, with his partners in the ironworks, he bought from Alexander Ellice the seigneury of Champlain, near Trois

); because of its location this village would serve as port for the fleet that was to engage the American warships on Lake Champlain. In 1777 Frost was promoted master attendant and storekeeper at St

. 1787 Charlotte Ouimet in Longueuil, Que.; m. thirdly 8 Nov. 1790 Catherine Monty, probably in Champlain, N.Y.; d. 9 March 1816 in Beekmantown, N.Y

America in 1758 and the following year saw service on Lake Champlain with Major-General Jeffery Amherst*’s army. Captain Joshua

, and no ways answer immediate exigencies.” What was particularly urgent was to ensure control of the main access routes – the Richelieu and Lake Champlain on one hand, the upper St Lawrence and

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

logs from the Lake Champlain area to Montreal, the timber was seized by Benjamin Price* and Daniel

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

numerous property transactions at Quebec, where he owned houses and lots on Rue de la Montagne, Rue Champlain, and Rue Saint-Louis, speculated on lands in the townships, and was a member of the Quebec Fire

. In 1760 Antoine Juchereau Duchesnay, who was an ensign in the colonial regular troops, was given a difficult reconnaissance mission on the Lake Champlain frontier by Louis-Antoine de

Lake Champlain and all its forts. After apparently having taken part in the defence of Carillon in 1758 [see Montcalm], he spent the rest of that summer in reconnaissance or skirmishing

Champlain) with house, wharf, bakehouse, potash works, stores, and outhouses. The following month the partners bought for £1,750 from Catherine Trottier Desauniers Beaubien, widow of the merchant François

remained there long. On 20 July 1755 Beaujeu was granted the seigneury of Beaujeu on the west shore of Lake Champlain, but the concession apparently

the subject of debate and has been examined in the following: works: [L.-] O. Brunet, Voyage d’André Michaux en Canada depuis le lac Champlain jusqu’à la baie d

, Pa) in 1758 and Jeffery Amherst*’s thrust up Lake Champlain in 1759. McKinnon was apparently present when some of the 77th took part in the

ensuring the naval defence of Lake Champlain. Along with the shipbuilder Pierre Levasseur, son of René-Nicolas Levasseur*, he supervised the

military strength affected the status of Nova Scotia. It has been published in a series of five volumes by the Champlain Society. The house of Simeon Perkins in Liverpool, built in 1766–67 and extended in

frontiers of the Government of Montreal. In July Lapause took part in reconnaissance near Lake Champlain. After the fall of Fort Niagara (near Youngstown, N.Y.) in July, Governor Vaudreuil

ended, with two objectives in view: first, to destroy American naval establishments at Sackets Harbor and on lakes Erie and Champlain; and second, to occupy American territory in Michigan so that the

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