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in the area along Lake Champlain and northwards to Yamachiche. In mid September Gugy wrote to Haldimand, now governor of Canada, of his intention to establish these people, who were mainly women and
Saint-Maurice (1808–1838) et de Champlain (1830–1838) (Trois-Rivières, Qué., 1934); “Shérifs de Montréal,” BRH, 8 (1902): 200. Desjardins, Guide parl., 140. Juliette Dubé
 
L’Orme was parish priest at Champlain, from which he was absent only for a voyage to France, from October 1711 to November 1712. Few traces of this first ministry remain
 
situation in Lower Canada before the British authorities. Heney was appointed commissioner for the building and repair of churches on 20 July 1830, and visitor of the schools in Champlain and Saint
 
loyal to the British cause and subsequently he was imprisoned at Boston in 1778 or early 1779. Escaping in the spring of 1779, he made his way via Lake Champlain to Quebec and there was commissioned
 
stockholder and he eventually assumed the presidency of the firm. He was also involved in the earliest railways, as a director of the Champlain and St Lawrence Railroad Company, which in 1851
 
settled in the Lake Champlain region near the border, at Caldwell’s Manor, where he was married. In 1783 he had joined several groups organized to obtain lands, first in Hemmingford and then in what
 
from France itself. In the spring of 1644, the famous Algonkin chief, Pieskaret, with six members of his tribe, was on a hunting trip to Lake Champlain
 
colony at the head of a party of 500 men harassing the British at the portage between Lake Champlain and Lac Saint-Sacrement (Lake George). For the next five years he led a mobile patrol varying between
 
, 446–47. John Knox, An historical journal of the campaigns in North America for the years 1757, 1758, 1759 and 1760, ed. A. G. Doughty (3v., Champlain Soc., VIII–X, 1914–16), I, notes
 
d’Orvilliers, on 17 Feb. 1692 at Champlain; they had four children; d. 27 Oct. 1713 at Montreal. Jacques Le Picard’s title was derived from
 
[Lescarbot*, Champlain*, Sagard*, Du Creux] so obscure that I thought I would
 
city hall (1850). It was not until after he had designed the Champlain market (1858) that Lecourt broke away from this tradition and turned towards the less austere Italian Renaissance, which employed
 
on Lake Champlain. Loring had taken so long to prepare vessels, however, that Amherst decided it was too late in the season to pursue his advantage against the now exposed fort on he aux Noix in the
 
Laconia company to develop land on Lake Champlain. In 1630 a successful colony was set up on his land on the Pascataway (Picataqua). He became a member of the Council of New England in 1632 and, later that
collapsed under the task without them.” Malartic subsequently went to the Lake Champlain region – to Fort Saint-Frédéric (near Crown Point, N.Y.), and to Fort Carillon (Ticonderoga), where in the summer
 
–75. F.-J. Audet, Les députés de Saint-Maurice, 1808–1838, et de Champlain, 1830–1838 (Pages trifluviennes, sér. A, 12, Trois-Rivières, Qué., 1934), 45–48
emigrated to the United States and settled on the shores of Lake Champlain. From 1818 to 1850 he set aside some 14 days each year for these people, who could not be ministered to for want of American priests
 
bought Champlain seigneury for £2,520, and they also owned the banal rights on the seigneury of Rivière-du-Loup. In 1817 David Monro refused Governor
 
from a Colonel Reid. Hardly had he arrived in 1773 when he was driven out by the Green Mountain Boys, who were asserting New Hampshire’s right to the area east of Lake Champlain (now Vermont
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