premises, at that time situated at, Rue Saint-Vincent, were removed two years later to Rue Notre-Dame, near Saint-Laurent, a more prestigious location. Like some of the other leading Montreal cabinet-makers

Saint-Castin; d. c. 1749. Jacques-Philippe-Urbain Rondeau came to Louisbourg, Île Royale (Cape Breton Island), in the early 1720s. He lived

back from England on 1 Oct. 1760 mentions that at Drucour’s order he was in Canada. He died on 30 November in Rochefort, after being made a knight of the order of Saint-Louis on 8 Feb

Jacques de Roybon d’Allonne, soldier in the king’s company, then gentleman carver at the court; d. mid-January 1718 at the côte Saint-Martin, near Montreal

position was added that of controller in 1723 when Governor Saint-Ovide [Monbeton] complained to the

. c. 1750; d. 2 Oct. 1818 in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Lower Canada. John Sayer first appeared in the fur trade in the late

. Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour controlled Acadia at this time, but his defences were weak. He had outlasted his rival, Charles de

dam, with a combined railway and roadway on top, from the foot of Victoria Bridge to Île Sainte-Hélène and a suspension bridge from there to the south shore of the St Lawrence River. Since the

. Harry Short’s father emigrated from England to New Brunswick and worked as a lumber merchant in Saint John. After the death of his first wife, he married into the influential Clarke family of Bear River

). Smart was instructed to investigate conditions on the spot; to visit Île Royale, where he would request Governor Saint-Ovide

also had vessels built for him by John Stewart at Saint John, N.B., and Samuel Smith at Bedford, N.S. He owned shares in vessels built by John A. Harvie and James Mosher at Newport

Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière in Lower Canada, he is thought to have entered the Grand Séminaire de Québec, but he soon left to pursue a career in what became his principal occupation, teaching. He lets the

architects from Montreal, Toronto, and the United States. Along Chemin Saint-Louis and the extension of the Grande Allée, but also Chemin Sainte-Foy, Avenue des Érables, and Avenue du Parc, the new Montcalm

. Mountain quickly appointed Stewart to the seigneury of Saint-Armand, Lower Canada, and even suggested that he succeed as bishop should Mountain obtain a much desired translation. Mountain failed to secure a

. With businessman John Porter, Stuart in 1851 acquired the Saint-Maurice ironworks from his brother Henry Stuart for £16,559. Henry had taken possession in 1846 but, lacking capital, was forced to lease

 Andrew’s Church at Quebec; two boys and four girls were born of these marriages; d. 10 Jan. 1907 of a heart attack at his residence on Chemin Sainte-Foy and was buried on 12 January in Mount

permission to open up the Illinois country and explore the Mississippi. On 15 Sept. 1678, Tonty and La Salle arrived at Quebec on the Saint

. 27 Dec. 1875 in Saint-Cuthbert, Que., daughter of Odilon Toupin, a farmer, and Marie-Célina Fafard; d. 3 Feb. 1925 in Montreal

west, at paying Canadian debts with high tariffs, and at the suggestion that the Intercolonial Railway would benefit any ports other than Saint John, N.B. Unlike most prominent “antis,” he was

Mondelet* and Jean-Philippe Leprohon, heard the witnesses at the presbytery in the parish of Saint-Pierre-du-Portage (Assomption-de-la-Sainte-Vierge) at L’Assomption. On 21 March the commissioners

Viau et Frère. At the same time he abandoned his store on Rue des Commissaires. The Viau factory was installed in premises on Rue Sainte-Marie (Rue Notre-Dame) in the city’s east end and was enlarged

1895, and his appointment as commanding officer of the infantry company at Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Que., in 1897, occurred because of his seniority

sometimes known as Louis), draftsman, painter, teacher, and photographer; b. c. 1806 in Saint-Aignan, France; d. 28 Nov. 1860 in Montreal

them carried diseases such as typhus. In New Brunswick, the majority of the immigrants arrived at Saint John and were quarantined at Partridge Island in hospital sheds and military tents. However, some

, that he entered the college at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière in 1854, at the age of 12. There, under the influence of Abbé Pierre-Stanislas Vallée, a teacher at the college and an enthusiast of military

family, ed. D. L. Jacobus (2v., New Haven, Conn., 1939–42). D. R. Jack, “Queens County, Nova Scotia,” Acadiensis (Saint John, N.B.), IV (1904), 93–95. R. R

; d. 4 May 1917 in Mont-Saint-Eloi, France. Little is known about William James Withrow’s childhood. He attended the Model Grammar School

the society of a tour he had made that summer to Maugerville (N.B.) and the Indian settlements on the Saint John River. Wood was a good linguist and

the authorities on a number of occasions. Workman, as a volunteer, participated in the defeat of the rebels at the bloody battle of Saint-Eustache and at Saint-Benoît, in the latter stages of the

the Saint John River and to proceed from there to Minas, Cobequid (Truro), Pisiguit, and afterwards to Chignecto, and to keep an exact journal of his expenses and of all his public transactions

to survivors who reached Saint-Jean-de-Luz, had gone ashore in 1593 with a valuable cargo. On the southern side of St. George’s Bay he found the ships, much battered, but got from them 700 to 800

France . . . (1744), procurator in Paris of the Jesuit missions and Ursuline convents in New France and Louisiana; b. 24 (al. 29) Oct. 1682 at Saint-Quentin, France, son

. 5 Dec. 1749 at Montreal and was buried there two days later in the Sainte-Anne chapel in the church of Notre-Dame. The Gaultiers came

session and supported the government-sponsored European and North American Railway to be built from Saint John to Shediac. Over the next couple of years Smith rose to the front rank of a growing opposition

Noël-Laurent; d. there 3 June 1839 and was buried on 7 June in Sainte-Anne’s chapel in the cathedral of Notre-Dame

be his parents, François-Réal Angers* and Louise-Adèle Taschereau, were married in Sainte-Marie-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce (Sainte-Marie) on

Biard and Massé on board, then sailed south to the Penobscot, and began to build a settlement named Saint-Sauveur. Here Argall discovered them in July

that he sold again the following year with a profit of 1,200 livres. In 1779 he obtained by tender a dwelling on Rue Saint-Joseph (Rue Garneau), and then bought a property and a house on Rue

, office holder, and jp; b. 3 April 1776 in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Que., son of Jean-Baptiste Blanchet, a farmer, and Marie-Geneviève Destroismaisons; m

. During his career he made 16 major voyages to such places as Copenhagen, Stockholm, Martinique, and Saint-Domingue (Hispaniola). His promotions were steady: sub-lieutenant in 1731, lieutenant

career, he turned his hopes to his native land again. He decided to become a large landowner, and he purchased seigneuries: Vaudreuil, Rigaud, and Saint-François-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce, which had belonged

Céloron* de Blainville’s expedition against the Chickasaws. Commissioned second ensign in 1742, he carried out engineering duties until 1748 at Fort Saint-Frédéric (near Crown Point, N.Y.), where the

located, was later to become Mother Louise de Sainte-Marie of the Congrégation Notre-Dame at Troyes. The date of her death is not known; we do know, however, that she survived her brother Paul, as is

Finlay. Eight years later Thomas Andrew Turner had the sheriff seize David’s residence on Rue Saint-Paul, a luxurious two-storey stone house, acquired from James

Wilkinson*, and perhaps as many as 120 local axe-men and foremen. By the end of the 1843 season most of the work on the north line, from the source of the St Croix to the Saint John River, as

GLANDELET, CHARLES DE, priest, writer, teacher, preacher, secretary to Bishop Saint-Vallier

. 1864 in the parish of Saint-Raphaël-Archange on Île Bizard, Lower Canada, son of Léon Gravel and Marie Lauzon, farmers; m. 26 May 1891 Sophie (also called Laura) Roy (d. 26 Nov. 1943

parish of Saint-Joseph, Montreal, and they had nine children, six of whom reached adulthood; d. 15 Nov. 1933 in Montreal and was buried there three days later in Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery

; Pines Heineman in Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue, Rivière-du-Loup (Louiseville); Emmanuel Manuel in Sainte-Anne-d’Yamachiche (Yamachiche); Joseph Judah and Barnett Lyons in Berthier-en-Haut (Berthierville

l’Archevêché de Saint-Boniface, Man., Fonds Taché; and the Arch. des Sœurs Grises, Montreal, Dossier Lebret. NA, RG 10. La Liberté