army, was the teacher. It was not until he was 16, however, that he entered the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière. There Abbé Thomas-Benjamin Pelletier, the prefect of studies, gave him his

Dominique Rollin and Magdeleine Bouthellier (Bouteiller); m. 3 April 1815 Zoé Pétrimoulx in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Laval), Lower Canada; d. 1 Dec. 1855 in Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville

Testard* de Montigny; m. first 9 Jan. 1815, at Sainte-Anne-de-Mascouche (La Plaine), Marthe Godon, and secondly, 30 Jan. 1855, at Saint-Jérôme, Marie-Louise Allaire; d

TUCK, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer and judge; b. 27 Feb. 1831 in Indiantown (Saint John), son of Moses Tuck and Elizabeth Travis; m

in Peekskill, N.Y., probably the son of Edmund Ward and Elizabeth Strange; m. 1777 Elizabeth Strange, and they had four sons and two daughters; d. 5 Aug. 1846 in Saint John, N.B

Precious Blood; b. 11 July 1833 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada, daughter of Joseph Caouette, a blacksmith, and Marguerite Olivier; d. there 6 July 1905

, and baptized the following day in Montreal, son of Victor Chénier and Cécile Morel; d. 14 Dec. 1837 in Saint-Eustache, Lower Canada. Jean

Maria Lancaster; m. 23 Aug. 1848 Louisa Sophia Jordan, daughter of Daniel Jordan, in Saint John, N.B.; d. there 2 Jan. 1892

as a potter in Fairfax until the 1850s, when he crossed the Canadian border to Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu). Other members of the extensive Farrar clan had for some years been engaged in

MASCLE DE SAINT-JULHIEN, JEAN (the name usually appears as St. Julien, but he signed St. Julhien

McDONELL, TERESA, named Sainte-Thérèse, member of the Sisters of

concentrated his energies on educating the young. In the spring of 1849 Rézé was made superior for the religious of Holy Cross in Lower Canada, who had come to Saint-Laurent on Montreal Island in 1847 at the

TROIE, NARCISSE-AMABLE, Roman Catholic priest, Sulpician, professor, and superior; b. 3 April 1843 in Saint

BROUSSEAU, JOSEPH-ONÉSIME, Roman Catholic priest and agricultural missionary; b. 22 July 1853 in Sainte

, and office holder; b. 21 Nov. 1780 at Quebec, son of Louis Marchand, a ship’s captain, and Françoise Roussel; d. 10 March 1852 in Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Lower

. 1879) in Boston, and they had one daughter; m. secondly 15 Aug. 1883 Almyra Thompson (d. 1885) in Saint John, N.B., and they had one son; m. thirdly 25 Dec. 1886 Ida Lois

, merchant, and interpreter; b. 1697 in the parish of Sainte-Anne-du-Pays-Bas (Fredericton, N.B.), son of Gabriel Godin, dit Chatillon, dit Bellefontaine, and Marie-Angélique Robert

. 18 Oct. 1823 Calista Calvert, youngest daughter of Richard Calvert, a merchant of Saint John, N.B., and they had four sons and four daughters; d. 11 Dec. 1858 in Liverpool

LA CORNE DE CHAPTES, MARIE-MADELEINE DE, dite du Saint-Sacrement, sister of the Congregation of Notre-Dame

LAMOTTE DE SAINT-PAUL, PIERRE, captain commanding a company in the Carignan Salières regiment, regimental officer (1665–70

MERCIER, ANTOINE, priest, Sulpician, parish priest of Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur (Montreal); b. 14 May 1817 at

PAYEN DE NOYAN, MARIE-CATHERINE, named de Saint-Alexis

Taschereau, at Sainte-Marie-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce (Sainte-Marie), Lower Canada; buried there 4 June 1832. On 8 April 1801 the

William Raymond and Elizabeth Mary Carman; m. 18 June 1879 Julia Nelson in Saint John, and they had a son and a daughter; d. at midnight 23–24 Nov. 1923 in Toronto

François-Roch Rolland and Angélique Boisseau; d. 5 Aug. 1862 at Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir (Marieville, Que.). Jean-Roch Rolland was called to

 Oct. 1773 and given responsibility for the parish of Baie-Saint-Paul, to which he went at the beginning of November. Bishop

. 1782 in Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu, Que., son of Dominique Debartzch, a merchant, and Marie-Josephte Simon, dit Delorme; d. 6 Sept. 1846 in Saint-Marc on the Richelieu, Lower Canada

solicitor of his native Saint John and participating in the founding of the Saint John Law School. It is for his written work, particularly his remarkable 1870–71 journal, that he remains best known. It

LECLERC, FRANÇOIS (baptized François-Xavier), businessman and manufacturer; b. 20 Jan. 1865 in Saint-Pierre

, daughter of John Thomas Murray and Harriet Letitia Despard; d. 13 Feb. 1901 in Saint John, N.B. Born into pre-loyalist and loyalist

University (Bloomington, Ill.). Having been articled to his uncle the Saint John lawyer Charles Wesley Stockton, he had been admitted an attorney in 1867 and called to the New Brunswick bar the year following

Belleisle (Belleisle Creek), N.B., son of William Walker and Patience Taylor; m. 30 July 1876 Eliza Ruth Marsh in Saint John, N.B., and they had five children; d. there 21 April

ARNAUD, MARIE-MARGUERITE-DANIEL, dite Saint-Arsène (incorrectly called Saint-Arnaud, the name of another

 Aug. 1797 at Saint-Pierre-Montmagny, Lower Canada, son of Pierre and Marie-Rose Blanchette; d. 25 Feb. 1887 at Vancouver (Wash

. 1859 in Iberville (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Lower Canada, daughter of Jules Bonneau, a blacksmith, and Émélie Granger; d. 3 Aug. 1934 at the community’s mother house in Montreal

attended the Petit Séminaire de Chezal-Benoit in the diocese of Bourges. He continued his studies at the Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris and obtained a baccalauréat ès sciences. He then earned admission

DESLONGRAIS (Delongrais, Des Longraye), NICOLAS, merchant trader, storekeeper; originally from Saint-Malo, France; fl. 1734–58

GAGNÉ, MALVINA (baptized Marie-Éléonore-Malvina), named Saint-Raphaël, teacher, Ursuline, founder

father passed on to her. In January 1861 she was examined at the Normal School in Saint John, N.B., and received a class I licence to teach in the western district of St Marys Parish. The 1861

in 1783 he was forced to leave for Saint John in New Brunswick. Not one for repining, he received some compensation money set aside for loyalists and entered the House of Assembly in 1804, participated

LE MAISTRE, JACQUES, priest, Sulpician, bursar of the seminary of Saint-Sulpice at Montreal; b

LEGARDEUR DE REPENTIGNY, MARIE-JEANNE-MADELEINE, dite de Sainte-Agathe, Ursuline nun; baptized 31 Jan

, surgeon, and landowner; b. c. 1734 in the parish of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, France, son of Didier Mondelet and Anne Méneveau; m. 23 April 1759 at

Du Gua de Monts and Champlain established their settlement on Île Sainte-Croix in 1604. He

and seigneurial notary, originally from Saint-Michel in the diocese of Saint-Brieuc (Brittany); b. c. 1651, son of Antoine Quiniard and Jeanne Branquais; buried 17 Sept. 1738 at

-Anne Blanchard; d. 24 Oct. 1819 in Saint-Denis, on the Richelieu, Lower Canada. The Thibodeaus, like many Acadian families, were

TROTAIN, dit Saint-Seürin (Surin), FRANÇOIS, soldier, settler, court officer

the town, in the Saint-Antoine district, where in 1874 the parish of Saint-Joseph was set up, and where later the Canadian Pacific Railway station was built

oath of allegiance. He made his way to Portland, Maine, then, sailing in an open boat, to Saint John, N.B., in May 1813. After moving to Halifax, N.S., he settled with his wife in Kentville, N.S

Saint John, N.B. In 1833, two years after their father’s death, John Boyd and his younger brother came to Saint John with their mother. At the