, Bourges, and Orléans. After his solemn profession in the order, he was sent to Canada, where he arrived on 8 July 1640. In 1641 he went off to Sainte-Marie-des-Hurons and later was a missionary to

 July 1826 in Sainte-Croix, Lower Canada, son of Joseph Méthot, a farmer, and Marie-Xavier Desrochers; d. 6 Feb. 1892 at the Hôpital Général in Quebec and was buried three days later in the

(Rhetoric), as did most of his Montreal contemporaries, since the college of the Messieurs de Saint-Sulpice did not offer the Philosophy class until 1789. For the college and the Sulpicians, Mézière had

a painter, and in 1770 a master painter. As a house painter he worked on the church at Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse in 1773. The account book of the fabrique shows payments to Natte for two

Emma Mary Ryan, widow of Thomas W. Casey, in Halifax; they had no children; d. 20 July 1937 in Saint John. The Oland family

entrusted to Saccardy rather than Pasquine. Pasquine left maps of the mouths of the Saint John, Penobscot, and Kennebec rivers, where he recommended that

remained good friends. In 1746–47 Noyan was commandant at Fort Saint-Frédéric (near Crown Point, N.Y.), where his influence with the Iroquois (he had

PERRIN, ANTOINE, royal court officer; son of Jacques Perrin, notary and tabellion of the parish of Saint-Pierre de

. c. 1728 in the parish of Saint-Eustache, Paris, France, son of Pierre-François Picard and Marie-Jeanne Léger; d. 27 April 1799 at the Hôtel-Dieu in Montreal (Que

had one daughter; d. 1 Jan. 1828 in Saint-Ambroise (Loretteville), Lower Canada, where he was buried four days later. When he was

-Saint-Denis (Bobigny, France), Reg. paroissiaux et état civil, Montreuil-sous-Bois, 4 janv. 1611. Bibliothèque et Arch. Nationales du Québec, Centre d’arch. de Québec, CE301-S1, 3 nov. 1644, 8

 1680 at Ville-Marie (Montreal). Pérot entered the Society of Saint-Sulpice in 1651. He came to Canada in 1665. The following year he succeeded M

militia officer; b. 6 Dec. 1757 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies (Que.), only surviving child of Jean-Baptiste-Moyse de Rémond and Marie-Françoise Damours de Louvières; d. 19 March 1825

provost of the marshalsea, Charles-Paul Denys de Saint-Simon, had not yet proceeded with an

with the ministry to the mission of Saint-Nicolas, near Quebec, a charge he kept even when he became parish priest for Saint-Antoine de Tilly in November 1720. He had to deal with large

l’évêché de Nicolet (Nicolet, Qué.), Cartable Saint-Frédéric. BE, Drummond (Drummondville), reg. district Nicolet, I, no.1; reg. B, 2, no.1221. ÉÉC-Q, 28; 50; 99: 101. USPG, C/CAN/Que., IV, 36: f.404; E/Que

in his own name. Over the years his shop on Rue Saint-Vincent became one of the largest such houses in Montreal. His company brought out the Journal of Education for Lower Canada and the

to buy most of Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour’s interest in Nova

Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville’s ships, and was still there when the governor received the order to reinforce the garrison of Fort Nashwaak (Naxouat) on the Saint John River, where

up shop at 28 Rue Saint-Vallier in Quebec. On 6 Nov. 1853 he entered into partnership with his father under the company name of Jean Olivier Vallière et Fils. He then went to Europe to

street; the other is parallel to the Château Saint-Louis. On the east-west line, the engineer has set up two sections, which show the rock of Quebec in relief and the outline of the houses in the Upper and

daughters who died in infancy and one son; d. 28 Aug. 1858 on the Saint-Régis reserve. Eleazer Williams was the great-grandson of John

-Rivières, Melbourne Township, and Saint-Armand in Lower Canada, as well as in Kingston in Upper Canada, before moving to Saint John, N.B. From the outset

ensignship but nine months later was promoted lieutenant. In 1721 he became the subject of a dispute between Bishop Saint-Vallier

associated with two other brothers, Pierre-Joseph d’Ailleboust de Manthet and Ignace-René d’Ailleboust de Périgny, and after that with Louis Gastineau de Sainte-Marie, to whom Governor Charles de

 Dec. 1843 in Saint-Gervais, Lower Canada, son of Guillaume-Eusèbe Amyot, a pilot, and Louise Gosselin; m. 27 April 1874 Marguerite-Alice-Gertrude Pennée (d. 21 Dec. 1884) at Quebec

exploits over the enemy.” On 16 March 1649, he was present at Saint-Louis when the fatal Iroquois attack took place and was heard to upbraid stoutly those Hurons who would abandon the Jesuits Jean de

and Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu). He remained engaged in business until 1851, when he announced his retirement for reasons of health, and sold some of the industrial plant. However, the

appeared, cruising off the coast. Subercase was able to call in the French fishermen in time, and only a few of their vessels were captured, along with the post at Saint-Pierre. During a raid on Ferryland

AUGÉ, ÉTIENNE, merchant-trader; b. at Saint-Louis-de-Lotbinière (Lotbinière, Que

. Following ordination Bamford served on several Maritime circuits, including Liverpool, Saint John, Horton, Annapolis, Charlottetown, Halifax, and Windsor, but there is little detailed record of his work. In

; b. 25 Sept. 1803 in Saint-Armand, Lower Canada, daughter of Asahel Barber and Polly Armes; d. 23 Feb. 1898 in Scottsmore, Que

, at the age of 16, he began his medical training under James Walker of William Henry, where he settled upon being admitted to the medical profession in 1812. He served as a surgeon in the Saint-Ours

Breslay, parish priest of Sault-Saint-Louis. Michel Barthélemy was buried at Montreal on 12 April 1706

forced to flee his home at Tobique in the upper Saint John River valley for some prank, he had arrived in Restigouche known only as Pierre. His knowledge of basket making, supposedly learned from the

mouth of the brook Barachois, at Saint-Pierre de La Malbaie), and at Percé. Pierre Denys seems to have been the one chiefly responsible for the smooth functioning of this establishment, which

sojourn in Canada was destined to be short. He arrived with Dieskau in June 1755 and was captured at Lac Saint-Sacrement (Lake George, N.Y.) in September. Dieskau, seriously wounded, was abandoned on

 June 1829 at Saint-Pierre-Montmagny, Lower Canada, son of Louis Blanchet, a farmer, and Marie-Marguerite Fontaine; m. 28 Aug. 1850 Émilie Balzaretti at Quebec City, and they had six children; d

BLISS, WILLIAM BLOWERS, barrister and judge; b. 24 Aug. 1795 at Saint John, N.B., son of Massachusetts loyalists Jonathan

BOIRET, URBAIN, priest and superior of the Séminaire de Québec; b. 6 Sept. 1731 in the parish of Saint

Botsford* and Sarah Chandler; m. in 1802 probably at Saint John, N.B., Sarah Lowell Murray, née Hazen, and they had eight sons and a daughter; d. 8 May 1864 at Westcock

Dubreuil*, Gilbert Boucault signed his marriage contract, in which he declared that he was a writer in the Marine. On 7 Jan. 1730, at Sainte-Foy, he married Marie-Madeleine de Lajoüe, 12 years

. Jean Boucher de Montbrun died in 1742 and was buried in the church of Sainte-Famille in Boucherville. He had been an active man, taking part in expeditions for war, trade, or exploration, at the same

half-pay captain. First recommended for the cross of Saint-Louis in 1741, he was finally granted it in 1747. Boucher was present at the siege of

; b. 17 June 1782 in Montreal, son of Pierre Bouthillier and Angélique Lemaire Saint-Germain; d. 12 Nov. 1835 in Beauport, Lower Canada

[see Marie-Louise Curot, dite de Saint-Martin]. Not only had Bowman and Détailleur provided

several generations and many of them had been leading citizens. Little is known about the first 20 years of his life, except that he studied at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe from 1847 to 1851

. Alexandre-Auguste Brunet attended the College de Saint-Marcellin and the Petit Séminaire de Côte-Saint-André in Isère. In 1837 he joined the army but left it the following year and completed his studies at

originally from Pont-Saint-Esprit in Provence and arrived in Canada in 1756; Charles Bruguier’s second wife was Sophie Mercier. Élisabeth’s baptismal certificate gives the name Bruguier, but the spelling was

BRÉHANT DE GALINÉE, RENÉ DE, priest, Sulpician, prior of Saint-Maur de Nazar (Saint-Brieuc); b. c. 1645 in the diocese of