Dublin, which they took with them [see the bibliography for a note on O’Toole]. At the beginning of 1613 he was appointed to take charge of the new mission (Saint-Sauveur) planned by Antoinette de

Church Point, Digby County, N.S. John Joseph Quinan was one of at least three brothers who entered the priesthood. A promising student at Saint Mary’s

a short voyage of exploration to the south of that place. At the end of August Ralluau was sent back to France to report the successful founding of the colony on Île Sainte-Croix (Dochet Island) to de

Saint-Boniface, Man. Alfred Henry Scott was a resident of the Red River Settlement in Winnipeg from 1869 to 1872. He worked as a barkeeper in the saloon

; fl. 1838–45. Emily Elizabeth Shaw’s father was a sea captain who in his brig Amaryllis made numerous voyages between Belfast and Saint John

also presided over the Court of the Sessions of the Peace for the district of Saint-François. During the 1850 by-election in Sherbrooke County (which

Saint-Joachim; b. 14 May 1652 at Quebec, son of Pierre Soumande, master maker of edge tools, and of Simone Côté; brother of

Richard Denys offered a piece of ground for a mission. He remained there for three years, receiving the visit of Bishop Saint-Vallier

and cardboard. It was as a miniature painter that he advertised himself in the New-Brunswick Courier on 21 April 1838. Emphasizing that he would be in Saint John for a short time only

Charlotte-Françoise Juchereau* de Saint-Denis, daughter of Nicolas Juchereau de Saint-Denis

VIGNAL (Vignar, Vignard, Vignart), GUILLAUME, priest, Sulpician, chaplain to the Ursulines of Quebec, bursar of the seminary of Saint

, sect.C, 26. PANS, Community Records, Truro Township book, 107. Daily Sun (Saint John, N.B.), 30 Aug. 1878. Daily Telegraph (Saint John, N.B.), 30 Aug. 1878

, and on 26 Aug. 1752 he was ordained priest. Two years later he was appointed parish priest at Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-de-Lévy. In July 1759 Major John Dalling took him prisoner during a

, publisher, and printer; b. 30 May 1832 in Saint-Roch parish, at Quebec, son of Jean-Baptiste Côté and Hélène Grenier; m. first 8 Sept. 1856 Marie Auger, daughter of Jacques Auger and Marie

Plessis*, the bishop of Quebec, sent him to the Odanak mission and the parish of Saint-François-du-Lac to assist curé Jacques Paquin and to learn the Abenaki language

Baillairgé, and Marie-Louise Parent; m. there 24 Nov. 1789 Marie-Louise Cureux, dit Saint-Germain, and they had seven children; d. there 9 Dec. 1812

, organist, professor, and engineer; b. 28 Feb. 1852 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada, son of Louis-Zéphirin Duval, a notary, and Éléonore Verreau; d. unmarried 23 July 1917 in

GIGAULT, GEORGE (Georges)-AUGUSTE, notary, politician, and civil servant; b. 23 Nov. 1845 in Saint-Mathias, Lower Canada

tonsured 9 Aug. 1699 by Bishop Saint-Vallier [La Croix*], and received the minor orders on

HERTEL DE SAINT-FRANÇOIS, JOSEPH-HIPPOLYTE (called the Chevalier

, near Trois-Rivières, oldest son of François Lefebvre Duplessis Faber and Madeleine Chorel de Saint-Romain, dit d’Orvilliers; d. 20 July 1762 in Rochefort, France

. The eldest boy in a family of 18, Zéphirin Paquet did not go to school. Hired at the age of 14 by a farmer in his village, he began working for a dairy in the faubourg Saint-Jean at Quebec

him the post of port captain at the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, and there he re-established himself. RODRIGUE

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

community in Montreal. She was one of the sisters who on 25 June 1698 officially accepted the rules prescribed by Bishop Saint-Vallier

whom he had two daughters; d. 12 Aug. 1872 in London, Eng.) made a modest beginning in the shipping industry. They apprenticed to the Saint John, New Brunswick, shipbuilder, George Thomson

probably b. on that day) in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, Lower Canada, son of Jean-Baptiste Garneau, a physician, and Nathalie Rinfret, dit Malouin; m. first 24 Oct. 1870 Élodie

, author, and civil servant; b. 24 Nov. 1833 in Sainte-Rose (Laval), Lower Canada, son of Antoine Labelle, a shoemaker, and Angélique Maher; d. 4 Jan. 1891 at Quebec and was buried four

particular of Montreal. Arriving in that city in 1826, he took lodgings in a boarding-house on Rue Saint-Gabriel which was frequented by rich merchants from the Chambly River region, including Eustache Soupras

 March 1875 in the parish of Saint-Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur, Saint-Hyacinthe, Que., son of Honoré Mercier* and Virginie Saint-Denis; m. 21

operation of her late husband’s ice business in Saint John and built it into a major commercial enterprise. On her retirement in 1900, a local newspaper referred to her unusual position as a successful female

. 1782 on Île aux Grues, Que., eldest son of François Painchaud, a seaman, and Angélique Drouin; d. 9 Feb. 1838 in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (La Pocatière), Lower Canada

churches in Saint John and conducted a children’s mission. (The Reverend Cecil Caldbeck Owen of Holy Trinity said of him that “perhaps his greatest strength lies in his particular gift with

bachelor of 50 who resided in the elegant faubourg Saint-Antoine and who made his living dealing in apples. Despite the difference in their ages, the marriage was a happy one, but it lasted

awarded the cross of Saint-Louis while on leave in France in 1754. In 1758 he was wounded in the chest during the second siege of Louisbourg. Back in

BEAUSOLEIL, CLÉOPHAS, journalist, publisher, office holder, lawyer, and politician; b. 19 June 1845 in Saint-Félix-de-Valois

BESSETTE, ARSÈNE (baptized Moïse-Arsène), journalist and writer; b. 20 Dec. 1873 in Saint-Hilaire (Mont

 Aug. 1797 at Saint-Laurent, near Montreal (Que.). Like many other Acadians, Joseph-Mathurin Bourg, along with his family, was deported from Nova

BRESSE, GUILLAUME, boot and shoe manufacturer and politician; b. 2 Feb. 1833 in Saint-Mathias near Chambly

Picardy. At the time of his birth his parents were employed as servants in a large house on Rue Saint-Eustache in Paris. Treated generously by their master, they lived respectably. In his childhood Jean

. 1854 in Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval, Lower Canada, son of Charles De Lamarre, a sailor and then a farmer, and Luce Laroche; d. 21 April 1925 in Chicoutimi, Que

Bourdon*, Sieur de Dombourg; d. 7 Feb. 1711 at Rochefort, France, and was buried there the following day in the original church of Saint-Louis

. 5 Dec. 1793 in Sainte-Anne-de-Bout-de-Île (Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue), Lower Canada, son of François Dumoulin and Louise Cressé; d. 27 July 1853 in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada

 Sept. 1858 Amira Donaldson Turnbull, sister of William Wallace Turnbull*, in Saint John, N.B., and they had eight children, five of

HÉBERT, NICOLAS-TOLENTIN, priest and colonizer; b. 10 Sept. 1810 at Saint-Grégoire (now part of Bécancour

 March 1868 in Quebec City, son of Jean-Pierre-Célestin Paquet, a merchant, and Marie-Louise Noël; m. there first 5 July 1892 Mathilda Cloutier in the parish of Saint-Roch, and they had ten

Marguerite Péroine; d. 26 Sept. 1749 at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade (Que.). According to his own testimony Yves Phlem grew up at Morlaix, where

DUCHARME, CHARLES-JOSEPH, Roman Catholic priest, educator, and founder of the Petit Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse; b. 10 Jan

Provinciales; b. 27 Dec. 1875 in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (La Pocatière), Que., daughter of Barthelemi Anctil, a farmer, and Zélie Pelletier; d. unmarried 4 Dec. 1926 in Montreal

in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Lower Canada, son of Jean-Baptiste Chartier and Marie-Geneviève Picard Destroimaisons; d. 6 July 1853 at Quebec