livres that year and purchased the seigneury of Île-Sainte-Thérèse, as well as a home in Varennes. When he returned to Michilimackinac on business in the spring of 1780, the new lieutenant governor of

8 Nov. 2017). Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “California, county marriages, 1850–1952”; “California death index, 1905–1939”; “Massachusetts, town clerk, vital and town records, 1626

Simcoe “as a Loyalist to be depended upon,” and John Askin deemed him “as active & enterprizing a man as any in the province & perfectly sober.” In fact, Allan was neither a saint nor a

retired list. While at his summer home in Carillon (Saint-André-d’Argenteuil), Que., he fell ill, and he died in a Montreal hospital at age 61. His funeral, from Christ Church Cathedral, was a major

. Bergevin, “Missions de la Côte-Nord, œuvre des P. P. Ch. Arnaud et L. Babel,” 58 (1950): 53–64; and, without author credit, “Fêtes jubilaires à Saint-Sauveur de Québec,” 69 (1961): 55–68.

claimed, for Beck’s conversion to Catholicism in 1883. He began editing the Catholic Northwest Review (Winnipeg) and represented the Collège de Saint-Boniface in the senate of the University of

played occasionally by whites since the 1830s, but the acknowledged masters of the game were its originators, the Indians. In his youth Beers avidly studied matches between the Indians of Saint-Régis

. calendar, 1794. R. V. Harris, The Church of Saint Paul in Halifax, Nova Scotia: 1749–1949 (Toronto, 1949). History of the Bank of Nova-Scotia, 1832–1900; together with copies of

Allan Macdonell*] and later having joined the civil service of the Province of Canada. He attended the Séminaire de Saint-Joseph des Trois

). BCA, GR-2951, no.1933-09-484181. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Massachusetts marriages, 1841–1915

. After completing his elementary schooling at the École Olier in Montreal, Arthur Bernier entered the Collège Sainte-Marie for his classical studies. In 1893 he began his medical course at the Montreal

Côte-des-Neiges. At 18 he entered the Collège Saint-Raphaël in Montreal, where he studied until 1806; he then became a tutor. In 1813, while still in Montreal, he began a career as a journalist, working

head of the medical department from Quebec to Baie-Saint-Paul, Kamouraska, and La Malbaie, and closely observed the flora and fauna. During the

BISAILLON (Bezellon, Bizaillon), PETER (baptized Pierre), coureur de bois; b. c. 1662 in Saint-Jean

Company. At the time of his death in 1822 he was living in a stone house on the corner of Notre-Dame and Saint-Claude streets next door to Forsyth. This and other properties were seized by the sheriff in

station at Saint-Pierre. Four years later Bourinot was promoted to honorary vice consul; for 30 years he would be the main representative of France in Atlantic Canada. His work in this role had a

. B.C., Ministry of Health (Victoria), Vital statistics, death certificate. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City, Utah), International geneal. index. NA, RG 31, C1, 1871, Durham

géographie, d’histoire, d’archéologie et de philologie américaines (Saint-Cloud, France, 1862). Étienne de Ravensberg [C.-É. Brasseur de Bourbourg], Jérusalem, tableau

church and was appointed archdeacon of Mâcon and subsequently abbé of Saint-Père-en-Vallée near Chartres, from which he derived considerable revenue. Between 1563 and 1568, however, he turned Huguenot and

specialized in dry goods. In 1855 he left the company and moved to Quebec, where his brother Charles owned a flour and grocery business on Rue Saint-Paul. Opened in 1850, the store was small and in 1858 had a

. In December 1813 Buchan commanded the Adonis in the convoy to England and in 1815, as captain of the Pike, he briefly occupied Saint-Pierre. He was acting governor of

seigneurial rights held by the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice. Towards the end of October he reached an agreement with the superior of the seminary, Joseph-Vincent

, paroisse Saint-Clément, 1819–1919; histoire religieuse, histoire civile; fêtes du centenaire (Ottawa, 1920). Esdras Minville, La forêt (Montreal, 1944

inadequate assistance from the local inhabitants and the subsequent weakness of his transport. Burgoyne’s army, which gathered at Saint-Jean in June, was

. Baker Library, R. G. Dun & Co. credit ledger, Canada, 8: 38, 259. NA, RG 31, C1, 1891, Saint-Colomban de Sillery. Bradstreet Commercial Report, ed. John Bradstreet (New York

, 42. David Benedict, A general history of the Baptist denomination in America and other parts of the world (New York, 1848). N.S. and N.B. Baptist Assoc., Minutes (Halifax; Saint

Breton or Saint John, but always conscious of his poverty, disability, and family responsibilities, he did not feel adequately equipped for such a move

politics. In the first elections in the city of Quebec, held on 25 April 1833, he had been acclaimed to the council for Saint-Louis ward. On 1 May the council chose him as the first mayor over

studied at the Collège Saint-Raphaël from 1773 to 1780. By 1786 Cadot’s sons were working with him under the name of Messrs Cadot and Company and from 1787 evidently conducted most of the firm’s activities

Dumoulin* and Alida Pacaud, in Saint-Christophe-d’Arthabaska, Que., and they had eight children; d. 30 Jan. 1921 at Quebec. The great

. One of six children born to a public-spirited Irish-Catholic family, J. J. Cassidy was educated at St Michael’s College in Toronto (1854–60) and at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la

. After a few months in the employ of the Quebec and Lake Saint John Railway, Noulan Cauchon worked from the age of 16 as a surveyor for the

revivalism. He ministered there for three months before going to Montreal. Leaving Montreal in March 1841 and stopping in Saint John, N.B., Caughey made his way to Halifax and sailed to England late

78, J. B. Robinson to Macaulay, 15 Feb. 1811; RG 22, ser.302, reg.6 (1838–42): 472–74. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Geneal. Soc. (Salt Lake City, Utah), International

governor’s guards and lieutenant in the colonial regular troops, agent and interpreter for New France among the Iroquois; b. c. 1670 in Saint-Rémi de Provence, near Arles, France; m. 1

education at the Prince Albert School in Saint-Henri-des-Tanneries (Montreal) and then at the High School of Montreal. During his youth he displayed an affinity for the militia: he progressed quickly to a

[see Jean-Baptiste Proulx*]. With the support of the curé of the parish of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Jean

. Little is known of Louis-Théandre Chartier de Lotbinière’s career before he came to Canada. He was prior of Saint-Étienne de Monays when a young man, but soon made over this living to his brother

, du lac Supérieur au Pacifique (1659–1905) (nouv. éd., 3v., Saint-Boniface, Man., et Montréal, 1915), 2: 228–30, 269. Turner, NWMP. “The Christie family and H.B.C.,” Beaver, 3

, to seek a cure. While in France he requested that he be given the first vacant governorship in Canada, and be made a knight of the order of Saint-Louis. To substantiate his claim for membership in this

(London, 1965). The registers of All Saints’ Church, Pavement, in the city of York, ed. T. M. Fisher (2v., Yorkshire Parish Register Soc., Pubs., C

. After Coffin made his first and only visit to the islands in 1806, he tried in vain to have 22 families who had come from Saint-Pierre and Miquelon in 1792 with their priest, Jean-Baptiste

. . . ([London, 1883]). Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Geneal. Soc. (Salt Lake City, Utah), International geneal. index. GRO-L, Death

later he once again printed, with further revisions, The Nova Scotia minstrel. After nine years abroad, he turned up in Saint John, N.B., in October 1824 to visit his children. They

, mariages et sépultures, 20 sept. 1758; Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Nicolet), Reg. des baptêmes, mariages et sépultures, 4 août 1819. Arch. de l’évêché de Nicolet (Nicolet), Cartable Nicolet, I

was followed by another attack two days later at Saint-Julien (Sint Juliaan). It seems that he was overwhelmed with horror during these barrages, and his experience would have a major effect on his

improve transportation facilities on Lac Saint-Pierre. As a judge, one of Day’s most exacting tasks was to help untangle the complex claims created by the abolition of seigneurial tenure in 1854 [see

management of his affairs at Quebec to notary Michel Tessier. Between 1852 and 1857 he had purchased a piece of land and two building sites at Saint-Lazare, near Quebec, on which he set up his brother François

province of Quebec. Returning to England in 1774 to recruit, he arrived back in Quebec in May 1775, and that November was part of the force in Fort St Johns (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu) that

Ellen Roney; m. 27 Sept. 1893 Blanche de Montigny in Sainte-Scholastique (Mirabel), Que., and they had eight children; d. 1 March 1914 in Aylmer