DEWART, HERBERT HARTLEY, lawyer and politican; b. 9 Nov. 1861 in St Johns (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Lower Canada, son

the St Lawrence and he travelled as far as Saint-Pierre and Miquelon in search of likely prospects. Sometimes he undertook to salvage vessels for their underwriters but on other occasions he bought

in Lower Canada, building a lock at Sainte-Anne’s Rapids and a drawbridge at Île aux Noix. Drummond first came to the favourable notice of Lieutenant-Colonel John

.” Pierre Savard AJQ, Registre d’état civil, paroisse Notre-Dame, paroisse Sainte-Jeanne de Neuville. Le Canadien

Dunlop’s other creations are even more distinctive and they would be recognized as his most outstanding. The first was St James Methodist Church (1887–89) on Rue Sainte-Catherine, notable for its

he married on 14 July 1845 at Saint-Ours, was of the prominent Juchereau Duchesnay family. Ermatinger studied law in the office of Samuel

(both now part of Guyana). En route to England in 1797, however, his ship was captured by the French, and he was kept in close confinement for several months at Saintes, France

knight of the order of Saint-Louis on 17 Jan. 1852 by Charles III, Duke of Parma, on 7 Sept. 1861 he married Caterina Mannucci-Benincasa, daughter of the Marquis Francesco Mannucci-Benincasa

acadiennes (Moncton, N.-B., 1961). A. A. Johnston, A history of the Catholic Church in eastern Nova Scotia (2v., Antigonish, 1960–71). [A. A. MacDonald], Centenary, Saint

. Cushing papers are in the possession of Marjorie Harbert of Montreal. PAC, RG 31, Al, 1871 census, Montreal, Saint-Antoine Ward: 40. Gazette

1812, left again for Pictou in 1818, went to Saint John, N.B., around 1820, and returned to Pictou in 1824. There in June of that year Fraser opened a drug store. Two of his brothers, Robert Grant and

Venance Lemaire, dit Saint-Germain, to search out a new route between Lake Superior and Lake Winnipeg through British territory. The Frobishers even went so far as to ask Governor

FYFE, ROBERT ALEXANDER, Baptist clergyman and educator; b. on 20 Oct. 1816, in the parish of Saint-Philippe, in the

. Created a knight of the order of Saint-Louis in September 1746, de Gannes returned to Île Royale in 1749 as town major of Louisbourg. He was concerned with his personal affairs until his death. During

brought him closer to the Montreal bourgeoisie. By 1804 he owned a two-storey stone house inside the town ramparts, and a property at Près-de-Ville north of the faubourg Saint-Laurent that had

of the Dominion Exhibition in Saint John and of a private venture, the Good Correspondence, Reporting, and Publishing Bureau, but he soon returned to what he did best, sports writing. During the last

before a peace had been concluded, Mascarene ordered Gorham and his rangers in October 1748 to exact submission from the French settlers along the Saint John River, an area claimed by both France and

1917, Christmas 1920. A brief history of the Sisterhood of Saint John the Divine, 1884–1946 (2nd revision, [Toronto?, 1946?]). The descendants of John Grier, with histories of allied

of the Rivière Saint-François, probably during 1834. On 14 October of the same year, Peter McGill* asked him for information about the

Vallières de Saint-Réal and appointed at a meeting of voters from the town of Quebec. The committee was established to draw up and submit to the king and the British parliament a petition listing

outlying county militias the following spring. Apart from defensive measures, Hamond was most concerned to guarantee the supply of masts from the Saint John valley (N.B.) [see William

 Martin’s (Anglican) Church (Shediac), St Martin’s-in-the-Woods, vestry records (mfm. at PANB). Royal Gazette (Saint John, N.B.; Fredericton), 1785–1838. Marilyn Bateman Dumaresq, Hanington

HARRINGTON, BERNARD JAMES, mineralogist, professor, office holder, and author; b. 4 Aug. 1848 in St Andrews (Saint-André-Est

. Centennial, 1870–1970, Botsford Chapter No. 7, Royal Arch Masons ([Moncton], 1970), 19. Esther Clark Wright, Saint John ships and their builders (Wolfville, N.S

cloth were sold by auction in Montreal. A shipowner from the beginning of his Canadian career, in 1774 he had a “fine” vessel built in the Rivière Saint-Charles for the Atlantic run. He may well also have

its president in 1873. The following year he attended the meeting at Saint John of the Dominion Board of Trade, which rejected the proposals of George

purchase of purebred Jerseys had been from Romeo H. Stephens of Montreal, a family friend who had established at Saint-Lambert the first noted herd in Canada with animals obtained from the Royal Herd at

. The Hawkins–Maquay partnership was dissolved on 1 March 1820 and Maquay left the province the following year. Hawkins moved his business to Rue Saint-Pierre in Lower Town. In March 1821

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Geneal. Soc. (Salt Lake City, Utah), International geneal. index. McCord Museum of Canadian Hist. (Montreal), Notman Photographic Arch., Henderson family

the British North American Wesleyan Methodist Magazine of Saint John, N.B. In September 1843 Herbert’s serial “Agnes Maitland” won a

Latter-day Saints, “Newfoundland Supreme Court, estate files, 1814–1930; index to estate files, 1830–1996,” Estate files 1836, H–W estate files 1837, B–W estate files 1838, A–N: images 1084–92; Estate

capture of Quebec and the battle of Sainte-Foy, which led to the military conquest of New France by the British armies. Did Houdin have some

. Susan J. Johnston BCARS, H/D/H14. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Geneal. Soc. (Salt Lake City, Utah

 June 1842 he was elected one of the secretaries of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste. On 10 October he and another typographer, Charles Bertrand, launched L’Artisan, a bi-weekly with

Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Manitoba probate records, 1871–1930”: familysearch.org (consulted 27 April

extreme left of the line towards the rear and was very early detached to protect Côte Sainte-Geneviève where no action developed. In October 1759

) (Saint John, N.B., 1880). MacNutt, New Brunswick. Desmond Pacey, “The humanist tradition,” The University of New Brunswick memorial volume, ed. A. G. Bailey (Fredericton, 1950

de Repentigny, he fled to Fort Saint-Frédéric (Crown Point, N.Y.); on 20 March 1748 he was condemned by default to be decapitated. In April 1749, after his family had paid the victim’s

. Joseph-André-Mathurin Jacrau must have arrived in Canada by 1725; he received the tonsure and minor orders from Bishop Saint-Vallier

-Baptiste Lagrange the property of the Sainte-Famille mission among the Tamaroas at Cahokia (East St Louis, Ill.) [see Jacques-François

. After attending Harrow, Francis Godschall Johnson went to Saint-Omer, France, and to Brugge, Belgium, to complete his formal studies. Thanks to his parents’ good sense, he obtained both a sound classical

the Reversing Falls in Saint John. He was consulted frequently on engineering problems, especially those relating to the design and construction of bridges

Lejamtel*, two priests from Saint-Pierre and Miquelon who had refused to swear allegiance to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, fled to the Îles de la Madeleine and offered their services to Jones

North Shore Leader (Newcastle, N.B.), 4 March 1938. W. D. Hamilton, Dictionary of Miramichi biography (Saint John, 1997); The federal Indian day schools of the Maritimes

Desbarats*, the queen’s printer. His brother Émile would become a printer and his brother Télesphore an engraver. Henri spent part of his childhood in the faubourg Saint-Roch, in the heart of

held prisoner in Canada. His sisters subsequently married Indians, and Joanna refused to return to Massachusetts. Joseph was held at the Caughnawaga mission at Sault-Saint-Louis (near Montreal) for a

the district of Montreal, and this appointment was renewed in 1810, 1821, 1826, and 1828. He received a similar commission for the district of Trois-Rivières in 1805 and 1811, and for that of Saint

. He attended the best schools, including the local grammar school and the high school in St Johns (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Lower Canada. After studying at Queen’s College, Kingston, for a

, Lower Canada. Later he found employment with farmers in “Durham Flats” and Rivière-Saint-François. Shortly after arriving in the Province of Canada, he applied for an appointment in its newly created

), 1886. Le Manitoba (Saint-Boniface), 1886. S. E. Bingaman, “The North-West rebellion trials, 1885” (ma thesis, Univ. of Saskatchewan, Regina