also participated in the 1912 foundation of Mount Sinai Sanatorium at Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts. Other endeavours on behalf of the institute focused on the creation of an informal committee that

. Meanwhile, Davidson was building up a lucrative practice. In 1784 he was able to pay 7,000 livres cash down for a house on Rue Saint-Jacques costing 10,000 livres and by 1800, when appointed

during a stint with Colonel Robert Monckton*’s force, which laid waste the Acadian settlements in the Saint John valley (N.B

partnership with William Workman, he bought an expanse of 78 acres which in a few years became the flourishing town of Sainte-Cunégonde (later annexed to Montreal). He was appointed in 1850 one of the directors

. 1870 in Saint‑Timothée (Salaberry-de-Valleyfield), Que., son of Gédéon-Benjamin Denault, a lock-keeper, and Léocadie-Caroline-Delphine Coursolles, widow of Théophile-Romuald Bergeron; m. 27 Aug

. 1843 in the parish of Saint-Laurent, Lower Canada, son of Augustin-Candide Duclos De Celles, a notary, and Marie-Sarah-Anne Holmes; m. 25 Oct. 1876 in Saint-Ours, Que., Eugénie Panet

pioneer who settled in Ville-Marie (Montreal) around the middle of the 17th century, Ernest-Rémi Décary studied at the Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal. He then enrolled in the faculty of law at the

the Shubenacadie canal project. Since the 1790s Halifax interests had been urging construction of a water-way to link their port with the Bay of Fundy and thereby challenge Saint John, N.B., for control

 Sept. 1835 he commemorated the landing of the native of Saint-Malo, Jacques Cartier*, by unveiling a monument, an initiative which

on undisputed professional pre-eminence . Fassio was back at Quebec some time before the summer of 1838, when he left his lodgings on Rue Saint-Jean

in Saint-François-de-Sales-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Lower Canada, son of Guillaume Fournier and Marie-Archange Morin; m. 22 July 1857 Hermine Demers in Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets (Les Becquets

Saint-Claude noviciate near Besançon, and, thanks to his talents as a lecturer and special gift for personal direction, he seems to have been successful in training novices. A tall, thin, tight-tipped man

. 19 March 1861 in Saint-Charles-des-Grondines (Grondines), Lower Canada, son of Joseph-Nérée Gouin, a physician, and Séraphine Fugère; m. first 24 May 1888 Élisa Mercier (d. 4

with other matters at around this time; in December 1786 he had bought land in the faubourg Saint-Antoine, and in 1790–91 he was occupied with an inheritance from Josette’s mother and with a

school in Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Que. Hutton immediately sought the assistance of the newly arrived Minto, whose support fed his pretensions. A more tangled dispute in 1899 over the

children; d. there 17 Feb. 1923. Gaudiose Hébert was born in Saint-Roch ward, to a French father and a French Canadian mother. One of 16

, “Synopsis of a report on the determination by electric telegraph of the longitudes of the Grand and Little Falls of the River Saint John . . .”; RG 109, Report of committee approving expenditures on

, and Saint John, N.B. At Quebec in September his host, Joseph-Édouard Cauchon*, induced the legislature to suspend its work and hear a

living in a “neat,” well-furnished home, having a coach-house and stables for eight horses, in the faubourg Saint-Jean. The property demonstrated Kerr’s interest in horticulture since it contained

. As his writings and his election in 1887 to the general presidency of the Association Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal demonstrate, Emmanuel-Persillier Lachapelle was a French Canadian nationalist, but

soldiers and other British immigrants in the various colonies. After a preliminary survey, Richmond recommended the strengthening of the forts at Quebec, Île aux Noix, and Île Sainte-Hélène in Lower Canada

François-Edme Rameau de Saint-Père, a Catholic economist and disciple of Frédéric Le Play. The hierarchy of Quebec City reached a turning-point on the working-class question in 1900, during a

recently freed from slavery. Having proceeded to Marguerite’s apartment in the evening, the officials entered the room facing Rue Saint-Louis. As was typical, they took steps to secure the property. They

Masson to be born at the manor in Terrebonne. His father, who had come from Saint-Eustache to Montreal in 1812 to earn his living, had gradually made a place for himself within the middle class of British

. During the 1840s Thomas and his brother William built St Thomas’ Church in the Sainte-Marie district of Montreal. The church was destroyed, as were 49 of Thomas’ houses, in the great fire of 1852

brother and assume responsibility for the business in that town, but in 1819, at the time of his marriage, he moved to a house at 16 Rue Saint-Pierre and was to remain there until 1823. On 7 Sept

, Monckton dispatched a small squadron to investigate the situation at the mouth of the Saint John River (N.B.), and by 2 July he had learned that the French garrison there had blown up its fort and

rotary sawmill at Rankins Mills (Benton) on the Saint John River. He bought wharf lots and constructed wharfs and mills on both sides of the St Croix at St Stephen and at Calais, Maine. In 1859

summers Murray assisted Logan in surveying the Gaspé peninsula, and explored the Bonaventure, Matane, Sainte-Anne, and Saint-Jean river valleys. Most of his later mapping was in Canada West, from the Ottawa

“Nooth is I believe justly considered the first professional man on this continent.” Nooth helped to investigate the Baie-Saint-Paul malady, which was creating serious health problems in the 1780s [see

of timber limits along the Diable and Le Boulé rivers in the Laurentian region. In 1895 he moved his headquarters to Saint-Jovite (Mont-Tremblant), from where he would direct the firm’s work for

die.” Following his conversion, he accompanied his brother to Saint John, N. B., in 1819, and found work as a solicitor’s clerk and later as a tutor in the local grammar school. He soon

Chipman*. To improve his courtroom skills Sewell founded in Saint John the Forensick Society, a student club that debated moot points of law. He also got an apprenticeship in conservative politics as a

Fredericton and Shore’s Folly on an island in the Saint John River, nine miles above the city. Both Shores had some skill in drawing and painting, and he prepared a map of the province in 1822 which was

of 108 square miles on the Rivière Saint-François in Lower Canada. Through the influence of Smith, who was chairman of the colony’s land committee, the petition was recommended, but ultimately the

, translator, office holder, politician, and teacher; b. 15 Sept. 1799 at Quebec, son of Michel Tessier, a master saddler and merchant, and Josephte Huot Saint-Laurent; d. unmarried 24 Dec

three days later in the Belmont cemetery at Sainte-Foy, Que. François Vézina, the eldest child in a family of modest means, received his secondary

government support for the Canadian Pacific Railway and for its “Short Line” from Montreal to Saint John. Attacked for using his influence as an mp to promote his own railway

. Dominion Bridge soon obtained several important contracts. In 1883–84 it constructed an unequal arm cantilever bridge over the Reversing Falls at Saint John, N.B. Besides being an early example of

Loring’s successful naval foray on Lake Champlain following the capture of forts Carillon and Saint-Frédéric (near Crown Point, N.Y

.  r.r.g.] Baylis Public Library (Saint Ste Marie, Mich.), Mackinac notarial records (photocopies at DPL, Burton Hist. Coll.). Private arch

., 3 April 1823. F.-J. Audet et Fabre Surveyer, Les députés de Saint-Maurice et de Buckinghamshire, 59–61. Bouchette, Topographical description of L.C., 386–91

frequently his clay pipes and hogsheads of earthenware came from Glasgow. By 1844 he had moved into “extensive premises” at a prime location on Rue Saint-Paul, nearly opposite the custom-house. There he dealt

.” The following year, on 15 Jan. 1694 when his marriage contract was signed, de Leigne had nothing more than the title of “bourgeois of Paris”; he was living there on Rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais

ANGLIN, FRANCIS ALEXANDER, lawyer and judge; b. 2 April 1865 in Saint John, son of Timothy Warren

riding of Saint-Maurice but was badly defeated by Charles Caron and Pierre

carpenters and joiners, including Thetford Mines Local 1554 in 1907 and Saint-Hyacinthe Local 1108 in 1915. Even in Trois-Rivières, where the Catholic unions were trying to stem the rise of the “international

conversion reformed him. As a member of the Salvation Army, he was sent to Saint John, Moncton, and Charlottetown. He first went to Toronto in November 1886, and eventually involved himself in the army’s

a hand in the principal projects of Acadian nationalists. He was one of the Island delegates to the congress of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste at Quebec in 1880. There he was appointed to the

”: search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Genealogy (consulted 31 May 2018). Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “England, Cheshire parish registers, 1538–2000