Régiment de Béarn – came to Canada during the Seven Years’ War. They settled in Montreal, where they had at least five children. Charles probably went to the primary school run by the Séminaire de Saint

, and eventually took up his former parish at St Michel, at Tusket Wedge (as Bas-de-Tousquet was now known). His efforts on behalf of what was soon to become the Collège Sainte-Anne would not

. Hanna* and Elizabeth Saul; m. 25 Oct. 1812 Margaret Roberts Eckart, and they had four daughters; d. 19 Dec. 1851 in the seigneury of Saint-Charles-de-la-Belle-Alliance, Lower

seigneur of Saint François, in 1663. In 1652 Marie Marguerie remarried; her second husband was Quentin Moral de Saint-Quentin

Hertel* de La Fresnière, was sent to build a palisaded fort, later named Fort Saint-Frédéric, at Pointe à la Chevelure on Lake Champlain; Moncours went there in command of the garrison. After

HUOT, FRANÇOIS, merchant and politician; b. 23 Aug. 1756 in Sainte-Foy (Que.), son of François Huot and

Canso (Canseau) with Allard de Sainte-Marie to investigate the recent pillaging. To his new duties at Louisbourg he was to bring the same niggling zeal and quarrelsome disposition that had already made

the church of Saint-Roch; d. 29 July 1905 at Quebec and was buried 1 August in the cemetery of Notre-Dame de Belmont in Sainte-Foy

. 1778 probably in Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Que., son of Jean-Baptiste Lagimonière, a farmer, and Marie-Joseph (Josephte) Jarret, dit Beauregard; d. 7 Sept. 1855 in St

was a missionary at Sault-Saint-Louis (Caughnawaga). Then he went to live at the Jesuit residence in Montreal, of which he was superior in 1716. He concerned himself with the construction of the chapel

. 6 Feb. 1925) in the parish of Saint-Roch, Quebec City, and they had 13 children, of whom 4 boys and 3 girls reached adulthood; d. 24 May 1934 in that city and was buried

Saint-Sacrement (Lake George, N.Y.), Marie-Charles-Joseph Le Moyne de Longueuil was the twin sister of Marie-Catherine-Joseph, who died when only a few months old. As a young child she lived with her

LEMIRE, JEAN, master-carpenter; baptized in the parish of Saint-Vivien, at Rouen, France, 4 June 1625, son of Mathurin Le Mire

master-carver in Quebec when Pierre-Noël reached the age of apprenticeship. On the other hand, towards 1705 the École des Arts et Métiers at Saint-Joachim was enjoying a profitable period under the

MIGNAULT, PIERRE-MARIE, Catholic priest and vicar general; b. 8 Sept. 1784 at Saint-Denis on the Richelieu

born between 1772 and 1795 in Varennes, Pointe-aux-Trembles (Montreal), Saint-Eustache, and Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville (Sainte-Thérèse), but Paul is not one of them. On 28 April 1802 “Hypolithe

PAPINEAU, dit Montigny, SAMUEL, soldier, copyholder of the Sulpicians on the côte Saint-Michel

Fort Saint-Frédéric (near Crown Point, N.Y.), she was surprised – as were many American prisoners – by the kind treatment accorded by the Indians. From Fort Saint-Frédéric some of the captives

the area of Pointe-aux-Trembles and as far as the lower end of the island of Montreal, as well as in the seigneuries of Repentigny, Lachenaye, Île Jésus, Île Sainte-Thérèse, Rivière-des-Prairies, Saint

. On 14 Aug. 1702 Thaumur de La Source entered the Petit Séminaire of Quebec, where he completed his classical studies and in 1713 took holy orders. Bishop Saint-Vallier

he moved to Rue Saint-Jean. From 1862 to 1883 he served as an agent for various insurance companies, including the Provincial Insurance Company of Canada, Aetna Fire Insurance of Dublin, and the

Saint John, N.B., in 1866, all of them short-lived. Allain was assigned to Saint John and remained there until August 1875, when he was sent to teach at Saint-Laurent school in Montreal

became reader in theology. Later he was, in succession, guardian at Corbeil in 1648 and 1649, at Rouen in 1650, definitor of his province from 1654 to 1657, and guardian of the monastery at Saint-Denys

whom reached adulthood; d. 13 Feb. 1823 at Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada, and was buried two days later in the parish church. Pierre

Baillairgé worked with René Beauvais*, dit Saint-James, in Louis Quévillon*’s

Rigaud de Vaudreuil in northern New York during the summer of 1747. Benoist then spent some time at Fort Saint-Frédéric (near Crown Point, N.Y.) and in 1748 was named adjutant in Montreal

mid 1850s. His entrepreneurial spirit and insatiable curiosity made him stand out from his colleagues. While maintaining studios in the Upper Town and in the faubourg Saint-Roch, Livernois began to

BOISSEAU, NICOLAS-GASPARD, author, notary, politician, and office holder; b. 10 Oct. 1765 in Saint-Pierre

Conefroy*, Charles-François Perrault, and Benjamin-Nicolas Maillou*, he subsequently undertook ministry in the parish of Saint-Pierre

BÉLANGER, ALEXIS, priest and missionary; b. 18 Jan. 1808 at Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada, son of

 Sept. 1846 in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-Sud, Lower Canada, son of Jean-Baptiste Bélanger, a farmer, and Marie-Théodora (Eléonore) Bernier; m. 29 Sept. 1874 Marie-Louise Catellier

(Institute of the Sisters of Mercy); b. 27 Jan. 1794 at Lavaltrie, Lower Canada, daughter of Antoine Cadron, dit Saint-Pierre, farmer, and of Rosalie Roy, dit Desjardins; d. 5

CARON, CHARLES (oddly enough he signed Charle Caront), farmer and politician; b. 3 Jan. 1768 in Saint-Roch

CHARLY SAINT-ANGE, JEAN-BAPTISTE (he signed Charly), Montreal merchant, colonel of militia, churchwarden; b. 17

Saint-François-de-la-Beauce (Beauceville, Que). Charles-Joseph was descended from the younger branch of the Chaussegros de Léry family, famous in

 April 1666 at Sillery, son of Guillaume Constantin and Jeanne Masse; d. 20 March 1751 and was buried the following day in the cemetery of the parish of Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures

returned to New Brunswick in 1847, and preached at Carleton, Saint John, and St Stephen. He was an extremely popular lecturer in the Saint John

Louis Hébert; native of Saint-Malo or of the parish of Saint-Landry in Paris; b. c. 1591; d. 1663 at Quebec

DANIEL, CHARLES, sea captain, member of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés, founder of Fort Sainte-Anne on Cape Breton; second son of

Contrecœur (Que.), son of Pierre Deguire, dit Desrosiers, and Jeanne Blet (Belet, Blette); m. 16 March 1731 Angélique Pepin at Saint-Michel-d’Yamaska (Yamaska, Que.) and they had at least 13

, concentrating on religious themes. Three of his ex-votos have been preserved at Sainte-Anne de Beaupré. The first, entitled Madame de Riverin et ses enfants, was painted at Quebec in 1703. Madame

DROUIN, JOSEPH (baptized Joseph‑Firmin), lawyer and genealogist; b. 15 Nov. 1875 in Sainte‑Scholastique

. In the early 1740s Joseph joined his uncle Louis Du Pont Duchambon on Île Saint-Jean (Prince

, Mother Saint-Jean, who was also their aunt, gave her approval and in 1836 the two sisters, joined en route by their brother, Father Jacques, and four other members of the community went to the United

. c. 1765 Jane McCord; d. 19 April 1799 at Saint-Charles, near Quebec. Untangling the several Alexander Frasers who served with

the west, grandmother of Louis Riel*; b. 15 Aug. 1780 in Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup (Louiseville), fifth child of

Caron*; m. there 29 Jan. 1883 Annie Smith in the church of Saint-Roch, and they had ten children; d. there 25 March 1915 and was buried 29 March in Notre-Dame de Belmont

captain, and Chevalier de Saint-Michel, governor of Plaisance; b. 20 Feb. 1619 at La Rochelle (France), son of Hilaire Gargot and Anne Lardeau; d. and buried 16 Dec. 1664 in that

at Saint-Eustache, daughter of Dr Auguste-France Globensky and Marie-Françoise Brousseau, dit Lafleur de Verchères; d. 29 April 1873 at Montreal

present-day New Brunswick. In 1606 he embarked for Acadia, where he soon took an active role in the fur trade. For more than a decade he concentrated his activities around the Saint John River