in subduing the Iroquois who had periodically ravaged the colony since the days of Champlain. Prior to his
for the contractor who was building the eastern division of the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad. “I was very glad that you have at length succeeded in obtaining something like a footing on any
Loring’s successful naval foray on Lake Champlain following the capture of forts Carillon and Saint-Frédéric (near Crown Point, N.Y
Leblanc* for £150. For £1,020 in 1816 he sold by auction to George Pyke* a waterfront lot on Rue Champlain, Quebec, which his children had
Niagara (near Youngstown, N.Y.), he was sent to the Lake Champlain region, and he served at Fort Saint-Frédéric (near Crown Point, N.Y.) and Fort Carillon (Ticonderoga, N.Y.). He consequently took part in
– Bell launched into land speculation, an infrequent activity for him until then. On 23 May 1817, for example, Monro had bought jointly with the absent Bell the seigneury of Champlain for £2,520, and
or New France, ed. J. C. Webster (Champlain Soc., XX, 1933). La Morandière, Hist
appointment of a mayor and councillors [see René-Édouard Caron*], Black was appointed city councillor for Champlain Ward for 1840–42. The
Champlain and afterwards began trading in forest products. Indeed the “seigneur” was, for a time, also a businessman.
Christie believed above all in the
Murray and others. Within months of receiving his commission Collins was busy fixing the boundary between Quebec and New York eastward from the St Lawrence River to Lake Champlain along the
on the east side of Lake Champlain.
He was eager, however, to return to the west. In 1753 he made several requests to accompany Paul Marin de La
was sworn in at Champlain, N.Y., as a member of the Association des Frères-Chasseurs. He said later that his intention at the time was to infiltrate this secret society and inform the government of its
River-Lake Champlain sector against Jeffery Amherst’s cautiously advancing force. From mid August until March
the Erie Canal. He relocated in Montreal in 1848 to manage better a forwarding network that had been extended east to Quebec and south to the Lake Champlain region via the Richelieu River canals. His
Chinic. Like his father, Henry Dinning served on the city council. He represented Champlain Ward as a councillor from 1872 to 1874, during which time he sat on the fire, roads, and bylaws
Samuel de Champlain*, he was the only anglophone invited to speak.
Marchand’s death
market was enlarged. In 1869 the municipality bought a central property and created the Carré Champlain, its first public park. The water-mains system was extended in 1884; several streets were widened and
Lake Champlain and in 1753 became the holder of Mistanguienne, an arriere-fief belonging to the seigneury of Notre-Dame-des-Anges, which he sold four years later to storekeeper François-Joseph de
Trois-Rivières, and in October he was in an engagement with Benedict Arnold*’s fleet on Lake Champlain. In 1777 he served on Major-General John