because of the privileged relations he had established with the CPR. From the office he set up on Rue Saint-Jacques in Montreal about 1901

, after being discharged from the colonial regular troops, worked as a hatter and lived at Saint-Jérôme-de-L’Auvergne, in Charlesbourg parish. As the oldest son, young Barthélemy seems to have learned hat

during which his father was in the greatest financial difficulty due to the bankruptcy of the Saint-Maurice ironworks and when, as well, the elder Cugnet was using all possible means to retain the trading

1784 the Quebec Gazette mentions that a consignment of assorted goods (fabrics, leather trunks, etc.) had arrived for Henry Cull, a merchant on Rue Saint-Pierre. The records of the Anglican

-Pointe (Montreal). This institution later became the Collège Saint-Raphaël. He finished his studies in 1771, but left with an unfavourable impression of the school; his father, on the other hand, held the

, Young Phoenix; RG 68, General index, 1651–1841: 382, 389, 397, 643. PANS, RG 20B, petitions, nos.569, 1896. Soc. jersiaise (Saint-Hélier, Jersey), Saint-Brelade, reg. des baptêmes, 1769

 1837 Duquet went to work in the office of his uncle Pierre-Paul Démaray*, a notary and Patriote at Dorchester (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu

1728 in Saint-Savin, France, son of Pierre Dénéchaud, a surgeon, and Antoinette Lubet; m. 17 Nov. 1756 Angélique Gastonguay at Quebec, and they had seven children; d

, 18161. Missisquoi County Hist. Soc., Report (St Johns [Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu], Que.), 6 (1960): 47–48. Charles Tupper, Report . . . on the Canadian section of the

Mme de Saint-Laurent. She had come to Gibraltar in 1790 at his request and followed him faithfully on his travels to Quebec, Halifax, Ealing, and finally to Brussels where they parted. There can be

from starvation, at the Hôpital Sainte-Jeanne d’Arc on 21 or 22 July 1938 and was interred at Mount Royal Cemetery. In two ways his name would live on long after his death. First, English

impressive sum of 18,000 livres (about £900, Halifax currency) for a house on Rue Saint-Paul belonging to the estate of Marie-Anne Hervieux, widow of the merchant Jean-Baptiste

Legislative Council to give advice on the nature and extent of the Baie-Saint-Paul malady, as did his colleagues John Mervin

Fletchers lived first on Rue du Palais (Côte du Palais) and then moved to Mount Pleasant, a hamlet on Chemin Sainte-Foy, near Quebec, which was inhabited almost exclusively by members of the English

British North America (Saint John, N.B., 1947). Macmillan, “New men in action,” Canadian business hist. (Macmillan), 72–100. Louise Manny, Ships of Miramichi: a history of

 Stephen’s main street. Financed in part with an $8,000 mortgage to the trustees of a Saint John estate, the new factory employed 100. The town of St Stephen supported the development with a ten-year

, daughter of Jacques Le Moyne* de Sainte-Hélène; buried 28 July 1757 at Montreal

GRECE, CHARLES FREDERICK, specialist in hemp production and jp; d. 12 March 1844 in Sainte

Lawrence*], Gueguen went to Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) to escape the British. After a brief stay he boarded a schooner for Quebec. He reportedly entered the Petit Séminaire and studied there

, justice of the peace, seigneur, and director of the Saint-Maurice ironworks; b. c. 1734 in The Hague, Netherlands, son of Hans George Gugi, a French speaking Swiss officer serving in the

expedition up lakes George (Lac Saint-Sacrement) and Champlain. Because of the qualities of leadership Haviland had demonstrated at Fort Edward and during the 1759 campaign, he was selected by Amherst to lead

 Laval*, in the absence of Bishop Saint-Vallier [La Croix*]. From 1707 to 1722 Hazeur de

; d. 13 Jan. 1844 in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada. Hugues Heney did his classical studies at the Collège Saint-Raphaël in Montreal from

acquired on Rue Saint-Jacques. In 1856 the firm had more than 80 employees – the weekly payroll was then £116 – and a yearly output that was valued at £20,000 to £30,000. What newspapers referred

, settling there when it was a wilderness area. Inch received his early education in the village and at the grammar school in neighbouring Gagetown. He then went to the provincial Normal School in Saint John

. . . , comp. Edward Whelan (Charlottetown, 1865; repr. Summerside, P.E.I., 1949). Daily Sun (Saint John, N.B.), 21 Aug. 1902. Gleaner (Chatham, N.B.), 1845–68. Head Quarters, 28

Grand Dauphin, in 1712. In that same year her husband was made commander of the order of Saint-Louis. Her sons won promotions in the army and the navy. She also made clever political use of her influence

learned the rudiments of business with Thos. Hodginson and Company. He quickly found employment in Montreal with John Carter and Company, importers located at the corner of Rue Saint-Paul and Rue Saint

1944 near Saint-Hyacinthe, Que. Conrad Kirouac was the son of a well-to-do merchant in the Eastern Townships. He would have five sisters and five

, sub-lieutenant in the navy, town major of Trois-Rivières and of Quebec, knight of the order of Saint-Louis, commander-in-chief of the pays d’en haut, governor of Trois-Rivières; b

. 4 Feb. 1673 in the parish of Saint-Vincent de Nay, France, son of Jean Lajus and Anne Vigneau; buried 12 March 1742 in the chapel of the Quebec Recollets, reburied in Notre-Dame, Quebec, in

sixth form classes for a year. In 1689 we find Jacques de Lamberville at Sault-Saint-Louis (Caughnawaga) and two years later, in 1692, he was in

. Médéric Lanctot was born when the turmoil of revolution was at its height. His father, a notary in the village of Saint-Rémi (Napierville County), had been stagnating in the prison at Pied-du-Courant since

 May 1859 in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, France, son of Jean-Prosper Lassalle, a collector of indirect taxes, and Mélanie Barthèlémy; m. first Onésime Fouré (d. in France); m. secondly 16

. Following four years as a preacher at Fredericton, Cornwallis Township, N.S., and Saint John, N.B., Lathern was ordained and received into the Wesleyan Methodist Conference of Eastern British America in 1859

Saint-Louis in 1725 (he had been appointed as early as 1721), Bourville succeeded, almost as a matter of course, to the king’s lieutenancy of Île Royale in 1730

 1662 at Montreal; d. July 1709 at Fort Albany. Martigny was one of at least seven children of Jacques Le Moyne de Sainte-Marie and Mathurine Godé, and a nephew of Charles

, La Boularderie did not receive a promotion. On 12 Aug. 1760 Louis XV conferred upon him the cross of Saint-Louis, although he seems to have been motivated as much by La

Placentia (Plaisance), together with Father Joseph Denys and Bishop Saint-Vallier

the classical idiom in decorative terms. In the ornamentation of the Beaver Hotel, on Rue Saint-Jean (1860), and especially the rich decoration of its elevated terracing and its fenestration, Lecourt

; b. 9 Oct. 1849 in Saint-Jean-de-Boiseau, France, son of Julien Legal and Perrine David, millers; d. 10 March 1920 in Edmonton

Hurtibise, named Marie Saint-Paul de Jésus; one of the Canadians associated with its founding, she would remain in office until 1956

of community life, Letendre conducted negotiations to get a resident priest and oversaw the construction of the church and rectory of Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue parish. He was a generous benefactor, but

Saint-Clair’s flagship, the Gaillard, fitted out at Bayonne (where L’Hermitte was serving) for an expedition during the summer of 1694 against the English in Newfoundland. L’Hermitte

familiar with Manate (New York) as well. Baptiste reported to Villebon at the Saint John River on 4 May 1692. His two small vessels were

, and also on the Sheffield and Saint John circuits in New Brunswick. He was responsible for the building of the first Methodist church in Sackville, N.B., and in 1806 he presided at the opening of a new

de Saint-Castin arrived with Abenaki recruits. The French and Indian forces put up a spirited defence. Finally, after many councils, the New England troops re-embarked on 5 June with “little

Saint Louis, awarded in that year’s honours list. It arrived too late. Marin died on 29 October at Fort de la Rivière au Bœuf (Waterford, Pa.). He had deliberately chosen to die on active service

Church: a letter to the parishioners of Saint Paul’s, Halifax, Nova Scotia, a pamphlet containing details of his conversion, with a provocative defence of the Roman

was buried three days later in Mount Hermon Cemetery in Saint-Colomb-de-Sillery (Quebec City). After apprenticeship to a printer in Scotland