LAPOINTE, ERNEST, lawyer and politician; b. 6 Oct. 1876 in Saint-Éloi, Que., second child and eldest son of Syfroi Lapointe
Forwarding Company, whose private lock at Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue gave the partners control over access to the newly completed route to the lakes via the Rideau Canal and thus an important advantage over their
., 13 mars 1865; Rôle d’évaluation et de perception des taxes foncières, quartier Ouest, 1904; quartier Saint-Antoine, 1883–85, 1904. Baker Library, R. G. Dun & Co. credit
Dunn was mishandling the renewal of the lease on the Saint-Maurice ironworks; the puisne justices, Dunn and Jenkin
The author’s history of Prince of Wales College is forthcoming.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Geneal. Soc., International geneal
sépultures de Sainte-Anne (Detroit), 2 févr. 1704–30 déc. 1848 (transcripts at Detroit Public Library, Burton Hist. Coll.), 17 déc. 1768. Arch. of the Archdiocese of Toronto, Ser.1, AB03, 09, 20
industry that stamped the character of most entrepreneurs who have been drawn to develop Canada’s hinterland. Neither saint nor sinner, though admittedly a controversial character in Ontario’s economic
network of agents from Saint John, N.B., to Port Sarnia (Sarnia), Upper Canada. Most of these agents represented various insurance companies as sidelines to mercantile businesses, legal practices, or
Foot,” prepared by W. E. Campbell for the St John River Soc. (Saint John, 2011; copy at DCB). Merry hearts make light days: the War of 1812 journal of Lieutenant John Le Couteur, 104th Foot, ed
Québec, sous la dir. de Maurice Lemire et al. (6v. parus, Sainte-Foy [Québec], 1991– ), 4. Paul Wyczynski, Émile Nelligan: biographie ([Montréal], 1999).
. Orders for the recapture of Albany Fort (now called Sainte-Anne) were not given because the truce between the English and French crowns was not due to expire until 1 Jan. 1688/89. The expedition was a
April 1864 in Sainte-Julie, Lower Canada, son of Azari Bienvenu, a day labourer, and Marie-Louise-Odile-Octavie Chagnon, dit Larose; m. 13 May 1885 Clara Martin in the parish of
, 23 (1918): 199–204; “Walks and talks with Wilfred Campbell,” Ontario Library Rev., 3 (August 1918–May 1919): 30–31; “Twentieth century librarianship,” Canadian Bookman (Sainte-Anne-de
marriage Blackwood became the manager of his former partner’s wharfs, warehouses, and store, located near Rue Saint-Pierre at Quebec.
Independently of the
Letellier de Saint-Just was minister, that she received the official title of special immigration agent.
Koerber found a sympathetic
Collège de Saint-Boniface, who regarded the expansion of the university’s role as an attack on the Catholic Church’s autonomy in higher education, resisted. Although the university act was amended in 1892
about the young man’s exploit is that he was the first European to shoot the Sault-Saint-Louis (the Lachine rapids, near Montreal) in a canoe. When later on Champlain, in his turn, ventured down these
fell: a history of theatre in Saint John, 1789–1900 (Fredericton, 1981), 108, 147. R. C. Toll, Blacking up: the minstrel show in nineteenth century America
and the Hôpital Saint-Jean-de-Dieu, Burgess had enjoyed much more favourable circumstances for putting them into practice. Unlike the French-speaking asylums, the one in Verdun benefited from the
.
Campbell left from Saint John on 1 June, “amidst the regret,” one newspaper reported, “of a large concourse of the most respectable citizens.” His departure may have been viewed with regret by the
Stephen-Milltown), N.B.], 1888; repr. Ottawa, 1974); Lake lyrics and other poems (Saint John, 1889); The dread voyage: poems (Toronto and Montreal, 1893); Beyond the hills of dream
. 1879, Decretal regarding Tilton [Tilting] Harbour, 16 Aug. 1879, and pastoral letter as bishop of Gallipoli, feast of saints Peter and Paul, 1880; Clippings and articles regarding Carfagnini
died rather suddenly in Montreal on 20 April 1908. He was buried in the cemetery of Notre-Dame de Belmont in Sainte-Foy, near Quebec
came at the invitation of his brother-in-law, Thomas Andrew Turner, who found him a house and medical practice in Dorchester (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu). Christie obtained a licence to practise in Lower
educated at Montreal Academical Institution and Collège Sainte-Marie and was called to the bar in 1855. A Roman Catholic, he had command of both English and French. He practised law in Montreal until 1858
Saunders, 1759–1760: the naval side of the capture of Quebec, ed. C. H. Little (Maritime Museum of Canada, Occasional papers, no.3, Halifax, 1958). The recapture of Saint John’s
. Hathaway, “How Canadian novelists are using Canadian opportunities,” Canadian Bookman (Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Que.), 1 (1919), [no.31]: 18–22; “Isabella Valancy Crawford,” Canadian Magazine
, Shipbuilding in Bathurst (Fredericton, 1965), 3–7; Ships of Miramichi: a history of shipbuilding on the Miramichi River, New Brunswick, Canada, 1773–1919 (Saint
bought out the railway-car works formerly owned by James Stanley Harris* and moved the business from Saint John to Amherst. Rhodes
Macdonald*] in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, which would revolutionize Protestant teacher training in Quebec.
Perhaps Dougall’s favourite cause was that of
captured French islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. Duckworth’s frigates, sloops, and schooners were dispersed widely throughout this domain, patrolling the seas from Davis Strait to the Gulf of St
, and to provide a more open forum, particularly for younger, French-trained artists, he did “yeoman’s work” with Walter Shirlaw, Mrs Helena Gilder, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and others to found the
water-colour by him, formerly attributed to George, is of Baie-Saint-Paul, province of Quebec; it is signed and dated “B. Fisher/ 1787” and is in the PAC
ferry between Digby and Saint John was christened the Fundy Rose in her memory in 2015. A marker for her supposed burial site was unveiled at the Garrison Graveyard in 2017, the year the federal
Le Moyne d’Iberville, were at Albany Fort (renamed Sainte-Anne). Fullartine was a member of this abortive expedition and by the second week of March 1689 he and his surviving companions
), 216. J. P. Noyes, “The Canadian loyalists and early settlers in the district of Bedford,” Missisquoi County Hist. Soc., Report (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que.), 3 (1908): 99–101.
–1906,” Enfield, Weld Chapel, 1864: www.ancestry.com (consulted 12 Dec. 2011). Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
; b. 14 Aug. 1859 in Saint-Dunstan-du-Lac-Beauport (Lac-Beauport), Lower Canada, son of John Gosnell (Gosnold, Gosneld) and Margaret Fachnie; m. 20 Oct. 1886 Agnes Theresa Wilson (d
dislodged it. Upon leaving the North American command in November, Graves went to the West Indies. After the battle of the Saintes he sailed for England in July 1782 in charge of a motley squadron
commission business in Montreal, Gray announced that he was continuing his auction business, located on Rue Saint-Vincent, despite rumours to the contrary; these had been generated perhaps by his neglect of
reports to have been rather non-committal, in Saint John he expressed enthusiastic support for confederation.
At the Quebec conference the following month
basic conditions and uncertain weather, canoeing in Quebec on Lac Saint-Jean and the Saguenay, and shooting the Little Chaudière Rapids on the Ottawa River
(renamed Sainte Anne) Fort. The committee recommended him to the leader, James Knight, as one “very fitt both to advise
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AO, MS 75. MTRL, Elizabeth Russell papers. Northamptonshire Record Office (Northampton, Eng.), All Saints Church (Aldwincle), reg. of baptisms, 22 Sept. 1762; reg. of burials, 23 Sept
press gallery and was named vice-president of the Canadian Press Association. From time to time he dabbled in poetry; a collection of his work, The feast of Saint Anne and other poems, which
shares in the Champlain and St Lawrence Railroad, at a time when investment in railways was just beginning. He was also a shareholder in the Île Saint-Paul (Île Des Soeurs) toll-bridge and owned
Trois-Rivières militia, in which he became a captain in 1816. On 16 May 1830 he was promoted colonel of the 1st Battalion of Saint-Maurice militia
sermon occasioned by the death of Private J. Jenny . . . (London, 1818); The faith of departed saints: an unperishable monument of instruction and admonition to survivors
-du-Loup) to Sainte-Rose-du-Dégelis (Dégelis), but its directors were unable to obtain a government grant, and the company disappeared the following year. In 1893 he joined the board of directors of the
de Montréal au tournant du siècle (Montréal, 1988), as does Yves Saint-Germain in “The genesis of the French-language business press and journalists in Quebec, 1871–1914