Roupe, the priest in charge of the Saint-Régis mission. Roupe prepared the young cleric for the priesthood and taught him the Mohawk language. During the War of 1812 Marcoux was at the mission

, 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

O’Leary, daughter of Henry O’Leary*, and they had ten children; d. 12 Jan. 1908 in Saint John, N.B

. Jean-Baptiste was born in the family dwelling on Rue du Saint-Sacrement, Montreal, near the house of the Sulpicians, and attended the primary school they ran; he received his classical education from

militia officer; b. 16 Oct. 1764 in Saint-Joachim parish (at Pointe-Claire), Que., son of Joseph Roy, dit Portelance, and Catherine Mallet; d. 2 March 1838 in Kamouraska, Lower

-Baptiste Tabeau, a voyageur and militia captain, and Françoise Prou; d. there 18 May 1835. After studying at the College Saint-Raphaël in

, jp, and judge; b. 26 Nov. 1778 in Sainte-Marie-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce (Sainte-Marie), Que., son of Gabriel-Elzéar

 July 1840 at Saint-Urbain-de-Charlevoix, Lower Canada, son of Olivier Thibeault, a farmer, and Carmelle Tremblay; d. there on 10 Aug. 1881

TRÉMAUDAN, AUGUSTE-HENRI DE, teacher, lawyer, journalist, and man of letters; b. 14 July 1874 in Saint-Jean-Chrysostome (Saint

Forced to abandon his studies because of a heart lesion, de Saint-Denys Garneau (1912–43) became associated with the Roman

area, reportedly looked at the region around Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu where the enterprising seigneur Pierre-Dominique

carvings and other embellishments. These were unfortunately destroyed when the church of Sainte-Famille burned down in 1843. The craftsman, who still called himself a joiner and woodcarver, completed several

), Cleric of St Viator, priest, educator, and administrator; b. 29 March 1826 in Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Rouville, Lower Canada, son of Antoine Drogue, dit Lajoie, a day labourer

the parish of Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier (at Berthierville), son of Charles Nau, a farmer, and Louise Pagé; d. in or after 1843. The Naus

), labourer and legendary figure; b. 17 April 1845 in Saint-Stanislas-de-la-Rivière-des-Envies (Saint-Stanislas), Lower Canada, son of Pierre Ayotte (Ayotte, dit Simon), a farmer, and

(1 Jan. 1696), lieutenant-commander (1 July 1703), commander (25 Nov. 1712), captain (17 March 1727), seigneur; b. 22 Sept. 1674 at Saint-Laurent near Orléans, son of

. 1813 at the mission of Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup (Louiseville), Lower Canada. Attracted to the religious life, Laurent Bertrand entered the

in Sainte-Croix-en-Plaine (dept. of Haut-Rhin), France, son of Jean-Christophore Cailly and Marie-Salomé Duvallier; m. Anne-Marie Volant, niece of Colonel Louis-Ignaz Karrer, by whom he had

; b. and baptized 18 Sept. 1716 at Beaumont (Que.), probably the son of Étienne Carpentier and Marie-Charlotte Blanchon; d. 6 Jan. 1778 at Saint-Nicolas (Que

Daudin* from the Séminaire du Saint-Esprit and Pierre Cassiet from the Séminaire des Missions Étrangères. Daudin was destined to serve the Acadians living under British rule in Nova Scotia, while

the Saint-Jean-Baptiste parade. His early work as an architect on his own, which included several houses built between 1880 and 1885 in Saint-Jean ward and at Saint-Sauveur (Quebec), suggested he was

CÉLORON DE BLAINVILLE, JEAN-BAPTISTE, midshipman, lieutenant, captain, knight of the order of Saint-Louis; baptized 19 Feb

Forillon” in the diocese of Avranches, France, son of Jacques Digé and Jeanne Augé; d. 14 July 1813 in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (La Pocatière), Lower Canada

Robin*] in Percé from 1833 to 1850, before settling in Pointe-Saint-Pierre, where in 1854 he started his own firm, John Fauvel and Company. It is unclear whether William’s mother was the sister of

railway company, but he preferred a post in the Canadas. The report he enclosed for the governor on a proposed canal and railway between Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu) and Chambly to carry goods and

FORESTIER, MARIE, dite de Saint-Bonaventure-de-Jésus, one of the three original Religious Hospitallers of

, meaning friend of the Iroquois, a principal chief of the Abenakis of Saint-François; b. 1719 at the Saint-François-de-Sales mission (Odanak, Que.); d. there 5 May 1798

GIROUARD, GILBERT-ANSELME, merchant and politician; b. 26 Oct. 1846 in Sainte-Marie-de-Kent, N.B., son of Anselme Girouard

Régiment de Piémont at the age of 20 as a second lieutenant. Promoted captain in 1746, he served during the War of the Austrian Succession and in 1755 was made a knight of the order of Saint-Louis. That same

), “État civil (1552–1902),” Mortagne-au-Perche, paroisse Saint-Jean et Saint-Malo, 2 juin 1615; Tourouvre, 18 sept. 1592

. Revisions based on:Arch. Départementales de l’Orne (Alençon, France), “État civil (1552-1902),” Mortagne-au-Perche, paroisse Saint-Jean et Saint-Malo, 1er août 1619

author of the most authentic and remarkable account in English of the Malecites (Etchemins) of the Saint John River. In 1689, when he was nine years of age, he was living with his family at Fort Charles

HERTEL DE SAINT-FRANÇOIS, ÉTIENNE (after the death of his older brother Joseph in

Juchereau* Duchesnay, seigneur of Beauport, and of Marie-Louise Fleury de La Gorgendière; d. 12 May 1871 at Sainte-Marie-de-la-Beauce and buried in the parish church

). The Journal des Jésuites records his arrival under the date 20 Sept. 1646. We know little about his stay in Quebec (1646–48). Early in September 1648 he arrived at Sainte-Marie-des-Hurons

LE COQ (Le Cocq), ROBERT, supervisor of buildings at Sainte-Marie-des-Hurons; d. 20 Aug. 1650 near Trois-Rivières

LE GOUÈS DE SOURDEVAL, SÉBASTIEN, commandant on Île Saint-Pierre; b. 1657 at Bayeux in the lower part of the province of Normandy; d

Sainte-Foy. Pierre-Gabriel Le Prévost’s origins are obscure. According to Cyprien Tanguay

Lesieur-Désaulniers’s maternal grandfather, Augustin Rivard (Rivard-Dufresne), had been one of the two original members for Saint-Maurice in the House of Assembly in 1792, and his father represented the

secondly 24 May 1888 Marie-Antoinette Valois, widow of Eugène Varin; d. 18 Aug. 1917 in Saint-Hilaire (Mont-Saint-Hilaire), Que., and was buried 21 August in Notre-Dame-des-Neiges

Saint-Étienne* de La Tour; d. at Sainte-Foy near Quebec, 19 June 1711. Martin obtained his elementary and theological education from

MASSON, MARC-DAMASE, merchant and businessman; b. 23 Feb. 1805 at Sainte-Geneviève on Montreal Island, L.C

MAUFILS, MARIE-MADELEINE, dite de Saint-Louis, Religious Hospitaller at the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec; baptized 21

Congregation of Notre-Dame and superior of the community (superior general); baptized 30 Dec. 1720 in Montreal (Que.), daughter of Marie-Anne Maugue and Pierre Garreau, dit Saint-Onge; d

Lartigue selected him to teach English at the Collège de Saint-Hyacinthe. There McMahon was able to study theology and learn French. After his ordination to the priesthood in Montreal on 18

NOLIN, JEAN-BAPTISTE, Roman Catholic priest, Jesuit, teacher, and editor; b. 12 July 1849 in Saint-Athanase (Saint-Alexandre

in Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Que., daughter of Jean-Baptiste Noël, a seigneur, and Geneviève Dussaut; d. 17 Nov. 1829 at Quebec

 Nov. 1741 at Quebec. Félix Pain joined the Recollets of the Saint-Denys province in Paris and was ordained about 1692. From 1694 to 1701 he served as

jurisdiction of Montreal, jailer and keeper of the prisons of that town; b. c. 1651, son of Pierre Quesneville, master tailor in the parish of Saint-Nicolas, in the diocese of Rouen, and of Jeanne Saye

RACINE, DOMINIQUE, Roman Catholic priest and bishop; b. 21 Jan. 1828 in the parish of Saint-Ambroise, Jeune