, George Washington Kendall studied at the High School of Montreal and then attended the Collège de Saint-Laurent for at least the year 1899–1900. By 1901 he was said to be the Canadian amateur lightweight

century later, it became Canada’s national anthem. First performed at the national convention of French Canadians organized by the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de la Cité de Québec, this patriotic song soon

Jacques*, Sieur de Sainte-Hélène – enjoyed a spectacular career. He was the fourth of 12 sons born to Charles

“the asylum pointed out for the Kings Friends” in the northern British colonies. They arrived at the future Parrtown (Saint John) with the “spring fleet” in 1783 and Leonard was soon made a director of

.). Marin was in Acadia again in 1746. He later claimed to have led a raid against a British provisioning party on Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), although a contemporary journal records that Joseph

 century as the Gaspé region. The peoples whom the French called Etchemins (Maliseet), who occupied the Saint John and St Croix River areas, and the Armouchiquois (Abenakis), who lived on lands farther

Montreal in 1864; he is believed to have come with the 10th Brigade, Royal Artillery. Joe Beef was in charge of the military canteen on Île Sainte-Hélène in 1864. Four years later he obtained his discharge

1829 in Côte-Saint-Michel (Montreal), son of Alexander Ogilvie, a farmer and miller, and Helen Watson; m. 13 Sept. 1854 Sarah Leney in Montreal, and they had one son and four daughters; d

influential Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice, for which he provided a variety of services including representation in disputed cases relating to the commutation of land tenure. He subdivided the seminary’s lands

PERROT, FRANÇOIS-MARIE, Seigneur de Sainte-Geneviève, governor of Montreal 1669–84 and of Acadia 1684–87; b. 1644 in Paris, son

official, spy, and author; b. 30 March 1700 at Vire (dept of Calvados), France, son of Jean Pichon, a minor merchant, and Marie Esnault; d. 22 Nov. 1781 at Saint Helier, Jersey

Simon Poirier and Henriette Arsenault; m. first 9 Jan. 1879 Anna-Marie Lusignan (d. 17 Nov. 1913) in the parish of Saint-Jacques, Montreal, and they had one stillborn child; m

in Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir (Marieville), Que., one of the 14 children of Noé Ponton and Émélie Dandurand; d. unmarried 11 Dec. 1929 in Montreal and was buried on 14 December in

QUESNEL, JOSEPH, businessman, composer, militia officer, playwright, and poet; b. 15 Nov. 1746 in Saint-Malo, France, third

her schooling at the Ursuline convent in Quebec. Having remained single like her sister Marie-Charlotte*, dite de Saint

. 1702; d. 12 Oct. 1771 in the parish of Saint-Antonin, Angoulême, France. Little is known of the early life of Jean-Louis de Raymond

addresses at King’s College, as well as popular lectures to the vice-regal set, the judiciary, members of the legislature, and other officials. A course in mineralogy was requested by the citizens of Saint

 Infantry Battalion showed great courage a few weeks later, in the German attack on Saint-Julien (Sint Juliaan), Belgium. During the second battle of Ypres in the spring of 1915

. In November 1770 he paid 10,000 livres, the equivalent of £450 or £500, for a large property on Rue Saint-Jean, where he took up residence. Two years later he purchased by tender another lot

Oswego (N.Y.) campaign. Vaudreuil received him courteously, then dispatched him to take command at the Lac Saint-Sacrement (Lake George) frontier. While Montcalm hesitantly proceeded to lay siege to Oswego

immense area that included Montreal and its suburbs, as well as the seigneuries of Saint-Hyacinthe, Île-Jésus, Saint-Sulpice, Mille-Îles, Lac-des-Deux-Montagnes, and Petite-Nation, and those along the

acted as a courier for one or other of them. In 1799, at the age of 12, Viger was enrolled in the Collège Saint-Raphaël, an institution run by the

.” Wilmot’s admission to the bar in 1832 coincided with his marriage to Jane Ballock of Saint John. Her death the following year, “after a severe and protracted illness,” may have affected Wilmot’s religious

Joseph-Adélard, he sometimes signed J.-Adélard), agronomist, teacher, civil servant, farmer, and politician; b. 24 Sept. 1892 in Saint-Éloi, Que., son of Eugène Godbout

BOURGET, IGNACE, Roman Catholic priest and bishop; b. 30 Oct. 1799 in the parish of Saint-Joseph (now in Lauzon), Lower

. René-Robert was baptized in the parish of Saint-Herbland, and brought up in the same district as Pierre Corneille, scarcely five minutes’ walk from the great playwright’s dwelling. He belonged to a rich

Saint-Thomas (Montmagny). He was 12 when his father, who was reputed to drink to excess, died suddenly. His uncle, Amable Dionne*, took him

Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse, where, as he later noted in Les gerbes canadiennes, he “worked hard, studied, laughed often, and sometimes wept.” He then enrolled in the law school of François

cemetery of Notre-Dame de Belmont at Sainte-Foy. After studying for a short time at Cap-Santé, Pierre Garneau left for Quebec in 1839 and went to

archbishop; b. 23 Aug. 1855 in Saint-Isidore, near La Prairie, Lower Canada, one of the 16 children of François-Théophile Langevin and Marie-Paméla Racicot; d. 15 June 1915 in

family of Patriotes, three of whose members had taken part in the 1837 uprising. His father, then a notary in Saint-Hyacinthe, had fought at Saint-Denis and Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu and had been

planks bought from local sawmills. The company had offices and a warehouse on Rue Saint-Pierre at Quebec, two roadsteads on the south shore, with wharves, breakwaters, and workshops, and a sawmill at

order of Saint-Louis, governor of Trois-Rivières and governor of Montreal, acting governor of New France from 1714 to 1716, builder of the Château de Ramezay, famous Montreal landmark; b. at La

 May 1901 in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, Que. John Jones Ross attended the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1844 to 1847. He left after

August 1783 he was co-editor with William Lewis* of the New-York Mercury; or, General Advertiser. Ryan arrived on the Saint John River

LOUIS-OLIVIER, lawyer, politician, and office holder; b. 26 Sept. 1840 in Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne

, and they had a son and a daughter, both of whom predeceased them; d. 27 Sept. 1938 in the parish of Sainte-Pétronille, Île d’Orléans, Que., and was buried there three days later in the

price of about £280. He engaged in sealing and fur trading at the past of Saint-Augustin (Que.) in partnership with François-Joseph Cugnet

Saint-Roch in Quebec City, which had been founded the previous year by Bishop Joseph-Octave Plessis*; Charles-François

. During these years Fisher was actively supporting railway construction. Though once burned in effigy in Saint John for opposing the Saint John to Shediac line, he was a solid supporter of the European and

Arnold followed up their successes by raiding into Canada as far as Saint-Jean (Quo.), and their relatively good luck convinced them that an invasion of the province would be successful. The Continental

perhaps Sarah Haslam; m. first January 1818 Martha Evans “of Bedfordshire,” and they had two daughters; m. secondly 11 Dec. 1852 Amy Nicholson, née Vernon, in Saint

of the Gospel. In 1818, at the age of 28, he left Britain with his younger brother William to take up a post at St Andrews (Saint-André-Est), Argenteuil seigneury, Lower Canada

preach and hear confessions in the dioceses of Brittany. Later he became parish priest at Plérin, in the diocese of Saint-Brieuc, and took an interest in the community of the Filles du Saint-Esprit

Elementary, but higher branches of Education may be taught.” First broached at a meeting of New Brunswick Methodist ministers in Saint John, Allison’s offer

France at the Petit Séminaire de Sainte-Garde in Saint-Didier les Bains from 1837 to 1842, and then entered the Oblate juniorate of Notre-Dame de Lumières. He was a novice at Notre-Dame-de-l’Osier in 1845

for about six years. Returning to Quebec at the beginning of the American revolution, Aylwin set up his business on Rue Saint-Jean and later rented a

early years in the parish of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Laval). Having begun his secondary schooling at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal, from 1847 he attended the Collège Joliette in Industrie (Joliette

; m. secondly 10 Oct. 1893 in Saint-Germain-de-Rimouski (Rimouski), Que., Marie-Ursule Côté, widow of Rodolphe Cyprien Tanguay; m. thirdly 6 Feb. 1896 Marie Geneviève-Alphonsine

as her “dull years,” during which she kept up certain social appearances in Montreal and Saint-Irénée (her summer residence). On 9 Jan. 1922 Joseph Lavergne died. On 15 Oct. 1924, at the age