; b. 20 May 1856 in Saint-Jérôme, Lower Canada, son of Abraham Dalaire, a teacher, and Caroline Fresne; m. 5 Sept. 1881 in Sainte-Scholastique (Mirabel), Que., Malvina Filiatrault

ten years old, he was enrolled in the recently founded Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière to begin his secondary education, but he stayed there only three months. He then entered the Petit Séminaire

ATECOUANDO (Jérôme), chief and orator of the Abenaki tribe of Saint-François-de-Sales (Odanak, Que.); fl. 1749–57. There is no

, went to the parish of Sainte-Famille on Île d’Orléans and founded a school. In 1686 she was recalled to Quebec and took part in the founding of the almshouse of La Providence. Bishop Saint-Vallier

. Baudrand took up residence in Saint-Hilaire parish (at Mont-Saint-Hilaire), where he became curate on 4 December. In August 1842 he moved to the Oblates’ new house at Longueuil, where he remained

at Saint-Georges d’Oléron (dept of Charente-Maritime), France, son of Jean Berbudeau, master surgeon, and Marie-Anne Duvivier; d. 4 Jan. 1792 at the hamlet of Saint-Antoine in the parish

, parish priest of Saint-Timothée de Beauharnois, Saint-Polycarpe, and Sainte-Elizabeth de Joliette, he returned to the seminary of Nicolet as bursar for the period 1836 to 1840. In particular he sought to

at the siege of Gibraltar, and later as adjutant of the coastal defence batteries at Saint-Malo. In 1706 he sailed on the Dauphine and campaigned brilliantly in the English Channel and the

of Sarthe), France, son of François Cherrier, a merchant, and Périnne Isambart; d. 21 July 1793 at Saint-Denis, on the Richelieu River (Que

Collège Saint-Raphaël in Montreal (Que.); b. 17 March 1737 in Meung, France, son of Guillaume Chicoisneau and Hélène Gaulthier; d. 28 Feb. 1818 in Montreal, Lower Canada

. Following his ordination Conefroy spent four years in the parish of Saints-Anges at Lachine. In 1781 he became parish priest of Saint-Joachim, Pointe-Claire. There he established a convent of sisters of the

helped his father to test the quality of the iron extracted from the mines along the Rivière Saint-Maurice which François Poulin

CORON, CHARLES-FRANÇOIS, organist (?), tailor, royal notary; b. 21 Dec. 1704 at Saint-François-de-Sales (Laval, Que

Marguerite-Madeleine de Gannes de Falaise; m. 19 Feb. 1758 at Louisbourg Jeanne Loppinot, and they had six children; d. 28 Oct. 1789 at Saint-Marc (Haiti

, since their one child had lived only a month, she wanted to carry on her husband’s work. He had left her all his fortune, including the family house in Rue Saint-Paul in Montreal and a 160-acre farm in

DENYS DE SAINT-SIMON, CHARLES-PAUL, provost marshal; b. 31 Jan. 1688 at Quebec, son of Paul

DESJORDY MOREAU DE CABANAC, FRANÇOIS (Sourdy), knight of the order of Saint-Louis, commandant of Fort Frontenac, 1696, commandant of

. 1727 in the parish of Saint-Solenne at Blois, France, son of Pierre-Jacques Druillon, lieutenant-general for the bailiwick of Blois, and Marie Bachaddelebat; m. 1769 Marie-Anne Petit de Thoizy at Blois

headquarters to Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan (Saint-Jacques) the previous year. When her three-year term expired, she was appointed to the mission the sisters were about to establish in Victoria, Vancouver Island

the subdiaconate, the diaconate, and the priesthood in succession on 8, 12, and 18 September. He is believed to have been appointed to the parish of Saint-Joseph-de-Lanoraie shortly afterwards

HAMEL, PIERRE, Roman Catholic priest, Jesuit, teacher, and superior; b. 23 Feb. 1832 in Sainte-Claire-de-Dorchester

JUCHEREAU DE LA FERTÉ, JEANNE-FRANÇOISE, dite de Saint-Ignace, superior of the Religious Hospitallers of the

, Scotland; d. 22 Feb. 1868 in Saint John, N.B. William Boyd Kinnear’s Anglo-Irish, Anglican, loyalist background guaranteed him a role

 Aug. 1721 in Montreal (Que.), son of Jean-Baptiste-René Legardeur de Repentigny and Marie-Catherine Juchereau de Saint-Denis; d. 11 Oct. 1786 in Paris, France

the order of Saint-Louis; b. c. 1670 in the parish of Saint-Benoît in Paris, son of Pierre Mariauchau d’Esgly, a lawyer in the parlement, and of Élisabeth Groën; buried 10 Jan

MICHAUD, JOSEPH (baptized François-Xavier-Joseph), Roman Catholic priest; b. 1841 in Saint-Basile, N.B., son of

. 18 Sept. 1884 in Saint-Placide, Que., son of Théophile Miller, a cobbler, and Éléonore (Léonard) Ladouceur; m. 12 July 1908 Albertine Maillé in the Montreal parish of Saint-Jacques, and

 March 1867 at Fredericton, N. B. Whatever early education McLeod received was at Penobsquis, for he moved to Saint John as a young man and

PARTELOW, JOHN RICHARD, merchant and politician; b. 1796 at Saint John, N.B., son of a shoemaker, Jehiel Partelow; m. in

Taschereau*, a member of the Legislative Council, in Sainte-Marie-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce (Sainte-Marie), Lower Canada, and they had eight children; d. 19 March 1827 at Quebec and was buried

mechanical skills and gaining valuable experience in business. By the latter year he was ready to move to a larger centre, and established himself in Saint John, N.B., where for the next three years he

Edmund Barnard. He was called to the bar of Lower Canada in 1859 and then went into partnership with his colleague Benjamin-Antoine Testard de Montigny, opening a law office on Rue Saint-Vincent in

. Cléophas Rochette came to live at Quebec when he was about 20. Like his brothers, Gaspard and Olivier, he established himself on Rue Saint-Vallier and went into the tanning business. In 1871 his tannery

. In 1777 Jacques-Guillaume Roque entered the Séminaire de Saint-Charles in Toulouse, where he did all his theological studies. Subsequently he obtained a doctorate in canon law from the Université de

the cathedral of Notre-Dame at Quebec the day after he was born. Less than a year later his mother died, and he spent his childhood with his father in their house on Rue Saint-Georges (Rue Hébert) and

grants in their proposed new home [see Abijah Willard*]. Sayre received a grant in Parrtown (Saint John, N.B.), where he ministered to

of Charles Tarride Duhaget and Antoinette de Saint-Thairau (Saint-Turine, Saint-Chéran); m. 29 Sept. 1737 at Louisbourg, Île Royale (Cape Breton Island), Marguerite, sister of Gabriel

-Saint-Louis (Caughnawaga) mission, where the Desauniers sisters, Marie-Madeleine, Marie-Anne, and Marguerite, had been running a store since 1726. They were suspected of smuggling with the English in

. 1796 in Aberdeen, Scotland; m. 15 Jan. 1823 in Saint John, N.B., Jane Heaviside, daughter of Thomas Heaviside, lumber merchant, and sister of Mary

larger supplies of raw materials, in 1893 he had bought the pulp factory in Saint-Jérôme set up by the Delisles (probably the sons of Alexandre-Maurice

in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Laval), Que. Having received his early schooling in Trois-Rivières, Joseph-Hyacinthe Bellerose attended the Séminaire

. 1744/45 in Newtown, Conn., son of Gideon Botsford, “a respectable farmer,” and Bertha Bennett; m. 1770 Sarah Chandler, and they had three children; d. 14 Sept. 1812 in Saint John, N.B

Lefebvre*]. In 1873, his studies completed, he entered the noviciate of the Congregation of Holy Cross in Saint-Laurent, near Montreal. He taught for two years at the Collège Notre-Dame in Côte-des

Saint-Ambroise (Loretteville), Lower Canada; d. 7 Jan. 1818 at Quebec. Jean-Baptiste Bédard’s career as a carpenter began in 1782, when

 1901 in Sherbrooke, Que., and was buried there 12 June in Saint-Michel cemetery. Young Hubert-Charron Cabana did the classical program at the

La Salle at Fort Frontenac (Cataracoui, now Kingston, Ont.), holder of the trading concession of Saint-Louis-des-Illinois, captain, manager, and commandant at Detroit; b. c

, and politician; b. 8 March 1857 in Saint-Norbert, Lower Canada, son of Dieudonné Denys, a farmer, and Odile Masse; m. first there 21 Jan. 1879 Georgiana Laporte (d. 21 Feb

charge of a company. He received the cross of Saint-Louis in 1742, and from that year to 1745, during the War of the Austrian Succession, commanded the artillery of the Marine in Flanders. He carried out

 Jan. 1847 in Rivière-du-Loup-en-Haut (Louiseville) Lower Canada, son of David Desrosiers, a tanner, and Marguerite Godin; m. first around 1872, in the United States, Agnès Méthot of Saint-Antoine

expedition to the “western sea.” Dufrost joined the army at a young age, serving at Fort Saint-Philippe des Miamis beginning in 1723 and then at Fort Beauharnois as of 1727. Between 1731 and 1736 he