Colborne*, ordering Lieutenant-Colonel George Augustus Wetherall* to attack a Patriote armed camp at Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu

On 2 Feb. 1785 Bliss received his warrant of appointment and set off for Parrtown (Saint John), where he assumed office on 16 May. As attorney general he was theoretically chief legal

cross of Saint-Louis. He sailed from Brest in the Sirène in April 1756, and reached Quebec on 15 May. Shortly after his arrival he was

of the same architectural forms but shows a very different sense of proportion. Buildings at 73 Rue Sainte-Ursule (built in 1831 and now a convent) and 56 Rue Saint-Louis (1832–34) can quite rightly be

Francis College in neighbouring Richmond. In 1864 his family relocated to Montreal. Brymner completed his studies at a private school and at the Petit Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse in Sainte-Thérèse-de

of Notre-Dame, Montreal, son of Charles-Théophile Charlebois and Marie-Olive-Caroline Lauzon; m. 4 Oct. 1898 Blanche Herard (d. 5 Nov. 1924) in the parish of Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur

 children, moved with his family to nearby Saint-Benoît (Mirabel), and in 1864 they settled in Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson, northwest of Terrebonne. Ovide obtained rudimentary instruction at the local

CLOUTIER, FRANÇOIS-XAVIER, teacher, Roman Catholic priest and bishop; b. 2 Nov. 1848 in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, Lower

Katherine (Catherine) Fleming; m. 12 Aug. 1903 Mary Jane Mowatt in Saint John, and they had two daughters and a son; d. 12 Sept. 1939 in St Andrews, N.B

*, wanted it to be, “the advocate of our faith and of our distinct nationality in the capital.” Gérin, who on 13 May 1866 was elected to the management committee of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste in

. 1853 in Saint-Roch ward, Quebec, son of Laurent Huard, a joiner, and Ursule Thérien; d. 15 Oct. 1929 at Quebec. Victor-Alphonse

priests of Saint-Cuthbert and Trois-Rivières, he accepted an invitation from the priest of Verchères in 1794. He went to teach at Saint-Eustache in 1801, and then at Varennes four years later. He returned

Hervieuxs, Magnans, Courreaud de La Costes, Babys, Charly Saint-Anges, Pothiers, La Cornes, Gamelins, and Quesnel Fonblanches. Consequently Le Comte Dupré grew up in a commercial milieu, and it

. He very early took up a military career, and in 1680 became a lieutenant in the Régiment de Saint-Laurent. A year later, at Paris or Versailles, he married Claude-Élisabeth Souart d’Adoucourt, a lady’s

was recalled to military activity in 1739 and was posted commandant at Fort Saint-Frédéric (near Crown Point, N.Y.), but by September 1740 he was replaced there. In 1743 he succeeded Pierre-Joseph

the extent and nature of the Baie-Saint-Paul disease. In March 1795 Longmore, along with Nooth, Fisher, and Frédéric-Guillaume Oliva

, founding, at La Pointe du Saint-Esprit in Chequamegon Bay, a mission which ministered to refugee Ottawa and Huron tribesmen from the shores of Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. It was here that he first made

; b. 19 March 1649 at Quebec; daughter of Noël Morin, seigneur of Saint-Luc, and of Hélène Desportes*, god-daughter of Louis

merchant and seigneur Jacob Jordan* was a major backer. It operated two copper stills in a large stone building on Rue Saint-Sacrement between Saint

died in infancy; d. there 16 June 1849 and was buried 19 June in the Cimetière Saint-Louis. Charles Sauvageau was born of Michel Sauvageau’s first

, and author; b. 30 April 1849 in Saint John, daughter of Samuel James Scovil, a lawyer, and Mary Eliza Robinson; great-grandniece of John

boats who were as fat as the seals on which they live. Their eyes were so deep-set in their cheeks as to be barely visible.” In Saint-Pierre harbour, “surrounded by high mountains of barren rock

considered the Stuart brothers “friends of the Canadians.” In addition, Stuart served as the lawyer for the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Montreal, which had to defend the title to its assets against the

Plattsburgh, where he contributed to various papers and served as American correspondent for Le Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe. In

VERVILLE, JEAN-FRANÇOIS DE, engineer, knight of the order of Saint-Louis; b. in France, probably after 1680; m. Madeleine

treasurer to the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice, Montreal, where he also taught humanities for two years. After 14 months as missionary to the Iroquois of La Galette (near Ogdensburg, N.Y.), he was

accompanied his father and his brother, Hector-Pierre d’Ailleboust de Saint-Vilmé, on the expedition led by Saint-Ovide [Monbeton] against the forts at St John’s, Newfoundland. Then he returned to Acadia

Allain was ordained priest on 24 Sept. 1763 and then served in the bishopric of Coutances, France. In 1786 he readily accepted his assignment as a missionary to the islands of Saint-Pierre and

he was appointed to the Métis settlement of St Albert (Edmonton), with responsibility for Saint-Paul-des-Cris at Brosseau. The mission of St Joseph at Carlton House (near Batoche, Sask.) was

. In Nova Scotia, Aplin quickly became involved in politics, mainly in relation to loyalist resettlement. Having visited the Saint John region, in 1784 he was active in the movement for the separation of

Gugy*]. Called to the bar on 12 Feb. 1844, he practised law in Montreal for four years, and was soon interested in landed property. On 22 Sept. 1848 he bought the sub-fief of Hope (Saint

gave 24,500 livres in property, merchandise, and rentes to each of the sons of his second marriage. Duforillon’s share was the seigneuries of Kamouraska and of Sainte-Marguerite near

Esquimaux (Hamilton Inlet), a site Fornel had discovered in 1743 and renamed Baie Saint-Louis. At the time of his death he had been petitioning for a monopoly of its trade. Intendant Gilles

at this time, but do agree with Fauteux’s mention of 44 years of age at the time of the rebellion. In addition a series of transactions between 1822 and 1834 relating to a house on Rue Saint-Paul

Juchereau* de Saint-Denis. On 7 July 1664 he married Anne Després, the widow of Jean de Lauson* (the younger), the former grand

BERTHELET, PIERRE, merchant and landowner; b. 15 April 1746 in Saint-Laurent, near Montreal, son of

.” Beginning as a student, Bishop had published poetry, travel accounts, and fiction in periodicals as varied as the Messenger and Visitor (Saint John), the Maritime Baptist (Saint John

commissioned in September 1782 to investigate the Baie-Saint-Paul malady [see Philippe-Louis-François

. 27 Nov. 1796 at Saint-Michel d’Yamaska (Yamaska, Que.), son of Pierre Bonami, dit L’Espérance, and Marguerite Gouin; m. in June 1825 his country wife, Marguerite Guernon (Grenon

Boucher* de Boucherville; m. 15 Feb. 1847 Louise Gregory in Montreal, by Roman Catholic and Anglican rites, and they had two children; d. 6 Sept. 1894 in Saint-Laurent, Île

detailed plan to the city council for docks and piers at the mouth of the Rivière Saint-Charles and along the St Lawrence. The project was again put forth, unsuccessfully, by Quebec mayor Ulric-Joseph

-brewer, Thomas Purcell. Some years earlier Brehaut had purchased the Manoir Saint-Roch, located in the suburb of that name and formerly the seigneurial

Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré from 1873. Having published the “Causeries du dimanche” by Judge Adolphe-Basile Routhier* in Le

BURWASH, JOHN, Methodist minister and educator; b. 8 May 1842 near St Andrews (Saint-André-Est), Lower

accounts of British North America in the late 18th century. Campbell arrived on 28 August in Saint John, N.B., and after a stay of several days proceeded by boat and on foot to Fredericton. He called on

Monitor (also published in French as the Moniteur). In 1855, according to the Quebec directory, he lived in Quebec City and owned a bookshop on Rue Saint-Jean. On 9 Dec

, cowshed, and outbuildings, as well as property on Rue Saint-Étienne in L’Assomption, on which stood a fine wooden house, stable, dairy, cowshed, and piggery. From then on he seems to have obtained some

humble background. He received an elementary education and did an apprenticeship somewhere in the art of gilding. In 1815 he stated that he was a gilder in business in the faubourg Saint-Jean at

maritime enterprises. He now owned four vessels, the Don-de-Dieu, the Espérance, the Bon-Espoir, and the Saint-Jean, and he was regularly engaged in the fur trade and cod

., son of William Coffin and his wife Mary; one daughter, Sarah, was born of his liaison with Sarah Johnston, and he and Louise Benin of the faubourg Saint-Roch, Quebec, had two others, Marie