Cornelia Jane Boyd of Saint John, N.B.; d. 14 April 1854 in Saint John. Little is known of Alexander Boyle’s early life. He received his

entered the order of Saint-Sulpice, and was professed in 1689. He requested, and on 1 Feb. 1694 was granted, the opportunity of serving the church in New France. He arrived on 3 Aug

of Séraphin Bréaux and Brigitte Martin; d. 12 Jan. 1824 in Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan (Saint-Jacques), Lower Canada. Deported

Giroux opened a store on Rue Saint-Pierre and sold Brunet the one he owned on Rue Craig (Rue du Pont) in Saint-Roch ward. As well as a “complete assortment of the best drugs,” Brunet carried “every

Marquis), merchant, landowner, jp, office holder, militia officer, and politician; b. 8 Oct. 1780 in Sainte-Famille, Île d’Orléans, Que., son of Jean Canac

Elizabeth —; m. 1850s Solomon H. Hart (d. 1901) in England, and they had five daughters and two sons who survived to adulthood; d. 28 March 1915 in Saint John

principally at Bourges. In 1632 he went with Father Antoine Daniel to Cape Breton Island. He remained at the Sainte-Anne

JACSON, ANTOINE, soldier and wood-carver; b. some time between 1720 and 1730 in the parish of Sainte-Marguerite

 Dec. 1843 in Dorchester (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Lower Canada, eldest son of Jean-Misaël Maynard, a farmer, and Constance Bélanger; m. 16 Nov. 1869 Ellen (Ella) McGourty in Saint John, N.B

LAUSON, GILLES, Montreal settler, forefather of all the Lauzons of Canada and the United States; b. in the parish of Saint-Julien

LE MOYNE DE SAINTE-MARIE, MARGUERITE, dite du Saint-Esprit, sister of the Congregation of Notre-Dame

LYON DE SAINT-FERRÉOL, JEAN, priest, a director of the Séminaire des Missions Étrangères in Paris, France, superior of the seminary of

Sarcel de Prévert’s men claimed to have discovered, with the guidance of Indians. Champlain and Messamouet set sail in a pinnace of five or six tons, manned by nine sailors. Between Île Sainte

MESSIER, dit Saint-Michel, MICHEL, lieutenant of militia

McMillan and Rachel Griscom Murray; m. 14 April 1862 Dorothea Jack in Saint John, N.B., and they had eight children; d. there 25 May 1905

religious affairs of Saint John, N.B., when that port was a centre of commerce in British North America. Parks, somewhat typically for a prominent merchant of his day, had wide business interests. They

. 1796 at Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud (Saint-Pierre-Montmagny, Que.), son of Philippe Picard Destroismaisons and Rosalie Fournier; d. 5 April 1866 at Saint-François, Île d’Orléans

SAINT-PÉ, JEAN-BAPTISTE DE, priest, Jesuit, missionary, superior of the Jesuit missions in New France; b. 10 Oct. 1686 in Pau

Quebec and was buried four days later in the church of Sainte-Marie-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce (Sainte-Marie), Lower Canada. Thomas-Pierre-Joseph

Cardinal Richelieu to fish for cod on the Grand Banks, but was expressly forbidden to engage in any sort of trade with the Indians. He hired the 150-ton vessel Saint-Pierre at Brouage, loading

superior of the Sisters of Charity at the Red River mission; b. 26 Dec. 1808 at Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Lower Canada, eldest daughter of a farmer, François Valade, and Marie-Charlotte Cadotte

, son of Thomas Villeneuve, a farmer, and Luce Cauchon; m. 25 Jan. 1859 Odile Morin in the parish of Saint-Isidore at Lauzon (Lévis), and they had nine children; d. 4 Sept. 1909

to Saint John, N.B., with her second husband. Wolhaupter too had settled in Saint John some time before 1799. An advertisement in the Royal Gazette of 21 May 1799 states that

Burpee, the descendant of pre-loyalist settlers from Massachusetts, was educated at the Sheffield Grammar School and in 1848 moved to Saint John, N.B. There, with his brother Frederick, he established a

-Claver), organ builder and tuner, and businessman; b. 16 Sept. 1855 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada, son of Joseph Casavant

, colonizer, preacher, and author; b. 9 March 1845 in Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan (Saint-Jacques), Lower Canada, son of Joseph Cassé, a farmer, and Marguerite Mirault; d. 28 Feb. 1921 in

; d. 19 Dec. 1904 in Saint-Célestin, Que. After completing his classical studies at the Petit Séminaire de Québec (1831–39) and his

SUGRUE, JAMES LEONARD, carpenter, union organizer, labour leader, and office holder; b. 1 Sept. 1883 in Saint John, son of

TIGHE, JAMES EDMUND, longshoreman, railway worker, union organizer, and labour leader; baptized 20 March 1878 in Saint John, son

completing plans for a pincer movement against Saint-Denis and Saint-Charles. These villages were, respectively, the headquarters of Nelson, one of Papineau’s ablest lieutenants, and of Thomas Storrow

children, three of whom died in infancy; d. 30 Dec. 1908 in St Boniface, Man. Thomas-Alfred Bernier was educated at the Séminaire de Saint

CADOTTE, MARIE-ELMIRE, named Marie de Saint-Alphonse-de-Liguori, provincial superior of the Sisters of the Good

no trace of an apprenticeship contract has been found. On 7 Feb. 1809 Desrochers married Marie-Josephte Rocan, dit Bastien, at Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Laval); his master, Quévillon, and

Annapolis Royal, N.S., son of Joseph-Nicolas Gautier*, dit Bellair, and Marie Allain; d. 6 Nov. 1810 in Saint-Malo

, and inventor; b. 24 April 1808 in Saint-Vallier, Lower Canada, son of Michel Gautron and Marie-Louise Bolduc; m. 13 Oct. 1829 Sophie Vachon, dit Pomerleau, in Sainte-Marie

JUCHEREAU DE SAINT-DENIS, LOUIS, explorer, trader, officer in the colonial regular troops; b. 17 Sept. 1676 in Quebec, son of

KING, JAMES, businessman and politician; b. 18 Feb. 1848 in Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Lower Canada, son of

Langevin, a day-labourer, and Catherine Leclaire; d. 11 April 1857 in Saint-Basile, N.B. Antoine Langevin entered the Séminaire de

officer; d. unmarried on 25 Jan. 1889 at Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Que. Edward C. Macdonald came of military stock: his great

MASSON, LUC-HYACINTHE, doctor, businessman, and politician; b. 16 Aug. 1811 at Saint-Benoit (Deux

McAVITY, JAMES HENDRICKS, industrialist; b. 15 Sept. 1838 in Saint John, N.B., eldest child of Thomas McAvity and Isabella

PAQUET, dit Lavallée, ANDRÉ, carpenter and wood-carver; b. 2 Dec. 1799 in Saint

three daughters; d. 26 June 1899 in Saint John, N.B. William Wallace Turnbull was the second son of William Baxter Turnbull, whose

son of John Willis, a native of County Cavan (Republic of Ireland); brother of John Robert Willis*; m. 6 July 1858 in Saint John

, and politician; b. 5 July 1837 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada, son of Pierre-Claude Boucher* de La Bruère

Marie-Narcisse Lemaire Saint-Germain, and they had at least three children; m. secondly 8 Nov. 1834 Sophie Ménéclier de Montrochon in Trois-Rivières; d. 25 April 1835 in Saint

. Claude-Antoine de Bermen de La Martinière’s father was a leading but impoverished citizen of Quebec, related, it seems, to the famous Duc de Saint-Simon. Shortly before his death in 1719, the father

, probably at Saint-Martin de Lavaur (dept. of Tarn), France, son of Louis-Joseph de Bonne de Missègle and Marie de Villeneuve; d. 29 April 1760 at Quebec

 Aug. 1864 in Saint-Césaire, Lower Canada, son of Magloire Bourbeau, a farmer, and Marie Gaudreau; m. there 14 Feb. 1887 Amanda Tétreau-Ducharme, and they had 13 children, 10 of whom survived

Cartier, dit L’Angevin, and Marguerite Mongeon; d. 22 March 1814 in Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada. Jacques Cartier’s