February of the following year a French force under Jacques Le Moyne* de Sainte-Hélène attacked Schenectady. That summer
the road from Saint-Julien (Sint Juliaan) to Ypres.
On 22 April 1915, the first day of the second battle of
sent home.
Back in England he defended his surrender of Albany (called by the French Sainte-Anne) by blaming it on the mutinous conduct and cowardice of
was promoted corporal) and as it engaged in its first major battle, an attempt to capture one of the craters near Saint-Eloi (Sint-Elooi), Belgium, in April 1916. Trench routine was punctuated by
, 1947–48, 252f. Coleman, New England captives, I. Abbé E.-L. Couanier de Launay, Histoire des religieuses hospitalières de Saint-Joseph (France et Canada) (2v
Simard and Louise Clouet; m. 3 Sept. 1844, Julie Measam (of their children three survived him); d. 27 June 1873 at Sainte-Foy, Que
at 25 Rue Saint-Jacques, Montreal. Cornelius Krieghoff* rented a studio in the same building about 1846 and the two artists obviously
attempting to control expenditures, frequently quarrelled with the governors, Pastour de Costebelle and Saint-Ovide de Brouillan
Hôtel-Dieu at Pointe-Saint-Charles to examine a girl who had been struck with a pitchfork when her parents were seeking damages from the owners of a runaway pig. Other records note the surgeon’s presence
Latter-day Saints, “England births and christenings, 1538–1975,” birth record, Elizabeth Sturton, 9 Oct. 1643
. Taylour made little systematic attempt to answer these questions as his arrival in Newfoundland on 16 Aug. 1709 found him plunged in troubles of a more serious nature. The attack by Saint-Ovide de
Grand-Pré, in the parish of Saint-Charles des Mines, without leaving any issue.
As the name Terriot was borne by copyholders of Charles de
shore of the St Lawrence, in shipping, in speculation in landed property. He imported goods from England and the West Indies and in return exported iron from the Saint-Maurice ironworks, fish, and
to Cartier in Saint-Malo; that he cited the latter as his verbal source at various points in his writings; and that he must also have questioned the indigenous people whom Cartier had brought back to
Lower Canada comprise about 20 works.
In 1833 Thielcke had a studio at the Château Saint-Louis, the residence of the
[Historians have used as one of their main sources for this period Rameau de Saint-Père’s work, Une colonie féodale, which contains an interesting chapter on Pierre Tibaudeau. After years of
give him no guarantee against Indian attacks, he declined to remain. On the way back to Boston, Nelson’s vessel called at Saint John, where it was captured by a French frigate, Soleil d’Afrique
, but from 1733 he was given an annual gratuity of 200 livres. Vallée also raised 5,500 livres by selling his stone house on the corner of Rue Saint-Louis and Rue de France in Louisbourg
, XLVIII (1942), 129–37. Jouve, Les Franciscains et le Canada (1615–1629). Hugolin Lemay, “L’œuvre manuscrite ou imprimée des Récollets de la mission du Canada (Province de Saint-Denis
will tell no more lies.” Champlain preferred to pardon a person whom he styled “the most impudent liar that has been seen for a long time.” Vignau asked to be left at the Saint-Louis Rapids, but no one
Archives paroissiales de Saint-Ambroise de la Jeune-Lorette (Loretteville, Qué.). NYCD (O’Callaghan and Fernow), IX, 1069–70. [William Pote], The journal of Captain William Pote
Company (which in 1875 became the Quebec and Lake Saint John), with the Levis and Kennebec, and especially with the North Shore Railway (which in 1875 became the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental
as with banks in New York, Portland, Maine, Saint John, N.B., and Montreal. This proved to be the limit of its expansion; during the depression of the early 1850s the bank closed its branches in
AMARON, CALVIN ELIJAH, Presbyterian minister, educator, newspaper editor, and author; b. 4 Sept. 1852 in De Ramsay (Saint
“great circle sailing” were solicited by General Sir John Fox Burgoyne in 1858, he designed a life-raft, and he provided detailed plans for the observatory and time-ball for the port of Saint John
. During the insurrection of 1837 he had shown his loyalty to the crown by enlisting as a standard-bearer, and he took part in the battle of Saint-Eustache. The fact that he was chosen to fill the post of
: a book of reminiscences (Yarmouth, 1902). Acadian Recorder, 1 Jan. 1900. Halifax Herald, 8 June 1898. Progress (Saint John, N.B.), 14 Oct. 1893
.
In 1856, however, the partnership came to an end, Dinning taking over the yard at Cape Cove. Baldwin moved his business to Saint-Roch, on the other side of the cape, leasing the shipyard of the
March 1938 in Quebec City and was buried 5 March in Notre-Dame de Belmont cemetery in Sainte-Foy (Quebec City).
Originally from New England
transport duty to Canada. Powerful family influence, more than his own merits, was responsible for his promotion to captain on 1 April 1738 and his becoming a knight of the order of Saint-Louis on 13
in Toronto before enrolling in classical studies at the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Montreal, where his extracurricular activities included contact sports such as boxing. Upon graduation in 1845 he
. Finally, closer and directly dependent upon Quebec: the mission to the Huron at Lorette; the mission at Sillery, where several Abenaki had just arrived seeking refuge; and the mission at Sault-Saint-Louis
been arranged at the Colonial Office in England that the Reverend Frederick Coster should be transferred from Saint John to Fredericton, the lieutenant governor soon found Best to be “in every way so fit
.
Active in municipal politics, Black was elected councillor for Saint-Laurent Ward in 1835. When the city reverted to a system of administration by justices of the peace between 1836 and 1840, he served as
in Massachusetts, son of Daniel Bliss and Isabella (Isabel) Murray; m. 7 Aug. 1797 Sarah Green Upham in Saint John, N.B., and they had two sons and four daughters; d. there 22 Aug
Sept. 1804 in Saint John, N.B., second son of William Botsford* and Sarah Lowell Murray, née Hazen; m. September 1864 Mary
many citizens were unable to pay their taxes. The completion in 1860 of the European and North American Railway from Saint John to Shediac did not offset these adverse economic factors, and the town
Lévis* entrusted him in July 1757 with a reconnaissance mission on the north shore of Lac Saint-Sacrement (Lake George, N.Y.). In September 1759 he took part in the battle on the Plains of
encountered the enemy at Moore’s Corner (Saint-Armand-Station) [see Philip Henry Moore]. He was wounded
and a charter member of the Presbyterian Church, Halifax (later called the Presbyterian Church of Saint David), the only Presbyterian congregation in the city after union. In June 1925, prior to the
country without mishap. Father Bressani was dumbfounded to hear that during his absence the Iroquois had wiped out the village of Saint-Joseph (Teanaostaiaë), murdered Father
1801 he advertised in the Montreal Gazette, inviting the public to come to his bookshop on Rue Saint-François-Xavier and see works he had bound as well as books for sale. Besides volumes in
Buies attended the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière from 1849 to 1854, the Séminaire de Nicolet in 1854–55, and the Petit Séminaire de Québec in 1855–56. When he was 16, he went to Berbice at the
year at St Dunstan’s College in Charlottetown, he spent three years at the Collège Saint-Louis in Saint-Louis de Kent, N.B., founded by Marcel-François
four sons of Arnold Shaw Burbidge and his first wife, Lydia Amelia Eaton; m. 5 Feb. 1873 Alice E. Maxwell in Saint John, N.B., and they had at least six children; d. 18 Feb
Caldwell* as agent in charge of his sawmills near Chutes Etchemin at Saint-Nicolas, on the south shore of the St Lawrence.
At the beginning of
observe the French islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. Campbell utilized his visit to London to convince the Board of Trade not to reduce the parliamentary grant further. He was also able to obtain a £500
CARON, RENÉ-ÉDOUARD, jurist, politician, second lieutenant governor of Quebec; b. 11 Oct. 1800 at Sainte
CARRIER, CHARLES WILLIAM (baptized Charles-Guillaume), businessman; b. 20 Jan. 1839 at Saint-Henri, Lower
at Saint-Thomas-de-Montmagny (Montmagny, Que.), son of Louis Casault and Françoise Blais; d. 5 May 1862 at Québec.
Jean-Baptiste Casault