, on the Rivière Saint-François, and called the land he undertook to develop Hoste Farm in honour of Sir William Hoste, a famous officer under whom he had served during the Napoleonic Wars. Webb was

 July 1800 in Saint John, N.B., second son of John Wolhaupter* and Mary Payne Aycrigg; m. 1820 Catharine Phoebe Brannan of Fredericton, and

partner, the firm changed its name to Robert Wood and Company. Wood’s timber cove was located at Anse Saint-Michel in Sillery. The colonial timber trade

, with only 28 men, undermanned. His efforts to dissuade Eddy failed. At Passamaquoddy Bay and the Saint John River (N.B.) the small force, which Allan did not join, added a few more men, attacked British

Séminaire de Saint-Joseph des Trois-Rivières, but later left his native city to study law at the Université Laval in Montreal. After he had earned his degree and been admitted to the bar of the province of

BELLECOURT (Bellecours, Belcourt), GEORGE-ANTOINE, priest and missionary, b. 22 April 1803 in Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du

. 1915 in Saint-Chamond, France. Raised in Les Rousses, in the Jura district of France, Paul Benoit received an education “faintly tinged with rigorism

company, whose head office he quickly transferred to 61 Rue Saint-François-Xavier in Montreal, had two factories in Ontario: one for black powder in Cumminsville and one for nitroglycerin near Kingston

BRUNET, FRANÇOIS-XAVIER, priest and bishop; b. 27 Nov. 1868 and baptized two days later in the parish of Saint-André-d’Argenteuil, Que

there is not known. During the years 1884–85 and 1885–86 he taught English and religion at the College of St Joseph. Ordained a priest on 29 June 1886 in Saint John by Bishop John

descriptions by ignorant travellers and tourists. At the behest of his former teacher at Saint-Sulpice, Cuoq published a scathing response in 1863, “Jugement erroné de M. Ernest Renan sur les langues

1766 he had participated in the creation of the parish of Saint-Cuthbert by donating 60 arpents of land as the site for a church. In 1779 he supplied the stone for building the church and, later

Saint-Pé* to Michilimackinac (Mackinaw City, Mich.) where he first met the Ottawa Indians, to whom he would minister for nearly 30 years. The risk

 Dec. 1840 in Sainte-Martine, near Châteauguay, Lower Canada, son of Joseph Dubuc, a farmer, and Euphémie Garand; m. 26 June 1872 Marie-Anne Hénault in Saint-Cuthbert, Que., and they had ten

Gilles Hocquart* authorizing him to practise in the côtes of Verchères, Varennes, Saint-Ours, and along the

Clinton that chronic laryngitis might compel him to “cease public speaking for some time, if not for life.” He resigned his pastorate in 1876, and spent the next two years in Saint John completing the first

martyred child; b. 31 May 1909 in Sainte-Philomène-de-Fortierville (Fortierville), Que., daughter of Télesphore Gagnon, a farmer, and Marie-Anne Caron; d. there 12 Feb. 1920 as a

to fill a similar position in the commercial house of Jean-Baptiste Casavant on Rue Saint-Paul Later that year Casavant sent Hudon to manage his branch store at Saint-Césaire, a small town southeast of

and was buried two days later at Saint-Grégoire (Bécancour). Étienne Hébert belonged to the fourth generation of Héberts in

Montréal from 1874 to 1880, and then studied at the Collège Sainte-Marie, where he spent two years in the Philosophy program but did not finish it. In 1882 he entered the Society of Jesus. He began his

, widow of Louis Baudry, in Montreal; m. thirdly 16 Feb. 1824 Émilie Masson, sister of Marc-Damase Masson*, in Sainte-Geneviève

Faucher* de Saint-Maurice, and James MacPherson Le Moine*. Le Vasseur also took

), teacher, lawyer, politician, and lieutenant governor; b. 10 Aug. 1853 in Saint-Martin (Laval), Lower Canada, son of Joseph Leblanc, a blacksmith, and Adèle Bélanger; m. 12 Jan. 1886

glazier and importer of wallpaper and earthenware. Three years later, a sensible businessman, he set up shop permanently on Rue Saint-Jean, the major

. Jean-Baptiste Marchand belonged to a respectable family. Among his paternal uncles were Joseph, the seigneur of Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu, Nicolas, an artillery officer killed in the siege of Quebec in

, journalist, freemason, and army officer; b. 16 Oct. 1871 in Saint-Romuald-d’Etchemin (Lévis), Que., son of Adelstan de Martigny (Le Moyne de Martigny), a physician, and Louise de

made their way quite satisfactorily in political and business circles. Louis, the eldest, became a merchant in Sainte-Croix, a member of the House of Assembly for Lotbinière, and later a legislative

two schools with farms, one at Varennes that year and the other at Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville (Sainte-Thérèse) on the outskirts of Montreal in 1858. His first attempt met with success in 1860, when

of Saint-Jacques and Le Gesù church. In October 1895 he left for Europe. Accepted in December at the Rennes branch of the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Déclamation, in France, to

near the church of Sainte-Rose on Île Jésus. Four years later he began trading in wheat in the village of Terrebonne. Already prosperous by 1800, in that year he offered £20,000 for the seigneury of

. In 1779 Proulx hired a skipper to carry wheat to Quebec on the Saint-Pierre, which he owned, and he called himself a merchant, a designation implying a social rank above that of his family. At

concentrated professionally upon residential, school, and religious architecture. His major achievement was the construction in 1874 of the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Montreal (burned down on 29 Jan

Rigaud de Vaudreuil de Cavagnial, he obtained the seigneury of Rigaud adjoining their seigneury of Vaudreuil on the Ottawa River. In 1736 he secured the grant of the seigneury of Saint-Joseph-de

. 1707 in Montreal, son of René Robinau* de Portneuf and Marguerite Daneau de Muy; killed by the British at Saint-Joachim, near Quebec

cleared the first path from Missisquoi Bay in 1792. In 1799 he turned his attention to the construction of a road to Montreal through Dorchester (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu) or the seigneury of Saint

latter had early been destined, it seems, to the ecclesiastical state. He was enrolled in the Séminaire de Saint-Magloire in Paris, which was run by the Oratorians, then in the Collège de Navarre (one of

“sports” throughout most of the Saint John waters and those of the Miramichi and the Restigouche. Gabe does not seem to have used the name Acquin or its

Le Loutre]. Boishébert was sent to the mouth of the Saint John River to oppose any attempt by the British to establish themselves there. A lively discussion took place immediately after

. Working under pressure, Beaucours laid out new walls that were easier to defend and required fewer soldiers. He designed the Saint-Jean and Saint-Louis gates, the Cap-Diamant redoubt, and the Royal

. Oscar Dunn’s ancestor Charles Dunn was a Protestant loyalist of Scottish origin who was prompted to leave the United States by the American revolution, and settled in the parish of Sainte-Ursule, near

. 1851 in Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville (Sainte-Thérèse), Lower Canada, son of Paul Filiatreault and Mathilde Charest; m. 24 Nov. 1877 Octavie Desmarais in Montreal, and they had three daughters

-NARCISSE, surveyor, civil engineer, office holder, professor, and promoter of colonization; b. 13 Jan. 1849 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada, son of Jean-Baptiste Gastonguay

. On his return to Montreal in 1897, Gauthier taught canon law at the Grand Séminaire for a year. After serving as the chaplain at the Pensionnat Mont-Sainte-Marie from 1899 to 1901, he was appointed

death on 12 June 1772, he inherited the seigneuries of Beauport, Fossembault, Gaudarville, and Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies. He had the advantage of being sole beneficiary. His older sister, Marie

lungs. He enrolled at the college of Saint-Hyacinthe in 1838 and completed his classical studies in 1845. All the evidence indicates that young Laberge

 Bruyère) at Sainte-Foy, near Quebec, on 15 Nov. 1757, three days after he was baptized by Bishop Pontbriand [Dubreil

Lacasse in Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Lower Canada, and they had three children; d. 10 March 1891 in Montreal. Born into a

, lecturer, and feminist activist; b. 5 Dec. 1861 in Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Lower Canada, daughter of Félix-Gabriel

Touraine country of France, the son of François de Razilly and Catherine de Valliers, and the brother of Claude, a ship’s captain and commodore, of Gabriel, a member of the order of Saint John of Jerusalem

retail trade, setting up a dry goods and fur store in the faubourg Saint-Joseph of Montreal. Édouard-Étienne’s childhood was thus spent in the world of small business, at the mercy of creditors