. Thomas Wood lived a full life, even in his last years, and remained loyal to his native village. In All Saints’ Church at Dunham there is a stained glass window to his memory, depicting the Good Samaritan

, merchant; b. 1658 at La Rochelle, parish of Saint-Sauveur; son of Pierre You, a tanner, and of Marie-Renée Turcot; buried 28 Aug. 1718 at Montreal

France, frequently via the French islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon and the Baie des Chaleurs. At both locations contraband goods were trans-shipped and daringly run up the St Lawrence. Ainslie’s

the views of moderate liberals instead. In 1866, two years after their marriage, Beaubien and his wife moved to Côte-Sainte-Catherine, where he

BEAUDRY, JEAN-LOUIS, entrepreneur and politician; b. 27 March 1809 at Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Lower Canada

BIENCOURT DE SAINT-JUST, CHARLES DE, baron, vice-admiral of Acadia and successor to his father as commander of the settlement at Port

again for Paris in March 1896 and enrolled as a copyist at the Louvre in April. Cullen’s real return to Quebec came in the middle of 1896, when he settled for several months in the Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré

, with a mandate to consolidate its Oriental Silk Company in Montreal, its Corticelli Silk Company in Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), and the Cascade Narrow Fabric Company Limited in Coaticook. In

family, the five years he spent at school there seem to have been happy. In 1852 he enrolled at the Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal for the final part of his secondary studies (Rhetoric and the two-year

, the son of his sister Sophie, as a clerk. His bookstore occupied the first floor of a large stone dwelling at the corner of Rue Saint-Vincent and Rue Notre-Dame. The house was owned by the Perrault

paternal ancestry. His father, who was born at Saint-Pierre, he d’Orléans, died before Jean-Baptiste-Antoine’s birth. Thus, when he became a priest, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine was for a long time the financial

Sainte-Vierge, a religious association organized in Paris in 1801. After it was dissolved by Napoleon in 1809, Forbin-Janson joined the Chevaliers de la Foi, a royalist secret society founded by Ferdinand

the judicial district of Montreal, an elongated triangle with its base on the United States border, its western boundary on the Ottawa River, and its eastern at the districts of Trois-Rivières and Saint

, composer, office holder, and author; b. 7 Nov. 1834 in the parish of Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup (Louiseville), Lower Canada, fifth of the nine children of Charles-Édouard Gagnon, a notary

died in infancy and one daughter; d. 12 Sept. 1892 in St Boniface, Man. Marc-Amable Girard entered the Collège de Saint-Hyacinthe

Badeaux*. He ran again in Saint-Maurice in 1819 and in Upper Town, Quebec, the following year. Finally, at the age of 75, he made a new attempt in Trois-Rivières against Edward Grieve, and then another

for two years and rhetoric for a year at Pau (1698–1701) before teaching grammar for a year at Limoges (1702); then he read and taught humanities at Saintes for three years (1703–5), and taught rhetoric

child, Jean-Étienne, was born. The previous year Painchaud had left Carleton to take charge of the parish of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (Sainte-Anne

. 1866 in Montreal, son of Hormisdas-Alphonse Lemieux, a postal clerk, and Philomène Bisaillon; m. there 15 May 1894 Berthe Jetté in the parish of Saint-Jacques, and they had four children; d

, politician, and militia officer; b. c. 1771, or possibly 29 April 1773 and baptized François in Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu, Que.; son of Dominique

worked on a voluntary basis among the 3,000 inhabitants of the reserves at Caughnawaga, Lac-des-Deux-Montagnes (Oka), Saint-Régis, and Saint-François. Twice, in 1821 and at the time of a syphilis epidemic

Saint-Pierre and Miquelon as a base for her fishermen. For some time before 1763, however, British fishermen had been active on the French Shore, and they considered that they had a concurrent right to

. Things seemed to be going well for Perrault – he had bought a property called the Asile Champêtre on the north side of the Chemin Saint-Louis. Then on 23 April 1800 he suffered the loss of his

signed Pinsoneault), Roman Catholic priest, Sulpician, and bishop; b. 23 Nov. 1815 at Saint-Philippe-de-Laprairie, Lower Canada, son of Paul-Théophile Pinsoneault and Clotilde Raymond; d. 30

the city and became the Collège Saint-Raphaël. Plessis easily mastered his subjects, winning several prizes, and in 1777 or 1778 he completed his sixth year (Rhetoric) at the college

the fabrique of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires at Quebec. Ranvoyzé was living on Rue Saint-Jean at the time; from 1780 he lived, at first as a tenant, in a house that he subsequently bought from the

Saint-Constant parish on 1 Oct. 1804. A year later he became the first parish priest of Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir (Saint-Nom-de-Marie in Marieville), with responsibility for visiting and ministering to

 June 1850 Henrietta Jane Cater Busby in Saint John, N.B ., and they had two sons and three daughters; d. 6 March 1897 in Ottawa

 – in 1750 he had the fort on the Saint John River restored by Deschamps* de Boishébert – and in October 1751 sent the

Séminaire de Québec, he was recruited by Abbé Stanislas Tassé, director of the Petit Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse, where in September 1850 he began teaching Rhetoric, the sixth-year class. On 3 Aug. 1851

 June 1794 at Quebec. Jean-Olivier Briand came from a humble peasant family of Saint-Éloi, a village in the parish of Plérin in Brittany. Early in

. 12 May 1622 at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, after the death of his father; d. 28 Nov. 1698 at Quebec, buried in the church of the Recollets at Quebec. He was a son of Henri de Buade, Comte de

, who had died prematurely when Pierre-Joseph-Olivier was only four. His maternal grandfather, Joseph Roy, a rich grain merchant who lived at the corner of Rue Sainte-Anne and Rue du Trésor in Quebec City

Marguerite Vallée on 14 April 1814. Their son Joseph was born more than two years later in Saint-Roch parish in Quebec City. Joseph Cauchon received

LAFLÈCHE, LOUIS-FRANÇOIS, Roman Catholic priest, politician, educator, author, and bishop; b. 4 Sept. 1818 in Sainte-Anne-de

paper would thenceforth serve the counties of Joliette and L’Assomption. This endeavour was only a stepping-stone. In the spring of 1874 Tarte moved to Saint-Lin and in June he launched Les

them. Joseph-Elzéar was educated at the institution run by the Brothers of the Christian Schools in L’Islet until about age 12, when he began working with his father on the construction of the Saint

 13, he joined the crew of a merchant ship for a voyage to Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) and then went to work buying cattle for Augustin Cadet, his father’s half-brother, a Quebec butcher

1800 he represented the county of Montreal East in the House of Assembly of Lower Canada. Through his mother, a Cherrier of Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Denis-Benjamin Viger was related to the Papineaus

. CHAPAIS, Sir THOMAS (baptized Joseph-Amable-Thomas), civil servant, journalist, historian, and politician; b. 23 March 1858 at Saint-Denis (Saint-Denis-De La

of the St Lawrence. That same year he paid £2,550 to buy a property with a stone house on Rue Saint-Louis at Quebec for his permanent residence, and in 1769 he acquired an adjacent piece of land

royal wish to the Council of New England and obtained from the latter the surrender of all their territory north of the Sainte-Croix. Thereupon the king immediately instructed the Scottish Privy Council

. He took little part in council meetings, being dispatched to Louisbourg in the fall of 1720 to negotiate with the French governor, Saint-Ovide de Brouillan

BIENCOURT DE POUTRINCOURT ET DE SAINT-JUST, JEAN DE, baron, governor of Méry-sur-Seine, lieutenant-governor of Acadia, commander of

professional life and Italian ones in his personal life. Uncle Carlo was very close to his two nephews, and up until the mid 1880s the three men would live either together on Rue Craig (Rue Saint-Antoine) or

after all the parties concerned had been heard. The bishop’s intention to act independently, again asserted by Saint-Vallier

Gray, rector of Saint John, the favoured candidate of Lieutenant Governor Sir Howard Douglas* who had the right to nominate

donné of the Society of Jesus, explorer, interpreter, diplomat, judge of the seneschal’s court, first settler at Lévis; baptized 14 Jan. 1618 in the parish of Saint-Godard, in Rouen, France, son

education, and in 1794 Augustin was registered at the Collège Saint-Raphaël in Montreal; the boy seems not to have completed the course of studies, however

isolated points. He tramped through the woods around Mount Douglas to lay out a new road between Saint John and Fredericton. Upon both imperial and colonial governments he urged the need for a canal across