Landing Place, and in 1818 he purchased a second, on Rue Saint-Pierre, and took four apprentices in “the Art and Mystery of a Sail Maker.” Hunt was

. David Ouellet studied at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière from 1856 to 1864. He was then apprenticed as an architect to François-Xavier

addition, a large quantity of trade goods – woollens and linens – was carried, for much of New Brunswick’s commerce was conducted by barter. Scott reached Saint John in March 1799 and by July

After working for about ten years as a journalist, Ægidius Fauteux (1876–1941) became the director the Bibliothèque Saint-Sulpice

Sweeny and Mary McGuire (Macguire, Maguire); d. 25 March 1901 in Saint John, N.B. John Sweeny was a native of Clones, but available

the École des Arts et Métiers at Saint-Joachim, near Quebec, and then placed him as an apprentice with an architect. That the bishop was interested in his young travelling companion’s lot seems

 April 1835 in Saint-Paul-d’Industrie, Lower Canada, son of Jean-Baptiste Beaudry, a farmer, and Clotilde Brault (Brau); d. 3 May 1904 in Joliette, Que., and was buried there 5 May in the

, under the name of Beemer, Sullivan and Company. The firm built the Kent and Saint-Louis gates in the Upper Town of Quebec. In 1880, on his own again, Beemer was looking for new business opportunities

Canada, son of Jean Boivin, a stonemason, and Françoise Anger; m. first 21 May 1860, in the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste at Quebec, Adéline Lefebvre (d. 1875), and they had at least

over the Richelieu River at Saint-Hilaire (Mont-Saint-Hilaire), Lower Canada, on 29 June 1864, resulting in the deadliest railway disaster in Canadian history. Ninety-seven immigrants, mostly from the

; specialist in the Huron language, co- founder of the Confrérie de la Sainte-Famille, founder of the Notre-Dame-de-Lorette mission near Quebec; b. 9 March 1611 at Châtillon-sur-Seine (Côte d’Or

DESILETS, LUC, Roman Catholic parish priest and vicar general; b. 23 Dec. 1831 at Saint-Grégoire (now

Margaret Maxwell; d. unmarried 12 March 1819 in Saint John, N.B. The Pagan family had been active in the rising commerce of Glasgow since

St Anne mission (Alberta); b. 14 Dec. 1810 at Saint-Joseph-de-Lévis, L.C., son of Jean-Baptiste Thibault and Charlotte Carrier; d. 4 April 1879 at Saint-Denis-de-la

southern New Brunswick, and she probably moved to Lancaster (Saint John West) at this time. According to the Saint John Daily Telegraph in November 1878, it was in Lancaster that she composed

local school. In 1884, through a bursary established in 1877 by Father Sylvain-Éphrem Perrey*, he was able to enrol at the Collège Saint

chief of the tribe by about 1706, since at this time he led his entire village to Canada to settle at the mission on the Saint-François (St Francis) river

Durnford*, the commanding officer of the Royal Engineers at Quebec, on a possible “extensive formation of limestone” on the Rivière Saint-Maurice suitable for quarrying, and in that year was chosen a

at Nictaux until 1852. In that year he returned to New Brunswick to serve as pastor of the Germain Street Baptist Church in Saint John. In later years he ministered to churches in Carleton (Saint John

Boucher* de Boucherville and Madeleine Raimbault de Saint-Blaint; d. there 13 Dec. 1857. Thomas-René-Verchères, the tenth of

, Patriote, civil servant, and linguist; b. 8 Sept. 1800 at Quebec, son of Pierre Boucher-Belleville and Louise Belleau; d. 1874 at Saint-Michel-de-Napierville, Quebec

. Initially, oxen and horses hauled the timber from Breakey’s mill to New Liverpool (Saint-Romuald) on the St Lawrence River, where his firm had docking facilities. There it was loaded on schooners for

on Rue Saint-Pierre who was a landowner and a director of the Bank of Montreal at Quebec. David became his partner a few years later. The Burnet brothers engaged in the lumber business and in the

-Marie Cadieux was engaged in secondary studies at the Collège Saint-Raphaël in Montreal from 1798 to 1806. He then went to the Séminaire de Nicolet, and there, while studying theology, taught in

. Augustin Chaboillez studied at the Collège Saint-Raphaël in Montreal from 1782 to 1788, and then taught in that institution until he was ordained on 4 Dec. 1796. The following year, on 8 September

CHARLY SAINT-ANGE, LOUIS, merchant, fur-trader, entrepreneur, seigneur, syndic of Montreal merchants; b. 28 Feb. 1703, in

ironworks on the east bank of the Rivière Batiscan, near Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan. Along with these various concerns he pursued a political career: elected for Buckingham in 1796, he sat in the Lower

 April 1873 Sophie Laurier (d. 3 Aug. 1905) in Montreal; m. thirdly 7 Nov. 1905 Marie-Amanda Rouleau in Saint-François-de-Sales (Laval), Que.; d. 11 Dec. 1908 in Terrebonne

DECOIGNE (De Couagne, Couagne, Coigne, Du Coigne), PIERRE-THÉOPHILE, notary and Patriote; b. 13 March 1808 in Saint-Philippe

. Peter Fraser arrived in Fredericton in 1784 and established himself as the leading trader on the upper Saint John River, where he gained the confidence both of the Indians and of the French-speaking

to demolish the walls of the Château Saint-Louis in Quebec City which had been destroyed by fire. Then, with Joseph and Toussaint Vézina, Jean Patry, and other builders, he constructed some 20 houses

GERMAIN, CHARLES, Jesuit, priest, and missionary; b. 1 May 1707 in Luxembourg; d. 5 Aug. 1779 at Saint

the colonial regular troops, subdelegate of the financial commissary on Île Royale (Cape Breton Island) and Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island); b. c. 1690, probably at Port-Royal

–1833 in New Brunswick. William Green arrived in Parrtown (Saint John, N.B.) in 1783 with the New York loyalists. By late 1788 he was advertising in

. 5 July 1872 at Fredericton, N.B. George Luther Hatheway attended school in Saint John, New Brunswick. He settled at Durham Bridge, York

Juchereau Duchesnay de Saint-Denis; m. 18 Feb. 1778 Françoise-Catherine Hertel de Saint-François in Montreal, and they had ten children, seven of whom reached adulthood; d. 22

parish of Saint-Pierre-en-Château at Auxerre, France, son of Joseph de La Chasse, king’s counsellor at the bailiff’s court and presidial bench of Auxerre, and of Edmée Roussol; d. 27 Sept

, seigneur, and politician; b. 31 Jan. 1778 in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Laval), Que., son of Hubert-Joseph Lacroix* and Françoise

foreign trade, a complaint echoed in 1754 by the minister of Marine, Antoine-Louis Rouillé. Later in 1753 some Saint-Malo merchants cited Larcher as an example of the Louisbourg merchants who were trying to

-Pierre Cherrier*, a merchant and notary at Longueuil and then at Saint-Denis on the Richelieu. By 1784 Lartigue was enrolled in the

Charles-Louis), Sulpician and missionary; b. 12 Jan. 1795 in Saint-Eustache, Lower Canada, younger son of Antoine Lefebvre de Bellefeuille, seigneur of Cournoyer, and Louise-Angélique

LENEUF DE LA VALLIÈRE DE BEAUBASSIN, MICHEL (the younger), captain, major, knight of the order of Saint-Louis, fourth son of

MAUGENEST (Maugenest, dit Saint-Auron, Saint-Horan, Saint-Jorand, or Saint-Terone), GERMAIN, independent fur

had been growing apace in the Canadian church since the death of Bishop Saint-Vallier [La Croix

. 1669 in Paris; d. there 19 Dec. 1742. François de Montigny came to Canada at the invitation of Bishop Saint-Vallier

. Noble eventually ended up in Maugerville on the Saint John River (N.B.) in 1774. The community had been settled by families mainly from Essex County, Mass., in 1763 [see Israel

Collège Saint-Raphaël from 1802 to 1806, and at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal from 1806 to 1811. He then began his legal training under a brother of Pierre-Stanislas

Beauce, Lower Canada, son of William Pozer and Ann Milbourne; d. unmarried on 18 July 1884 at Saint-Georges, Que. At the time of Christian

talents, especially for painting.” It may have been thanks to this intervention that in 1821 Triaud did a picture for the high altar in the church of Saint-André, near Kamouraska, portraying the martyrdom

or 21, it may be assumed that Varin set up his own shop about 1756–57. In 1762, when he was living on Rue Saint-Paul, “jacque varin, merchant