, businessman, politician, and office holder; b. 1 Nov. 1826 in Saint-Eustache, Lower Canada, son of Pierre Laviolette* and Elmire Dumont

., daughter of Felix Lewis and Martha Maria Shaw; m. 15 May 1856 Alexander Nevers Peters, most likely in Saint John, N.B.; d. 20 Nov. 1892 in Saint John

), Recollet, missionary; b. 13 Nov. 1716 at Quebec, son of Denis Constantin, a bourgeois, and Louise Bacon; d. 28 March 1760 at Saint-Joseph de la Nouvelle-Beauce (Saint-Joseph de

of Paul Dorion, merchant, and an unknown mother; d. 30 Dec. 1877 at Saint-Ours, Richelieu County, Que., and was buried 1 Jan. 1878 in the cemetery of the parish of L’Immaculée-Conception

GENDRON, PIERRE-SAMUEL, notary and politician; b. at Sainte-Rosalie, Lower Canada, and baptized 31 Aug. 1828

GROSTON (Grotton) DE SAINT-ANGE, ROBERT, officer in the colonial regular troops in the Illinois country; b. at Châtillon-sur

LANCTÔT, MAGLOIRE, lawyer and judge; b. 4 March 1823 at Saint-Constant de Laprairie, L.C., of the marriage

blacksmith, and Charlotte Lalu; m. 5 April 1842 Caroline Valentine in the parish of Saint-François-Xavier at Verchères; d. 15 Feb. 1903 in Montreal

LESTRINGANT DE SAINT-MARTIN (Viabon), ALEXANDRE-JOSEPH, ensign, lieutenant, captain; b. c. 1660 at Saint-Benoit-le-Fleury-sur

TIBIERGE, MARIE-CATHERINE, dite de Saint-Joachim, Hospitaller, superior of the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec; b

BAILLOQUET, PIERRE, priest, Jesuit; b. 14 Oct. 1613 at Saintes, in France; d. 7 June 1692 at

CHAREST, ZÉPHIRIN, parish priest; b. 21 Feb. 1813 at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, L.C., son of Antoine Charest

, Conn.; m. first May 1793 Isabella Chillis, and they had four sons and five daughters; m. secondly 15 Feb. 1827 Amelia Canby of Saint John, N.B., and they had one daughter; d

 April 1784 in Sandwich (Windsor, Ont.), son of Louis-Vital Dumouchelle and Magdeleine Goyau; d. 29 March 1844 in Saint-Benoît (Mirabel), Lower Canada

leave England, which was then undergoing an economic recession. Persuaded and financially aided by his brother James, a successful merchant in Saint John, N.B., Samuel emigrated to that port; he was

soon as he had been ordained a priest he left for Canada, probably in 1710, for the records of Saint-François-du-Lac attest to his presence in that parish on 14 February and on 18 and 30 March

. first Mary Wilson in Scotland, and they had four sons and two daughters; m. secondly 6 June 1833 Margaret Barr in Saint John, N.B., and they had two sons and three daughters; d. 28 Oct

MAURAULT, JOSEPH-PIERRE-ANSELME, priest, missionary, and historian; b. 27 Dec. 1819 at Saint-Louis-de

of Jean-Baptiste Millier, a farmer, and Thérèse Labossière; d. 13 Aug. 1889 at Saint-Hyacinthe, Que. Hilaire Millier received a

, Essex, Eng., on 3 Aug. 1876. Before immigrating to Saint John, New Brunswick, in 1817, John Robertson married Sophia Dobie of Lancashire; they

BURTIS, WILLIAM RICHARD MULHAREN, lawyer, author, journalist, and temperance advocate; b. 1818 in Saint John, N.B.; d. 12 Dec

, dit Carignan; d. 8 May 1844 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada. Amable Charron lost his father when he was five and received only a

DENIS (Denys) DE SAINT-SIMON, ANTOINE-CHARLES, officer in the colonial regulars; b. 3 Nov. 1734 in Quebec, son of Charles

DUBUC, SOPHIE-LOUISE, named Saint-Jean de la Croix, sister of the Congregation of Notre-Dame, teacher, and superior

priest; b. 22 Sept. 1841 in Saint-Germain-de-Rimouski (Rimouski), Lower Canada, son of Pierre Gauvreau, a notary, and Élisabeth Dubergès; d. 26 Feb. 1911 at Quebec

, loyalist; m. 8 Nov. 1809 Sarah Harrison, and they had at least three children; d. 23 Aug. 1866 at Saint John, N.B. Calvin Luther

SAVONNIÈRES DE LA TROCHE, MARIE DE, dite Marie de Saint-Joseph, Ursuline

1675 and 1680 a group of craftsmen to train carpenters, woodcarvers, masons, and stone-cutters to meet the colony’s needs. At that time the school of arts and crafts at Saint-Joachim, the creation

Saint-Nicolas (Quebec), son of Louis Demers and Thérèse Gagnon; d. 2 Sept. 1813 in Montreal, Lower Canada. Jean Demers, who took the name

the dairy industry; b. 4 Feb. 1842 in Saint-Jean-Chrysostome, Lower Canada, son of Joseph Montminy, a tinsmith, and Marguerite Lambert; d. 17 Dec. 1899 at Quebec, and was

LE MOYNE DE SAINTE-HÉLÈNE, JACQUES, soldier; baptized 16 April 1659 at Montreal, son of

, a farmer, and Marie-Angèle Mailloux; m. 20 Sept. 1851, in L’Acadie, his cousin Aurélie Molleur, and they had one daughter; m. secondly 18 Jan. 1898, in Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur

painter.”) Tradition has it that he had come at the request of the Jesuits to teach drawing and painting in the Collège Sainte-Marie, but their archives only document this activity for the year 1881–82. On

15 Aug. 1849 Margaret R. Robertson in Saint John, N.B.; m. secondly Lucille H. Hall; he had 11 children; d. 12 June 1894 in Saint John

founder of the American Federation of Labor. By 1859 Green was living with his wife and children in Saint John, as the second Jewish family to make this

SAINT-CHARLES, FRANÇOIS-XAVIER, merchant and banker; b. 7 March 1833 in

SAINT-OURS, CHARLES DE (baptized Roch-Louis), militia and army officer, seigneur

CONWAY, HONORIA, named Mother Mary Vincent, Sister of Charity of Saint John and educator; b

in Saint-Martin (Laval), Lower Canada, son of Benjamin Goyer, a farmer, and Célina Crevier; m. 2 April 1883 in the parish of Saint-Laurent, Que., Pomela Gosselin, daughter of Narcisse

, Scotland; m. 28 March 1803 Margaret Graham in Glasgow, and they had three sons and four daughters; d. 28 Dec. 1850 in Saint John, N.B

, gentleman usher of the black rod, and Anne-Françoise Normand; d. 8 Dec. 1861 at Saint-Hyacinthe, Que. After studies at the Séminaire de

BUISSON DE SAINT-COSME, JEAN-FRANÇOIS (baptized Bysson), priest of the seminary of Quebec, founder

when his parents immigrated to Saint John, N.B., to escape the Irish famine. He became a fisherman and boat builder as a young man, and his love of the water led him to rowing. His first race, and

 Sept. 1808 at Boucherville, eldest son of Colonel René Boucher de La Bruère and Marie-Julie Weilbrenner; d. 19 May 1871 at Saint-Hyacinthe, Que

GIFFARD, MARIE-FRANÇOISE, dite Marie de Saint-Ignace, Hospitaller of the

HUGUET, JOSEPH (baptized Jacques-Joseph), Jesuit and missionary; b. 25 May 1725 at Saint-Omer, France, son

HUOT, MARIE-CATHERINE, dite Sainte-Madeleine, superior of the Congregation of Notre-Dame; b

LAMBERT, dit Saint-Paul, PAUL, silversmith; b. 1691, son of Paul Lambert and Thérèse Huard

station of Saint-Pierre and was dispatched to take possession of Miquelon. He was stationed there with some 20 soldiers for nine years and in 1770 was awarded the cross of Saint-Louis

. 1783 in Saint-Ours, Que., son of Jean-Baptiste Madran and Josephte Gamarre; d. 2 June 1857 in Petit-Rocher, N.B. Jean-Marie Madran was