Charles Juchereau de Saint-Denys to France to obtain for the colony the right to dispose freely of its skins on the metropolitan market. Pascaud, however, did not limit himself to carrying out
de Maine-et-Loire (Angers, France), “Reg. paroissiaux et d’état civil,” Ingrandes-sur-Loire, Saint-Pierre, 4 mars 1628
PETITCLAIR, PIERRE, notary’s clerk, writer, and tutor; b. 12 Oct. 1813 in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures
by William Galbraith), pasted over the pages of a copy of William Cochrane, Future punishment: or does death end probation? . . . (Brantford, Ont., and Saint John, N.B
(Williamsburg, Va.), 2nd ser., 20 (1963): 543–54.
Revisions based on:Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “England, Cheshire parish
McColl*]. He then practised law there and worked as a notary in partnership with Michel Carey. In 1877 he represented the Collège de Saint-Boniface on the council of the University of Manitoba. Two
merchant who may, indeed, have been wealthy, Oscar Prévost received his classical education at the Jesuit Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal and then began to study law. After being an articled clerk in the
.
Little is known about Henry de Puyjalon before his arrival in the province of Quebec in 1872. Some accounts say that he studied at the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr in France, but his name is not
RADENHURST, THOMAS MABON, lawyer, politician, and office holder; b. 6 April 1803 in Fort St Johns (Saint-Jean-sur
, 139, no.1765; B1(a), 372: 373–75; 374: 339–41; B1(b), 639, nos.55350, 63617, 75097, 84154. West Bromwich Central Library (West Bromwich, Eng.), All Saints’ Church (West Bromwich), reg. of baptisms
Academy, northwest of Montreal. While serving three years in this position, he studied theology. Ordained a minister of the Church of England in 1865, he served at Saint-Henri-de-Mascouche (Mascouche) in
to a myriad of things in order to make ends meet.
In the autumn of 1870 Rho announced that he was opening a studio on Rue Saint-Jean, at Quebec, in
Foundry of Saint John, N.B. [see James Stanley Harris*], and moved it to Amherst. The equipment and skilled workers of the Harris
experienced the most intense conflict, Richardson, now a captain, led a courageous but ultimately futile attempt to retake Saint-Julien (Sint Juliaan) before emerging as the sole surviving officer of No.2
as Montreal, Quebec City, Saint John, N.B., and Halifax. Riordon’s wealth, in fact, was a by-product of the rise of the mass newspaper after confederation
Halifax by the Royal Navy. Ritchie assisted in the defence of the three New Brunswick men tried at Saint John in connection with the affair. He also acted as attorney in Halifax for his brother-in-law, Dr
Gazette, and Weekly Intelligencer of the Island of Saint John, the colony’s earliest newspaper. Before Robertson’s arrival there had been no printing office on the Island, and neither the records of
Florida, 1774–1785 . . . , ed. W. H. Siebert (2v., Deland, Fla., 1929). Royal Gazette and Miscellany of the Island of Saint John (Charlottetown), 30 Jan. 1793. Egerton
and Sophie Normandeau; m. 18 July 1876 Gabrielle Galibert, a native of Milhaud, France, in the church of Sainte-Brigide, Montreal, and they had three sons and three daughters; d. 15
Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe and then went to work at the Montreal newspaper La Minerve as head of shipping. His formal schooling was limited, but he developed a taste for reading and
Saint-Jean. Romain maintained that the high demand resulted from the fact that it was “the only truly Catholic free school at Quebec, although the Education Society admits all children, without reference
country, where he was received by Louis Groston de Saint-Ange et de Bellerive, the
duties of his post. It may also have helped him to recover from losses he had sustained during the depression of the mid 1870s. Untimely real estate investments in Saint-Henri (Montreal) during that period
discover only one house rental, at 200 livres a year for a house on Rue Saint-Pierre in Lower Town.
Louis
sailed for Saint John in July 1790. She and their baby daughter, who was the mother’s namesake, joined him the next year. Another daughter, Eliza, would be born in 1794 and a son, John
piare Sant Atar Singh Ji Maharaj [The biography of a beloved follower of the guru, Saint Atar Singh Ji Maharaj] (Patiala, India, 1946; 4th ed., 1981). Mahinder Singh Dhillon, A history book of
.
Although there is no evidence to support the belief, family tradition, citing Smith’s “saintly and impractical character,” has it that he died of pneumonia “as a result of giving his overcoat to a beggar
of the first fifty years of the Church of England in the province of New Brunswick (1783–1833) (Saint John, N.B., 1880). J. D. Hazen, “The collegiate school,” Capital
STANTON, ROBERT, businessman, public servant, and publisher; b. 6 June 1794 at Dorchester (Saint-Jean), Lower Canada, eldest
governor, placed a runaway notice in the Saint John Gazette (29 June 1792) in which Statia was described as about 30 years of age, “of the mulatto cast,” and able to speak “very fluently
Saint-Jacques), and he was believed to be the largest property owner in the city; he paid approximately the same amount of property tax as the Grand Trunk Railway. Stephens was listed among the promoters
work among children in the slums.
Returning to the Synod of the Maritime Provinces, Stewart was ordained by the Presbytery of Saint John in
), xvii-xix. Acadian Recorder, 15 July 1865, 16 March 1867, 4 Jan. 1868, 19 Jan. 1880. British Colonist (Halifax), 9 Nov. 1869. Daily Telegraph (Saint
was producing between seven and eight million feet annually. In October 1835 James and John had sold two mill reserves and some land on the Tobique River to Ephraim H. Lombard of Saint John
., 1976).
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Geneal. Soc. (Salt Lake City, Utah), International geneal. index. PAC, RG 1, L3, 495
. scrapbooks. Manitoba Geneal. Soc., Brandon branch, cemetery transcripts. PAM, MG 10, C45. NA, RG 31, C1, 1871, Montreal, Saint-Antoine, div.4; 1891, Elton, Man. Brandon Daily Sun, 5 Dec
at St Johns (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Twiss was responsible for their preparation; he also supervised the construction of 12 single-gun artillery boats and the building of launching slips for
Monviel’s father, a career soldier, had come to the colony with the French regulars during the Seven Years’ War and he died following the battle of Sainte-Foy in 1760. His widow established a new home for
exchanges; b. 7 Nov. 1796 in Paris on the Île Saint-Louis; d. 7 April 1864 in Paris.
Nicolas-Marie-Alexandre Vattemare was the son
. 19 Dec. 1679 at Trois-Rivières, son of Étienne Veron* de Grandmesnil and Marie-Thérèse Moral de Saint-Quentin; d
of Saint-Domingue (Haiti) in 1793), and also in the expeditions to north Holland in 1799 and to Copenhagen in 1801. Vincent had been promoted major in September 1795 and attained the brevet rank of
the Sulpician Order, St Mary’s Seminary and Univ. (Baltimore, Md.), J. T. Wagner, 1857. Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph, Hotel Dieu Hospital Arch. (Windsor, Ont.), Chronicles, chap
23, 323, file 2750, pt.2; RG 42, 48; 327; 336, file 13205A. Private arch., K. H. Annett (Sainte-Foy, Que.), W. J. Topley, photo of William Wakeham; Marcel Lamoureux (Gaspé
proposed expedition against Fort Saint-Frédéric (Crown Point), but it never took place.
In 1749 Waldo became involved in a bitter dispute with Shirley
.
Thomas Walker, who had emigrated to Boston in 1752, came to Montreal in 1763 and established himself as a merchant. He purchased a fine stone house on Rue Saint-Paul, near the Chateau de Ramezay, and
services to Johannes Ruyter, known as John Ruiter, who was Thomas Dunn’s business agent for the seigneury of Saint-Armand, and in June of the same year
Gompers, commissioned him to work as organizer for the district of Montreal. Employed in this position until 1901, he succeeded in setting up unions in Montreal, Quebec City, Saint-Hyacinthe, and Salaberry
Victoria. His specifications book from the 1870s includes an immigrant shed, a drill hall, and a penitentiary, as well as the Kent and Saint-Louis gates in Quebec City, planned as part of a project of Lord