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departing vessels at a considerably enhanced wage rate. An establishment of crimps, based on Rue Champlain near the port, emerged to facilitate, for a fee, the change of employment. In 1848 the government of
holdings. In February 1789 he bought the seigneury of Champlain. In August of the following year he paid Simon Fraser and John
 Champlain, was a Micmac chief who settled in the vicinity of Port-Royal, perhaps in St Marys Bay, probably as early as the mid 16th century. At the beginning of the 17th
 
the Compagnie de La Nouvelle-France, or the Compagnie des Cent-Associés as it is often called. Participants included Richelieu himself, Champlain, and Razilly, who was appointed naval commander for
to settle. The expedition, in which Hébert and the explorer Samuel de Champlain participated, stopped
first of the troops arrived in May, Burgoyne himself late in June. Carleton then followed the Americans in their retreat up Lake Champlain, with Burgoyne as his second in command. In November, at the
positions before being appointed secretary to the president and the general manager. In 1884 he became superintendent of the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad, which provided the Central Vermont with
 
apparently as a clerk to Dr John L. Wherry of Rue Champlain in the Lower Town. He then worked as a cabinet-maker before becoming a longshoreman. Leahey performed various semi-skilled jobs on the docks
 
immediately and took up residence in Quebec with his wife, Angélique Juste, and their children in a house on Rue Champlain, near the future shipyard. That
which corroborates and adds further detail to the writings of Samuel de Champlain, and which provides us with
Champlain and the Richelieu and St Lawrence rivers, not only threatening Quebec but also blocking the only practical route for supplying posts such as Niagara (near Youngstown, N.Y.), Detroit, and
 
was not present at the fall of the city, for Wolfe had sent him with dispatches to General Jeffery Amherst* at Crown Point on Lake Champlain
 
vicinity of Fort Sainte-Anne, at the outlet of Lake Champlain. Among them were Louis de Canchy de Lerole and M. de Chazy, cousin and nephew of Tracy. A skirmish ensued in which Agariata (again according
 
return, he sought to assist Champlain and the Jesuits in their dealings with his people. He visited Quebec in
 
strategic location on Lake Champlain it could exercise military and diplomatic influence over the Iroquois and other Indians. It was also important as a barrier to the smuggling of furs into the English
, and the court of France accorded him no further reward or honour. On the other hand, in 1758 Vaudreuil granted him the seigneury of Alainville, southwest of Lake Champlain
 
. Langdon, Canadian silversmiths. Gérard Morisset, Le Cap-Santé, ses églises et son trésor (Collection Champlain, Québec, 1944). Traquair, Old silver of Quebec. Gérard Morisset
 
Cap-de-la-Madeleine until 1687, and then in the seigneury of Champlain from 1687 to 1700. In 1700 he moved to Montreal, where he carried on his functions for four years. He lived at Pointe-aux-Trembles
 
Champlain in Quebec’s Lower Town. They were at Lorette in the early 1730s and back in Quebec in the 1740s when Guillaume was employed as an expert estimator for the intendant. Just before his death he worked
 
1687 and exchanged for Jean Rioux’s seigneury on Île d’Orléans in 1696; a lot on the Champlain quay in Quebec, acquired in 1692; a seigneury at Antigonish, in Acadia, granted in 1697; an arriere-fief in
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