Tanswell was buried from there in 1797. On 25 June 1799 Tanswell married Marie-Joseph Coutant in Notre-Dame-de-Foy church at Sainte-Foy, and on 27 April 1819 he was buried in the Catholic

Bougainville’s belated intervention from up the river; this was easily done. But the beaten French field army made good its escape across the Rivière Saint-Charles to its camp; and that night it

). AO, RG 15, E-1, 27, no.1; E-6, folder 12; S-6, 2, no.138; 3, esp. no.309; RG 22, ser.305, nos.5175, 17875. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Geneal. Soc. (Salt Lake City, Utah

filling 20 ships. In the latter year a “Mr. Osborne, an English Gentleman,” built near Saint John, N.B., “a mill on the Russian plan . . . which works fifteen saws in

article is the four-volume journal Watteville kept from 1801 to 1826, which is with the Watteville family at the Château d’Au in the canton of Saint-Gall, Switzerland. A typescript is held by the

,” Richard Waugh, Saint Boswells, 24 March 1868. City of Winnipeg, Arch. and Records Control, f00015 (Greater Winnipeg Water District fonds), 1916–20; s00053 (City council minutes), 1908–16; s00057 (Board

Chatham Township and then moved to Saint-Laurent, where he worked as a bookkeeper in the office of merchant Daniel McDonald. In 1847 Weir established

said Mariolatry constituted an impassable gulf between Romanism and Anglicanism. He was opposed to prayers for the dead and thought the invocation of saints presumptuous. He used the term “sacrament” of

Christian Association of Christ Church Cathedral, on the evening of the 27th February, 1873 (Montreal, 1873). Lengthy obituaries appeared on 23 April 1888 in the Daily Sun (Saint John, N.B

Kent and Strathearn, who had been living in Halifax and who left for England, with Thérèse-Bernardine de Saint-Laurent*, in August

loyalists with their respective families that are now settled and preparing to settle at the Island of Saint John, taken by order of Major General Campbell at Charlottetown this 12th June 1784, p.100

(Saint John, N.B., 1923), 310. [E. M. Shilstone], “The Worrell family in Barbados,” Barbados Museum and Hist. Soc., Journal (Bridgetown), 29 (1961–62): 8–23.

salary) “in consideration of his indefatigable Industry in making himself Master of the pilotage of the River Saint Lawrence, &c.” By now Cook was becoming a compulsive surveyor, and his presence in

*, president of the Association Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal, and a group of nationalists to begin a lecture tour, but the first speech went so badly that the tour was cancelled. The audience expected someone

academia. After a stay in Saint-Gerlach (Houthem), Netherlands, for the noviciate program, which was cut short by health concerns, Fallon was transferred to Rome, where he made his final profession and

. George Eulas Foster’s father was a second-generation United Empire Loyalist who had grown up in Wakefield Parish, on the upper Saint John River, and his mother, of Pennsylvania Dutch descent, was from

ostensible leader in the assembly, as Chandler had been in the Legislative Council. Wilmot and Fisher were regarded as “reformers”; Partelow had been mayor of Saint John, and was noted for his skills in

Willis* from Saint John to Halifax, ostensibly on the ground that he was the most senior clergyman in the diocese. Inglis quite deliberately overlooked his own curate, the evangelically minded John

planned to put settlers from New England on the vacated Acadian lands of the Chignecto isthmus as a barrier between the French in Île Royale and Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) and the Acadians

Powell, by having it auctioned for debt in 1795 and buying it himself. He already possessed a fine house on Rue Saint-Louis in Quebec, for which he had paid £1,000 in 1784; he subsequently

journey – a duty he would perform regularly for more than 30 years through New Brunswick (Miramichi 1797, Saint John River 1805, Passamaquoddy Bay 1815), Prince Edward Island (1791, 1794, 1800

Sweeny* of Saint John were sold at auction because of his failure to pay school taxes, and Father François-Xavier-Joseph Michaud

. de l’archevêché de Saint-Boniface (Saint-Boniface, Man.), Cathédrale, reg. des mariages, 11 sept. 1867. Man., Legislative Library (Winnipeg), Vert. file, J. C. Schultz. NA, MG 26, A

of the militia; b. 5 Sept. 1795 at Saint-Thomas (Montmagny, Que.), son of Charles Taché and Geneviève Michon; d. 30 July 1865 in the town of his birth

Montreal and was buried in Saint-Rémi, near Napierville, Que. On his father’s side, Pierre Trudeau (he would add Elliott in the 1930s and sometimes

cousin Joséphine Papineau in Sainte-Adèle, Que., and they had eight children, six of whom outlived him; d. 31 Aug. 1952 in Montreal

also took an interest in the operation of the Saint-Maurice ironworks, which had been mismanaged and neglected in the latter part of the French régime [see François-Étienne

of the British constitution and of their importance for the survival of French Canadians. Four days before armed violence broke out at Saint-Denis

with Canada but in 1860, when he spoke in Saint John on “The political condition of British North America,” he openly advocated it. He was motivated in part by frustration and a desire for a larger

. 1841 in the parish of Saint-Lin (Laurentides), Lower Canada, son of Carolus Laurier and Marcelle Martineau; m. 13 May 1868 Zoé Lafontaine in Montreal; they had no children; d. 17 Feb

Ellis; m. 7 Sept. 1876 Hester Rankine (d. 1928) in Saint John, and they had four daughters and one son; d. 23 June 1929 in Ottawa

of the Treaty of Ghent to determine the precise location of the border with the United States. For five years he was employed on surveys under the 6th article, from Saint-Régis, Lower Canada, on

held. When members of the English party protested compensation to the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice for extinction of its seigneurial rights, Thomson denounced the “spirit of intolerance” shown by the

Calvinist, but kept it secret all his life. He found a place in the Roman Catholic community when, on 9 Nov. 1841 in the Saint-Roch church in Quebec City, he married a girl from an established bourgeois

 Cornwallis but he soon obtained parole and returned to New York. At the end of the war he was one of a group of senior officers who explored the Saint John River (N.B.) to locate suitable land for the

for the Indians at Saint-Régis (Akwesasne), Lower Canada, during a smallpox epidemic. Little more is known of his medical practice except that, according to a contemporary biographical source, he had an

mp held the job on a full-time basis. Black favoured Halifax over Saint John as the eastern terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway and was on excellent terms with CPR president Sir Edward

reconcile our thoughts.” Henne was more generous than later commentators. “Blaylock was not the saint portrayed in various books,” wrote local historian Ron Welwood, who criticized his anti-union activities

university, which had a large group of students from America, and strengthened by his brother George’s pastorship in Saint John, New Brunswick. Horrified by the widespread unemployment and crushing poverty in

BURWASH, NATHANAEL, Methodist minister, theologian, educator, and author; b. 25 July 1839 near St Andrews (Saint-André

him as an interpreter to the great council at Mount Johnson (near Amsterdam, N.Y.); the same year, when Johnson was given command of the colonial expedition against Fort Saint-Frédéric (near Crown Point

Presbyterian clergyman. Though his family was Anglican, he was then sent, along with his brother Charles James, to the Roman Catholic Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe in Lower Canada, where he acquired a sufficient

Letellier* de Saint-Just. Letellier had discharged a provincial Conservative government and installed a Liberal one. The action was vindicated in the provincial election of May 1878, but the Liberals

sketching classes in Crécy-en-Brie, east of Paris, and then in June 1911 joined him in Saint-Efflam, Brittany. The change of environment, the use of oils, the discovery that a painting could be more than a

proved very receptive to Clarke’s constructs and his proposals to weed out Jewish children fleeing famine in Ukraine. On another occasion that year, the arrival at Saint John of the first contingent of

Quebec on 24 June 1839; judges Joseph-Rémi Vallières de Saint-Réal, Elzéar

particular nature of the mission’s relationship with the Hudson’s Bay Company and with the Roman Catholic missionaries at Saint-Boniface (Man.). Much, however, remained to be accomplished. The principal

more expensive at Saint Johns than any place I know.” The chief justice found his legal business “heavy and multifarious,” involving lay pleaders without legal training and much criminal work from the

 April 1878. Manitoba Gazette (Winnipeg), 30 Nov. 1878. Le Métis (Saint-Boniface, Man.), 11 avril 1874; 6 mars, 3 avril 1875. Winnipeg Daily Sun, 2

Johnson*, who was still resident there, sent him to Montreal with a letter. Deserontyon arrived at Fort St Johns (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu) while it was under siege by the Americans and barely