June 1863 in Upton-Partie-Nord-Est (Saint‑Guillaume), Lower Canada, son of Antoine Lesieur-Desaulniers, a physician, and Hélène-Lucil-Virginie Tellier; m. 5 July 1887 Elizabeth Martin in the

of Saint-Sulpice to go to Canada. He arrived in Quebec on 7 Sept. 1666 and left a week later as military chaplain accompanying

messengers to Louisbourg to ask the governor, Joseph de Brouillan, dit Saint-Ovide [Monbeton*], for his advice

Amsterdam. He subsequently settled in Montreal, advertising himself as a music teacher on Rue Craig (Rue Saint-Antoine) while, at the same time, working as principal cellist in the Orchestre Symphonique de

Lesieur-Duchêne (Duchaîne) family that towards the end of the 18th century had inherited part of Grosbois seigneury near Trois-Rivières. He received a classical education at the Collège Saint-Raphaël in

October Panet conceded a tract to Ermatinger in the same seigneury. Ermatinger also had a farm at Saint-Constant. From 1808 to 1812 he was engaged in the potash trade

in Montreal, son of Léon Fabre, a hatter, and Alphonsine Daoust; m. 19 Dec. 1915 Blanche Dufour in the parish of Saint-Joseph, Montreal, and they had six children, of whom two daughters and

second property, with a garden and orchard, in the faubourg d’Ailleboust. He bought a piece of land in the faubourg Saint-Laurent, subdivided it into lots, and sold about 20 of them

parish of Saint-Julien in Albi, France, son of Victor-Joseph de Galaup and Marguerite de Rességuier; m. 18 June 1783 Louise-Éléonore Broudou in Paris; they had no children; d. in June

Bonnécamps, a former colleague in Quebec. In May the two Jesuits rejoined Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Pé*, who was still serving as

of Johnny (Jean) Guay, a merchant, and Marie-Émilie Tremblay; m. 2 Sept. 1889 Maria Morin in Saint-Louis-de-Métabetchouan (Chambord), Que., and they had six children; d. 18 Sept

temporarily in Ottawa, Mary Ellen was enrolled as a student boarder at the Pensionnat Mont-Sainte-Marie established by the Congregation of Notre-Dame in Montreal. There, she pursued the French-language program

 Aug. 1866 in Straiton, Ayrshire, Agnes Kirkwood (d. 1883) of Paisley, Scotland; m. secondly 11 Oct. 1887, in Quebec City, Elizabeth Hastings of Saint John; he had five daughters and two

HINDENLANG (Hindelang), CHARLES (sometimes known as Lamartine and as Saint-Martin

HOLMAN, ROBERT TINSON, businessman; b. 13 March 1833 in Saint John, N.B., fourth and youngest son of James Holman and Sarah

premiered in June 1922 at Montreal’s Théâtre Saint-Denis, the second largest in the city at the time, with 3,000 seats, and was screened for four days as part of a program that included a production of

medicine in Canada East. In June 1861 the governor general appointed him medical superintendent of the new insane asylum at Saint-Jean, the establishment of which represented a unique experiment in

taught at various stages in his career at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal, the Collège Sainte-Marie, the École Normale Jacques-Cartier, the Villa Maria and Mont-Sainte-Marie boarding-schools, the convent

writer; b. 19 Sept. 1849 in Saint-Anselme, Lower Canada, son of David Kemner, dit Laflamme, a farmer, and Josephte Jamme; d. 6 July 1910 at Quebec

Anna Maria Philipps, and they had eight children; d. 23 Sept. 1840 in Saint-Édouard, near Napierville, Lower Canada. As a child François

Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, Lower Canada, eldest son of Dr Joseph-Olivier Laurendeau and Céline Dostaler; m. 23 Sept. 1879 Marie-Georgianna Mérizzi in Napierville, Que.; d. 19 Aug

LÉGARÉ, JEAN-LOUIS, businessman, office holder, and rancher; b. 25 Oct. 1841 in Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan (Saint

of master shipbuilder did not entail any special political privilege as it did at Saint John, N.B., where it carried with it admission to the freedom of the city. The change in Munn’s title is more

buildings of the Caledonia Iron Works on Rue William, and the two companies were managed from a single downtown office at 22 Rue du Saint-Sacrement. McDougall kept for himself only a third of the new

d’Orsonnens served in Lower Canada at Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Lacolle, and Hemmingford. Promoted captain (1867), major (1868), and lieutenant-colonel (1869), he assumed various responsibilities

PANET, PIERRE (Pierre-Méru), notary, office holder, lawyer, judge, and politician; b. 1731 in the parish of Saint-Germain

 Montreal. In 1895 Prévost began his classical studies at the Collège Sainte-Marie, where one of his classmates was Athanase

RICHER, ARTHUR-JOSEPH (baptized Joseph-Arthur-Adélard), physician and professor; b. 16 Nov. 1868 in Saint

Austrian Succession from 1744 to 1748, particularly on the Italian front, where he was commended for his ability and courage. Promoted captain in 1745, he was awarded the cross of Saint-Louis eight years

on 21 September and took the habit of the community eight days later. They lived in the parish of Saint-Jean-Baptiste where the Archiconfrérie de Prière et de Pénitence was located. Its

men of his station, chose a military career, joining the Régiment de La Sarre in 1756. On 28 April 1760 he took part in the battle of Sainte-Foy [see François de

THIBAULT, CHARLES, lawyer, politician, office holder, author, journalist, and lecturer; b. 16 Sept. 1840 in Saint-Athanase

Chauveau; m. 19 Oct. 1910 Maud Fraser in the parish of Saint-Patrice-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup in Fraserville (Rivière-du-Loup), Que., and they had nine children; d. 8 Jan. 1939 in Quebec

good husbands for his older daughters, Dr Valois considered moving, and in 1886 the family settled in Sainte-Cunégonde (Montreal). Around 1888 Léonise spent a short period with the Religieuses du

Worrell’s episcopate was the completion of All Saints’ Cathedral in Halifax. This had been the dream of the fourth bishop, Hibbert Binney*, but

Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste of Quebec. In January 1848 he also helped found the Institut Canadien and served as its first treasurer. From then on

-Lorette (Loretteville), Que., son of Raymond Bourdages*, a surgeon and merchant, and Esther Leblanc; d. 20 Jan. 1835 in Saint

Saint-Sulpice in Montreal along with some fellow students and a few teachers; there he continued his studies and began his theology, having received a scholarship of 100 livres from the

Indians to the Christian faith. De Monts turned at once to organizing a trading company. Merchants in Rouen, Saint-Malo, La Rochelle, and Saint-Jean

Dumas* Saint-Martin, probably as the agent of the La Rochelle merchant Jean Chaudrue. The following year Alexandre’s young brother Antoine-Libéral joined him as a clerk. They had all been

McCarthy in Saint John, and they had eleven children, four of whom died in infancy; d. 28 July 1916 in Dorchester, N.B. Born into one

Martinique, where he was handed an indent for supplies from the governor of Île Saint-Christophe (St. Kitts), which was being blockaded by the English. As France was then an ally of Holland, La Barre

houses in the town proper and some pieces of land in the faubourg Saint-Roch. He held several properties en censive in the fiefs of Tilly and Saint-François, and he had received a grant

tutor until he was nine, he was then sent to the Collège de Laval, the Collège de Sées, and the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Paris. The seminary’s superior saw that this 17-year-old had no

 Versailles, a roofer, and Julie Monarque; m. September 1904 Marie Prendergast in the parish of Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur in the same city, and they had seven sons and three daughters; d. 8

the possibilities on the north side of the Bay of Fundy. When they reached the Saint John River valley, where many loyalist refugees were already encamped, they knew they were home. The bounteous

. After inheriting his father’s 3,450-acre estate, which included the seigneuries of Deguire (also known as Rivière-David), Bourg-Marie-Est, Saint-François, and La Lussaudière, Würtele rendered fealty

, he commenced teaching in Saint-Romuald, on the south shore of the St Lawrence, and at the same time began to take an interest in medicine. In 1864, on the advice of the village priest, Abbé Pierre

Paroissial, speaking on aesthetic matters, topics related to Canadian history, and religious subjects. The year 1858 also saw the beginning of his musical career. He was organist at Saint-Pierre-Apôtre in

disbanded at Parrtown (Saint John, N.B.) in 1783. In 1784, under Campbell’s leadership, the Highlanders moved to the Nashwaak River, about 15 miles from St Anne’s Point, the main centre for the loyalist