attended St Dunstan’s College in the city. He reportedly taught for a few years in Acadian schools on the Island before pursuing his studies at the Collège de Saint-Laurent, near Montreal. In his early
celebrated with great pomp and splendour.
When the mission of Saint-Jean-Baptiste had been founded at Cahiagué, in 1639–40, Atironta had shared his lodging
the community. In 1857 Aubert was appointed superior of the community of Saint-Pierre-Apôtre at Montreal, and served as theological adviser to Ignace
and in the Desjardins Canal Company. He also made a £1,000 loan to the firm of the merchant Quetton* de Saint-Georges, in which John
, Robert Baldwin*, was also a distant relative. After an education at a Jesuit college, probably either Saint-Omer in Brittany or Stonyhurst School
Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church (Nelson-Miramichi, N.B.), RBMB. St Thomas Roman Catholic Church (Red Bank, N.B.), RBMB. Morning Freeman (Saint John, N.B.), 18 July 1868. Union Advocate
Chapais*, a Conservative senator and father of confederation, to whose home in Saint-Denis, near Kamouraska, he was invited. He soon fell in love with her. But the prospect of a marriage between his
McDonald, in St Andrews (Saint-André-Est), Lower Canada, and they had one child; d. 20 May 1858 in Montreal.
Named after
journals of James Manning and James Innis, ed. D. G. Bell (Saint John, N.B., 1984). John Wesley, The letters of the Rev. John Wesley . . . ,. ed. John Telford
Saint-Hyacinthe, Beaudry then returned to Montreal, where he served on the city council for three years as a councillor, from 1847 to 1849, and as an alderman, in 1850. During this period of serious
bibliography: the books and writers of the province (Saint John, N.B., 1895). D. A. Loughlin, “The development of social and intellectual attitudes as revealed in the literature of New
furlough (1857–58), spent at least partly in Montreal, Bell’s final years with the HBC were spent in Canada East at Sept-Îles and at Weymontachingue in the Saint-Maurice District. He resigned because of ill
. It was the collective farewell of all Montreal to a man who had only friends and who had given happiness to many. His body was placed in the church of Saint-Joseph, which he had built in Rue Cathédrale
during the winter of 1665–66, Captain Berthier was appointed commandant of Fort de l’Assomption (Saint-Jean, Quebec) and then named with Pierre de
-Catholic mission to the whole diocese of Nova Scotia. Hodgson had close connections with Tractarians in Saint John, N.B., Montreal, and England, and his influence was felt in Halifax at St Luke’s
Schultz*; he was also nominated for the provincial constituency of Baie de Saint-Paul. Following his victory in the provincial election of 30 Dec. 1870, Dr Bird withdrew from the federal
recently settled, and to return to their old village near Fort Saint-Joseph at the southeastern tip of Lake Michigan. Only a few of the Miami had complied when Vinsenne died in 1719. For this reason, the
assemble in the newly constructed St Paul’s Church, on Rue Sainte-Hélène. During the years immediately after the separation, while his new congregation was getting established, Black had supported himself
Arthur John Hampson Richardson, that he created the plans for a house at 73 Rue Sainte-Ursule at Quebec. The façade of this residence built early in the 1830s repeats the decorative copings of the Marine
politician; b. 17 May 1795 in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Lower Canada, son of Joseph Blanchet, a farmer, and Marie-Euphrosine Cloutier; d. 22 April 1857 at Quebec
A. Boardman, naturalist,” paper read before the York–Sunbury Hist. Soc., 1937). S. L. Boardman, The naturalist of the Saint Croix: memoir of George A. Boardman
court, but during the siege of Quebec his house on Rue Saint-Pierre in Lower Town was burned and his possessions destroyed.
A prudent man and a good
Boispineau*. It is likely that Bonnemere also practised medicine and surgery. He treated the Ursuline Marie de Saint-Joseph [see
juill. 1816, 23 sept. 1820, 20 mars 1829; CN6-29, 26 mai 1796. AP, Saint-Louis (Terrebonne), Reg. de l’assemblée des marguilliers, 3 nov. 1805. Lionel Bertrand, “L’étrange aventure de
because of his great age.
In March 1806 Bouchette drew up a report on the seigneury of Saint-Maurice and the land occupied by the ironworks. This
, dedicated to the members of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste of Montreal; The Montreal Bazaar Polka, published not later than 1848; and Monklands Polka, published in Philadelphia, New York
Loetitia-Constance-Marie Le Bléis, he was stationed at Saint-Pierre and Miquelon and in Iceland. On 22 May 1869 he was promoted commander in the navy, and on 23 Jan. 1871 was made an officer
Brecken* and Margaret Leah de St Croix; m. 28 Sept. 1858 Helen Leith Boyd Emslie in Saint John, N.B., and they had three children; d. 14 Oct. 1903 in Charlottetown
Island refuge: loyalists and disbanded troops on the Island of Saint John, ed. Orlo Jones and Doris Haslam (Charlottetown, 1983). I. L. Rogers
, The Church of Saint Paul in Halifax, Nova Scotia: 1749–1949 (Toronto, 1949). C. F. Pascoe, Two hundred years of the S.P.G
of Sainte-Foy for Brigadier George Townshend*; he then followed the troops to Montreal. On 16 September, after the surrender, the
(Halifax, 1899), 5, 25, 33. Harris, Church of Saint Paul, 207.
Nicolas Juchereau de Saint-Denis, “concessions for the fishing of cod and seal, and for the oil therefrom,” but his success in the realm of fishing remains unknown
1751, after a series of skirmishes, Saint-Ours (perhaps François-Xavier), the officer commanding
of Colin Campbell and Maria Taylor; m. 9 Dec. 1845 Phoebe Ann Seely of Saint John, N.B., and they had ten children; d. 25 June 1881 at Weymouth, N.S
modification of the old West Country appeal against civil government. In February 1705/6 Colin sailed from Plymouth and was again captured. After being prisoner at Saint-Malo until 1709, he returned to England
, Étienne Campion, 19 déc. 1795. PAC, MG 19, B3, p.4. Ste Ann’s Parish (Mackinac Island, Mich.), Registre des baptêmes, mariages et sépultures de Sainte-Anne-de-Michillimakinak
.
Bernard Cardeneau first appears in the history of New France in 1751: on 24 November he married at Sainte-Foy Marie-Anne Guérin, widow of Nicolas
Ashe] and Saint John, N.B. The service determined correct time by astronomical observations and chronographs at the three dominion observatories and the one at Montreal and by regular
Saint-Michel-d’Yamaska in Yamaska, Que.; he and his wife Anne had 11 children (one drowned in 1847); d. 9 July 1855 in Chatham, Upper Canada
participated in the movement that led the House of Assembly of Lower Canada to incorporate the city of Quebec. In the first municipal elections in 1833, Cary was elected alderman of the Saint-Louis district. He
the rebellion, and he then went to live in Montreal. One of his major responsibilities as deputy commissioner was to build the shelters at Pointe-Saint-Charles (Montreal) and Grosse Île for Irish
one of the French priests whom Jean-François de La Marche, the bishop of Saint-Pol-de-Léon – himself an exile – recruited to swell the ranks of the clergy in the diocese of Quebec, where
prematurely at Rivière-du-Moulin, when he was 26. He was buried two days later in the cemetery of Saint-François-Xavier parish in Chicoutimi
. Subsequently he studied for the priesthood at the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Paris, where, at the age of 20, he declined the offer of a professorship in philosophy. He was ordained on 17 Dec. 1825 and
receiving a French education, but Foi soon went back to the woods. Espérance and Charité stayed at Fort Saint-Louis, where Champlain taught them “all that they were able to comprehend.” He taught them “to use
County, N.Y., son of All Saints Chasley (Chassley, Chesley) and his wife Lené Yeomans; m. 18 Aug. 1825 Margaret Ann Vankoughnet, by whom he had a large family; d. 5 Nov. 1880, in
*.
After a lucrative career in privateering, he is supposed, according to Lesage, to have gone to France. He is thought to have lived for a while at Brest, Saint-Malo, and Nantes, and to have died at Tours
goods.
In January 1640 he spent eight days performing spiritual exercises at the new mission centre at Fort Sainte-Marie, after which he attempted