which the archbishop of Tours offered him. He remained in this parish until 1685. At that time Bishop Saint-Vallier

Missionary Magazine of Nova-Scotia and New-Brunswick (Saint John, N.B.), a post he held from 1827 to 1833. For the rest of his life he regularly contributed articles on temperance, education, missions

and Judith Taton, dit Brind’amour; m. there 26 Nov. 1804 Marie-Anne Sainte-Marie, and they had three children; d. there 27 Dec. 1858

. In turn-of-the-century Woodstock, a loyalist shire-town on the Saint John River, relations between whites and the small black community were friendly and segregation was not readily apparent. Baseball

Champlain for his part placed him on the same footing as Cramolet, “ship’s master” (“maistre de barque”). Champlain, who lived in the same dwelling as Champdoré on the Île Sainte-Croix, blamed him

Île Saint-Joseph (now Christian Island), escaped with the French party of priests, lay-brothers, workmen, and soldiers under Father

, at which he took charge of the pedagogical training of his young colleagues. The following year, however, he was sent to the mission on the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, where some of his

 Laval* who had just resigned as bishop of Quebec, and Bishop Saint-Vallier [La Croix

BAUDRY (Beaudry), dit Saint-Martin (Baudry Desbuttes, Baudry Soulard), JEAN-BAPTISTE, gunsmith; baptized 3

Parrtown (Saint John, N.B.). At his own suggestion he became an itinerant minister, visiting settlers on both sides of the Saint John River as far as St Anne’s Point (Fredericton). He also assisted

was received as a member of the Séminaire des Missions Étrangères of Quebec, and the next day he was appointed vicar general for the Mississippi region by Bishop Saint-Vallier

BOUCHARD, ÉTIENNE, surgeon; b. c. 1622 in the parish of Saint-Paul, Paris, son of Pierre Bouchard and

trading route between Saint John, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. By 1830 Bourneuf was also doing well as a shipbuilder; from 1830 to 1855 he built some 30 vessels

 July 1853 in Saint-Lazare (Saint-Lazare-de-Bellechasse), Lower Canada, son of Pierre Brochu, a farmer, and Mathilde Naud; m. first 16 May 1878 Marie-Adéline-Eugénie Marois (d. 23

Cove) near Louisbourg, where he employed a few sailors; he also operated trading vessels: first the Saint-Jean, whose home port was Bayonne, France, in partnership with François Boudrot and

-Arthur Cassegrain was educated at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, where he “distinguished himself by his good conduct, studiousness, and love of letters.” He then enrolled in the faculty of law

), soldier, accountant, writer, magazine owner, and professor; b. 23 Nov. 1852 in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Laval), Lower Canada, son of Joseph Chartrand, a joiner, and Virginie Lacasse; m. 1

one of the partners of the explorer Daumont* de Saint-Lusson, who was sent by

, France; d. 18 May 1760 at Montreal. Jean-Charles Chevalier entered the Company of Saint-Sulpice at Angers on 25 June 1715

Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour. He returned to Acadia in 1642, and we find him again at Port-Royal, where, on 20 Oct. l643, he and

, which would prove indispensable in his future responsibilities. He then moved to Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), where his mother now lived. Because of his delicate health, he continued his

up the seat of French government at Fort Jemseg, on the Saint John River. A messenger was dispatched to Fort Saint-Louis de Chedabouctou (Guysborough, N.S.), carrying orders to Lieut. Montorgueuil

“Île de Claude David,” next to the fief of Île Saint-Christophe. In an act of 7 April 1660 he figures as the owner of a grant at Trois-Rivières, adjoining that of

passed the entrance examinations to the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Paris. For the next five years he devoted himself to study and devotional exercises. Having obtained his baccalauréat in

DIONNE, NARCISSE-EUTROPE, physician, journalist, historian, and librarian; b. 17 May 1848 in Saint

Baudouin, he is thought to have accompanied Cavelier* de La Salle, for he obtained a grant of land at Fort Saint-Louis in the

Englishman, Saint Dunstan, had been opened, although it was far from completed. In the next few years gifts of altar furniture arrived from Lower Canada and Ireland, until Dollard and his new charge had one of

were concentrated in the old commercial district, but he also participated in the west-end expansion along Rue Saint-Antoine, a prestige residential area. Construction of the Montreal and Lachine

. Early years in Canada Luc Filiastre joined the Recollets of the ecclesiastical province of Saint-Denis, France, in 1668, received the

. Bishop Saint-Vallier [La Croix] conferred minor orders and the

. He made his profession with the Recollets of the province of Saint-Denis in 1599 and received the tonsure in Paris on 27 May 1600. Guardian of the monastery of La Charité-sur-Loire from

 April 1736 at Saint-François-du-Lac (Que.), son of Joseph Gamelin, a merchant, and Angélique Giasson; m. 29 Jan. 1759 at Lachine Marie-Louise de Lorimier and they had six daughters; m

had become the chief shareholder in the Saint-Maurice ironworks company. Gastineau Duplessis furnished the ironworks with supplies valued at 7,071 livres 2 sols

before 1630 at Saint-Jacques de Dieppe, Normandy; d. 15 Oct. 1665 at Quebec. Son of Pierre Gloria, “bourgeois and merchant of the

GUEN, HAMON, priest, Sulpician, missionary; b. 1687 in the diocese of Saint-Pol-de-Léon (dept. of Finistère), France; d

councillor of the Conseil Souverain, and four of the sons owned seigneuries in Acadia. Mathieu, Louise’s husband, had obtained two leagues of land on the Saint John River between Jemseg and Naxouat (Nashwaak

(Englishtown, N.S.), knight of the order of Saint-Louis; b. 26 Oct. 1668 at Trois-Rivières, third son of

Saint John, N.B. Hooper came to Saint John about 1817 as a printer and schoolmaster, eventually becoming proprietor of a bookbinding and stationery

d’Orléans, son of Étienne Jacob and Jeanne Bellejambe, of Saint-Germain in Paris; b. c. 1648; d. after 10 April 1726. He arrived in New

. Jacobs early grasped the importance of the Richelieu route. He set up stores along it from Crown Point (N.Y.) to Sorel. In 1763 he thought it advisable to open a store at Saint-Denis, which he entrusted to

Aubert* de La Chesnaye, and a piece of land at Côte Saint-Ignace, where he took up residence at the end of 1666 or the beginning of 1667. But in 1671, after three years of litigation, his two

. He was ordained a priest in 1696, and in 1704 he was appointed lecturer in theology in the convent of Saint-Denis in Paris. From 1706 to 1709 he was guardian of the convent at Vitry-le-François

in Saint-Charles, near Quebec, son of Jacques Nau, dit Labry, a farmer, and Marie-Louise Brousseau; d. 26 Oct. 1831 in Saint-Eustache, Lower Canada

priesthood became clear, and in 1823 he decided to return to Europe. That year he entered the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Paris, where he took the philosophy program and began his theology. He studied along

LARUE, GUILLAUME DE, indentured worker, carpenter, notary, seigneurial judge, originally from the parish of Saint-Maclou (Rouen); b

. Educated first in the town where he was born, he commenced the study of law but entered the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Paris on 12 June 1724. There he “gave proof of as much talent as piety [and

chiefly of exporting dried cod to different countries of Europe, the West Indies, and Brazil. He possessed establishments along the whole Gaspesian coast, from Paspébiac to Sainte-Anne-des Monts; in 1861 he

, Jacques Le Moyne de Sainte-Hélène, in Governor Brisay* de Denonville’s campaign against the Iroquois in 1687

community of the Society of Saint-Sulpice. He then undertook a variety of tasks, including that of bursar at the Séminaire de Reims. He was still there when the revolution broke out in 1789. Following the

LEBLANC, ÉTIENNE, businessman and office holder; b. 25 Nov. 1839 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada; m. first before 1866