the proposed Western Extension Railway from Bangor, Maine, to Saint John, N.B. From Saint John connection would be made by steamer across the Bay of Fundy to Digby County, N.S., and from there to

Plessis, who was then secretary to the bishop of Quebec, he requested admission to the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Montreal. He was made a member on 28 Sept. 1792 and spent

building of two rest houses which the seminary had decided in 1777 to put at the disposal of its students: one called Bellevue at Saint-Joachim “on the Fortin hill [Petit-Cap],” and the other called La

Sainte-Anne at Fort de Chartres (near Prairie du Rocher, Ill.). Several historians have mistakenly claimed that Léonard-Philibert Callet (spelled

mission of Saint-Joseph. He laboured there for the next 15 years and then was expelled from the community. He had gained few converts. Carheil believed that Indigenous people generally rejected

CASAULT, LOUIS-ADOLPHE, soldier, deputy adjutant-general of the Canadian militia; b. 21 Oct. 1832 at Saint

CLUT (Cleu), ISIDORE, Roman Catholic priest, Oblate of Mary Immaculate, and bishop; b. 4 Feb. 1832 in Saint-Rambert-d’Albon

Letellier* de Saint-Just, the minister of agriculture, negotiated with its owner to get him to change his attitude. They asked him to let them choose another name for the journal, as well as a new editor

, daughter of Pascal Trudel and Marie Charbonneau, whom he married on 18 May 1825 at Sainte-Famine-de-Boucherville. His second was to be Charlotte-Henriette, daughter of Joseph Ainsse Jr, seigneur of

DELEZENNE, IGNACE-FRANÇOIS, silversmith, merchant, and seigneur; baptized 30 April 1718 in the parish of Sainte

Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France. An example is Delort’s purchase, with permission of Saint-Ovide [Monbeton], the governor of Île Royale, of the Joly Bachelier and its cargo from an English captain for

County), L.C., son of Joseph Dupuy, militia captain, and Françoise Richard; d. 13 Oct. 1879 at Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Que. While

Brunswick Fencibles, renamed in 1810 the 104th Foot. Emerson signed up as assistant surgeon in August 1804. He appears to have been stationed both in Saint John, where he testified at a trial in 1806

EMERY-CODERRE, JOSEPH, doctor; b. 23 Nov. 1813 at Saint-Denis, on the Richelieu, Lower Canada, son of Marc Coderre, a farmer

1651 and had been made Baron de Pobomcoup by Charles de Saint-Étienne* de La Tour, governor of the colony. Benoni was

. Borrowing $50 from a neighbour, he opened a small plant equipped with a primitive sawmill in the Montreal suburb of Sainte-Cunégonde to make furniture and iceboxes. He apparently produced only six iceboxes

Faribault and Madelaine Hamon; m. 3 Sept. 1761 Catherine-Antoine Véronneau in Saint-François-du-Lac (Que.), and they had ten children; d. 21 June 1801 in Berthier-en-Haut

Saint-Ours* was almost appointed king’s lieutenant in his stead. In 1708 the minister, Pontchartrain, extended his leave for another year to allow him to settle the estate of his brother, Joseph

 Vérendrye), explorer; b. 1 Dec. 1714 at Île aux Vaches on Lac Saint-Pierre (Que.), second son of Pierre

], Correspondance de M. de Tronson, troisième Supérieur de la Compagnie de Saint-Sulpice: Lettres choisies, [16 juillet 1676–15 janv. 1700], éd

Scott; b. 1836 at Saint-Boniface, Red River Settlement, son of Alexis Goulet and Josephte Siveright; drowned 13 Sept. 1870 in the Red River at Winnipeg, Man

GRASSET DE SAINT-SAUVEUR, ANDRÉ, merchant and secretary to the governor; b. 1724 in

Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice on 22 March 1754, was ordained priest eight days later, and left for Canada on 13 May, reaching Montreal on 5 September. Guichart was to serve in the mission of

GUILLET, LOUIS, notary and politician; b. 28 Jan. 1788 at Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan (Que.), son of Jean

lieutenant, commandant first at Contrecœur and then at Fort Saint-François, seigneur; b. 6 Jan. 1664 at Louze, Maine (department of Sarthe), son of François de Bourgchemin, nobleman and seigneur

following spring that he went into partnership with John McNaught to found Irvine, McNaught and Company, a firm specializing in the import and export trade, with offices on Rue Saint-Pierre in Lower Town. In

years, but by the end of the summer problems had developed. Jacquet wanted to leave the shop, located near the Rivière Saint-Charles, alleging that “the building which constitutes the pottery is

; b. 26 July 1846 in Grande-Rivière, Lower Canada, son of Léon Joncas and Esther Beaudin; m. 18 July 1870 Émérentienne Blouin, daughter of François Blouin, of Saint-Vallier, Que

 years Lafrance worked among the Acadians. He was a curate during the summer of 1841 in Rustico itself and then moved to Saint John, N.B. From 1842

entered the Séminaire Saint-Charles d’Avignon on 1 Nov. 1743 and by 21 Oct. 1746 was studying in Paris. He became a member of the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Paris on 22 March

Feltz, who was also a surgeon at the Hôpital Général. On 7 May 1748, when Landriaux was about to leave Montreal to take up the position of surgeon at Fort Saint-Frédéric (near Crown Point

difficulties had arisen concerning the setting-up of an establishment.” After studying the Abenaki language for some months he was put in charge of the Saint

Legardeur was 65. In April 1733 his record of service was given final consecration in the form of the highest military honour bestowed in New France: he was made a knight of the order of Saint-Louis

colonial regular troops; b. 24 May 1719 in Montreal, son of Jean-Baptiste-René Legardeur de Repentigny and Marie-Catherine Juchereau de Saint-Denis; d. 26 May 1776 at Pondicherry, India

, preferably unmarried. Taylor chartered the ship Favorite at Saint John and early in October 1816 Scottish newspapers reported that it was in the Clyde and that people willing to settle in New

. 1803 in Saint-Laurent, Île d’Orléans, Lower Canada, son of Charles Maranda and Marie-Angèle Beaudoin; d. 10 March 1850 in Arichat, N.S

MARTEL DE BELLEVILLE, JEAN-URBAIN, clerk, merchant, director of the Saint-Maurice ironworks; b. 8 Jan. 1708 in Quebec, son

Saint-Ours Deschaillons and Jean-Baptiste Hertel* de Rouville against New England, and received a commission as

. 1880 at Saint-Armand-Station, Missisquoi County, Que. Philip Henry Moore moved with his parents in 1802 to Moore’s Corner (later known as Saint

MOREAU, EDME, shoemaker; b. in the parish of Saint-Césaire, diocese of Troyes

(Republic of Ireland), son of Peter and Catherine McPhelim; m. in 1839 Rosanna McGuirk of Saint John, N.B.; d. 14 Oct. 1866 in Buctouche, N.B

Cartier and brother of Étienne Noël, explorer and trader; baptized 30 May 1519 at Saint-Malo, France, son of Jean Noël and Jeanne Cartier (the explorer’s sister

Boxford, Mass., son of Captain Francis Peabody and Mary Brown; m. first a Miss Perley; m. secondly 1 Sept. 1808 Lydia Brooker, a widow, in Portland (Saint John), N.B.; there

), poet, composer, lawyer, and organist; b. 1 Sept. 1825 in Sainte-Geneviève (Sainte-Geneviève and Pierrefonds), Lower Canada, son of Jean-Baptiste-Généreux Peltier, a notary, and Marie

-Catherine Lambert de Baussy in 1671; d. 24 Oct. 1728 at New Orleans. In 1702 François and his elder brother Gabriel-Philippe, Sieur de Saint

6,000 livres, drawn on colonial funds, and was sent to Saint-Domingue (Hispaniola) on a mission similar to the one he had carried out capably in Canada. He was appointed subdelegate general of

the Jesuits in Vienne, France, in 1744. He then did the two years of Philosophy at Bourg-Saint-Andéol, under the direction of the brilliant teacher Louis-Alexandre Crénier. From 1746 to 1749 Poncin

nobility that Louis XIV is said to have granted him in January 1661. The historian Pierre Saint-Olive has cast doubt upon the authenticity of this document, in which he has pointed out several

. Pécaudy de Contrecœur became a knight of the order of Saint-Louis on 25 March 1738, and that same year he prepared a map of Lake Champlain. In October 1741 he was in command of Fort Saint

London in 1865, 1871, and 1872. He served on the board of the Compagnie de Chemin de Fer Urbain Saint-Jean between 1877 and 1879. He was also a director of the Quebec and Lake St John Railway and in