only by a palisade of stakes. The port, however, was magnificent, surrounded by fine gravel beaches, and serving as a meeting-place for the Saint-Malo, Basque, and Breton fishermen, who came there to get

did not come back. He had been killed, scalped and stripped, probably by Kickapoo warriors. Thus perished this saintly missionary whose piety, virtue, courage and tact were praised by all who knew him

. Shocked by Marguerite’s conduct, Roberval set her down on an island called Île des Démons, in the St. Lawrence near the mouth of the Rivière Saint-Paul. According to Thevet, the young man joined her

States, and Great Britain. He also wanted to exploit the magnetic sands of the Rivière Moisie, and set up a laboratory on the banks of the Rivière Saint-Charles near Quebec. He died before learning the

. Father Adrien Ladan entered religion in 1666, when he joined the Recollets of the ecclesiastical province of Saint-Denis; he arrived in New France in 1681. His celebrity is due to his quarrels with Bishop

adopted the name of Jean-Pierre de Sales Laterrière after his arrival in Canada in 1766. Jean-Pierre practised medicine, engaged in commerce, and directed the ironworks at Saint-Maurice, before becoming

). Hugolin Lemay, “L’œuvre manuscrite ou imprimée des Récollets de la mission du Canada (Province de Saint-Denis), 1615–1629,” RSCT, 3d ser., XXX (1936), sect.i, 115–26

Archives paroissiales, Sainte-Marie (Church Point, N.-É.), Registre des baptêmes, mariages et sépultures, 1799–1801. N.S., Dept. of Lands and Forests, Crown Lands Office, Index sheet no.6. PAC, MG

 Aug. 1689 in Montreal, son of Louis Le Conte* Dupré, a merchant, and Marie-Catherine de Saint-Georges; d. 24 May

and inn on Saint-Eustache concession; m. 20 Oct. 1863 Marie-Honorine-Sélima Robitaille at Quebec, and they had 14 children; d. 11 June 1918 in Deschaillons, Que

later in the cemetery of Notre-Dame de Belmont at Sainte-Foy. After classical studies at the Collège de L’Assomption from 1845 to 1852, Siméon Le

profession in 1859, bâtonnier in 1863; he was also president of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste of Montreal in 1867, and churchwarden of the charitable organization and council of the parish (Notre

Grant (1744–1805) was captain; soon after he himself became a militia captain. During the siege of the town his property on Rue Saint-Pierre was severely damaged

officiers,” 326; Inv. concessions, I, 62; II, III, 26. Ivanhoë Caron, “Les censitaires du côteau Sainte-Geneviève (banlieue de Québec) de 1636 à 1800,” BRH, XXVII (1921), 98. P.-G

(baptized François-Xavier-Ferdinand), lawyer, politician, and judge; b. 9 April 1851 in Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-Lévy (Lévis), Lower Canada, son of Antoine Lemieux, a farmer, and

the age of 31, he rose to prominence with the publication in London, England, of his brilliant essay on Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, the celebrated and recently deceased French author and

hold meetings in all the French parishes of the settlement in order to decide what attitude to take. Lépine presided at a meeting at Pointe-Coupée (near present-day Sainte-Agathe) on 7 October at

fealty and homage to Bishop Laval* in the name of the nuns of the Hôtel-Dieu for their arriere-fief of Saint-Laurent on the Île d’Orléans

Saint-Jean-Baptiste du Port Royal) (original of the volume for 1702–28 is at PANS, and that for 1727–55 is at the Diocesan Archives, Yarmouth, N.S.); MG 23, C16. Knox, Historical journal

[Pourroy*]. Malhiot lived on until 28 Jan. 1756, when he died in his house on Rue Saint-Paul, Montreal. He left two stores, and his fortune amounted to 15,814 livres 17 sols

-Marie, medico-legal expert in that town; b. 1645, son of Paul Martinet, a merchant from Moustier Saint-Jean in the diocese of Langres, and of Catherine Ducas; d. 7 Nov. 1701

days later Lac Saint-Jean, where Michaux explored extensively the shores and the surrounding forest. Following the Rivière Mistassini and small rivers and lakes, he arrived at Lac Mistassini on 4

first fifty years of the Church of England in the province of New Brunswick (1783–1883) (Saint John, N.B., 1880), 122. W. C. Milner, History of Sackville, New Brunswick

, Minweweh did not resist but moved his band westward. In 1765 he travelled through the Illinois country and the region around Fort Saint-Joseph (probably Niles, Mich.), planning with the Potawatomis, Ottawas

performed until 6 April. The couple took up residence in the village of Saint-Laurent on the Île d’Orléans. They had six children, the last born in 1709

of the English and French commissaries, I, 21, 121, 411, 588–89, 591–96, 599–600. PRO, CSP, Col, 1661–68, nos.1868, 1877, 1898. Couillard Després, Saint-Étienne de La Tour

home and abroad (Boston, 1914). G. G. Patterson, A history of the county of Pictou, N.S. (Montreal, Pictou, N.S., Halifax, Saint John, N.B., and Toronto, 1877). J

), preface. DPL, Burton hist. coll., Journal ou dictation d’une conspiration; Registres des baptêmes, mariages et sépultures de Sainte-Anne (Detroit

l’Incarnation [see Guyart] says that he was a true saint, and his own people wondered whether he did not want to

Sillery in 1642. Nicollet’s arrival in Canada – in the service of the Compagnie des Marchands de Rouen et de Saint-Malo – remains difficult to date. The

regretted that he was not able to stay permanently with this “wretched but saintly people,” to use his own words. Father Nédélec would end his missionary

Chipman* in Saint John some time in the late 1790s and was named a notary public in 1802, admitted as an attorney in 1804, and called to the bar in 1806. His responsibilities in the Supreme Court were

prove an effective and durable material for ship construction. He also established, with his brother William, a packet service from St Andrews to Saint John. In spite of competition from American

Sainte-Anne de la Grande-Anse. Panet’s influence soon spread beyond his parish. The bishop of Quebec chose him as his delegate in the region between

AD, Gironde (Bordeaux), Minutes Janeau (Bordeaux), 23 nov. 1726. AN, Col., E, 330 (dossier Pascaud). Archives municipales, Bordeaux (dép. de la Gironde, France), État civil, Saint-André, 20

Charles-Ovide*, killed at the battle of Saint-Denis, by the dispersion of the rest of his family, and by the destruction of his printing shop. He returned to Montreal in 1839 and resumed his activities

at Sainte-Marie which belonged to the Sulpicians and which was situated half a league from Ville-Marie. In May 1662 he repulsed at this same place an attack by 50 Iroquois, whom he succeeded in

Bourgen-Bresse, François Picquet then entered the Séminaire de Lyon in 1728. He took further training at the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Paris, where he was ordained priest on 10 April 1734

provost court of Quebec. Four years later, on 20 Jan. 1730, he succeeded his father, who had died the previous year, as judge for the seigneuries of Notre-Dame-des-Anges, Saint-Gabriel, and

. Pottier, a resident of the parish of Saints-Anges at Lachine, was at first a precentor and schoolmaster, at a salary of 50 livres a year. He apparently gave up these poorly paid activities towards

conflicts that marked Courval’s administration of the Nicolet seigneury was over the question of the boundaries between it and the seigneury of Baie-du-Febvre (Baie-Saint-Antoine). In 1702 a survey revealed

pioneer, was born and died at Montreal; in 1751 he was lieutenant-colonel of the militia forces of Montreal and was their commander at Sainte-Foy in April 1760

, Saint-Aignan, 31 mai 1621: www.culture41.fr/Archives-departementales

Marie-Andrée*, dite de Sainte-Hélène, was annalist and superior of the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec. Nive Voisine

; 6, ff.104v–5v. PAC, MG 9, B8, 24 (registres de Saint-Jean-Baptiste du Port-Royal) (original of the volume for 1702–28 is at PANS and that for 1727–55 is at the Diocesan Archives, Yarmouth, N.S

 June 1775 captain-lieutenant of the 1st battalion of the Royal Highland Emigrants. He enlisted about a company of his fellow Scots and was ordered to Fort St Johns (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu) to

Normandy.” One of the ships, which was carrying supplies for Acadia, was commanded by Claude de Saint

shot down and killed over the Arras front on 25 April and was buried at Saint-Hilaire Cemetery, Frévent. Rosevear’s obituary in the Toronto

ROUSSY, LOUIS, Protestant missionary, b. at Vevey, Switzerland, in 1812; d., a bachelor, at Grande Ligne (Saint-Jean

Archdiocese of Detroit, Chancery Office, Reg. des baptêmes, mariages, et sépultures de Sainte-Anne (Detroit), 2 Feb. 1704–30 Dec. 1848, 1: 229 (transcript at DPL, Burton Hist. Coll