreal in 1706. He served at Longueuil and was

Patrick Corrigan and Grace McNult, all born in Ireland; m. Catherine Mortin (Moreton), and they had two sons and a daughter; d. 19 Oct. 1855 in Saint-Sylvestre, Lower Canada, and was

Couillard*, Sieur de Lespinay, and of Geneviève Després; buried 15 May 1728 at Saint-Pierre du Sud. Louis Couillard de Lespinay gradually built

CREVIER DE SAINT-FRANÇOIS, JEAN, fur-trader, a prominent person in the colony; baptized 3 April 1642 at Trois-Rivières, son of

CUROT (Curaux), MARIE-LOUISE, dite de Saint-Martin, hospital nun of the

DAVANNE, MARGUERITE, named de Saint-Louis de Gonzague, Ursuline

1903 in Saint-Sauveur ward at Quebec, son of Léandre Demeule and Lumina Bérubé; d. there 1 April 1918. Little is known about Georges

DESJARDINS, FRANÇOIS-XAVIER, merchant and Patriote; b. c. 1802, probably at Saint-Benoît, Lower Canada, son

1692 at the convent of Sainte-Marguerite, near Gisors. Exupère Dethunes joined the Recollets of the province of Saint-Denis in 1665. On 28 May

at Crossac, commune of Sainte-Sigolème, dept of Haute-Loire, France, son of François Deléage and Jeanne Romeyer, farmers; d. 1 Aug. 1884 at Ottawa, Ont

 June 1850 at Saint-Cuthbert, Canada East, son of Dr Charles Fafard and Tersile (Alexine) Olivier; d. 2 April 1885 at Frog Lake (Alta

 Feb. 1909 in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Que. Arthur Farrell was the fourth in a family of eight. Since his father was a merchant

” of the Hospice Saint-Joseph in Montreal. At the prompting of Sulpician Benjamin-Victor

; b. 3 April 1840 in Saint-Pie, Lower Canada, son of Pierre Gendreau, a blacksmith, and Adelaïde Normandin; d. 11 Sept. 1918 in Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Que

commissioner he had to pit himself against the bishop of Quebec concerning the burial of one of his religious. The trouble began on 11 Dec. 1688, when Bishop Saint-Vallier

, Louis Plichon, dit Saint-Louis, and Pierre Dinan, dit Saint-Étienne, were among settlers granted lots of three arpents frontage on the so-called south shore by the commandant

GODEFROY DE SAINT-PAUL, JEAN-AMADOR, esquire, interpreter, captain of the Trois-Rivières militia, fur-trader, seigneur; baptized at

 June 1830 at Saint-Denis, on the Richelieu, Lower Canada, and was buried 23 June 1830 at William Henry (Sorel). Pierre Guerout was born

, N.B.; m. thirdly 2 Dec. 1869 Catherine Anna Clark in Saint John, N.B.; he was survived by three sons and two daughters; d. 15 Feb. 1903 in Saint John

appointed to teach philosophy at Angers, did his year of solitude (noviciate) at Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, in 1789, and was admitted into the Society of Saint-Sulpice. He became a teacher of dogmatics

to facilitate her admission; they had agreed to give only 2,500 livres for her sister, Geneviève de Saint-Augustin, who had entered the convent four years earlier. When a novice made her

Quebec he went to the mission at Lorette to help Father Pierre-Daniel Richer and to learn the Huron and Iroquois languages. In 1718 he was sent as a missionary to Sault-Saint-Louis (Caughnawaga), where he

LE FEVRE, FRANÇOIS, priest, Sulpician, superior of the seminary of Saint-Sulpice in New France, grand vicar of the bishop of Quebec

ordination is 1756. There is some evidence to suggest that he may have been a member of the Congrégation du Saint-Esprit. Other than that, there is no information available concerning his upbringing or

LEE, GEORGE HERBERT, lawyer and historian; b. 8 April 1854 in Portland (Saint John), N.B., son of the Reverend Charles