Nolin* left Saint-Pierre, Île d’Orléans, in the province of Quebec, for the fur trade of the pays d’en haut in the 1770s. He married Marie-Angélique Couvret, whose mother was Ojibwa, and
1829 in Côte-Saint-Michel (Montreal), son of Alexander Ogilvie, a farmer and miller, and Helen Watson; m. 13 Sept. 1854 Sarah Leney in Montreal, and they had one son and four daughters; d
OUIMET, GÉDÉON, lawyer, politician, and office holder; b. 2 June 1823 in Sainte-Rose (Laval), Lower Canada, son of Jean
declined to recommend their plan, on the grounds that it would have necessitated the dismemberment of the existing dioceses of Saint John and Chatham (both under the jurisdiction of Irish bishops). The first
family of Patriotes, three of whose members had taken part in the 1837 uprising. His father, then a notary in Saint-Hyacinthe, had fought at Saint-Denis and Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu and had been
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The eldest boy in a family of 18, Zéphirin Paquet did not go to school. Hired at the age of 14 by a farmer in his village, he began working for a dairy in the faubourg Saint-Jean at Quebec
, P, 46, no.49; RG 32, 157, 9 June 1847. Acadian Recorder, 2 Aug. 1895. Maritime Baptist (Saint John, N.B.), 22 Feb. 1928. C. D. Howell, “Elite
PARKS, JOHN HEGAN, civil engineer and manufacturer; b. 9 Sept. 1836 in Portland (Saint John), N.B., second son of William
PEACHY, JOSEPH-FERDINAND, architect; b. 27 Aug. 1830 at Quebec, son of John William (Jean-Guillaume) Peachy
two schools with farms, one at Varennes that year and the other at Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville (Sainte-Thérèse) on the outskirts of Montreal in 1858. His first attempt met with success in 1860, when
, religion, commerce, and construction. His grandfather was the half-brother of Charles-Ovide Perrault, a Patriote and member of the House of Assembly who died in the battle of Saint-Denis, on the Richelieu
* and Esther Boin, in the parish of Saint-Jacques, Montreal, and they had three sons; d. 25 Dec. 1905 in Paris and was buried 25 January in Montreal
Foundry of Saint John, N.B. [see James Stanley Harris*], and moved it to Amherst. The equipment and skilled workers of the Harris
Berthier (Berthierville) in 1856–57. From 1857 to 1861 he taught and looked after the model farm at the college. In 1861 he was sent to the mission of Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts. It was from this last posting
(Burrell-Johnson Iron Company); 4-88 (Yarmouth Woollen Mill); Clement Doane, cemetery records; Grantees’ map of Yarmouth Township; Robbins geneal., comp. G. S. Brown. Progress (Saint John
ROBERTS, GEORGE GOODRIDGE, educator and Church of England clergyman; b. 25 Dec. 1832 in Saint John, N.B., eldest child of
, eighth of the ten children of John Hill Roe, a physician, and Jane Elizabeth Ardagh; m. first 1855 Elizabeth Julia Smith (d. 1896), and they had four daughters, three of whom survived infancy; m. secondly
Sweeny of Saint John. However, the choice was not ill considered. Rogers was no stranger to poverty and rural simplicity and possessed abundant reserves of sacerdotal stamina and zeal. In a
May 1901 in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade (La Pérade), Que.
John Jones Ross attended the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1844 to 1847. He left after
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Joseph Royal was the son of poor, illiterate parents, who, nevertheless, managed to send him to the parish school. His cleverness attracted the attention of Venant Pilon, a canon at the cathedral of Saint