Quebec and, in the upper part of a house on Rue Saint-Pierre, established a small store in which he sold dry goods, hardware, groceries, and “fancy goods,” imported on credit from Glasgow. Having lost his

politics with provincial interests paramount.” His supporters won an overwhelming victory. In the words of the Saint John Globe, local politics was not much affected by the “principles and ideas” of

Scottish origin, Samuel McCallum Genest spent his youth in his birthplace, where he studied with the Brothers of the Christian Schools and at the Séminaire de Saint-Joseph des Trois-Rivières. His father, a

his own shipyard on the Rivière Saint-Charles in the faubourg Saint-Roch, Quebec, and had a 400-ton ship on the stocks. Like his neighbour John

. 8 Feb. 1829 in Saint-Pierre-la-Cour, France, son of Jean Grandin and Marie Velliard, hotel-keepers and farmers; d. 3 June 1902 in St Albert (Alta

, preaching the gospel at Cap-Tourmente, Trois-Rivières, Sainte-Anne de Beaupré, and Bourg-Royal. In the spring of 1676 he went to Lake Ontario to replace Father Léonard Duchesne at Cataracoui (Fort Frontenac

, director of the Saint-Maurice ironworks, chief road commissioner (grand voyer), and judge of the Court of Common Pleas; b. 6 Sept. 1720 at Port-Toulouse (near St Peters, N.S.), son of

; b. 9 Sept. 1789 in Saint-Thomas parish (Montmagny), Que., son of Antoine Jolliet (Joliette), a notary, and Catherine Faribault; m. 27 Sept. 1813 Charlotte Lanaudière (Tarieu

 Nativité-de-Notre-Dame at Beauport and the following year parish priest of Sainte-Claire. He returned to Beauport in 1854 as curé. In these parishes he involved himself in the education of the young, and he

MASSON, JOSEPH, businessman, militia officer, seigneur, politician, and judge; b. 5 Jan. 1791 in Saint

. In 1790 religious orders were suppressed in France so Merle entered a monastery at Val-Sainte, Switzerland, which had been established by Dom Augustin de Lestrange and other French Trappists. Merle

Carvell, in Saint John, N.B., and they had one daughter; d. 24 Oct. 1899 in Montreal. After attending the grammar school in

pioneer Champlain and St Lawrence Railroad and a fervent promoter, major shareholder, and director of the St Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad; the latter, running 245 miles from Saint-Lambert

the church of Saint-Roch, Quebec, on 17 June 1821, Cape Breton, too, had been added to his charge. MacEachern was clearly disappointed. To him

21 Feb. 1916 Berthe Jeannotte (d. probably 1945) in the parish of Saint-Léon-Premier, Westmount, Que., and they had two sons; m. secondly 23 Nov. 1925 Queena Tillotson, an opera

* and Esther Boin, in the parish of Saint-Jacques, Montreal, and they had three sons; d. 25 Dec. 1905 in Paris and was buried 25 January in Montreal

Johnson. Rogers was recommended to Johnson as a good man for scouting duty, and he carried out a series of reconnaissances with small parties against the French in the area of forts Saint

he supervised work parties of the 54th Foot in the Saint John River area of New Brunswick and, as a result of a tour up the Oromocto River, he submitted a proposal for the proper development of this

curate of All Saints’ Church, Derby. When Sumner was raised to the see of Canterbury, it was not unexpected that he should offer his friend and protégé the recently established diocese of Rupert’s Land

Penury to which I and my Family must soon be reduced, would prevent the Success of my Labours.” On 25 May 1786 Andrews arrived at Saint John and

Mutual Benefit Association, the Roman Catholic section of the Board of Education of Manitoba, and the Knights of Columbus. He represented the Collège de Saint-Boniface on the council of the University of

elected Beaubois as their spiritual guide in 1727, he took it for granted that Father Raphaël must acquiesce. Bishop Saint-Vallier

and Syntax) at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe in 1854 and 1855. He completed his education at the Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal. From 1861 he was articled to George-Étienne

Bourget and Father Félix Martin, rector of the new Jesuit Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal, supporting a

1891 Alice Pacaud, daughter of Édouard-Louis Pacaud*, in Saint-Christophe-d’Arthabaska, Que., and they had six children; d. 13

, but the two men terminated their association at the end of three years. In 1819 the Doige directory described De Witt as a hardware merchant located on Rue Saint-Paul and living on Ruelle des

. 1863 at côte Sainte-Catherine (Montreal), Canada East. Peter Warren Dease was named after Admiral Sir Peter

Saint George River, in order to protect the frontier. At the beginning of December he sent reports of his observations to the minister, to M. de Lagny, director general of trade, and to the Marquis

steel complex included a charcoal blast-furnace in the village of Fermont (Saint-Maurice), a spur line connecting the village to the Les Piles railway, mining rights in the region of Lac à la Tortue

Saint-Marc Josephte-Elmire, the eldest daughter and heiress of Pierre-Dominique Debartzch*, a seigneur and former legislative and

resigned 3 Nov. 1693. He had come to New France in 1688 and first served the parishes of Champlain and Batiscan until October 1694, when Bishop Saint-Vallier

-Alexandrina Pelletier (d. 27 Feb. 1935) in the parish of Saint-Jacques, Montreal, and they took a girl into their care; d. 1 May 1936 in Montreal

command of his first ship, the Inconnu. He was made a knight of the order of Saint-Louis in 1738 and until 1744 served on the high seas. The War

as a novice on 28 Nov. 1851, and taught English to his fellow novices at the Collège Sainte-Barbe. Soon after the reception of tonsure, he was one of four men chosen by the superior general

-Montagnes, Lake Huron, Rivière Saint-Joseph (St Joseph River), and Michilimackinac (Mackinaw City, Mich.). At the latter place he owned a “house and lot” which he let for 1,300 livres annually

. In his spare time he studied music and Arabic. In 1887 he did another year of theology at the Séminaire Saint-Louis in Carthage, near Tunis, where he took his vow as a missionary on 25 Sept. 1888

Desrivières*, among 14 businessmen who in 1818 petitioned for the right to dig a canal around the Sainte-Marie current and the Lachine rapids. The following year he promoted sales of shares in the

: in the 1780s he was invited to preach in communities throughout Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. At Saint John, N.B., he held a mass baptism in the river, with both Blacks and whites present, but some

GIROUARD, DÉSIRÉ, lawyer, politician, judge, and author; b. 7 July 1836 in Saint-Timothée, Lower Canada

, gendarme of the king’s household, coureur de bois, explorer, founder of western posts, captain in the colonial regular troops; b. c. 1639 at Saint-Germain-Laval; d. in Montreal

recruits arrived in Lower Canada. They were stationed in the Montreal region on the north shore of the St Lawrence, at Belle-Rivière, Petit-Brûlé (Mirabel), and Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville (Sainte

for the “uplift” of natives in eastern and central Canada. In the summer of 1899 she was employed as teacher at the Mohawk reserve of Saint-Régis (Akwesasne). Two years later Hughes launched, with

Charmante Polly in 1752 from Bernard Decheverry, and others. These he worked as fishing schooners and in the West Indian trade. So successful was he that in 1753 a group of Saint-Malo merchants formally

residence, Sainte-Marie de Ganentaa, which would be to the Iroquois what the residence of Sainte-Marie had formerly been to the Hurons. The work of construction began 17 July and was carried on, not

 Potherie and Élisabeth de Saint-Ours signed their marriage contract before the notary Antoine Adhémar

in the faubourg Saint-Jean at Quebec. He was seven when his family moved into Upper Town to Rue Sainte-Famille near the Petit Séminaire. From 1786 till 1792 he did his classical studies in

-Édouard Cauchon of Le Journal de Québec lauded the man and his work, and Napoléon Legendre continued to show enthusiasm. Abbé Antonin Nantel, the superior of the Séminaire de Sainte

Winnipeg, Montreal, and Saint John. By 1907 it had 75 elevators in western Canada. The company also had a barrel factory in Keewatin which made 1,200 barrels a day. Meighen prospered as the firm

Saint-Marc, county of Verchères, L.C., son of Charlotte Grosbois and Jean-Marie Mondelêt*, notary, member of the Legislative Assembly from

MONK, MARIA, supposed author; b. 27 June 1816 in Dorchester (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Lower Canada