des Six Comtés at Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu the following day. On 6 November he participated in the stormy meeting of the Fils de la Liberté held in Montreal, and in the ensuing street fights

Jamet and Le Caron went to France to interest the Compagnie des Marchands de Rouen et de Saint-Malo and all men of goodwill in the Canadian missionary undertaking, Father Dolbeau remained

and Marguerite Petitot, dit Saint-Sceine (Sincennes); m. 1773 Marie-Marguerite Le Blanc at Salem, Massachusetts; d. after September 1799

Du Pont* Duchambon, also served in Acadia and Île Royale. Duvivier married on 12 Jan. 1705 Marie Mius d’Entremont, the daughter of Jacques Mius, Baron de Pobomcoup, and Anne de Saint

the Collège at Verdun from 1594 to 1596; d. 3 July 1613 at Saint-Sauveur (near Ellsworth, Maine). He lived several years in the

notary; b. c. 1666, son of Jean Dubreuil and Catherine Lemarinier of the parish of Saint-Médéric in Paris; d. 4 June 1734 and buried the following day at Quebec

seminary’s mill, while enjoying the benefits of greater social status. On 24 May 1794 he had been named lieutenant-colonel of the Baie-Saint-Paul battalion of militia and had thus become one of the

. In 1710 he took a census of the settlers at Plaisance and in the neighbouring district. The next year he proposed that the settlers of Newfoundland and of the island of Saint-Pierre be transported to

Dussaut), hospital nun and assistant to the superior of the Sisters of Charity of the Hôpital Général of Montreal (Grey Nuns); b. 20 June 1737 in the parish of Saint-Joseph (Lauzon, Que

 Nov. 1712. Six years later he became a knight of the order of Saint-Louis, and on 17 March 1727 he was promoted captain. He participated in the two campaigns against the Barbary pirates

voyage, probably the year before. Among them he mentioned the three islands in Watering-Place Bay (Baya d’Auguoada), other islands which he called “Fagundas,” the archipelago of Saint-Pantaléon, the

spring of 1753. Shortly afterwards he was sent to the seminary of Quebec by the Séminaire des Missions Étrangères in Paris, which was intending to post him to the Sainte-Famille mission among the Tamaroas

Carleton entrusted Frost with the post of assistant to the master attendant, the officer responsible for building and fitting out ships for the British navy, at St Johns (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu

Hélène Bourgina from Poitiers; m. on 22 Aug. 1694 Françoise Phélypeaux in Quebec; d. 9 March 1744 at Saint-Vallier (Que.). We do

homage to the Comtesse de Saint-Laurent [Charlotte-Françoise Juchereau] for these two

* of Saint-Roch. At least in Cugnet’s eyes the 1769 deed was illegal, and on 13 April 1775 (and again during the following weeks) he inserted a notice in the Quebec Gazette in which he

Villebon’s Fort Saint-Joseph (Nashwaak) on the Saint John River. Nothing more seems to be recorded about Guion’s activities after this date, but his career

-Saint-Pierre), and from there to Blanc-Sablon on the Quebec-Labrador border. “Jos.” Hébert, as he was commonly called, was appointed mail carrier for the last section. His route covered some 450 miles

-Rivières, Lower Canada; m. Julie Bélanger; d. 19 Jan. 1913 in Montreal and was buried 22 January in the Saint-Antoine parish cemetery at Longueuil

who filled appointments in Ireland, Saint-Ferdinand-d’Halifax (Halifax), Inverness, and Saint-Sylvestre (Beaurivage), and he canvassed the county in the interest of temperance reform. In 1855 he

stopped there on 7 Oct. 1535 to explore the mouth of the Saint-Maurice. Shortly before 1600 François Gravé

marriages” by Father Le Dorz, parish priest, and crediting without serious inquiry “all that the most malignant slander and calumny had brought to his ears,” Bishop Saint-Vallier

. At that period the missionaries usually lived at Ihonatiria (Saint-Joseph I), under the authority of Jean de Brébeuf

Coutlée* as bursar; she devoted her own attention to bringing the projects left unfinished by Madame d’Youville to a successful conclusion. She resolved the problems raised by the Indians at Sault-Saint

. 1857. In the elections of 1857–58 he was ousted by his first cousin Joseph-Édouard Turcotte*, the former representative for Saint

the Baie Française (Bay of Fundy) had something to do with the land grant at Cobequid which was made to him in March 1689 and which he named Saint-Mathieu. He had to overcome certain difficulties

the invasion, but there is no indication that he received any. Subsequently Menut opened an inn at the corner of Rue Saint-Jean and Rue Saint

father’s Quebec home. On 17 Feb. 1726 he married Catherine Lafontaine at Sainte-Foy. Soon after, his elderly father turned over his home and blacksmith shop to him and to a son-in-law, and for a

, and at Saint-Esprit. François Milly seems to have achieved a modest prosperity in the fishing trade. Until about 1726 he apparently lived and worked with his brother, Thomas, as a habitant fisherman. As

 Oct. 1867; 14 April 1870; 18 Jan. 1871; 23 Nov. 1893; 16 Nov. 1895. McAlpine’s Charlotte County directory . . . (Saint John), 1886–87

 –, and they had at least ten children; d. 19 Dec. 1825 at Quebec. James McCallum was a master baker on Rue Saint-Pierre, in the commercial

Scotland on condition that they learn to speak French within a year. In 1796 McKindlay was negotiating with the Hôtel-Dieu of Montreal, either for the purchase of the sub-fief of Saint-Augustin or the lease

, Nolan Lamarque returned to Montreal. The company was dissolved in 1741. The following year his wife, Marie-Anne Legardeur de Saint-Pierre, whom he had

-LÉONIDE, lawyer and politician; b. 24 Sept. 1872 in Saint-Marc, Que., on the Richelieu, son of Léon Perron, a farmer, and Marie-Anne-Eugénie Ducharme; m. 6 June 1898

Marine, and seigneur; b. 1663, son of Pierre Petit, former comptroller of the annuities of the Hôtel de Ville in Paris, and of Catherine Du Bellineau, of the parish of Saint-Jean in Paris; d. 24

subsequently on Île Royale (Cape Breton Island), perhaps at Port-Toulouse (St Peters, N.S.) itself, where several of his children had settled. In 1728 Joseph de Brouillan, dit Saint-Ovide

parish of Sainte-Marguerite in La Rochelle, France, son of Jean Pinard, a merchant, and Marguerite Gaignier; d. 1695. He came to Canada about

Margane de Lavaltrie an additional post at the Rivière Saint-Augustin for 250 livres annually. Some evidence suggests that his father participated with him in his undertakings. There can

the spring of 1664. During the 14 years that he spent in New France, he served the few parishes which were then in the making – Sainte-Famille (Île d’Orléans), Boucherville, Lauson

Quebec; b. in the manor-house of Contrecœur and baptized on 18 May 1723 at Saint-Ours (Que.), the son of Jacques-Hugues

RAGEOT DE SAINT-LUC, CHARLES, clerk of the provost court of Quebec and royal notary; baptized 12 Aug. 1674 at Quebec, eldest

and of Mother Marie-Andrée de Sainte-Hélène; m. on 29 May 1742, at Quebec, Geneviève

of the Carignan-Salières regiment, captain of the Canadian militia, and at one time churchwarden; b. 1641, son of Jean Richard, seedsman, and his wife, Anne Meusnier, of Saint-Léger, bishopric of

 Feb. 1883 in the parish of Saint-Jacques (Montreal), son of François-Olivier Rinfret, a lawyer, and Marie-Julie-Albina (Albina) Pominville; m. 4 June 1908 Berthe Lemoyne de Martigny in

René Robinau de Bécancour and Marie-Anne Leneuf de La Poterie; d. 5 July 1700 at Fort Saint-Jean in Acadia. Robinau de Villebon’s

1665 at Montreal, son of Claude Robutel de La Noue, seigneur of Île Saint-Paul, and of Suzanne de Gabrielle; d. 1733 at Baie des Puants (Green Bay, Wis

a highly successful chain. After separating from her husband, she opened her first store in 1917 on Boulevard Saint-Laurent in the heart of the city’s Jewish community. Ida and her six children, led

. Here Roubaud was assigned to the Abenaki mission at Saint-François-de-Sales (Odanak). Although he suffered from poor health, by the summer he was accompanying the Abenakis on their numerous military

depth of two leagues inland. To it were added Île Saint-Barnabé, and the adjoining islands and islets. Augustin Rouer de La Cardonnière remained

[Brisay] there was a period of calm. In 1683 Auteuil married Marie-Anne Juchereau de Saint-Denis, the daughter of one of the most important citizens in the colony and the widow of François