Dosquet* made him a land grant in the seigneuries of Bourgchemin or Saint-Herman, to be taken up “at his choice or option and at the moment he will consider proper.” During his years at the seminary

came to see him at Hyatt’s Mill in the autumn of 1815. According to others, once he had reached Trois-Rivières Holmes wrote to his father. In 1904 his sister, an Ursuline nun called Mother Sainte

, 26 Oct. 1820, 8 Sept. 1823. Jules Romme, Odelltown, 1823–1973 (Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Qué., 1973). Robert Sellar, The history of the county of Huntingdon and of the

Carroll* as possessing a countenance and spirit “not unlike that of the Rev. John [William] Fletcher, of saintly memory,” Hetty Case was an able though modest woman who felt called to a field of

youngest child of Silas Huntington, a physician, and Mary Adams; m. first 21 June 1854 Elizabeth Stewart (d. 1891) in St Andrews (Saint-André-Est), Lower Canada

, Sarah Hymas began to work for a living. When she was 16, Charles W. Penrose, an apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, converted her and all but one of her family to Mormonism

more complete information consult Azarie Couillard Després, Histoire des seigneurs de la Rivière-du-Sud et leurs alliés canadiens et acadiens (Saint-Hyacinthe, 1912); Louis Hébert: premier

flood of 1852; however, the nine-room, two-storey house, built of squared oak logs floated down from Baie Saint-Paul (Man.), was completed in 1853. A much smaller structure alongside served as a store and

his wife immigrated to New Brunswick, settling in Saint John. Here he was commissioned a deputy surveyor under George

Iroquois, but a three-day council was held by them with Champlain on Île de Saint-Ignace. Champlain requested that Iroquet take a young French lad [possibly Étienne

. Adolphe Jacquies arrived in Quebec shortly before 1826, and at first opened a confectioner’s shop on Rue Saint-Jean. He became a typographer, and struck up a friendship with Napoléon

Audet* thought him “very likely” the Alexander Johnston who during the military régime of 1760 to 1764 was captain of a company in the 46th Foot stationed at Saint-François-du-Lac in the Government of

the native races and its general history, to the present day (London, 1856; repr. Edmonton, 1972). Boon, Anglican Church. D. T. W. Price, A history of Saint David’s

of a family resident in the colony since 1634. His great-grandfather, Nicolas Juchereau* de Saint-Denis, was ennobled in

two privateers for him to sail to Saint-Domingue (Hispaniola). He is last heard of in 1761, in command of yet another privateer on a four month cruise

; Synoptic report of the proc., 1874–78. Daily Sun (Saint John, N.B.), 13 Dec. 1888. Gleaner and Northumberland Schediasma (Chatham, N.B.), 1867–73. New Brunswick Reporter

England and the Collège Saint-Servais in Liège, Belgium, he returned home in the mid 1850s to enter his family’s wholesale dry-goods and shipping business. Apparently in charge of the firm from about 1870

adopted her into their tribe. In September 1734, Kiala was placed aboard the Saint-François bound for Martinique. “We must warn you that this

. Sargent, Dealings with the dead (2v., Boston, 1856), II, 567. H. N. Shepard, History of Saint John’s Lodge of Boston (Boston, 1917), 18. W. B. Weeden, Economic and

flourishing. They were to have 17 children, but only 3 outlived him. In 1789 he rented one part of the second storey of a building he owned on Rue Saint-Joseph in Upper Town to John Krepper, a merchant

-Paul Legardeur de Saint-Pierre and the Ottawa chiefs to Michilimackinac to apprehend Le

Murray at Quebec, and fought in the battle of Sainte-Foy on 28 April 1760. He was with Murray’s force which advanced up the St Lawrence, and he was present at the capitulation of

, Political history of Nfld. H. W. LeMessurier, The Church of Saint Thomas and its rectors, 1836–1928 (St John’s, [1928]). The story of the Colonial Building

the Society of Jesus at Bordeaux on 4 Oct. 1703. He studied at various centres in France and taught at La Rochelle, Luçon, and Saintes (dept. of Charente-Maritime). Following his

Sherbrooke in 1874, Louis-Zéphirin Moreau* of Saint-Hyacinthe in 1876, and Elzéar-Alexandré

dispatched either with trading goods for the fishermen at Saint-Pierre and Miquelon or on the Grand Banks, or as fishing expeditions. These ships may have been involved in some coasting trade as well. In 1767

, author, journalist, and politician; b. 13 March 1848 at Mount Johnson (Mont-Saint-Grégoire), Canada East, son of Pierre-Bénoni Lareau and Odile Sylvestre; m. 9 Feb. 1880 Marguerite

whereby Daumont* de Saint-Lusson took possession of the territories of the West

France, where he lived until 1851. He retained his interest in Canada. In 1843 he donated £225 for the construction at Willamette (Oreg.) of a college, Saint-Joseph, for French Canadians. On his return to

very irregularly at the Château Saint-Louis, and almost arbitrarily. Lauson therefore created a seneschal’s court modelled on those in the French provinces. For Quebec and Trois-Rivières, he set up

Faucher* de Saint-Maurice a “masterpiece of Canadian typography”; moreover, it was one of the historical works of the period that attracted most attention. Its scientific value is still acknowledged

. Prowse* considered it the worst of the great fires which devastated British North American towns such as Quebec and Saint John, N.B., during the period

William D. Lawrence was the largest wooden vessel ever built in the Maritimes, the ship was in fact only slightly larger than the 2,377-ton Morning Light built at Saint John, N.B

, 1, nos.4, 6; Gaspé (Percé), Reg. B, 2, no.982. PAC, MG 28, III18; MG 30, D1, 18: 129; RG 31, A1, 1861, Bonaventure. Soc. jersiaise (Saint-Hélier, Jersey), St John, reg. des baptêmes, 14 oct

Massé from Port-Royal and followed the coastline to Frenchmans Bay, in Maine. The obstinacy of the crew obliged him to stop at this spot, which they named Saint-Sauveur. Instead of pushing on

settlement on Saint-Pierre [see Le Gouès]. Other ships of the squadron were also active

coast of Labrador at Grand Saint Modet, Chateau Bay, and Baie des Esquimaux (probably Hamilton Inlet). They also became directly involved in the fur trade by joining a company that leased the King’s Posts

1657 she founded the Confrérie du Saint-Rosaire. Jean Hamelin

Company in Montreal, with offices on Place d’Armes and printing-shop at 319 Rue Saint-Antoine. The first issue of Desbarats’s paper the Canadian Illustrated News, dated 30 Oct. 1869

1669 he asked the Sulpicians of Montreal to grant him, for business reasons, a piece of land situated above the Sault Saint-Louis rapids, on the present site of Lachine. His request was granted, but the

seneschal’s court, deputy to the king’s attorney, acting lieutenant general for civil and criminal affairs; b. c. 1656; he came originally from the parish of Saint-Eustache, Paris, and was the son of

leaving France, the new governor had sought the cross of the order of Saint-Louis, out of a concern, as he claimed, for increasing his prestige in the eyes of the Indians, the latter “knowing that it is a

Lola], Lola had selected a favourable site adjacent to the Saint John River. Because of his domestic arrangement and his increasing intemperance, the other Malecites chose to live some

, Saint-Étienne de Strasbourg, 11 nov. 1733; Morbihan (Vannes), État civil, Le Palais, 24 déc. 1744. AN, Col., C11A, 101, f.350; C11B, 36, ff.268–70; Section Outre-Mer

River Saint Laurence, Lake Ontario, &c. to which is added a vocabulary of the Chippeway language, names of fuss and skins in English and French, a list of

several fine ships until James’s death in 1892, becoming one of the more successful firms in Yarmouth and a leader in the Maritime shipping industry. During these years John spent much time in Saint John

Letellier* de Saint-Just which had just brought the Liberal Henri-Gustave Joly* to power. It was Lynch who, with Edmund James

AO, RG 22, ser.360, no.267. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Geneal. Soc. (Salt Lake City, Utah), International geneal. index (copies at the Toronto branch of the church’s Geneal. Library

Canada at the time of the War of 1812. He left the army on half pay after the war, and on 3 Oct. 1815, at Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, he married Julie, daughter of Pierre-Guillaume Guérout, a

. Revisions based on:Arch. Départementales, Charente-Maritime (La Rochelle, France), “État civil,” La Rochelle, Saint-Jean-du-Pérot, 23 févr. 1708, 16 juin 1721