Saint-Étienne de La Tour’s patent as baronet of Nova Scotia. By this purchase, Crowne and Temple agreed to pay La Tour’s debt of £3,379 to the widow of Maj.-Gen. Edward Gibbons

who travelled south to participate. A vigorous assault by his force was credited with preventing a French defeat and allowing a negotiated peace. In recognition he was awarded the cross of Saint-Louis

. George Taylor was sent to Gale’s Boarding School at Saint-Augustin, near Quebec, and remained there until he was old enough to learn the shipbuilding trade. He then had the good fortune to be apprenticed

work, especially with the Confrérie des Dames de Sainte-Anne, the Société de Tempérance, and the Patronage de Lévis. In 1914, however, when Alphonse

Forsyth*, in petitioning the Lower Canadian legislature for a bill authorizing them to dig a canal from Sainte-Marie current on the St Lawrence to Lachine. The scheme was audacious, inaugurating

Messenger of the Sacred Heart. Between 1885 and 1889 Devine worked at the Collège Sainte-Marie with Jesuit archivist Arthur Edward Jones, who was

, concerning one Jehan Dièreville, of Saint-Thomas de Touques, has been found in the registry of the tabellions of Honfleur. Moreover, several Dières were at Honfleur at the beginning of the 17th century, among

DORION, VINCISLAS-PAUL-WILFRID, lawyer, journalist, political orator, and judge; b. 2 Oct. 1827 at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade

Notre-Dame-de-Foy at Sainte-Foy and was made chaplain to the nuns of the Hôpital Général as well as to the poor. Doucet was defended by Plessis against

into the official residence for the commander of the Royal Engineers on Rue Saint-Louis. The construction of the Quebec citadel was undoubtedly his major accomplishment in British North America. The work

Natchez, seigneur; b. in the parish of Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois, Paris, son of Claude-Charles Dutisné, judge-consul of Paris, and Catherine Du

(typescript). Baptist Missionary Magazine of Nova-Scotia and New-Brunswick (Saint John; Halifax), 1 (1827–29): 256, 380; new ser., 1 (1834): 73, 126. Joseph Dimock, The diary and related writings

 Lawrence fishing post of Saint-Modet, in partnership with Nicolas-Gaspard Boucault. They established a

recognized as the founder of the first American branch of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste, about 1850, encouraged local literary evenings, and wrote several articles for Montreal newspapers. In 1853 he was

. 1873. His training, which involved both study and teaching, took him to Europe (London and Louvain, Belgium) for about six years. After returning to Canada, he was an instructor at the Collège Sainte

. When the Acadians living on Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) were deported in 1758, Louis Gallant and his family took refuge at Baie des Chaleurs, settling first at Ristigouche, and later at

committee that chose a site for the bank on Rue Saint-Jacques; indeed, the bank’s first building seems to have been modelled on Maitland, Garden, and Auldjo’s austere Georgian edifice, constructed on Rue

, like other prominent citizens, he moved to the suburbs, fleeing the unsanitary streets of Lower Town. He first lived on the estate of Bellevue at Sainte-Foy, which he made over to his brother Thomas in

like the other rangers they were used by the general in his campaign of terror against the Canadian settlements. On 9 August Goreham and his men levelled the village of Baie-Saint-Paul in

Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice. There Gravé taught philosophy, at the same time acting as chaplain to the Sisters of Charity of the Hôpital Général of Montreal (Grey Nuns

Forsyth*. It would appear that during the 1780s Gregory had begun spending most of his time in Montreal. He owned a stone house on Rue Saint-François

communion of saints, must stand as his masterpiece. Robert Critchlow Tuck

 1831, and then captain on 4 June. Finally, on 1 April 1857 he was appointed major of the 1st Battalion of Saint-Maurice militia. The American Jewish Historical Society has a record of his

 Paul (Knowlton), 8 Jan. 1902, 19 Sept. 1905. Arch. de la Municipalité de Saint-Nicéphore, Qué., Reg. des minutes d’assemblées, municipalité du canton de Wickham, 1867–72. Arch. de la

, 1947). M. M. Down, A century of service, 1858–1958: a history of the Sisters of Saint Ann and their contribution to education in British Columbia, the Yukon and Alaska (Victoria, 1966

Grande Grave (Grande-Grève), Bassin (Havre) de Gaspé, Pointe-Saint-Pierre, and Île Bonaventure. In each of these places the company supplied the local fishermen, bought their cod, and through a credit

. On 2 July 1749 Kalm entered New France at Fort Saint-Frédéric (near Crown Point, N.Y.). The commandant general of the colony, La Galissonière

parish of Saint-Christophe-d’Arthabaska in Arthabaska (Victoriaville). Background

means of donations received from organizations such as the Association Catholique de la Jeunesse Canadienne-Française and the Union Saint-Joseph du Canada and from individuals, many of them responding to

supported the traditional view of his people’s history as a struggle for survival. In Saint-Louis de Kent in 1911, at the first Acadian teachers’ institute, he had announced government sponsorship of the

nationalist movement in the 1880s and 1890s. His name appears on the list of Acadian delegates to the great congress organized by the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste at Quebec in June 1880; he also served on

. In 1670 Father Henri Le Roy and 19 other Recollets were put in charge of the chaplain services at the military camp of Saint-Sébastien. Two years later he took part in the campaign in Holland as

entered into an agreement with others for a voyage to Michilimackinac. In 1689 he was at Fort Saint-Antoine when Nicolas Perrot

chance of winning. The latter two had prevented the partisans of Girouard and Scott from voting at Saint-André-d’Argenteuil, but at Saint-Eustache they and the men they had brought along were forced to

that he himself had made articles of church silver which he sold to the parish of Saint-Joseph at Pointe-Lévy (Lauzon). He quickly recognized these articles when a burglar who had stolen them attempted

.). With Auger de Subercase’s surrender in October 1710, a council of war resolved that Livingston, accompanied by the Baron de Saint-Castin

himself was commissioned a junior officer despite his youth. When Montreal surrendered on 8 Sept. 1760 Lorimier’s unit was near by on Île Sainte-Hélène

between Albany and Montreal. During the hearing Lÿdius named other Montrealers and even Pierre de Lauzon*, the Jesuit missionary at Sault-Saint

the missionaries under his protection. On 7 June 1765 he obtained for Girard and Manach the offices of “prefect and vice-prefect in the new apostolic prefecture of the islands of Saint-Pierre

, Liverpool, and Saint John, N.B. In June 1802 he was ordained by Bishop Francis Asbury at the conference held in New York, and in 1804 he was admitted to full connection in the British conference

*, whose practical skills and pastoral concerns for the clergy would have been most appealing to him. For a few years he took services at St John’s, a German church on Rue Saint-Dominique, while

an old French Canadian family, who was then practising medicine at Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu. He was a man of culture, as well as of science, and a man of energy, who had found time to publish one of

Saint-François, and its hold on extensive timber limits. McCrea would be its president until his death in 1926. In 1920 Brompton Pulp and Paper produced wood pulp, newsprint, kraft paper, and cardboard

Voyageurs and, after only three weeks of service, was taken prisoner at the battle of Saint-Régis. In April 1813 he was established in the lower Ottawa valley, where he purchased 1,000 acres of land in

instrumental as well in obtaining normal school accreditation in 1895 for Mount Saint Vincent Academy, a training facility of the Sisters of Charity; so cordial were his relations with the congregation that its

the task of organizing a regiment of Canadians from La Malbaie, Les Éboulements, and Baie-Saint-Paul. On 12 August Nairne wrote to Carleton, offering to serve in any vacant captaincy. On 9

original document has yet to be located, a transcript is found in J. W. Lawrence, The judges of New Brunswick and their times, ed. A. A. Stockton and [W. O. Raymond] (Saint John, 1907

received some instruction at the Académie Delécluze in Paris; he then spent the 1898–99 season at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Saint-Gilles, Belgium, where he attended the life classes of Jean-André

into French in the early 1890s, and in 1897 Nielsen would be made an officier d’académie of France in recognition of his work on fisheries off Newfoundland and Saint-Pierre. He initiated a

, daughter of Daniel Ingalls Odell and Hannah Elizabeth Peavey; m. 11 Nov. 1858, in Eastport, Maine, John Tilton of Saint John; d. 28 May 1925 in Ottawa and was buried 1 June in