the garrison of Trois-Rivières. At the time of the Lachine massacre (3 Aug. 1689) he was at Pointe-Saint-Charles. On 17 June 1690 he married at Pointe-aux-Trembles (near Montreal) a girl of
. 1700 in Paris.
Hyacinthe Perrault joined the Recollets of the province of Saint-Denis in 1670. When his theological studies were finished, his superiors
half later, in 1853, he left this post to found a newspaper in Saint John, the Saint John Free Press. When that failed in 1854 he went back to preaching, lecturing, and writing, particularly for
Jane Hayward; m. first 6 Jan. 1876 Frances (Fannie) Jane Parks (d. 1914) in Saint John, and they had three sons and two daughters; m. secondly 1915 Gertrude Macdonald (d. 1963
PÉLISSIER, CHRISTOPHE (the name was sometimes written Pellissier), king’s scrivener and director of the Saint-Maurice
Congrégation de Notre-Dame on 7 March 1688. She died on 5 Oct. 1691.
Saint Miriam of the Temple
. 10 April 1848 in Saint-Pierre, Île d’Orléans, Lower Canada, son of Jacques Roberge, a farmer, and Scholastique Côté; d. 25 March 1924 in Montreal
Phips on 21 May. Villebon decided to make his headquarters on the Saint John River, to which they sailed three days later. On 30 June the Union was attacked by two privateers
, dite de Tous-les-Saints, Hospitaller, first Indian girl to enter the religious life; b. 1642; d. 3 Nov. 1657 at Quebec
Juchereau Duchesnay, in Beauport, Que.; d. 18 Sept. 1809 in Sainte-Marie-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce (Sainte-Marie), Lower Canada
.
Jean-Baptiste Thavenet entered the Séminaire de Bourges in 1782 and was ordained priest in 1789. In May 1785 he had been admitted into the Society of Saint-Sulpice to do his solitude (noviciate) in
Saint-Constant, Que., and baptized at Saint-Philippe-de-Laprairie, Que., son of Pierre Viau, a farmer, and Marie-Josephte Barrette; d. 13 June 1849 in Montreal
VILLEDONNÉ, ÉTIENNE DE, esquire, captain in the colonial regular troops, commandant at Fort Saint-Joseph, 1722–26; b. in Paris, c
. 24 May 1756 at the Saint-François-de-Sales mission (Odanak, Que.).
Joseph Aubery at 17 years of age entered the Collège Louis-le-Grand in
professor; b. 22 Sept. 1853 in Saint-Gervais, Lower Canada, son of Magloire Gonthier, a farmer, and Catherine Mitron-Jolivet; d. 16 June 1917 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Que
. 25 Dec. 1798 at Saint John, New Brunswick.
Elias Hardy, the son of a nonconformist minister, read law and in 1770 was admitted as a solicitor
, newspaper owner, and politician; b. 4 Nov. 1852 in Saint-Jérôme, Lower Canada, son of Guillaume Nantel and Adélaïde Desjardins; d. 3 June 1909 in Montreal
in Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne (Terrebonne), Lower Canada, son of Émilien Vanier, a baker, and Lucie Soucisse (Soucie); m. first 11 July 1881 Olivine Pariseau (d. 29 July 1929) in the
, would note in 1932 that Charles Huot was said to have demonstrated talent for drawing very early on, copying landscapes from a book his father had given him. Charles entered the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de
secretary before being sent in August or September 1806 to assist Vicar General François Cherrier* at Saint-Denis, on the Richelieu. Cherrier
. 1804 in Saint-Grégoire (Bécancour), Lower Canada, son of Jean Prince, a farmer, and Rosalie Bourg; d. 5 May 1860 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada
Béarn. He was in addition a knight of the order of Saint-Louis.
D’ Alquier took part in several combats with his battalion. The Marquis de
in society. Apart from occasional stays in England (particularly in 1812 and 1816), Elizabeth lived mainly at Quebec, first on Rue Saint-Louis, and then from 1818 on Rue des Carrières. The
ANDRÉ, LOUIS, Jesuit priest and missionary; b. 28 May 1631 at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France; d. 19
the dogs and, assuming that the missing animals had been carried off in a boat, went down to the Saint John River. As the incident was later reported, they called on two Indians in a canoe to stop: “You
BOULLÉ, HÉLÈNE, dite de Saint-Augustin (Champlain), founder of the Ursulines of Meaux (France); b. 1598
BOURDON, ANNE, dite de Sainte-Agnès, first Canadian-born superior of the Ursulines in New
CHAMPY, GÉLASE, priest, Recollet, provincial commissioner; b. 1657 at Sézanne; d. 1 Dec. 1738 at Saint
; 11 July 1867. PRO, CO 193/25–48, blue books, 1842–65. PANB, J. C. and H. B. Graves, “New Brunswick political biography” (copy at UNBL). Daily Morning News (Saint John, N.B
; buried 4 July 1750 at Berthieren-Bas (Montmagny, Que.).
Michel Chartier married Catherine Chamberland at Saint-François, Île d’Orléans, on 11
several such descriptions. In the autumn of 1677, at the Saint-François-Xavier mission (Kahnawake, Que.) to the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee), he welcomed Kateri
Joseph, had active military careers. A cadet in 1725, Nicolas-Antoine served under his father at Fort Saint-Joseph (probably Niles, Mich.). In 1730 he saw action against the Foxes. Two years
orphans, and she admitted old men to the Hôtel-Dieu. St Patrick’s Hospital and the orphanage, which was just beginning, were combined with the Hôtel-Dieu when it was moved in 1860 from Rue Saint-Paul
which was to found Sainte-Marie-de-Ganentaa, allowed him to add certain details about the natural resources of the country and the customs of the inhabitants. After the failure of this mission, Father
DARGENT, JOSEPH, Sulpician, parish priest; b. 4 July 1712 at Saint-Similien (dept. of Loire-Atlantique), France, son of
Saint Basile Indian Reserve, to a white man, Simon Hébert. Denis was not pleased that his farm and the small house in which he had been living comfortably had been leased to another, and he initially
Desdevens de Glandons and Gabrielle Avet Forel; m. 29 Jan. 1767 Marie-Thérèse Mathon at Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan (Batiscan, Que.); d. 23 Aug. 1799 in the parish of Saint-Antoine (at
Bridget Byrns; d. 21 May 1872 in Quebec in the parish of Saint-Roch.
The son of Catholic Irish immigrants, Patrick J. Doherty received his
Drapeau, a farmer, and Marie-Joseph Huard, dit Désilets; m. 14 Oct. 1782 Marie-Geneviève Noël* in Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly
FORTIER, MICHEL, navigator and merchant; b. 31 Aug. 1709 at Saint-Laurent, île d’Orléans (Que.), eldest son
his marriage to Marguerite Crevier, the sister of Jean Crevier de Saint-François. Gamelain lived
, an Erie belonging to the Cat nation, responsible for the founding of the Saint-François-Xavier mission at Prairie-de-la-Magdelaine (moved in 1717 to Caughnawaga); d. 1673 at the mission
Brunswick, which opened in 1834. This bank was a Fredericton corporation capitalized at £15,000 which helped break the monopoly of the Saint John-based Bank of New Brunswick
-Royal, the Saint John River, Canseau, Saint-Pierre, Nipisiguit (Bathurst, N.B.), Kennebec, and Pentagouet (Castine, Maine). He was the superior at the latter place in 1646 and 1647. There he welcomed the
JUCHEREAU DE SAINT-DENIS, CHARLOTTE-FRANÇOISE, known as Comtesse de SAINT-LAURENT, daughter of Nicolas
River. They urged their Michilimackinac cousins, led by Onaské and Koutaoiliboe, to join the attack. Father Marest convinced Koutaoiliboe, however, that it would be unwise to attack the Saint-Joseph post
chiefly from an account written in English by an anonymous member, perhaps the master, of the Bonaventure set out with a consort by “Monsieur de La court Pre Ravillon and Grand Pre” of Saint
seventeenth century, a school of some size, and very probably a community of Teaching Brothers similar to the one which Jean-Baptiste de La Salle . . . a seminarist at Saint-Sulpice, had founded
supplying the expedition led by Saint-Ovide [Monbeton] against the English forts at St John’s