, N.Y.) on Lake Champlain. Vaudreuil considered the former operation a greater danger and planned a countermove against Oswego to deprive the British of their base of operations on the Great Lakes

Champlain*’s tomb, for which he had been awarded a prize the previous year by the Spanish consul at Quebec, the Count of Premio-Real. He returned to Kamouraska from time to time to give lectures on

York Railroad, to go south through Plattsburgh to New York City. After a series of costly and inconclusive battles with rival railways the Montreal and New York was brought into the Champlain and St

naval vessels, and to the Navy Board in London for the administration of the navy yard at Kingston and its dependencies on the Upper Lakes and Lake Champlain, and all naval victualling and stores depots

had become necessary for Hazeur to appoint a manager, Pierre Normandin, to look after his affairs in Montreal, Trois-Rivières, Batiscan, and Champlain

served as a captain in Jeffery Amherst*’s campaign of 1759 in the Lake Champlain region, and probably became aware at that time of the

la marine normande. Cartier, Voyage de 1534. Champlain, Œuvres (Laverdière). Hakluyt, “Discourse on western planting.” Lescarbot, Histoire (Tross

, and editor; b. 15 Aug. 1849 in Champlain, N.Y., son of Charles Labelle and Marie Dubois; m. 5 June 1872 Marie-Louise Derome in Montreal at Notre-Dame church, and they had seven

was to return to France for good in 1638. It was he who helped Champlain during his last illness and who

the firm of Johnston and Purss ran a distillery with Henry Taylor, who was Johnston’s brother-in-law and a distiller. The business, which occupied a two-storey house on Rue Champlain, was a fairly large

, who was to bear him 19 children; in May of that year he set himself up in Champlain, near Trois-Rivières, and stayed there for more than a year, since his first child was baptized in that parish on 24

] mount the scaffold.” Although he had been defeated in the municipal elections of 1848 Alleyn was returned by acclamation as councillor for Champlain

Champlain county. A man by the name of Hubert Trépanier, sensing there was money to be made, persuaded Pierre-Léon to follow him to the United States. Far from making their fortunes, their tour of circuses

, La Pérade, Batiscan, L’Assomption, Berthier-en-Haut (Berthierville), Champlain, and Pointe-aux-Trembles (Neuville). In 1734 he contracted for the

commandant of the Îles de la Madeleine, where he served for two years. In 1724 he was sent to Lake Champlain at the head of a detachment in order to prevent smuggling there

the Boucherville seigneury to his son, which La Perrière subsequently sold. The one royal grant he received, in 1734 – six square leagues on Lake Champlain – reverted to the crown seven

falling into ruin and had few pupils, moved to Pointe-Claire in 1784. The Champlain mission near Trois-Rivières, which had been forced to suspend work three times since its founding in 1676 and which was

Paul Le Jeune, entrusted to his care the new habitation that Champlain was having built at

. 1853. F.-J. Audet, Les députés de Saint-Maurice (1808–1838) et de Champlain (1830–1838) (Trois-Rivières, Qué., 1934). Raphaël Bellemare, Les bases de l’histoire d’Yamachiche, 1703–1903

, 1735, and yearly from 1739 to 1745 he sought out stands of oak and pine around Montreal Island, Lake Champlain, and elsewhere. He had to select and mark trees, and in 1740, 1744, and 1746 to supervise