First Nations of the interior who did not use canoes. When the flotilla, by then numbering 60 canoes, arrived at Fort Saint-Louis, some ten miles below

Bethune, who lived with him at 14 Rue Saint-Urbain. A middle-sized man, easy yet dignified, Henry had been called by the Indians “the handsome Englishman.” At age 85 he died in Montreal, esteemed by all who

Crown has to bestow.” He had no military ardour to encourage him to remain. When he finally closed his letter to Apsley in mid September it was with the prediction that Saint-Jean, Montreal, and Quebec

defensible route through northern New Brunswick along the south shore of the Gulf of St Lawrence. Because New Brunswick was interested only in a line that would provide service for the Saint John valley

officers of the hospital rented a house on Rue Saint-Jacques near Place d’Armes and provided it with chemical apparatus, anatomical and pathological specimens, and a library. Opening its doors to students in

along Chemin Sainte-Foy and the road to Cap-Rouge. He was an active member of the Agriculture Society, in which his farmers were prize-winners. In addition to the rural holdings, he owned several town

. first 25 Oct. 1866 Elizabeth Olson (d. 1876) in Saint John, N.B.; m. secondly 22 Feb. 1881 Mary E. Doran in Kingston, Ont.; he had no children; d. 11 May 1901 in

(Etobicoke), Upper Canada, elder son of William Pearce Howland* and Mary Ann Blyth, widow of David Webb; m. 18 Oct. 1872 in Saint

. S. Brown, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia: a sequel to Campbell’s history (Boston, 1888), 69, 314, 349, 351. J. R. Campbell, A history of the county of Yarmouth, in Nova Scotia (Saint

. c. 1764 on St Christopher (Saint Kitts-Nevis), son of Josiah Jackson, a doctor, and Elizabeth Gerrald; m., with at least two sons and four daughters; d. 1836 in England

the Collège de L’Assomption from 1842 to 1853, Louis-Amable Jetté attended the law school at the Collège Sainte-Marie, which was under the direction of François-Maximilien

York, 1969). J. M. Wolfe, “Some early Canadian utopias” (paper read at the Soc. for Utopian Studies, Saint John, N.B., 1982). John Morrison, “‘The Toon O’Maxwell’ – an Owen settlement in

. (Winnipeg, 1985), 171–83. Schofield, Story of Man., 2: 612–19. [T. W. Taylor], Historical sketch of Saint James Square Presbyterian congregation, Toronto, 1853–1903

-law, Louis XIII of France. Protracted negotiations over the dowry and ownership of the furs seized at Quebec by the Kirkes were ended in 1632 by the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the

command of the proposed expedition but showed proper reluctance until, a month later, his own proposals – including a bonus of £500 if he recaptured Fort Albany (Fort Sainte-Anne) – had been

côte Saint-Jean worth 4,600 livres and took on a whale-fishing concession at Apetépy on the Labrador coast and a sawmill on the Rivière Chaudière, financing them, however, by borrowing

. 1857 at Saint-Édouard, Lower Canada, son of Laurent-David Lafontaine, a physician, and Hedwige Singer; m. 14 Jan. 1880 Elmire Moll (d. 15 Feb. 1919) in Montreal, and they had a

the Onondagas in their village communities was at the mission of Saint-Jean-Baptiste. His impressions in 1672–73 were that only the superior persons could ever be converted and even so it would be

. Farmer, Oxford dictionary of saints (Oxford, 1978). “Jacob Mountain, first lord bishop of Quebec: a summary of his correspondence and of papers related thereto, compiled from various sources,” ANQ

attending the Academy of St Joseph in Clondalkin and, in 1835, the Lazarist St Vincent’s College at Castleknock. In 1837 he entered the seminary of Saint-Lazare in Paris and four years later took

Senneville, near Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue. Herbert’s younger son, Howard Meredith, would later write: “Although he was always a loving and forgiving father and husband, he had a quick and volatile temper. His

*, dit Saint-Onge, cheerful, sociable, and “a man of intelligence,” as well as Garreau’s “so-called ‘cousin.’” In a general reference, probably to the vicars general, Friederike wrote of later hearing

) to the French régime. Miles concluded his treatment of this period by writing that on the Plains of Abraham could still be found relics of the bloody battle of Sainte-Foy (1760), fought “between the

. 1877 and on 18 Dec. 1879 much of his furniture was confiscated for failure to pay the rent for his living quarters on Rue Saint-Jean. On 25 Feb. 1880 his attorneys, Gauthier and Chouinard

. (Saint John, N.B.), 1 (1887–88). Grand Orange Lodge of Prince Edward Island, Annual report, 1879; 6, 17, 22 (copy in the possession of the Grand Orange Lodge of P.E.I., Charlottetown). P.E.I

-standing battle to force him to live with his kinsmen in the loyalist settlement of New Johnstown (Cornwall, Ont.). Finding life at the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Montreal more attractive, he was

settlement (Man.); d. 15 Jan. 1853 in St Andrews (Saint-André-Est), Lower Canada. Archibald McDonald was enlisted in early 1812 by Lord

commander, John Graves Simcoe*. He was promoted captain before the surrender at Yorktown, Va. After the war he settled in Parrtown (Saint

miles south of Saint-Jean, when Mme Feller took up residence there in September 1836. The absence of a school and a doctor gave the missionaries their first means of spreading the gospel. They won

OGILVIE, WILLIAM WATSON, militia officer and businessman; b. 15 Feb. 1835 in Côte-Saint-Michel (Montreal), son of Alexander

France, he did not speak French fluently, and he seems to have used it only to address the francophone Anglican Abenakis of Saint-François-de-Sales (Odanak). He no doubt stimulated zeal in the women of his

partibus. On 5 Jan. 1796 he was transferred to the diocese of Thyatira, and then on the 22nd he was appointed vicar apostolic of Newfoundland and the captured French islands of Saint-Pierre and

land near the Rivière Saint-Charles, which he sold the following year. Panet often took advantage of forced sales to buy properties cheaply, in both Quebec and its suburbs. He resold them when he had to

valued at $50,000. The investors themselves contributed around $250,000. Problems did arise, notably an irregular flow at DeCew Falls and hostility from the Saint Catharines Water Works Company

utility and rail interests in the Caribbean and, in Canada’s maturing capital market, a pioneer in numerous and varied industrial flotations. His funeral cortège, to All Saints’ Anglican Cathedral, was one

], 1941). Murdoch, Hist. of N.S. R. R. McLeod, “Old times in Liverpool, N.S.,” Acadiensis (Saint John, N.B.), 4 (1904): 96–118. Morning Chronicle

grants could either enlist in a black army unit for service in the West Indies or remove to Sierra Leone. In the fall of 1791 Peters visited Annapolis and Saint John to promote the colonization scheme

probably attended the church of Saint-Joseph that was consecrated by Bishop Charles-Joseph-Eugène de Mazenod. In 1816 Mazenod had founded the missionaries of Provence, a group which 10 years later was

attacked Martinique; Prescott, who was attached to the expedition at the request of the army commander, Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Grey, led the 1st Brigade, landing 2,484 men near Sainte-Luce

Quesnel, like his older brother, Frédéric-Auguste*, was educated by the Sulpicians at the Collège Saint-Raphaël in Montreal, but he was a

royalist infantry. Probably in June 1796, but perhaps in 1798, he was inducted as a knight of Saint-Louis. What to do with the royalist émigrés in

father was a cloth merchant of modest means who lived with his family in the parish of Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs. He died in 1641 at the age of 51, when Pierre-Esprit was still very young. His mother

Indians from the missions at Saint-François, Bécancour, and Jeune-Lorette (Loretteville). Father La Chasse was sent with them to Norridgewock and recruited more than 100 Indians from other Acadian

with Raphael in the 1860s, became a successful portrait painter; William Townley Benson was a professional landscape artist in Mexico; Sister Saint-Sylvestre decorated chapels throughout Canada and the

Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Que. He supervised its construction and for staff he raided the OAC, the experimental farms, and American colleges; the first students were enrolled in 1907. But if Robertson had

Ross* (no relation) he became involved in the organization and electrification of street railways in Montreal, Saint John, Toronto, Winnipeg, and other cities from about 1892 to 1896. His experience

then surveyed on the Saint John River. Instead he apparently squatted in the vicinity of St Anne’s Point (Fredericton) until June 1784. In 1784 he repeatedly petitioned Governor Thomas Carleton

. Sanborn’s political career ended with his appointment by the Conservative government to the Superior Court for the district of Saint-François, at Sherbrooke; he was proud of the fact that this nomination had

Church in Canada and a patron saint of the evangelical renewal within it. Barry Cahill

prisoner by the British, quitted Schenectady on 19 Sept. 1781, and arrived at St Johns (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Que., on 19 October after a fatiguing journey. He was accompanied by his