1641. Raymbaut returned to the residence of Sainte-Marie-des-Hurons, and at the end of that month started on a journey to the country of the Sauteurs with Father

Berthier (Berthierville) in 1856–57. From 1857 to 1861 he taught and looked after the model farm at the college. In 1861 he was sent to the mission of Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts. It was from this last posting

Aberdeenshire, Scotland, son of James Robertson; d. 21 March 1880 at Côte-Saint-Antoine, Montreal, Que. Andrew Robertson was 17 when his

ROBINAU DE BÉCANCOUR, PIERRE, Baron de PORTNEUF, knight of the order of Saint-Louis, seigneur of Bécancour, king’s attorney, chief

. During the winter of 1692 he was in command on the Saint John River. On several occasions he carried out liaison missions between Acadia and Quebec, and he maintained good relations with the Indians. He

of Saint-Sulpice, Paris, and they had a son and two daughters; m. thirdly on 16 May 1629 Guillaume Hubou at Quebec; they had no children; d. 1649 at Quebec

Scott, he operated extensive timber cutting and milling operations in the Lac Saint-Jean region under the style of Ross, Beemer and Company, and at the time of his death he was completing the construction

role as a major financier of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints (also known as the Mormon Church) in his sixties. Little is known of his early years, but New Brunswick legend claims that

SIMON DE LONGPRÉ, MARIE-CATHERINE DE, dite de Saint-Augustin, nun of the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec, daughter of

[Le Roy*]. (Smithsend’s account no longer exists.) A prize crew was put on board, but a bad storm wrecked the ship in Hayes River (called by the French Sainte-Thérèse), enabling Smithsend and

*. After the capture of Port-Royal, Southack went to Cape Sable Island, where he combatted Indians allied to the French; to Chedabouctou (Guysborough, N.S.), where he reduced Fort Saint-Louis [see

preacher in 1809. He then did some pastoral work in Scotland before emigrating in 1818. Landing at Saint John, N.B., he later moved to Nova Scotia where he was associated with the Synod of Nova Scotia. His

STISTED, Sir HENRY WILLIAM, soldier and administrator; b. 1817 at Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais

writer; b. 24 Dec. 1820 in the parish of Saint-Louis, Kamouraska, son of Charles Taché, a merchant, and Louise-Henriette de Labroquerie (Boucher de La Broquerie); m. 1 July 1847

. 1600; d. some time after 1677. Louis was baptized at Sainte-Marie-des-Hurons in 1640. The missionaries, who considered him at the time to be

Caughnawaga (Sault-Saint-Louis). Sarah later went to live with the sisters of the Congregation of Notre-Dame in Montreal. John and Zachariah remained at Caughnawaga, where they were adopted into the tribe. They

); XXI (Rich), 330f., 337–41, passim. [Nicolas Jérémie], “Relation du Détroit et de la Baie d’Hudson par Monsieur Jérémie,” Soc. historique de Saint-Boniface Bulletin, II (1912), 3–23

route into the St Lawrence. Up to that time, New France could be blockaded by ships cruising between Newfoundland and Île Royale (Cape Breton Island). Only French fishermen, chiefly from Saint-Malo

them credit, as settlement spread from the area around Quebec into the regions of Bois-Francs, Lac-Saint-Jean, and Bas-Saint-Laurent. In the absence of company archives, it remains difficult to estimate

Archives paroissiales de Sainte-Famille-du-Cap-Santé (Cap-Santé, Qué.), Registres des baptêmes, mariages et sépultures, 1822, 1878. Canada, Province of, Parliamentary debates, 1858–61

Poulet, a notorious Jansenist, was dangerously ill at the Hôtel-Dieu, Bishop Saint-Vallier [La Croix] gave instructions to Father Thiboult, as parish priest, concerning the conditions

west, hiring men and outfitting canoes for the Illinois country. In 1693 he was commissioned half-pay captain, and moved from Rue Saint-Joseph to a larger home on Rue Notre-Dame. He represented his

 Nov. 1852 in Saint-Christophe-d’Arthabaska, Lower Canada, son of Landry Tourigny, a farmer, and Lucie Poirier; m. first 5 May 1874 Alice

lumberman; b. 14 June 1787 in Saint-Louis-de-l’Isle-aux-Coudres, Quebec, son of François Tremblay and Magdeleine Beauché, dit Morency; m. first 4 Sept. 1810 Modeste Bouliane in La

ideological hegemony. In 1845 Trudeau bought a three-storey stone house on the corner of Saint-Paul and Saint-Jean-Baptiste streets, in which he set up shop. His patience and thrift during 20 years behind a

in Rome, Jean-Baptiste Saint-Germain, a great friend of the Sulpicians and parish priest of Saint

, dit Le Bourguignon, of Saint-Jean de Dijon (Burgundy), maker of edge tools or blacksmith at Château-Richer prior to his marriage with Marthe Quittel (Guittel, Quitter, Quintal) on 22 Sept

Villain and of the late Jeanne Barbé, her father and mother, of the parish of Saint-Jacques-la-Boucherie in Paris.” Ten days later the parish priest of Notre-Dame in Montreal drew up the marriage

. “I lack,” he wrote, “that energy that saints need.” He hesitated to take formal religious vows, which were introduced in the community in 1852, until his visit to France in 1857

* de Saint-Castin and Charles Legardeur* de Croisille accompanied 250 Indians, under French colours, into the town. In a letter

-Geneviève Parent, named de Saint-François d’Assise]. In the same period Émond did various smaller pieces of

La Boische and Marguerite-Françoise Pyvart (Pinard) de Chastullé; d. 12 July 1749 in the parish of Saint-Sauveur, Paris. The

Légaré*, on 1 March 1819, he was living at Quebec, where his father had recently established himself as an innkeeper in Saint-Roch ward; the apprenticeship was to last until he reached his

. 17 Feb. 1820 in Sainte-Marie-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce (Sainte-Marie), Lower Canada, son of Jean-Thomas Taschereau* and

of Saint-Louis, adventurer, privateer and trader, the most renowned son of New France; baptized 20 July 1661 at Ville-Marie (Montreal); d. probably at Havana, Cuba, probably on 9 July

AUBERT DE GASPÉ, PHILIPPE-JOSEPH, lawyer, writer, fifth and last seigneur of Saint-Jean-Port-Joli (L’Islet County); b. 30

Saint-Nicolas, near Quebec, son of Jean-Baptiste Demers, farmer and notary, and Geneviève Loignon; d. 17 May 1853 at Quebec. Jérôme Demers

years after its capture by British forces. Their partnership illustrates the methods and risks of commercial venture in this transitional period. They acquired premises on Rue Saint-Pierre in Lower Town

during the 1820s at William Henry (Sorel), Île aux Noix on the Richelieu, and Île Sainte-Hélène on the St Lawrence. With lucrative contracts, the firm was able in 1827 to establish a towing service

Cazeau*; Cazeau was present at his marriage with Charlotte Foureur on 30 Jan. 1776. Rousseau lived at Grondines (Saint-Charles-des-Grondines), where his family made its home by 1779, but returned

enrolled in the Académie Saint-Joseph, which was run by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary and was close to her home. In the 12 years she spent there, she officially was given an anglophone

. In late November, after stopping briefly in Halifax, Carleton and his entourage reached Parrtown (Saint John), which became the governor’s temporary capital. Although clearly instructed to call an

ADHÉMAR, dit Saint-Martin, TOUSSAINT-ANTOINE (often referred to as

the members of Saint-Sulpice. Des Muceaux remained the civil and criminal judge of Montreal until 26 Aug. 1677, at which date he was replaced by

, William Bent* and Charles Albert*; d. 18 Sept. 1839 in Sainte-Mélanie, Lower Canada

Boutet*. In 1680 he received from his mother the fief of Vincelotte (Cap Saint-Ignace) that she herself had received in 1672 from Talon*. At 19

there from its inception until 1899. The curriculum of this agricultural school was almost the same as that of the college of Sainte-Anne-de-la

and the cross of Saint-Louis. In addition to Beauharnois’s protection, Arnaud enjoyed the constant influence of the Comtesse de Donge at court. It may explain why he alone won his retirement in 1746

be again employed in the Church.” Mountain seems to have relented, for Arnold was appointed assistant to the Reverend William Devereux Baldwyn at Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu) in late 1839

city council of Montreal as a councillor (1850–51), then as an alderman (1852–57). He represented the Saint-Antoine ward, and stood out because of his energy and dynamism. He was a member of numerous