was appointed city councillor for Champlain Ward for 1840–42. The positions on the city council again became elective in 1842 but he declined to stand for office although he continued to act as a

the Patriot force which left Detroit on the Champlain to invade Upper Canada at Windsor. He claimed at his subsequent trial that the steamer was to have sailed to Black River, Mich., where he

with a secret reconnaissance mission to Lake Champlain. His success in this enterprise contributed to the defeat of the conspiracy said to have been promoted by David

Champlain, daughter of Pierre-Melchior, “sieur de la Touche de Champlain, seigneur of Godefroy, Roctaillade, and other places.” By September 1813 he was residing on one of the best streets in Quebec, called

expansion had induced him to make heavy purchases of oak and pine on both sides of Lake Champlain. Usborne apparently led a moderately active social

determine the boundary between eastern British North America and the United States. He acted for Joseph Bouchette, who fell ill with “Lake Champlain fever” that year, and he remained with the survey after

, he promoted the construction of the first railway in the Canadas, the Champlain and St Lawrence Railroad. Despite his numerous activities Rocheblave

Richelieu, and to assume command on Lake Champlain. Pring was confirmed in the rank of commander on 13 Nov. 1813. Yeo’s choice was a

the Company of Proprietors of the Champlain and St Lawrence Railroad, a firm that built the first railway in Upper and Lower Canada. Running from La Prairie to Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), it

the run along Lake Champlain and the Rivière Richelieu to Dorchester (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu); in June 1809 the Vermont went into service

petition to get a railway built from La Prairie to Lake Champlain using wooden rails – indeed he was one of the first to put his name to the document, along with John

-stock, which was second-hand, had been bought from the Champlain and St Lawrence Railroad. Along with these contributions to the economic

St Lawrence on Rue Champlain, as well as of a farm and sawmill in Stoneham Township, north of Quebec. A number of these properties, fitted up as shops, inns, or other commercial establishments, brought

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

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

events, he quit the Patriote movement in the summer of 1840 and for several months went about Vermont villages looking for work. Early in 1841 he settled down at Champlain, N.Y. Penniless, alone

union Duval became stepfather to Magdeleine Huguet, who married silversmith Jean-Baptiste-François-Xavier Dupéré, dit Champlain, in 1801

this initial responsibility Dorion attracted the attention of his fellow citizens. Consequently, on 26 Oct. 1830 he was elected to the Lower Canadian House of Assembly for Champlain, and he sat

transportation in the colony and in 1831 he participated in founding the Company of Proprietors of the Champlain and St Lawrence Railroad [see John

role in the preparations for this uprising. In September 1838 he 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