priests of the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice, but things worked out differently. On 31 October, in the presence of notary Thomas Barron and Denis-Benjamin

livres in fees owing to a notary. François Rieutord died less than a year after his father, on 1 Feb. 1819

cantor, school master, notary, and parish secretary. In 1688 Rémy was appointed chaplain of the Montreal Hôtel-Dieu. In August 1689 the massacre of

. Annette Saint-Amant was the granddaughter and daughter of notaries. A native of Deschambault, Lower Canada, her father had moved to L’Avenir, where he began practising his profession in 1884; he was also a

. 1657 in Montreal, daughter of Jean de Saint-Père*, a notary, and Mathurine Godé; d. in 1747 or 1748 in Quebec

Glapion*, signed the official papers appointing Mathieu Hianveu notary for the seigneuries of Notre-Dame-des-Anges, Saint-Gabriel, Sillery, and Bélair. This was probably the Jesuits’ last seigneurial

single craftsman. His commercial ventures were certainly not confined to silverware. On 21 May 1784, in the presence of notary Edward William

of ten children born to Alexander Sellar, notary, and Isabella Grant; d. 27 Oct. 1867 in Montreal. Educated in Scotland, Thomas

SERRES, ALEXANDRE, surgeon; b. c. 1732 in Saramon, France, son of Jean-Baptiste Serres, a notary

Lieutenant Governor Sir John Gaspard Le Marchant* for an appointment as “Notary and Tabillion Public.” There is no record that

. This royal notary’s son probably came to Canada as a ship’s surgeon. The witnesses to his marriage at Quebec on 26 Aug. 1700, acting in lieu of family, were all crew members of the Bien

Canada he lent various sums and on his departure left his affairs in the care of the notary Pierre Raimbault

a family of 17 children, came from the colony’s seigneurial and military aristocracy. From 1782 to 1787 he studied at the Séminaire de Québec. He began his clerkship in the office of notary Pierre

). Cléophée Têtu’s father was a notary at Saint-Hyacinthe, where he was also the seigneurial agent for Jean Dessaulles*. He took enough of a part in

baptized 9 Nov. 1656 at Quebec, son of Paul Vachon, notary and clerk of court, and of Marguerite Langlois

Papineau’s most loyal supporters, was “of a fiery and generous disposition.” Consequently, on 16 Nov. 1837, when he learned that Dr Joseph-François Davignon and the notary Pierre-Paul Desmaray

. 1704). ANQ-M, Greffe d’Antoine Adhémar, 3 juill. 1705 (notarial acts relating to the establishment of the Sisters of the Congregation of Notre-Dame at Prairie-de-la-Madeleine); Juridiction de

Auger de Subercase begged the minister not to send Villieu back to Acadia. But he was popular in the colony; on 15 July 1705 the notary Loppinot wrote: “His piety, his valour, his

1867 elections he allied himself with a French Canadian candidate, notary Jacques Picard of Wotton. Webb was to support Picard at the provincial level and Picard to support Webb at the federal. Picard

GARNEAU, FRANÇOIS-XAVIER, notary, poet, and historian; b. 15 June 1809 at Quebec, son of François-Xavier