-Saint-Louis (Caughnawaga), and Pierre-René Floquet, the priest in charge at Montreal, and Sulpician Pierre

Nolin* left Saint-Pierre, Île d’Orléans, in the province of Quebec, for the fur trade of the pays d’en haut in the 1770s. He married Marie-Angélique Couvret, whose mother was Ojibwa, and

advertised for sale at auction: there were two lots in the village of Saint-Eustache, two in the parish of Saint-Laurent on Montreal Island, one at Côte-des-Neiges, and two in the faubourg Saint

the number of French-speaking clergy in his diocese and was instrumental in establishing the francophone Collège Sainte-Anne at Church Point, N.S., under the direction of Eudist priests [see

. Pantaléon did the classical program at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière from 1873 to 1882, and subsequently enrolled in the faculty of medicine of the Université Laval at Quebec, where he would

Jacques Le Moyne de Sainte-Hélène. The ships’ boats failed to give the expected co-operation, but did land the guns – on the wrong side of the St. Charles. The same evening

, having defence as its primary purpose and running far from the American border, Poor proposed an international line from Halifax to Truro, Moncton, Saint John, Bangor, and Danville Junction, Maine, where

praying for their souls, “both saints and sinners were rejoicing. All was perfect peace.” While exhorting in First Preston Church, Preston fell into prayer and, with the whole congregation quiet and

-Charlotte Denys de La Ronde; brother of Louise and Marie-Charlotte*, dite de Saint-Claude de la Croix; m. 6 Dec

, governor general of New France, governor of Revel in Languedoc; knight, commander, and grand cross of the order of Saint-Louis; baptized 13 Aug. 1650 at Dreuilhe, France; m. 21 Nov. 1690

men and accompanied by 100 Hurons and Algonkins, left Fort Sainte-Anne at the foot of Lake Champlain and invaded the Mohawk country. The Mohawks fled before this army, the largest ever seen in that part

of properties in the town and its suburbs for rental or resale. With a group of partners he also invested in building and operating a toll-bridge over the Rivière Chaudière at Sainte-Marie-de-la

necessary to move them away from the town, and consideration was given, as a site for settling them, to three islands in Lac Saint-Louis (above Lachine), which were given the name Gentilly. M. de Fénelon

1887, 14 April, 27 Oct. 1890. E. T. Adney, The Sharp family, descendants of Alexander Sharp, of Edinburgh, Scotland, and the province of New Brunswick (Saint John, 1908

a stone house and store on Rue Saint-Paul in Montreal’s commercial district. In 1790, apparently through a friendship with Simon

The theology of Christ’s teaching. The appearance of Historical sketch of Saint James Square Presbyterian Congregation, Toronto, 1853–1903 completed his publishing efforts for the church

. Arthur Turcotte studied with the Jesuits, first at Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal and then at the prestigious Stonyhurst College in England. Following his return to Canada, he began law in the fall of

Saint-Martin]. Despite the defeat of King’s government in 1930, Veniot held the seat in his own riding, where he would win for the last time in 1935 and where his son Clarence Joseph

for an expedition in 1720 to the islands of Poulo Condore off the coast of present-day Vietnam. In 1720 he was promoted infantry captain in the Régiment de Navarre and awarded the cross of Saint-Louis

Charles Juchereau de Saint-Denys’ expedition down the Ohio. He was attached to the garrison of Fort Pontchartrain at Detroit, and in 1706 he took command of it in the absence of Antoine Laumet

), held at Zion United Baptist Church, Truro (N.S.). Acadian (Wolfville), 1903–34. Maritime Baptist (Saint John), 1905–36. E

was made throughout the Canadas and England, a lot was acquired at the corner of Saint-Urbain and Dorchester (Boulevard René-Lévesque), a new edifice was completed in March 1861, and for the first time

living at Saint-Cyr and that he reached Canada at a youthful age, perhaps in 1641, having lived at some earlier time in the home of “one of our mothers of Tours,” according to Marie de l’Incarnation

. 1818 in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade (La Pérade), Lower Canada, son of Pierre-Antoine Dorion* and Geneviève Bureau; m. 12 Aug

his childhood in the village of Beauharnois which was in the seigneury of the same name. His father was a shoemaker and the sexton of the church of Saint-Clément there. That Joseph Doutre, the most

geologist in a British colony. Gesner moved with his family to Saint John in 1838, and for the next five years spent his summers on geological field work

’Irumberry de Salaberry and Françoise-Catherine Hertel de Saint-François; m. 13 May 1812 Marie-Anne-Julie Hertel de Rouville, daughter of Jean-Baptiste-Melchior

*, among others, in planning improvements around Montreal: the construction of a new market, the building of a turnpike road to Longue-Pointe, and the extension of Rue Saint-Pierre to the St Lawrence

undertaking a number of tasks at one time. In January 1835 he examined the feasibility of constructing a canal to join Lac Saint-Louis and Lac Saint-François on the St Lawrence River. The following year he was

, concerning himself with maritime trade, and a seigneur as well. In 1710 he was the owner of a brigantine, the Saint-Antoine, and in 1719 of another ship, the Aimable. Perhaps he travelled to

. Bartholomew Crannell Beardsley was the son of the chaplain to the Loyal American Regiment and the grandson of Bartholomew Crannell, a prosperous Poughkeepsie attorney, both loyalists who settled by the Saint

, politician, and author; b. 24 March 1848 in Saint-Joseph-de-Lanoraie (Lanoraie), Lower Canada, son of Louis Beaugrand, dit Champagne, a mariner, and Marie-Josephte (Joséphine) Marion; m

. E. Fenety, Life and times of the Hon. Joseph Howe, (the great Nova Scotian and ex-lieut. governor); with brief references to some of his prominent contemporaries (Saint John

picked up Fathers Biard and Massé at Port-Royal in May 1613, and went to found Saint-Sauveur. [See

Faber as commandant of Fort Saint-Louis at Chambly. Duplessis Faber’s reluctance to give up command of this important post was perhaps the cause of hostility between the two men. In any case on 15

family of modest means, Joseph Brassard Deschenaux owed his education to a notary who lived with his parents on Rue Saint-Jean. (This notary may have been Christophe-Hilarion

garrison was placed in Fort Howe (Saint John) and six years later many Maugerville farms were taken over by American loyalists. Few of the newcomers had cause to respect the feelings of “rebels,” and the old

: the founding generations of the Sisters of Saint Ann and the Oblates of Mary Immaculate in British Columbia, 1858–1914” (phd thesis, Univ. of B.C., Vancouver, 1999

obtained the abbey of Saint-Père in Melun for him he could not refuse, although he would have preferred the office of king’s librarian. As an abbot

no.2 (Toronto, 1896), and The streets of Saint John: report (Saint John, [1897?]). A summary of his report on Winnipeg streets appears in Reports on Winnipeg pavements, comp. H

CARD, CHARLES ORA, colonizer and leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon church); b. 5 Nov. 1839

Carvell and Isabella Henderson; m. 19 June 1861 Alice Caroline Hanford in Saint John, and they had three sons; d. 14 Feb. 1894 in Charlottetown

of Montreal, member of the provincial parliament, and mayor of Montreal; b. 17 Jan. 1827 at Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan (Montcalm County, L.C.), of Irish parents, Francis Cassidy and Mary

, and in the Mississippi region. At first he was very successful. After his father’s death in 1757 his mother settled in Montreal, where on 1 Sept. 1763 she bought a spacious house on Rue Saint-Paul

CHABOT, JEAN, lawyer, politician, and judge; b. 15 Oct. 1806 in Saint-Charles, near Quebec, son of Basile

Dunière, a prominent Quebec merchant. Chandler and his bride at first occupied a house at 66 Rue Saint-Vallier, where Chandler had been living since at least 1795. In February 1803 he bought

initial capital of $9,000 and in 1854 founded a boot- and shoe-manufacturing business whose value increased rapidly to $80,000 five years later. The factory, at the corner of Rue Latour and Rue Sainte

). Revisions based on:Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Minnesota, county marriages, 1860–1949,” Charles F. P. Conybeare and Letitia I. Attwood, 24 June 1890

. Bill, Fifty years with the Baptist ministers and churches of the Maritime provinces of Canada (Saint John, N.B., 1880). A. C. Chute and W. B. Boggs, The religious life of

John Henry Crosskill published one issue of the Literary and Hist. Journal in Saint John, N.B., in October 1837. He is also the author of A comprehensive outline of the geography and