SALLABERRY (Salaberry), MICHEL DE, naval officer, shipowner; b. 4 July 1704 in the parish of Saint-Vincent, Ciboure
Gazette and the New Brunswick Advertiser, at Saint John on 11 October. His appointment was resented by William Lewis
merchant, and Marie-Anne Grougnard; d. 15 Dec. 1810 in Saint-Vallier, Lower Canada.
Unlike his father and two of his brothers, François
Providence (Sister of Providence); b. 3 Dec. 1824 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada, daughter of Jean-François Têtu and Cécile Chabot; d. 22 Nov. 1891 in Longue-Pointe (Montreal
VACHON, PAUL, priest, chaplain of the chapter of Quebec, parish priest of Sainte-Madeleine-du-Cap; b. at Beauport and
, Massachusetts, daughter of John Williams* and Eunice Mather; d. 26 Nov. 1785 at Sault-Saint-Louis (Caughnawaga, Que
service in London on 28 May 1826. He served in Montserrat and St Christopher until July 1829 when he was transferred to Saint John, N.B. His ministry in New Brunswick was
inherited in 1795. The next year Wurtele added to his property by buying a house on Rue Saint-Louis and obtaining the grant of a lot on that street from the Ursulines. In 1799 he paid £500 for his brother’s
, trimmed and ready for shipping, to the mouth of the Saint John River. Davidson’s proposal was encouraged but he received no financial support because rebel activities in the area made the venture risky
; m. 2 Nov. 1864 Mary Caroline Babbitt in Fredericton, and they had at least six sons, one of whom died young, and two daughters; d. 10 July 1913 in Saint John
GUENET, MARIE, dite de Saint-Ignace, Hospitaller of the Augustine order; b. 28 Oct. 1610 at
of William Hay and Eliza Fahy; m. 20 Dec. 1876 Frances Annetta Hartt, sister of Charles Frederick Hartt*, in Saint John
under the Jesuits at the Petit Séminaire de Sainte-Anne in Auray, Félix Martin, inspired by his teachers and his elder brother Arthur, entered the noviciate at Montrouge, near Paris, in 1823; he
senator; b. 2 Jan. 1815 at Verchères, Lower Canada, son of Pierre Roland, a farmer, and Euphrasine Donay; m. 7 Oct. 1839 Esther Boin at Saint-Laurent, near Montreal, Lower Canada, and
that engaged in manufacturing and banking. After classical studies at Angers and a year of philosophy with the Sulpicians in Nantes, he entered the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Paris, at the same time
the village of Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Montreal), at the corner of Rue Saint-Laurent and the future Avenue du Mont-Royal. By about 1867 he had turned the operation into a wholesale wine, spirits, and
Jan. 1818 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada, eldest son of Jean Dessaulles*, a seigneur, and Marie-Rosalie Papineau; m. there 4 Feb
and the Saint John River. Also on board were Alden’s son, William, and the Boston merchant John Nelson. At the Saint John River, their vessel was captured by the French frigate, Soleil d
, military commandant, knight of the order of Saint-Louis, naval captain; baptized 15 Oct. 1662 in the La Grois house at Ingrandes (Ingrandes-sur-Vienne, France) (the ceremony was completed in the La Grois
Compagnie de l’Île Saint-Jean; b. 8 Jan. 1669 at Quebec and baptized there the next day; d. during the night of 27–28 Aug. 1725 at sea off Île Royale (Cape Breton Island
BOUTET DE SAINT-MARTIN, MARTIN (referred to, indiscriminately, as Boutet and Saint-Martin), first lay-teacher at Quebec, fosterer of
BRENDAN (Bréanainn), SAINT, Irish abbot and missionary, traditionally connected with voyages westward towards North America and
construction of Fort Saint-Louis on the Richelieu Rapids and took part in Prouville de Tracy’s
Hurons” there. Father Le Jeune went to join them on 21 July. On 12 August Chastellain reached Ihonatiria (Saint-Joseph I), where on 24 September he was stricken with purpura
DANEAU DE MUY, CHARLOTTE, dite de Sainte-Hélène, Ursuline, annalist; b. 23 Nov. 1694 at
Louisiana; b. at Saint-Omer in the province of Artois, France; d. 1726 in the parish of his birth.
Abbé Albert Davion arrived in Quebec on 24
of Saint-Martin à Puceul, France, son of Pierre Dugué de La Boulardière and of Perrine de Chambellé; buried in 1688.
Entering the army as
attended the Petit Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse and then the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe, which he entered in 1850. After completing his classical studies at the Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal, he became
at Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Nicolet. After studying law at Quebec in the firm of Andrew Stuart* and Henry
.
After the return of Home to Scotland, Forrester took charge of the colony. In 1632, following the signing of the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, which transferred the country to France, Alexander sent
the parish of Saint-Sauveur in La Rochelle; d. 31 July 1720 at Montreal.
On the strength of some entries in account-books of the
GERMAIN, CÉSAIRE, notary and school inspector; b. in 1808 at Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Laval), L.C., son of Jean-Baptiste
, daughter of Joseph Gerrish*; m. Mary Thomas, and they had one son; d. 18 Feb. 1854 in Saint John, N.B
Bigot* a notary’s commission to practise in the parishes on the north shore in the government of Quebec, from Pointe-aux-Trembles (Neuville) to the seigneury of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade; some weeks
, dite de Saint-Ignace, the superior and annalist of the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec.
He received a remarkable education for the time, and went in for
LAGIER, LUCIEN-ANTOINE, priest, Oblate of Mary Immaculate, preacher; b. 4 Oct. 1814 at Saint-André-d’Embrun
LE GALLO, MARIE, named Marie de Sainte-Élisabeth, founder and provincial superior of the Daughters of Jesus in Canada
Breton Island), Louisiana, Saint-Domingue (Hispaniola), and Martinique before accompanying his father to New France in 1724 on a mission to survey its potential for ship masts and timber. Two years later
Levasseur* and one of the founders of the Confrérie de Sainte-Anne, at the parish church of Quebec.
In 1648, in Paris, he married Marguerite Richard
Paul de Beaucour), soldier, painter; baptized in 1700 in the parish of Saint-Eustache in Paris, France; m. on 25 June 1737 Marguerite Haguenier in
at Saint-Sébastien de Nancy, in the duchy of Lorraine, son of Pascal Marcol, provost of Nancy, and Catherine Lorson; d. 17 Oct. 1755 at Quebec
*.
In the spring of 1694 Martel began, with Baptiste, to clear a homestead on the Saint John River, opposite Fort Nashwaak (Naxouat). Though in 1695 he reportedly undertook improvements “with great care
MERLAC, ANDRÉ-LOUIS DE, a young priest whom Bishop Saint-Vallier
Simon Denys from their posts at Cape Breton, claiming that these were on lands controlled by the d’Aulnay estate. In July of 1651 she had her steward (intendant), Brice de Sainte-Croix
-Baptiste Saint-Mars or Saint-Marc. He worked at his craft in this one-storey wooden house on Rue Saint-Joseph (now Saint-Sulpice) until 1730, when he sold the property. In 1731 he employed Jacques Dache
Dussault, in Peachy et Dussault. Throughout his career Peachy had his business premises and residence on Rue Saint-Jean except for a brief period in 1876, when his office was at the corner of Rue Sainte-Anne
introduced as early as 1713; b. 28 June 1657 at Sainte-Anne de Beaupré, son of Georges Pelletier (baptized 1624 at Dieppe); Georges had come to New France in 1652 and married in 1656 Catherine
name of Sieur de Saint-Maurice; Jean-Baptiste*, Sieur de Courval, born 15 Jan. 1657; Marguerite, who married François
, editor, university administrator, and author; b. 7 Jan. 1846 in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Lower Canada, son of Jean-Baptiste Proulx, dit Clément, and Adéline Lauzon; d. 1 March