as likely, he came to Canada from the West Indies. He apparently brought his wife, Marie Collet, born in Guadeloupe, to live in New France before 1744 for he was then residing with her on Rue Sainte

MAGON DE TERLAYE, FRANÇOIS-AUGUSTE, Sulpician, priest, and missionary; b. 10 July 1724 at Saint-Malo, France, son of Luc

northern part of Nova Scotia, from the Saint John River to the Minas Basin. His mission register, which is preserved at the archbishopric of Quebec, indicates the stages in his journeyings. He visited the

professions, Rôle d’embarquement sur le Saint-André; Contrat de fondation des Filles Hospitalières de Saint-Joseph de Montréal (9 juin 1659); “Obédience” de Monseigneur de Laval confiant le mandat aux

about 21, during Talon*’s administration. His presence at Quebec is first mentioned in 1669, when he bought a house on the Saint-Charles River. In

, and Marie Castille, “of the city of London in old England.” Ten years later he acquired land along the Rivière Saint-Charles in the seigneury of Saint-Ignace and in 1730 a lot at Pointe-aux-Lièvres on

Paul Denys de Saint-Simon and the latter Joseph Giffard, son of Robert Giffard*, first seigneur of Beauport. The young man

Raymond, and they had 11 children; d. 27 May 1832 in La Tortue (Saint-Mathieu), Lower Canada, and was buried in the church of Saint-Philippe

of Notre-Dame at Quebec; he remained there until the middle of 1773, when he was put in charge of Saint-Cuthbert, a parish in the seigneury of Berthier

RAGEOT, GILLES, clerk of court, notary, seigneur; baptized 14 Nov. 1642 at Saint-Jean-de-l’Aigle, diocese of Évreux (Orne, France

RAMEZAY, MARIE-CHARLOTTE DE, dite de Saint-Claude de la Croix, Nun Hospitaller of the Hôpital Général of

Boucherville, Lower Canada, son of Toussaint Cicot, a farmer, and Marguerite Gauthier, dit Saint-Germain; d. 5 Sept. 1889 at Saint-Hyacinths, Que

association a number of La Rochelle merchants, among them Bergier* (who was the owner of the ship Saint-Louis, and on 8 May

 July 1825 at Saint John, N.B., Mary Billopp, and they had four sons; d. 21 April 1865 in Halifax. Robert Willis entered Lincoln

was ordained priest on 21 Sept. 1839, worked as a curate in the parish of Saint-Joseph (now in Lauzon), and in September 1841 was transferred to the parish of Saint-Roch in Quebec City

mercantile family which as early as 1745 had interests in the manufacture of linen and woollens and in other local industries such as herring-salting and lime-burning. Black arrived at Saint John, N.B., in

pamphlets on agriculture; d. 17 July 1885 at Ottawa, Ont., and was buried 22 July in the church of Saint-Denis-de-la-Bouteillerie at Saint-Denis, Que

ordained priest on 22 Dec. 1781. For a while he served as a curate, and then he asked to be allowed to join the Sulpicians. He arrived at the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Paris in May 1782

Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal, which he attended from 1857 to 1865, he completed the classical course with outstanding success in debating and dramatics, interests which would continue for the rest of

. Having begun his studies at the school of Sainte-Geneviève (Montreal), Joseph-Philéas Filion continued them in that city at the Collège de Saint-Laurent, where he very likely took part in amateur

*. On 26 April, after serving for a few weeks in Saint-Clet in the diocese of Valleyfield, Forbes was appointed vicar of the Saint-François-Xavier mission at Caughnawaga in the archdiocese of

 Prairie, Lower Canada, son of Pierre Gagnon, a farmer, and Marie-Anne Longtin; d. 7 Jan. 1842 in Corbeau, N.Y., and was buried 11 January at Saint-Valentin, Lower Canada

1712 this Indian attacked Northampton, Massachusetts, in one of the last raids of the War of the Spanish Succession. He was said to have come “from Montroyall” – possibly Sault-Saint-Louis

. In March 1865 Guéguen was sent to the missionary residence of Saint-Claude, in the Timiskaming region, where he was to learn about missions to native peoples. Left alone during the summer by his

] position and resources” in Britain. When news of Johnston’s trip reached Saint John late in 1848, Moses Henry Perley* and other members of the

Paris, son of Jean Lanoullier, bourgeois, and Marie-Reine Grasse of Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet parish, Paris; d. 25 Nov. 1750 in the Hôtel-Dieu at Quebec

Dolbec in Saint-Eustache, Que., and they had two sons; d. 21 Sept. 1938 in Montreal and was buried two days later in the Saint-Eustache cemetery

England; he had one son, also named Anthony, who was born in 1804; m. 11 May 1819 Mrs Harriet Lee of Saint John, N.B.; buried 25 Jan. 1855 in Stepney (London), England

independently as masons, Jean-Baptiste on Saint-Charles church at Charlesbourg (1695), and his brother on the intendant’s palace (1697); about 1697 they became partners in the construction business. The partners

: six pictures dealing with the life of St Peter for panels in the chancel, and six medallions representing different saints for the arches of the nave

Saint-Ours* Deschaillons and Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville, went to ravage Haverhill on

Miramichi office, he soon gained a reputation as a skilful administrator and a shrewd bargainer with timber contractors. In 1820–21 he made a “prospecting trip” to the Saint John River to assess the timber of

.” When the 40th returned to Nova Scotia in 1763, Studholme was placed in command of a company stationed at Fort Frederick (Saint John, N.B.). In the summer of the same year, acting on orders from

Island, superior of the Sulpician seminary from 1701 to 1732, vicar general of the bishop of Quebec; b. 3 April 1645 in the parish of Saint-Hugues et Saint-Jean at Grenoble, in the province of

. 1882 in the parish of Notre-Dame in Montreal, son of Gaspard Archambault, a physician, and Marie-Louise Papin; m. 6 Feb. 1929 Fernande Lemay in the parish of Saint‑Jacques-le-Majeur in Montreal

. Nicolas Aubry drew attention to himself because of an adventure which befell him at Baie Sainte-Marie (N.S.), around 16 June 1604. During a walk through the woods with a number of others he lost

AUDOUART dit Saint-Germain, GUILLAUME, secretary of the first council of New France and notary

family has been preserved through the seigneury of Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets, which was granted to it in 1672. The presence of Romain Becquet at Quebec can be traced back to 31 July 1661

BENOIT, ZÉPHIRIN, firefighter and chief of the fire brigade; b. 5 March 1850 in Saint-Jean-Chrysostome (Saint-Chrysostome), near

Saint-Thomas (at Montmagny), Lower Canada. Nicolas-Gaspard Boisseau followed in the footsteps of his father, who early instructed him in legal practice

of François-Xavier Bruneau, a dealer in pelts, and Thérèse Leblanc; d. unmarried 4 March 1851 in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Lower Canada

Marist Brothers in North America; b. 5 Aug. 1845 in Lapte, France, son of Claude Bruyère and Marie Joubert, innkeepers and peasants; d. 24 Sept. 1933 in Iberville (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Que

parish priest of Pointe-à-la-Caille (Montmagny). He lived there from 1704 till 1708, and then went on to direct the parish and the École des Arts et Métiers at Saint-Joachim until 1712

, named Saint-Augustin; d. 21 April 1806 in Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada. Pierre-Joseph Compain was able to leave Montreal and

immediately posted to the garrison at Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), commanded by his uncle, Louis Denys de La Ronde. Its function was to protect the colonists sent there by the Comte de Saint

difficulty in liquidating this bankruptcy, and he even had to sell properties in France to pay his debts. In 1726 the French settled on Île Saint-Jean (Prince

the priesthood on 20 May 1837 at the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Paris. He stayed at the Irish college until August 1838, when he was assigned to parish ministry in Drogheda (Republic

Charlesbourg, north of Quebec; he carried out this ministry for six years (1684–90), without living in the parish. Later, under compulsion from Bishop Saint-Vallier

appearance of communities in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. He helped rebuild Saint John after the disastrous fire in 1877, and designed buildings for Acadia College in Wolfville, N.S., Dalhousie College in

, declared himself in official documents to be a businessman living in Sainte-Anne-de-Bout-de-l’Île (Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue), Lower Canada, in 1796. His mother, the sister of Pierre-Michel