de La Flèche (1740–44), and arrived in Canada on 17 Aug. 1744. After teaching for five years at the Jesuit college in Quebec, he tried missionary life at Sault-Saint-Louis (Caughnawaga) in

assigned to No.8 Canadian General Hospital at Saint-Cloud, a suburb of Paris. She returned to England in January 1918 for convalescence from what was described as ptomaine poisoning and bronchitis

signed Sifroy), civil engineer and civil servant; b. 6 May 1867 in Saint-Sébastien, Lower Canada, son of Jules Fortin, a farmer, and Sophie Roy; m. 14 June 1894 Maria

from a one-year ministry at Saint John, N.B., in 1826, he remained based at McLellans Mountain, supplementing his income from his 100-acre farm, Torosay

inhabitants complained to the British government about a shortage of schools. Prior to 1778 Fraser lived on Rue Sainte-Anne, but in that year he bought for £200 cash a single-storey stone house at 3 Rue des

Walz Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Geneal. Soc., International geneal. index. Man., Dept. of Tourism, Culture

merchants to move from their dwellings above the Rue Saint-Paul shops to large homes on the slopes of Mount Royal, Frothingham built the baronial mansion Piedmont, which was used as the governor general’s

held in the Arch. de la Compagnie de Jésus, prov. du Canada français (Saint-Jérôme, Qué.). AD, Vosges (Épinal), État civil, Bellefontaine, 5

Stephenson*, a founder of the Montreal Medical Institution in 1822. On 16 Nov. 1829 Frémont was licensed to practise medicine and surgery. He intended to carry on his profession at Saint-Thomas

Collège Sainte-Marie, Montreal. In 1877, along with his brothers John and James, he started a dry-goods business styled J. J. and L. Furlong. He launched his own commission agency on 1 Jan

, C1, 1881, 1891, 1901, Queens County, P.E.I. (mfm. at PARO). PARO, Parish of Saint-Augustin de Rustico, 1890 census. Private arch., Georges Arsenault (Charlottetown), Interview with Théophile Blanchard

whom he served; of particular value are documents HEB 6255.A45C, nos.1, 20. Additional Gasté correspondence is available at the Arch. de l’Archevêché de Saint-Boniface, Man

Montreal on Rue Saint-Paul, the main business artery. Gates went into partnership in 1810 with Bellows, Cordis, and Jones, a Boston firm, under the name of Bellows, Gates and Company. Far from interrupting

Pierre* in 1731. After wintering at Kaministiquia (Thunder Bay, Ont.), he spent the summer of 1732 helping build Fort Saint-Charles on Lake of the Woods. In 1737 he went with his father to Fort

 Feb. 1911, both the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste and the Association Canadienne-Française d’Éducation d’Ontario refused to attend. The bilingual

especial hazards for the female apprentices. On 6 Jan. 1809 Molly Ann Gell deposed before the magistrates that, returning from Saint John the previous July, she had met a stranger who “Carried her into

Orléans for at least five years, François Gendron went to New France in 1643. He was the first doctor known to have lived in Ontario and among the North American Indians. It was in 1644–45, from Sainte

AC, Richelieu (Sorel), État civil, Catholiques, Saint-François-Xavier (Verchères), 12 avril 1881, 10 août 1894. ANQ-M, CE1-26, 20 oct. 1856. NA, RG68, General index, 1841

monthly rent of 14s. 6d. for their shop on Rue Saint-Louis, which belonged to a J. Thomson. The press therefore turned out announcements of sales, blank certificates, calendars, and

eastern Nova Scotia (2v., Antigonish, 1960–71), II: 253–54, 301, 423–31, 458, 526. A. A. MacDonald, Centenary, Saint Paul’s parish (Havre Boucher, N.S., 1961). Éphrem Boudreau

successful British campaign against forts Carillon and Saint-Frédéric (near Crown Point, N.Y.) in 1759. He held the same command in 1760 but was detached early in the summer to assist Colonel Henry Bouquet in

finished he was admitted into the seminary, on 29 Sept. 1719, where he completed his four years of theology. On 18 Dec. 1723 he was ordained a priest by Bishop Saint-Vallier

Charles-Antoine*, was caught up in the American War of Independence, which had just begun. That year he helped defend Fort St Johns (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu) when it was besieged by the Americans

parish of Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs in Paris. Several historians have settled on 1626 as the date of Jean-Paul Godefroy’s arrival in New France. It is

, Charente-Maritime (La Rochelle), État civil, Saint-Jean de La Rochelle, 21 janv. 1778. ANQ-Q, Greffe de Claude Barolet, 22 oct. 1731, 15 oct. 1734, 18 août 1738, 2 sept

. Appointed a physician at the Winnipeg General Hospital and at the Hôpital de Saint-Boniface, Good would later practise general surgery at those hospitals. After studying diseases of the eyes, ears, nose, and

GRAVELET, JEAN-FRANÇOIS, known as Charles Blondin, tightrope walker; b. 28 Feb. 1824 in Saint-Omer, France

the crop that Graves turned his attention. For several years, using a small apple press, he experimented with the making of cider vinegar, finally producing nine barrels which he sold in Saint John

Saint John (Charlottetown), 3 June 1793. J. M. Bumsted, “The Loyal Electors of Prince Edward Island,” Island Magazine, no. 8 (1980): 8–14.

former theatre on the corner of Sainte-Anne and Des Jardins streets. He also displayed great interest in the sciences. When the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec was founded by Lord Dalhousie

fine reputations. Ferdinand studied the violin under Léon de Saint-Lubin, concert-master of the Königstadt theatre from 1830 to 1847, and eventually joined its orchestra. He later had lessons from two

). The Sisterhood of Saint John the Divine, 1884–1984 (4th revision, Willowdale [Toronto], 1984).

(Saint-Boniface), 14 août 1883. É.-Z. Massicotte, “Répertoire des engagements pour l’Ouest . . . ,” ANQ Rapport, 1942–43; 1944–45. G. C. Davidson, The

GUIBORD, JOSEPH, typographer, member of the Institut Canadien; b. 31 March 1809 at Sainte-Anne-de-Varennes

the order of Saint-Louis; the following year he was appointed king’s lieutenant at Moulins, and on 22 May 1715 he became governor of Guiana, the office having become vacant following his father’s

Saint-Étienne), 31 déc. 1708: www.cg47.org/archives/accueil.htm (consulted 23 April 2018). Arch

Saint-Joseph. This was perhaps Pierre Guy; in any case it seems certain that it was he who in 1730 received the commission as ensign in the militia granted to “Sieur Guy, a merchant.” The following year

assistance for the British and Canadian School Society of the District of Quebec. The aim of this society, founded in 1823 in the Saint-Roch district by Joseph-François

Saint-Frédéric (Crown Point) on Lake Champlain. Through his efforts, and his promise of free provisions for its troops, New Hampshire raised her quota from 400 to 500 men. Hale offered a set of plans for

. In October 1890 Hamm was a member of a four-man Halifax crew that accepted a challenge from a Saint John crew and lost. This, according to the Halifax Morning Herald, was his final race. Hamm

rented it, to merchants George King and George Chapman among others, before selling it for £400 in 1802. Hanna also owned a house with a bakery on Rue Sainte-Hélène (Rue McMahon), which he rented to master

HARPER, CHARLES, teacher, Roman Catholic priest, and seminary administrator; b. 7 Jan. 1800 in Sainte-Foy, Lower Canada, son

Annapolis, but in 1821 moved to Saint John, N.B., where, after a period of apprenticeship, he became a carriage maker. A few years later he moved to Norton in Kings County to carry on his trade. On 27

April 1846 to state that it far exceeded “in beauty and effect any thing of the kind ever exhibited in Toronto.” On 12 June, while the work was being displayed at the Théâtre Saint-Louis, in

accurate description in prose and verse of the manners and homes of French Canadians, apparently observed at first hand, and of the Rivière Saint-Maurice and the Chutes Shawinigan

, Histoire de Saint-Hilaire; les seigneurs de Rouville (Montréal, 1980). F.-J. Audet et Édouard Fabre Surveyer, “Jean-Baptiste-Melchior Hertel de Rouville,” La Presse (Montréal), 1

parents, had been professor of English history and literature under his father at McGill Normal School. Hicks spent his last years on a country property at Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon. He died in early August

principal employers were Claude Baudard de Sainte-James and Noël-Mathurin-Étienne Perichon, who had both purchased their offices for the enormous sum of 600,000 livres and assumed their duties on 31

(4v., Boston, 1858–75), IV. Parkman, A half-century of conflict (1893), I. Rameau de Saint-Père, Une colonie féodale, I. Sylvester, Indian wars, III.

the Royal Caledonian Curling Club. An Anglican, in Ottawa he attended St George’s Church and then All Saints’; in 1920 he participated “whole-heartedly” in the Anglican “Forward Movement.” He then