October in Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery. Joseph Contant pursued classical studies at the Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal, at least for the school year

. DANEAU DE MUY, NICOLAS, officer in the colonial regular troops, knight of the order of Saint-Louis; b. 1651 in Beauvais, France, son of Jacques Daneau and Catherine Driot; d. 28 Jan

that his body, with “his gold watch, some money, and the keys he had on him,” had been found at Saint-Pierre, Île d’Orléans, the preceding afternoon, “a few days” after the accident “in the roads

; b. at Saint John, N.B., probably on 23 Aug. 1833, third child of loyalists Nathan Smith DeMill and Elizabeth Budd; d. at Halifax, N.S., 28 Jan. 1880, at the age of 47

Petitot, dit Saint-Sceine (Sincennes), and sister of Pierre*. Subsequently, while Amable’s own family removed to Quebec, Amable and Marie

that he be sent back to Canada. He reached Quebec on 30 June 1665. Appointed chaplain to Fort Saint-Louis, he died shortly afterwards in his new office and was buried at Quebec on 16 Nov. 1665

DU PONT DE RENON, MICHEL (sometimes called Du Pont de Saint-Pierre), officer of the garrison in Acadia and on Île

father made a comfortable living from the business, which enabled Dominique to attend the Collège Saint-Raphaël in Montreal from 1780 to 1786. But the boy possessed his father’s independence of spirit, and

1848 at the newly established Collège Saint-Joseph (incorporated the next year as the College of Bytown and known as the College of Ottawa after 1861). He later studied under its principal, Joseph-Henri

sculptor, and of Françoise Lamoureux; originally from the parish of Saint-Porchère in Poitiers (province of Poitou); buried 30 Aug. 1726 at Beauport

FORANT, ISAAC-LOUIS DE, naval officer, knight of the order of Saint-Louis, third governor of Île Royale (Cape Breton Island); b

production of fish oil. Fortin was also sent to Saint-Pierre and Miquelon and the French shore of Newfoundland to examine the fishing techniques used there. While travelling in his ship, La Canadienne

Quebec. He spent his childhood in Rivière-Ouelle and did his classical studies at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière from 1859 to 1863. Accepted as a student for the notarial profession the

. Revisions based on:Arch. en Ligne, Charente-Maritime (La Rochelle, France), “Reg. paroissiaux, pastoraux et d’état civil,” La Rochelle, Saint-Nicolas, 24 juin 1676

GARREAU, LÉONARD, priest, Jesuit, missionary; b. 11 Oct. 1609 (or in September 1610) at Aridieux (Saint

the Séminaire des Missions Étrangères in Quebec, missionary to the Abenaki and Micmac (Mi’kmaq) of Acadia and Nova Scotia; b. 16 April 1674 at Sainte-Famille, Île d’Orléans

GIARD, LOUIS, doctor and office-holder; b. 1 Nov. 1809 at Saint-Ours, Lower Canada, son of François Giard, a

Gillmor stood for election to the House of Commons but was defeated. Successful in 1874, he was re-elected continuously until 1896 when, despite the Liberal sweep, “the war horse of the party,” as the Saint

in charge of the wintering-over in 1612–13 and was in command at Quebec in 1616. He died 16 Nov. 1652 in France, at Saint-Germain-de-Clairefeuille

, François,* who accompanied Daumont de Saint-Lusson when he took possession of the

first echo of the revolt, Gugy volunteered for the militia. With the rank of colonel, he led the cavalry at Saint-Charles, and it may have been he who personally seized the “column of liberty” the

significant role in advancing Acadian interests. He was chosen to teach at the first academy offering secondary education in French in New Brunswick. The Séminaire Saint-Thomas at Memramcook had been founded in

. Édouard Hamon did the first six years of his classical studies in Saint-Méen-le-Grand, France. He entered the Society of Jesus in Angers on 20 April 1860. After teaching the first year in the classics

nursed their old grudges, for Hertel de Rouville did not get his way until 24 Feb. 1827, when consent was finally given for the canonical erection of Saint-Hilaire parish (at Mont-Saint-Hilaire

, with offices on Rue Saint-Paul near the harbour. In the ensuing years Hibbard became involved in railway construction. His name is listed in 1871 as

Pierre-Jean-Louis-François Roux. Two days later Bishop Bourget appointed Honorat parish priest of Saint-Hilaire (Mont-Saint-Hilaire), the first base of the Oblates in Canada. The following summer (August

La Rocque de Roberval’s expedition. In 1555 he was still going to sea, because a document describes him as master of the Marguerite Bonaventure sailing out of Saint-Malo. This

at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1831 to 1833, and again in 1836–37 after attending the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière the previous year. Forced to abandon his studies, apparently as a

had been merely a stepping-stone to politics. He had rallied to the Liberal-Conservative banner, and his first political success came in 1863 when he was elected a councillor for the Sainte-Marie

friend. On 23 Jan. 1847 he went into partnership with Octave Morin, and the two notaries established their office at the corner of Rue Sainte-Thérèse and Rue Saint-Gabriel in Montreal, where

Saint-Léonard in Normandy, son of Guillaume Langlois and Jeanne Millet; d. 14 July 1684 at Beauport and was buried there the following day

obliged by her vows to divest herself of her property. She ceded the farm at Pointe Saint-Charles to the Hôpital Général of the Charon brothers. Her self-imposed rule of silence was subject to amendment by

LE COMTE DUPRÉ, GEORGES-HIPPOLYTE, known as Saint-Georges Dupré

of Saint-Louis, twice commandant at Michilimackinac, town major of Trois-Rivières; b. c. 1663 at Charentilly, near Tours; d. 19 Feb. 1731 at Trois-Rivières

LE POUPET DE LA BOULARDERIE, LOUIS-SIMON, knight of the order of Saint-Louis, commandant at Port d’Orléans, Île Royale (North Bay

Plaisance (Placentia); fl. 1699–1712. Loppinot, who came originally from the parish of Saint

always signed Chevalier de Lorimier), notary and Patriote; b. 27 Dec. 1803 in Saint-Cuthbert, Lower Canada, third of the ten children of Guillaume-Verneuil de Lorimier, a farmer

Lorimier* and Louise Schuyler; m. 26 Nov. 1827 Marguerite Rousseau in Saint-Régis (Akwesasne); d. 4 Oct. 1845 in Montreal. Jean

pursued an honourable career as a civil servant at the Superior Court. Immobilized by illness, Lozeau would spend almost his entire life under his mother’s care in the village of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, north

Francheville’s widow was thinking of selling her. In the night of 10–11 April 1734, perhaps to cover her flight, she set fire to the Francheville house on Rue Saint-Paul. The fire spread and turned into

in Saint-Roch-de-l’Achigan, Lower Canada, son of Isidore Marsan, dit Lapierre, a farmer, and Félonise Poitras; m. 11 July 1871 Marie-Elmire-Ernestine Viger in L’Assomption, Que., and

MAUGUE, CLAUDE, notary, clerk of court, deputy to the attorney-general; b. c. 1646 in the parish of Saint-Amand

collapsed under the task without them.” Malartic subsequently went to the Lake Champlain region – to Fort Saint-Frédéric (near Crown Point, N.Y.), and to Fort Carillon (Ticonderoga), where in the summer

familles acadiennes (Québec, 1955), 39–41, 143–44. James Hannay, “Our first families,” New Brunswick Magazine, I (1898), 129, 177–86; II (1899), 92–96; III (1899), 17. Rameau de Saint-Père

. Very little is known about Meriel de Meulan. He entered the seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris around the year 1685. He arrived in Montreal in July of 1690, and by 1695 had been appointed confessor of

brother of Alexander, in purchasing from the latter the operating lease on the Saint-Maurice ironworks. In 1796, on his return from a stay in London, Monro resumed his endeavours, both at Quebec and at the

Sainte-Anne, and in September 1666 he took part in Prouville* de Tracy’s expedition against the Mohawks. He returned to

in Saint John, Tory and Liberal both. He was found guilty on 4 of the 11 charges and sentenced to 11 months’ imprisonment. The trial did not arouse the same indignation apparent some years earlier when

Allsopp* in 1817 by Artemas Jackson, who had set up the first paper-mill in Lower Canada at Saint-André-d’Argenteuil (Saint-André-Est) between 1804 and 1806. The Scotsmen came to Jacques-Cartier and

Pointe-Saint-Charles in Montreal. John received his elementary schooling in the city’s public schools and at the Model School of Montreal. At 16 he was hired by the Grand Trunk Railway, which assigned