to purchase property – a lot and two wooden houses on Rue Saint-Charles-Borromée – and to acquire a pew in the Scotch Presbyterian Church, later known as St Gabriel Street Church

works. He was in favour of roads being laid out to Montreal through the seigneury of Saint-Hyacinthe. His energies were to be concentrated on the construction of a vital road from Magog to Montreal

staying for a time at the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Paris. At the request of his superior general, Jean Couturier, La Valinière sailed for New France, where he arrived on 9 Sept. 1754. He

SAINT-ÉTIENNE DE LA TOUR, CHARLES DE (the family name may well have been Turgis), trader, colonizer, and governor of

. The son of an illiterate habitant, Paul-Loup Archambault received his secondary education from 1800 to 1809 at the Collège Saint-Raphaël (which in 1806 became the Petit Séminaire de Montréal

deteriorating health and consequent resignation as bishop had something to do with such desultory progress; in any event, no sooner had his successor, Mgr de Saint-Vallier

went into partnership with the Dessaulles family of Saint-Hyacinthe to manage a flour-mill and a woollen factory there. In 1864 the government gave him the toll rights for the bridge he had built

River (Maine), son of Peter Bear and a Saint-François Abenaki woman; perhaps m. first a Penobscot woman; m. 4 Nov. 1851, in Woodstock, N.B., Monica (Moneech) Francis, who may have been a

BÉLANGER, JEAN-BAPTISTE, ship’s captain and office holder; b. 1 Jan. 1852 in the parish of Cap-Saint-Ignace, Lower Canada

, jeweller, inventor, and politician; b. 31 March 1841 at Quebec, son of Joseph Duquet, a labourer, and Madeleine Therrien (Terrien); m. there 22 Feb. 1865 Adélaïde Saint-Laurent, daughter

. 1788 in Saint John, N.B., youngest son of Munson Jarvis* and Mary Arnold; m. first 29 April 1817 Anna Maria Boyd, daughter of Dr

. Le Normant’s years at Louisbourg, like his father’s, were marked by quarrels with Governor Saint-Ovide [Monbeton*], who

secondary and post-secondary education at two prestigious French institutions: the Collège Notre-Dame de Sainte-Croix de Neuilly (Neuilly-sur-Seine) (1872–79) and the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris (1879–81), where

LETELLIER DE SAINT-JUST, LUC (baptized Luc-Horatio), notary and politician; b. 12 May 1820 at Rivière

Prevost. In 1792 Pigeon entered the Collège Saint-Raphaël in Montreal. He soon displayed an aptitude for study and the life of the mind. His scholarly

ARNOUX, ANDRÉ, surgeon, surgeon-major; b. at Saint-Paul-de-Vence (dept. of Alpes-Maritimes), France, and baptized 22 Dec

catechism published by Bishop Saint-Vallier [La Croix] in 1702 recalled

. Jean Couturier, superior of Saint-Sulpice, he agreed, however, to return to America in order to help the missions in Acadia. Chauvreulx went to Acadia in the autumn of 1735 to serve the parish at

DENYS DE FRONSAC, RICHARD, administrator, colonizer, trader, and fisherman; baptized 29 Aug. 1647 in the parish of Saint

politician; b. 18 Sept. 1850 in Saint-Rémi, Lower Canada, son of Léon Lachapelle, a physician, and Rébecca Lanctôt; m. 29 July 1874 Elise Demers in the parish of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul

. 15 July 1821 in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Laval), Lower Canada. Hubert-Joseph Lacroix grew up in the family home in Lower Town Quebec, surrounded

LAROCHELLE, LOUIS-NAPOLÉON, manufacturer, railway contractor, and politician; b. 14 Nov. 1834 at Saint

Catholic priest and bishop; b. 15 Oct. 1870 in the parish of St Bernard, in Clare, N.S., son of Luke Le Blanc, a farmer, and Julia Beliveau; d. 17 Feb. 1935 in Saint John

of Judith Du Chesne; baptized 2 Aug. 1626 in the parish of Saint-Rémy, at Dieppe (Normandy); d. February 1685 at Montreal

 Sept. 1716 in Montreal (Que.), third son of Louis Liénard* de Beaujeu and Thérèse-Denise Juchereau de Saint-Denys, née Migeon

and Margaret MacKinnon; d. 15 Oct. 1854 at Quebec, and was buried there two days later in the Cimetière Saint-Louis. Nothing is known of

that served his interests. In spite of tensions, and within the limits of their respective concerns, they managed to collaborate in various difficult projects: the incorporation of the parish of Saint

MARSOLET DE SAINT-AIGNAN, NICOLAS, interpreter, clerk in the fur trade, ship’s master, trader, and seigneur; baptized 7 Feb. 1601

 1816 and was buried 8 Dec. 1817 in Saint-Basile, N.B. Louis Mercure came from a family with a strong military tradition and reasons to

officer; b. 29 Sept. 1865 in Saint-Denis (Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu), Lower Canada, son of Henri-Adolphe Mignault, a physician, and Marie-Émélie-Valérie Brodeur; m. probably 23 Dec. 1912

RACINE, ANTOINE, Roman Catholic priest, bishop, and educator; b. 26 Jan. 1822 in Saint-Ambroise

RICHARD, MARCEL-FRANÇOIS, Roman Catholic priest and educator; b. 9 April 1847 in Saint-Louis-de-Kent, N.B., son of Pierre

and seigneur; b. 4 Nov. 1710 at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade (La Pérade, Que.), son of Pierre-Thomas Tarieu de La Pérade, seigneur of La Pérade, and Marie-Madeleine

 May 1837 in the parish of Saint-Basile, N.B., son of François-Régis Thériault and Julie Ringuet; m. first 13 Jan. 1875 Eugénie Lebel (d. 1877) in Kamouraska, Que., and they had two sons

Claude de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, proceeded to Port-Royal. Here, in the summer of 1629, Alexander built a new fort in which he decided to pass the winter, sending back his ship for

ALEYRAC, JEAN-BAPTISTE D’, officer in the French regular army; b. 2 April 1737 in Saint-Pierreville (dept of Ardèche

AMEAU, dit Saint-Séverin, SÉVERIN, soldier, royal notary, clerk of court, court officer

in November 1663, and presumably went to the Île Verte and the Île aux Basques, then to the Île Saint-Barnabé, finally spending the winter with a band of Algonkins in the neighbourhood of Lake

, he was granted temporary leave. In 1816, even though he had received no discharge from active service, he left Saint-Malo for St John’s with Auguste Flulin, a silversmith who had hired him. On

1735 to join La Vérendrye at Montreal. After spending two weeks at Sault-Saint-Louis with his friend, Father François Nau, he left Montreal on 21 June with the explorer. On 27 July he left

fleet of 1783 to arrive at what would become Parrtown (Saint John, N.B.). He was one of the initial group to settle at Kingston on the Belleisle (Kingston) Creek, where he would remain until his death. He

. Louis-Henri de Baugy sailed for Canada from La Rochelle on the night of 12–13 July 1682 on the Saint-François-Xavier. He arrived at Quebec in October together with

BERGER, JEAN, painter; b. c. 1681 at Saint-Dizier-au-Mont-d’Or, near Lyons, son of Jean-Claude

BLISS, HENRY, author, lawyer, and provincial agent for New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; b. 1797 at Saint John, N.B

). Arthur Bouchard came from a poverty-stricken family and lost his mother when he was just a child. He went to school in Saint-Denis and at the age of 15 was apprenticed as a tailor, a trade he

in Jean-Baptiste Hertel* de Rouville’s raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts. In 1708 he served as commandant at Sault-Saint

Boucher, a mariner, and Marie-Anne Mattel, an innkeeper; m. 12 Feb. 1759 Marie-Joseph Tremblay in the parish of Saint-Louis (at Saint-Louis de-l’Isle-aux-Coudres, Que.), and they had seven sons

Louis D’Ailleboust, co-founder of the Confrérie de la Sainte-Famille at Montreal, benefactress of the Hôtel-Dieu at Québec; b. c. 1618 at Ravières (Champagne), daughter

 Dec. 1720 in the parish of Saint-Barthélemy, La Rochelle, France, son of Jean-François Bourdon de Dombourg et de La Pinaudière and Madeleine Poirel; m. 6 July 1752 at Port-La

rector of the college and superior general of the mission. His term as superior was marked by several quarrels between the Jesuits and Bishop Saint-Vallier