settlement. The Indians, he pointed out, could not secure title to their lands from the priests or even cut firewood without their permission. He then charged that “these pretended successors of Saint Peter

the élite in Tipperary County (Republic of Ireland), Michael O’Sullivan was brought to Montreal at a young age and in 1799 enrolled in the Sulpician Collège Saint-Raphaël. Seven years later he graduated

West River (Sainte-Brigide-d’Iberville) and Mount Johnston (Mont-Saint-Grégoire), where in 1824 he was appointed a commissioner for the erection of schools. He had begun a school in Chambly by 1821; by

renamed Shelburne in honour of his patron, the Annapolis valley, the mouth of the Saint John River, and the shores of Passamaquoddy Bay. Discontent and squabbles soon arose. The method of granting land was

Bishop Jean-Jacques Lartigue* presiding, Phelan became the first priest to be ordained in Montreal’s newly consecrated church of Saint

soon back in Halifax. There, in July 1807, he launched the Telegraph, a newspaper that failed to survive. Three years later he visited Saint John, N.B., where he performed and operated a

and selling furs, seal oil, and the products of the Saint-Maurice ironworks. They had been in partnership since 1765 with Jean-Baptiste

are reserved for Mary Wollstonecraft, daring to rival “the rights of man.” As a young widow, Ann kept a boarding-school on Rue Saint-Vincent for at

. 26 June 1875 in Saint-Jean-de-Matha, Que., son of Zotique (Zothique) Renaud, a law student, and Dorothée La Salle; d. unmarried 3 Oct. 1932 in Montreal and was buried there two days

the Ordre de Saint-Michel, member of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés, chief road officer of New France; b. c. 1625 in Paris, son of Pierre Robinau de Bécancour and Renée Marteau; d

Richmond, Que. Henry Roe’s early home life was unsettled. His family moved from Henryville to Dorchester (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu) and then to

Dorchester, Bellechasse, Montmagny, L’Islet, Kamouraska in 1901, and La Côte nord du Saint-Laurent et le Labrador canadien . . . in 1908. Published at Quebec, these monographs dealt with the

Cornwallis* to Charles Deschamps* de Boishébert at the Saint John River, claiming the mouth of the river for the

ROUSSEAUX ST JOHN, JOHN BAPTIST (baptized Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, dit Saint-Jean), fur

elected alderman for Saint-Laurent Ward, an office he would hold until his death in 1931. As an alderman, in April 1922 he became president of the new Athletic Commission of Montreal, established after the

conclude that Sagard was already a Recollet by that year. At the end of 1614 he was living in Paris with Father Jacques Garnier Chapouin, the provincial of the Recollets of Saint-Denis, and serving as his

at the Anse de la Cormorandière (Kennington Cove) on 8 June [see Mascle de Saint

Caldwell], he received a large grant of land in Durham Township on the Rivière Saint-François; he eventually secured personally more than 21,000 acres in Durham. That same year he bought from

. [-A.] Auclair, Saint-Jérôme de Terrebonne (Saint-Jérôme, Qué., 1934), 32. J. S. H. Brown, Strangers in blood: fur trade company families in Indian country (Vancouver and

 – in the province, for which he came to be regarded as “the architect of the Saint-Maurice.” Smith, who became a naturalized citizen on 19 July

., and after two and a half years there, they moved to Saint John. Charlotte received her early schooling in these locations. In 1858 Charles joined the Bank of Montreal and the Smithers family returned to

Saint-Ignace (Mich.). Though Mackinac had been turned over by the British to the United States in 1796, in accordance with Jay’s Treaty, Solomon felt no strong loyalty to the Stars and Stripes. After war

Letellier* de Saint-Just in 1878, Starnes joined the Liberal ministry of Henri-Gustave Joly* as speaker of the Legislative

African American refugee from New York who made his way to Saint John in 1783 and later settled in Parrsboro, N.S., which had a large population of black slaves. States’s engaging forenames suggest that his

*. John had returned to Montreal by 1814 and opened his own general store on Saint-Paul Street, near that of Thomas. By 1826 David Torrance*, a

; he was buried on 9 December in the crypt of the church of Saint-Michel at Vaudreuil. His second wife lived for another 38 years; his second son, Jean-Baptiste, was the only one of his children to

, 19 July 1817; 20 Nov. 1824. Halifax Morning Post & Parliamentary Reporter, 28 Oct. 1844. Morning News (Saint John, N.B.), 14 Nov. 1860. Novascotian, 5

Hocquart would not consent to his leaving until the autumn of 1740. In addition to his usual duties, he issued the playing-card money and was responsible for supervising the Saint-Maurice ironworks and the

Saint John in 1923, and several articles: “Our educational system,” Prince Edward Island Magazine (Charlottetown), 2 (1900–1): 279–80; “The sea-cow fishery,” Acadiensis (Saint John), 3

federal government to relieve Montreal harbour of the burden of administering the dues for the channel in Lac Saint-Pierre, effectively making Montreal a free port for ships. They presented Watt with an

, “Memorial no.135417416”: www.findagrave.com (consulted 23 Oct. 2018). Private arch., W. D. Hamilton (Saint John), Interview with Joe Kehoe, Renous

Church on Rue Saint-Maurice, Montreal, in 1832. Montreal became the stronghold of Canadian Congregationalism when Henry Wilkes succeeded Miles in 1836; in 1842, with the collaboration of J. J

News and Frontier Advocate of Saint-Jean and, apparently, the Canada Medical Journal, edited by Fenwick. Indeed Worthington had become

. Young also favoured the Intercolonial Railway scheme of the early 1850s, by the Saint John River route. Another railway venture supported by Young was

with the Institut Canadien-Français and the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste. From 1874 to 1876 he was school trustee for Wellington Ward. Recognized as a gifted speaker, he was invited to events throughout

intendant of the province of Hainault, was nominated. On 23 March 1665 he was given his commission, and on 24 May he sailed for New France on board the Saint-Sébastien, along with Governor

two years, including the Alliance, a 434-ton steamer for the Montreal–Quebec City run, which probably also towed the firm’s sailing ships through the difficult Sainte-Marie current to the

MONTCALM, LOUIS-JOSEPH DE, Marquis de MONTCALM, seigneur of Saint-Veran, Candiac, Tournemine

to 1829 he studied law as a student in the office of Joseph-Rémi Vallières* de Saint-Réal, and later in that of Charles

Abercromby to invade Canada by way of Lake George (Lac Saint-Sacrement) and Fort Carillon (Ticonderoga, N.Y.). This operation gave Abercromby an

, 170–71. Louise Manny, Ships of Miramichi: a history of shipbuilding on the Miramichi River, New Brunswick, Canada, 1773–1919 (Saint John, N.B., 1960).

the mission of Saint-Joseph II (Teanaostaiaë), near the present Hillsdale, Ontario; baptized Eustache, Holy Saturday 1642, at the age of 40; killed during August of the same year

fortifications. In January 1690, with Le Moyne* de Sainte-Hélène, he directed the raid planned by Frontenac against Schenectady

). Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Geneal. Soc. (Salt Lake City, Utah), International geneal. index. New-Brunswick Courier, 28 Oct. 1848. New Brunswick Reporter and

. Reg. (Boston), 69 (1915): 113. N.S. vital statistics, 1813–22 (Punch), no.2515. R. V. Harris, The Church of Saint Paul in Halifax, Nova Scotia: 1749–1949

), 28 April 1855. Novascotian, 15 Oct. 1840. Acadiensis. (Saint John, N.B.), 2 (1902): 39. Canadian biog. dict. Canadian men and women of the

. there secondly 25 Dec. 1917 Clymena (Clymenia, Minnie) Kaye, widow of Dr John Edgar March, of Saint John; d. 8 Nov. 1930 in St John’s

with geography. Appointed United States consul in Saint John, New Brunswick, in 1843, Andrews observed the problems of trade and fishing which were

discussions on a peace treaty. This embassy arrived at the village of Saint-Ignace II (near Sturgeon Bay, Ontario), in the Huron country 9 July 1648. At its head was an Indian named Soines, born

until 1706 under Saint-Ovide [Monbeton]. While there he became a midshipman (1704) and took part