statement that he lived also in Saint John, N.B., cannot be verified. His move to Charlottetown in August 1829 may have been prompted by an advertisement placed a year earlier in Nova Scotia newspapers. The

family; he was a brother of John McNeil Wilmot*, a successful Saint John merchant, and two of his nephews, Robert Duncan

the high point of his military career when he was appointed by Shirley to command the provincial troops in the expedition against Fort Saint-Frédéric (near Crown Point, N.Y.). However, he fought

participation in the events of the year 1750 memorable in the history of Nova Scotia, ed. and intro. J. C. Webster (Saint John, N.B., 1936

Montreal, to Saint-Jean on the Richelieu. This 14-mile railway was designed to facilitate trade between the St Lawrence and the neighbouring states; Workman was one of its directors. Attracted also to

(2v., Québec, 1871–72), 2: 424, 454, 477, 494, 511, 552. Maurice Gobeil, “Le ‘Roi de la Gatineau’ et le Collège Saint-Alexandre,” L’Enseignement secondaire au Canada (Québec), 40 (1961–62

, MC 1156, IX, pt.ii: 54; RS24, S79, B75; P38. Daily Telegraph (Saint John, N.B.), 4 Feb. 1904: 5. Gleaner (Chatham, N.B.), 18 Jan. 1873: 2; 16

3,212 livres; he also owned a frame-house on Rue Saint-Joseph and an orchard at Coteau-Saint-Louis. Despite his difficulties Adhémar remained a figure of note in Montreal. Thus in February

New France, intendant of the Marine at Rochefort; baptized 19 Sept. 1665 in the parish of Saint- Laurent-des-Orgerils, Orléans, France, eldest son of François de Beauharnois de La Boische

Liberal family. His father and his maternal grandfather, Pierre Hébert-Lambert, supported the Patriotes and on 25 Nov. 1837 fought in the battle of Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu, where the latter was

contractors for the Saint John Valley Railway. A provincial royal commission, chaired by judge Harrison Andrew McKeown*, was appointed to

 Dec. 1850 in Saint-François parish (in Beauceville), Lower Canada, son of George William Chapman, a merchant, and Caroline Angers, sister of François-Réal

. 1641 in the church of Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs in Paris, son of Louis-Théandre Chartier* de Lotbinière and Élisabeth

Saint-Pierre.” Having been so happy on each of his preceding voyages, finding in France as it were the ideal country, the source and model of his

market and 60 per cent of the market in chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco, and snuff. Its imposing factory in the Saint-Henri district of Montreal, which was also the head office, was built in 1907

the law school at the Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal, and he was called to the bar in 1862. He practised law for six years, dabbling in journalism at the same time, and then decided to pursue a career

publicist for the Union Saint-Joseph d’Ottawa, a mutual aid society [see Jacques Dufresne*]. His fellow citizens in Lévis had set up a

, and bishop; b. 4 Dec. 1830 in Saint-Pal-de-Mons, dept of Haute-Loire, France, second son of Blaise Durieux and Mariette Bayle; d. 1 June 1899 in New Westminster, B.C

Montreal; d. 7 June 1927 at Quebec and was buried in Notre-Dame de Belmont cemetery at Sainte-Foy, Que. The Flynns, who had settled at Percé in

elected president in the summer of 1845, serving until November 1846. He was also appointed secretary of the Association Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Montreal in April 1845 and retained this post for several

Lefebvre, found quarters on Rue Saint-Pierre in the merchant district of Lower Town. In 1735 they rented part of the house of Louis

. During the War of the Austrian Succession he attempted to organize Indian scouting and raiding parties on the frontier in support of a planned attack on Fort Saint-Frédéric (near Crown Point, N.Y.), but he

now 14-year-old Emma gave at the same place, La Minerve described her voice as “sent from heaven.” She also sang in Chambly, Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), L’Assomption

order of Saint-Louis; this royal recognition was accorded him on 20 Sept. 1717. When in 1717 the regent of France entrusted Louisiana to John

made an enormously profitable purchase: the southwest part of the burgeoning faubourg Saint-Roch. It was acquired from John

between Rue Notre-Dame and Rue Saint-Paul near the Château Ramezay. It had been the property of Thomas Walker*, one of the chiefs of “our Mont

included the societies at St Stephen, Saint John, and Fredericton. He held this appointment for two years. In 1797–98, as the only preacher in New Brunswick, he was given responsibility for the whole

over the 90 miles of the frozen Saint John River to St Anne’s Point, which they chose as the site of the future capital of the province. On 22 Feb. 1785 the governor in council ordered

Fallon to the see of London, McCarthy was frustrated in his hope of ensuring Irish hegemony in Atlantic Canada. By 1920 there would be Acadians in charge of the sees of Saint John

Panet*, who was appointed to the see of Quebec in 1825, and Ursulines Marie-Anne-Archange Panet, named de Saint-Bernard, and Marie-Françoise Panet, named de Saint-Jacques

at the beginning of the century had taken root at Quebec and Saint John, N.B., as well as in the Miramichi region, and had grown to become the commercial mainstay of the colonial economy. Although at

in New Brunswick: to improve Saint John Harbour and build and operate a shipyard and dry dock there. In 1918 Phin and the other principals of Canadian Dredging had formed a subsidiary, the Saint John

passengers had run through an open drawbridge over the Rivière Richelieu near Saint-Hilaire (Mont Saint-Hilaire), plunging cars and passengers into the water. Fenwick took Roddick with him to help. He was so

case involving William Grant*, of Saint-Roch, and Alexander Gray by demonstrating that French civil law did not apply to natural-born

Saint-Henri district on 19 December. When it was over, she was hospitalized at the Institut du Radium. Two months later, on 20 February, she died there of cancer

. 28 April 1838 at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade (La Pérade), Lower Canada, son of François-Xavier Trudel and Julie Langevin; d. 17 Jan. 1890 in Montreal, Que

blacksmith, and Pamela Leduc; m. 1 Jan. 1884 Joséphine Mailhot of Saint-Norbert-d’Arthabaska, Que.; they had no children; d. 20 June 1930 in Montreal and was buried there in the cemetery of

at peace with English families. He shipped most of Cape Breton’s population to France in 1745 and planned to repatriate the settlers of Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), who also came under the

. The sixth of ten children, Louis-Nazaire Bégin attended the model school in Lévis in 1855 and the Collège Industriel de Saint-Michel (in Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse) in 1856. In 1862 he received the

. Michel Bégon de La Picardière, the father of the intendant of New France and a cousin of Colbert, was intendant of Saint-Domingue (Hispaniola) from 1682 to 1685 (the very years when his brother-in-law

took a copy of this text with him to Quebec, and it was one of his main tools. This manuscript, with marginal notes by Gaultier, has been preserved and is known today as the “Saint-Hyacinthe manuscript

Campbell and George McDougall, arrived and were taken prisoner. Immediately the Potawatomis and Hurons were advised. They captured two Englishmen at Fort Saint-Joseph (probably Niles, Mich.) and took them to

for the riding of Saint-Maurice from 1886 to 1900, town councillor and mayor of Trois-Rivières, and later judge of the Superior Court. From early childhood, Maurice, who would have four sisters

forced to retreat inside the walls after the battle of Sainte-Foy on 28 April 1760; however, he managed to hold the city until the arrival of a British squadron in May [see Robert

Quebec, and was buried in Compton. Nicolas Huot Saint-Laurent had arrived in New France around 1660. Starting in the Quebec City region, the family

 March 1821 in St Andrews (Saint-André-Est, Que.), eldest son of the Reverend Joseph Abbott* and Harriet Bradford; m. 26 July

. Bishop Saint-Vallier [La Croix], who had died during the night of 26

principals. The opposition leader appeared to have triumphed, and in September 1853 he and Jackson attended a railway celebration in Saint John, N.B., where

Montreal Cavalry. Prior to the battle of Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu he and Sydney Robert Bellingham

: the story of Ahearn & Soper and the beginning of electric traction in Ottawa,” Canadian Rail (Saint-Constant, Que.), no.377 (November–December 1983): 188–216. F. L. G