friend of Peugnet and the seigneur of Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu, to come to work in Lower Canada as a correspondent for his new newspaper. In January 1833 Debartzch had founded L’Écho du pays

holder; b. 5 Jan. 1787 in La Tortue (Saint-Mathieu), Que., son of Jean-Baptiste Raymond* and

the Lower Town on Rue Saint-Pierre, where he built a quay, shed, and stable; in 1789 he sold all of these for £900. In the intervening period, in February 1775, he had bought a farm and some

early practice in Saint John was not lucrative: he recalled that he handled one case in his first year and that his professional earnings the next year were only £5. Ritchie became much more successful in

, and soon was entrusted with positions of responsibility. From 1822 to 1831 he was director of the Christian Brothers’ school at Bourbonne-les-Bains, then of the Saint-Médard and Saint-Enfant-Jésus

ROCHON, ALFRED, lawyer, politician, and judge; b. 1 Feb. 1847 in Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville (Sainte-Thérèse), Lower Canada

a year’s wheat crop. The couple moved into the house belonging to Pierre Roy, Narsise’s brother, on Rue Saint-Laurent. Twelve children were born of the marriage

; b. 13 March 1819 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada, son of François-Marie Soulard and Théotiste Voisine; d. there unmarried 27 June 1852

, judge, and professor; b. 7 Oct. 1836 in Sainte-Marie-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce (Sainte-Marie), Lower Canada, eldest son of Pierre-Elzéar Taschereau and Hémédine Dionne; grandson of Thomas-Pierre

1736 he became a cadet in the garrison of Fort Saint-Frédéric (near Crown Point, N.Y.). His father died the following year, leaving his mother to care for five sisters, while Montigny continued to serve

. Trudeau, Joseph-Charles-Émile (baptized Joseph), lawyer and businessman; b. 5 July 1887 in Saint-Michel, Que., son of Joseph Trudeau, a farmer, and Malvina

VALLÉE, LOUIS-PRUDENT (baptized Louis-François-Charles-Prudent), photographer; b. 6 Nov. 1837 in Saint-Roch

Canada, son of Vital Vigneau and Élise Boudreau; m. first 9 Jan. 1865 Louise Cormier in Pointe-aux-Esquimaux (Havre-Saint-Pierre), Lower Canada, and they had one child; m. there secondly 23

a Caughnawaga man whose identity is unknown. Raised in the Catholic Indian community at Caughnawaga, perhaps by his maternal aunt, he spent hunting seasons in the area of Lac Saint-Sacrement (Lake

Berczy* did a painting of the Woolsey family. Woolsey moved again in 1810, to be closer to his business, and for the next 16 years he was to occupy a house at Queen’s Wharf, opposite Rue Saint-Pierre

aroused a storm of protest from the rest of the loyalist community, Chipman withdrew his name, but he asked Edward Winslow to find him a desirable tract of land at the mouth of the Saint John River. In the

, and Patriote; b. 8 Feb. 1808 in Saint-Constant, Lower Canada, second of the eight children of Joseph Cardinal and Marguerite Cardinal; d. 21 Dec. 1838 in Montreal

Youngstown, N.Y.), Chambly, Saint-Frédéric (Crown Point, N.Y.), and Sault-Saint-Louis (Caughnawaga, Que.); the governor’s pavilion of the Château Saint-Louis at Quebec; design of the façade of Notre-Dame

, weightlifter, performance athlete, policeman, firefighter, and co-owner of circuses; b. 10 Oct. 1863 in Saint-Cyprien (Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville), Lower Canada, son of Pierre Cyr, a farmer, and

decided to set up at Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie (L’Acadie), where a number of Acadian families had been living for several generations. On his arrival he was put to the test by the cholera epidemic

by Claude de Saint-Étienne de La Tour in about 1625, had been captured by the English

century, the company invested in numerous sawmills, which were located at Cap-Chat and Matane in the Gaspé region, Saint-Firmin (Baie-Sainte-Catherine) and Sault-au-Cochon (Forestville) on the north shore

Florent Guyart, master baker, and of Jeanne Michelet, Marie was baptized in the former church of Saint-Saturnin. Her mother was descended from the Babou de La Bourdaisières, an old and noble family

; b. 22 Aug. 1783 in Portland Point (Saint John, N.B.), son of James Simonds* and Hannah Peabody; m. first 27 May 1817

MERCIER, HONORÉ, journalist, lawyer, and politician; b. 15 Oct. 1840 in Saint-Athanase (lberville), Lower Canada, son of

Jacques Archambault, a farmer, and Catherine Raimondvert; m. first 9 Aug. 1839 Éloïse (Élise) Roy, at Saint-Roch-de-l’Achigan; m. secondly 17 July 1848 Marguerite-Élisabeth Dugal, at

A physician based in Sainte-Anne-d’Yamachiche, poet Nérée Beauchemin (1850–1931) published his first collection

Hotel (1805), and an addition to the parish church at Baie-Saint-Paul (1804–5). Edward engaged three sons, Ambrose (until his death in 1804), Laurence, and John (from 1800), as paid apprentices. In 1808

Ville-Marie garrison, acting governor of Montreal; b. c. 1618 at Saint-Denis de Mogues, in the Ardennes, son of Jean Closse and Cécile Delafosse; m. Élisabeth Moyen in 1657; killed

is known of Pierre-Herman Dosquet’s youth other than that in 1715 he entered the Sulpician seminary in Paris, where he was ordained priest the following year. Admitted to the Society of Saint-Sulpice

Island) and in 1737 was detached to his father’s command on Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island). In the early 1740s he commanded at Port-Dauphin (Englishtown, N.S.), and in 1744 he participated in the

), surveyor; b. 7 Feb. 1767 in Detroit, son of Jean-Baptiste Duberger, dit Sanschagrin, baker, and Louise Courtois; d. 19 Sept. 1821 in the parish of Saint-Thomas (Montmagny

 Aug. 1866 in Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada, son of Joseph-Elzéar Fortier and Marie-Louise-Joséphine Simard; m. 12 Oct. 1896, at Quebec, Alice Boucher de La Bruère, daughter of Pierre

persecuted in France, they decided to go to Lower Canada. Fournier arrived at Quebec on 24 Oct. 1796. He went to live at the Collège Saint-Raphaël

-PIERRE, physician, athlete, sports columnist, promoter of physical education, and office holder; b. 15 Aug. 1868 in Saint-Urbain-Premier, Que., son of Pierre Gadbois, a carpenter

Tibbits in Fredericton, and they had two sons and three daughters; d. 27 Dec. 1937 in Saint John. Douglas Hazen – he never used his

’ Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal in 1855 and the École Normale Jacques-Cartier in 1857. After his studies there he trained at the School of Military Instruction of Montreal. Following his graduation in 1866

general for the province of Quebec in Brussels; b. 26 Dec. 1866 in Sainte-Scholastique (Mirabel), Lower Canada, son of Joseph Langlois and Olympe Clément (Proulx, dit Clément); m. 24

basis of his experience in the Zouaves he organized bands in the Quebec parishes of St Patrick and Saint-Roch, as well as in Sainte-Foy, L’Ancienne-Lorette, Saint-Joseph-de-Lévis (Saint-Joseph-de-la

Rivard, dit Loranger, a farmer and later an innkeeper, and Marie-Louise Dugal; d. 18 Aug. 1885 at Sainte-Pétronille, Île d’Orléans, Que

years after Alexander, and set up his yard on the Rivière Saint-Charles in the faubourg Saint-Roch. David joined his brothers in or before 1803, but the following year established his own yard in

did the classical program at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière from 1845 to 1856, and then studied law for three years at the Université Laval in Quebec City. He was called to the bar of Lower

ROUTHIER, Sir ADOLPHE-BASILE, lawyer, author, judge, and professor; b. 8 May 1839 in Saint-Benoît (Mirabel

(Saint John), N.B., son of James Simonds* and Hannah Peabody; m. first 18 Aug. 1813 Ann Charters, and they had seven sons and one

 Joseph; b. 25 Aug. 1687 at Martigues, France, son of Claude Turc de Castelveyre, provost, and of Marie Bonnel; d. 21 March 1755 at Cap-Français (Cap-Haïtien), Île de Saint-Domingue

VALLIÈRES DE SAINT-RÉAL, JOSEPH-RÉMI (baptized Joseph-Rémi Vallières, he signed Vallieres de St Real

the visual arts. At least three large institutions in Montreal had him teach their students: the École Normale Jacques-Cartier in 1861–62 and the Collège Sainte-Marie and the Institut Canadien-Français

BOURGEOYS, MARGUERITE, dite du Saint-Sacrement, founder of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame de Montréal; b. 17

Saint-Jacques, Montreal, son of Alphonse-Edmond Gagnon, a merchant, and Sarah Ann Willford; m. first 2 Dec. 1907 Katherine Irwin (d. 14 April 1919 of Spanish influenza) in Paris; m. secondly 10 June 1919

MORIN, AUGUSTIN-NORBERT, lawyer, politician, and judge; b. 13 Oct. 1803 at Saint-Michel (Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse