Saint-Zéphirin-de-Courval, Lower Canada, eldest son of Jules-Isaïe Benoît*, dit Livernois, a merchant, and Élise L’Herault, dit

following year they together seized the Ange-Saint-Michel, a ship belonging to the Compagnie du Canada. In 1617 Lomeron, while continuing to act for Biencourt, founded a society comprising Pierre

Saint-Étienne de La Tour and signed the marriage contract. The following year he was present at the capture of Port-Royal by

Smithson Harrison; m. first 19 Nov. 1901 Edith Alma Perkins (d. 31 Dec. 1901 of smallpox) in Boston; m. secondly 18 April 1907 Agnes Grace Burpee (d. 1964) in Saint John

in 1902, he became principal of Harkins Academy in Newcastle and while there he obtained his ma degree. In 1905 he moved to Saint John, where he taught at the Albert

Saint-Vincent du Lude (dept. of Sarthe), France, son of Julien Nouchet and Barbe Barrat; d. 27 Sept. 1750 in Quebec. The circumstances of

OLIVIER DE VÉZIN (Vésin, Vézain), PIERRE-FRANÇOIS, ironmaster, director of the Saint-Maurice ironworks, and chief road officer in

at Saint-Alexandre, a village in the diocese of Uzès near Pont-Saint-Esprit, where reference is made to his family as early as the year 1400. He was the second son of François-Barthélemy, lawyer in the

Pierre Dubois Davaugour, captain in the Quebec garrison, gentleman in ordinary of the king’s bedchamber, member of the Conseil Souverain; b. probably in 1638 in the parish of Saint-Pierre

PERROT DE RIZY (d’Erizy, Derezy, Drisy), PIERRE, merchant, major of the Quebec militia. b. 1672 at Sainte-Famille (Île

clerk; b. c. 1700, son of Pierre Pillard and Anne Parisette, originally from the parish of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, France; buried 12 Jan. 1768 at Trois-Rivières

and baptized 10 July 1656, eldest son of Pierre Pélerin, Sieur de Saint-Amant, a soldier in the garrison of Trois-Rivières, and of Louise de Mousseaux; d. 12 Dec. 1708 in

PÉRODEAU, NARCISSE, notary, law professor, and politician; b. 26 March 1851 in Saint-Ours, Lower Canada, son of Paul

RAGEOT DE SAINT-LUC, NICOLAS, clerk of the provost court of Quebec and royal notary; baptized 20 Aug. 1676 at Quebec, son of

Camille Raymond and Joséphine Poitras; d. there 5 July 1932 and was buried 9 July in the Saint-Charles cemetery. Gérard Raymond was

Sainte-Famine. The Quebec directory of 1850–51 mentions the firm of L. Renaud and Brother, produce merchants. The firm underwent changes towards the end of the 1850s, since the 1857–58

. Olivier Robitaille spent his childhood in the faubourg Saint-Jean at Quebec. After attending the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1825 to 1833, he decided to become a physician. He then began

Marie de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, both of prominent Acadian families. Rodrigue and his wife had at least eight children. Rodrigue served as king’s

1735, when he was appointed missionary at Restigouche on the Baie des Chaleurs. After 1741 we find him in different parishes between Sorel and Sainte-Croix; in 1745 he again took up his abode at Rimouski

SAINT-ÉTIENNE DE LA TOUR, CLAUDE DE (he often used the patronymic Turgis and sometimes the first name Nicolas

Claude de Saint-Étienne de La Tour who had been persuaded to join the English and Scottish cause and who was returning at the same time to obtain the approval of Sir

Jean Soullard, master gunsmith, and Jeanne Couvreur, from Saint-Sauveur in the bishopric of La Rochelle; buried 9 July 1710 at Quebec

and two daughters; d. 27 Jan. 1834 in Maugerville, N.B. James Taylor went to the Saint John valley some time in the 1780s to join the

, and in the surrender of Montreal the following year. In the autumn of 1760 he was quartered at Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud and became friends with the family of Michel

. 1 March 1821 in Saint-Jean, Île d’Orléans, Lower Canada, son of Pierre Toussaint, master pilot, and Justine Fortier; m. there 7 Aug. 1845 Marguerite Noël; d. 2 Dec. 1895 at

) families were established in Canada. Abel Turcot, Joseph-Édouard’s ancestor, was a native of Mouilleron-en-Pareds, in Vendée. He immigrated to Château-Richer, then settled at Sainte-Famille, on Île d’Orléans

, but there were also some from British Columbia (St Andrew’s Cathedral in Victoria, patterned on the church of Saint-Antoine in Longueuil) and from the United States

between Fort Saint-Louis (Chambly) and Fort Sainte-Thérèse. After a winter at Quebec, he took part in the campaign led by

Saint-Louis near Rue du Parloir, where he was to practise for nearly 60 years. In 1844 Baillairgé went into partnership with his former teacher

BOUCHER, CYRILLE, journalist and lawyer; b. 30 July 1834 at Saint-Rémi, Lower Canada, son of François-Xavier Boucher, a

in Quebec City, son of Joseph-Martin Chinic and Julie Measam; d. there 28 April 1889 and was buried 30 April in the Belmont cemetery in Sainte-Foy (Quebec City

Lartigue* before being ordained priest on 29 April 1838. After serving as curate at Sainte-Martine (1838), Saint-Hyacinthe (1838–39), and Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir (Marieville) (1839–40), he

GAUVREAU, LOUIS, merchant, landowner, and politician; b. 11 May 1761 at Petite-Rivière-Saint-Charles

Chénier* – later the hero of Saint-Eustache – and he took the boy under his wing, making himself responsible for educating him. Kimber is believed to have gone to Europe in 1819, and the

engagé of the Hudson’s Bay Company, was born in Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan (Saint-Jacques), Lower Canada, to Joseph Chevaudier, dit Lépine, and Marie-Anne Pellerin. His mother, the daughter of an

the parish of Saint-Thomas (in Montmagny), Que., and they had six children; d. 29 June 1828 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada. In the

Racine, and two others. Provancher was appointed curate first in his native village, and then in the parishes of Saint-Roch at Quebec, Saint

son who was the first d’Ailleboust to found a family in Canada. Catherine became a nun at the abbey of Saint-Pierre de Reims. In 1638 Louis

enemy seemed to be preparing to attack Fort Saint-Frédéric (near Crown Point, N.Y.). During another mission not long after, Niverville captured two Mohawks, and at the end of June he was one of the

 June 1603 in the parish of Saint-Saturnin, at Tours, France; d. 1688. Nicolas Denys was the son of Jacques Denys de La Thibaudière and Marie

studies at the Petit Séminaire de Québec (1860), the Collège de Lévis (1860–62), and the Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal, where he won the top prizes for drawing. Between May 1863 and May

would succeed through his own efforts. With the modest capital he had amassed, he bought the assets of a shop that had gone bankrupt, and in 1870 he opened a grocery store on Rue Saint-Bonaventure (Saint

. The headquarters of the battalion was at Saint-Denis, a prosperous French Canadian town of about 500 people several miles south of Sorel on the Richelieu River. In September 1813 when the battalion

LEFEBVRE, CAMILLE, Holy Cross father, vicar general, and educator; b. 14 Feb. 1831 in Saint Philippe-de-Laprairie, Lower

involvement that Grant became interested from about 1764 in the lucrative seal and salmon fisheries in the same region, where he exploited two posts in the Île Saint-Augustin with Jacques

CARTIER, JACQUES, navigator of Saint-Malo, first explorer of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 1534, discoverer of the St

HAMEL, THÉOPHILE (baptized François-Xavier), painter; b. 8 Nov. 1817 at Sainte-Foy, near Quebec, one of

George Davison, held leases to the king’s posts on the north shore of the lower St Lawrence and to the Saint-Maurice ironworks. The brothers lived mainly in England, where they cultivated political

. In December 1867 Allard was ordained to the priesthood in Saint John by Bishop John Sweeny*. Early the following year he began his priestly

ALLEMAND (Lalemand), PIERRE, pilot, cartographer, explorer, fur-trader; b. c. 1662 at Saint-Sauveur-de-Nuaillé (Charente