portage between Lake Champlain and Lac Saint-Sacrement (Lake George). Some days later the adjutant Michel-Jean-Hugues Péan wrote to

. Pâquet), physician, politician, and professor; b. 29 Sept. 1830 in Saint-Cuthbert, Lower Canada, son of Timothée Pâquet and Françoise Robillard; m. 25 Sept. 1854

Montreal, knight of the order of Saint-Louis; b. c. 1667 at Garancière-en-Beauce, son of Henri de Sabrevois, Sieur de Sermonville, and of Gabrielle Martin; d. 1727 at Montreal

Scott*, a Scottish Patriote from Saint-Eustache, Que., d. unmarried 31 May 1926 at Île du Grand Calumet, Que. One obituary suggests

SEELY (Seeley, Seelye), CALEB, sea captain, privateer, shipowner, and merchant; b. 31 Aug. 1787 at Saint John, N.B., son of

-Joseph, by which he was identified in the 1744 census of Quebec; he lived then with three servants on Rue de la Montagne. Ten years later, after he had married, he resided on Rue Saint-Jean

cabin, where corn and wood were usually stored. A little chapel, dedicated to Saint-Joseph, was built in “that cabin’s end.” To be convenient, the priests also lodged with Totiri. He showered with a

TURCOTTE, LOUIS-PHILIPPE, historian; b. 11 July 1842 at Saint-Jean, Île d’Orléans, C.E., of the marriage of

TÊTU, CHARLES-HILAIRE, merchant and postmaster; b. 22 June 1802 at Saint-Thomas-de-Montmagny (Montmagny, Que.), son of

. 17 April 1707 at Saint-François-du-Lac, daughter of Louis Véronneau, a merchant, and Marguerite Maugras; d. 20 April 1764 in Montreal

shooting accident on the plains, presumably at Saint-Paul-des-Cris (Alberta). Wikaskokiseyin’s mother, a member of the Crow tribe of the Missouri area

Brunswick and Maine. He carried out an exploratory survey for the proposed European and North American Railway in 1847. The following year he surveyed a line for the railway between the city of Saint John and

estate in Sunbury County, N.B. When Robert Duncan Wilmot was about five years old, his family moved to Saint John where his father became a

Ainsley Walker Barrington and M. Matilda Mahon; d. unmarried 7 Dec. 1929 in Saint John and was buried at Barrington Park, Sydney Mines

holdings at Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Côte-Saint-Louis, and Côte-des-Neiges on which the present Côte-des-Neiges cemetery is located and the town of Outremont was developed at the end of the 19th century. He

14 July 1836, at Saint-Joseph-de-Chambly, Boyer described himself as the “Sieur Louis Boyer, merchant.” His wife, Marie-Aurélie Mignault, was the daughter of the postmaster of Saint-Denis-sur

poor health. There was speculation concerning divisions of opinion among the leaders of the government. In a letter to Le Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe in February 1870 Bruce denied the

. 1881 in Saint-Clet, Que., son of George Brunet, a joiner, and Angèle (Marie-Angèle) Lecompte; m. 26 June 1906 Alida Huneault in Saint-Jean-Baptiste parish, Montreal, and they had two daughters

CHAZELLE, JEAN-PIERRE, Roman Catholic priest, Jesuit, and missionary; b. 12 Jan. 1789 in Saint-Just-en-Bas

ordained in the new Cathedral of the Holy Trinity. He was subsequently licensed to Missisquoi Bay, in the seigneury of Saint-Armand. Mountain recommended him to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel

 May 1696 in the parish of Saint-André, Angoulême, France, son of Élie Courreaud de La Coste, a merchant, and Catherine Coulaud; d. 26 March 1779 in Montreal (Que

wife’s and Abbé Pierre-Henri Bouchy of the college of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière. The Dessanes arrived in Quebec in July 1849. About 18 months later Antoine and his wife, a soprano or mezzo-soprano

Perrault*, in Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada, and they had 13 children; d. 2 May 1852 in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (La Pocatière), Lower Canada

. 1701 in the parish of Sainte-Trinité, Gourbit (dept of Ariège), France, son of Arnaud (Armand) Estèbe and Élisabeth Garde; probably d. in France some time after 1779

Nairne. That same year Fraser rented from Murray part of the seigneury of Île-d’Orléans including the parishes of Sainte-Famille and Saint-Jean, and in 1766 Murray granted him 3,000 acres at the

bishop’s order, he crossed to Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island). The bishop’s decision to send him there reflected the French government’s policy of attracting to the island the Acadians living under

GRANGER, FLAVIEN (Flavien-Joseph), bookseller and publisher; b. 9 May 1856 in Sainte-Anne

Quebec in 1619–20; b. c. 1554 at Saint-Malo; d. in France sometime after 1629. Gravé Du Pont had borne arms before

, and sometimes Madelon) (Tarieu de La Pérade), b. 3 March 1678 at Verchères (Que.) and baptized 17 April in the parish of Saint-Pierre at Sorel (Que

Bliss, daughter of John Murray Bliss*; m. secondly 30 April 1828, in Saint John, Harriet Maria Millidge, daughter of Thomas

KAEBLE, JOSEPH, mechanic and soldier; b. 5 May 1892 in Saint-Moïse, Que., son of Joseph Kaeble, a

contractor, merchant, bourgeois, engineer; b. c. 1656 in the Paris region (Saint-Giruault), son of Jacques de La Joue, master surgeon, and Madeleine Guerin; died in Persia in 1719 or

Sedgwick, Acadia was ceded by Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour to

”), garrison adjutant (major des troupes) of the troops in Canada (1706–13), knight of the order of Saint-Louis, co-seigneur of the Saint-Denis fief; b. c. 1659, son of Auguste

priest, Eudist, and educator; b. 14 March 1865 in Saint-Aubin-d’Aubigné, France, son of Prosper Lebastard and Jeanne-Marie Jouland; d. 20 Sept. 1920 in Rennes, France

supposed that he learned the trade of carpentry with his father and that he was introduced to wood-carving by the masters of the school at Saint-Joachim. By his marriage contract with Marie-Madeleine Turpin

, unlike his brother, escaped reprisals at the hands of Ontario Orangemen. He was proud of his native background and in 1871 was a founding member of the Union Saint-Alexandre, an organization seeking to

, having joined the militia, he was made a captain in the Saint-Ours battalion. Promoted major in 1812, he obtained the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the same battalion a year later. He held this command

authorities to deal with threats of sectarian violence in several centres, the first time in the province’s history that they had provided aid to the civil power. Two years later members of the 62nd (Saint John

Saint-Maurice County. He retired from the militia in 1855 at the age of 79. Mayrand’s remarkable success in business led him to take an interest in

as Mme de Saint-Laurent; b. 30 Sept. 1760 in Besançon, France, daughter of Jean-Claude Mongenet, a civil engineer, and Jeanne-Claude (Claudine) Pussot; d. unmarried and

Noyelles was born into a cadet branch of an old and illustrious noble house of Artois. His father was a colonel in a French cavalry regiment and knight of the ancient order of Saint-Esprit de Montpellier

. When Amand Parent was just four years old his parents settled near Saint-Hyacinthe. In 1834 his father died and he had to help his mother, who was left with six children. He went to work for a blacksmith

daughter of George Duncan Ludlow*, chief justice of New Brunswick; d. 8 Oct. 1828 in Saint John, N.B

. 24 April 1709 at Plaisance (Placentia, Nfld), son of Gabriel Rousseau de Villejouin, naval captain, and Marie-Josephte Bertrand; d. 6 Nov. 1781 at Saint-Jean-d’Angély (dept of Charente

 1834. Sometime between late 1835 and early 1841 he established a residence and presumably a medical practice at Saint-Martin (Isle-Jésus), nine miles west of Montreal

George Stewart and Elizabeth Dubuc; m. 28 April 1875 in Saint John, N.B., Maggie M. Jewett, adopted daughter of a local lumberman and shipbuilder; d. 27 Feb. 1906 in Quebec City

seven children; d. 9 Nov. 1893 at Quebec. Jean-Thomas Taschereau spent his childhood at the seigneurial manor of Sainte-Marie. In 1823 he

, in Saint John, Sally Hatfield, daughter of merchant David Hatfield; d. 27 March 1834 in Fredericton, survived by his second wife and four children

TESSIER, JOSEPH-ADOLPHE, lawyer, politician, militia officer, and office holder; b. 17 Dec. 1861 in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade