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St Nicholas
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Troops disembark at, 165; re-embarkation, 172.
St Maws
St Ours Charles Louis Roch De 1753-1834 Entered Public Life On
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St Lawrence Channel
(Sir Georges E. Cartier era) Cartier favours deepening of, 45. ...
St Lawrence Gulf
The first authenticated voyage to the gulf is that of Jacques Cartier, in 1534. In his second voyage, of 1535-1536, Cartier made further discoveries. On Aug. 10, 1535, he sailed into what is now known as Pillage Bay, on the Labrador coast of the gulf....
St Lawrence Island
See Cape Breton. ...
St Lawrence Rapids
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Amherst loses a large number of men in, 37. ...
St Lawrence River
Rises at the source of the St. Louis River, west end of Lake Superior, and falls into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. West of Lake Ontario the river is known by different names, and the St. Lawrence proper issues from that lake. The name was originally give...
St Leger Colonel Barry
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Ordered to occupy Crown Point, 211; unjust complaints against, by chaplain of regiment, 256; his application on behalf of his son, 295; commandant of Quebec garrison, 309; in chief command in Canada, 314. (Lord Dorchester...
St Malo
Seaport of France. =Index=: (Samuel de Champlain era) Merchants of, demand freedom of commerce in the St. Lawrence, 123. (Bishop Laval era) Jurisdiction of bishop of, over New France, 6. ...
St Martin Captain
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Killed in battle of Ste. Foy, 264. ...
St Maurice Forges
Were situated on the river St. Maurice, about nine miles above Three Rivers, Quebec. Iron ore was discovered on the banks of the St. Maurice in 1667, but the mines were not systematically worked until 1733, when a company was formed and forges establi...
St Maurice River
One of the tributaries of the St. Lawrence, rises in the height of land near the head waters of the Nottaway, and falls into the St. Lawrence at Three Rivers, after a course of 325 miles. During the seventeenth century it was much infested by Iroquois...
St Maws
(John Graves Simcoe era) English constituency for which Simcoe sat, 15. ...
St Nicholas
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Troops disembark at, 165; re-embarkation, 172. ...
St Ours Charles Louis Roch De 1753-1834 Entered Public Life On
the establishment of civil government in Canada, and appointed a member of the Legislative Council, where he voiced the views of the French-Canadian majority. Appointed major of militia, 1774, and served with Carleton, 1776, as his aide-de-camp. Trave...
St Ours Francois-xavier De 1714-1759 Served In The Campaigns Of
1758 and 1759; severely wounded in the attack on Fort George; commended by Montcalm for conspicuous bravery in the battle of Carillon; and commanded the right wing of the French army on the Plains of Abraham, where he was mortally wounded. =Index=: (W...
St Pater's Port Guernsey
(General Brock era) Home of the Brock family, 3-5. ...
St Paul's Bay
On St. Lawrence River. (Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Contagious disease breaks out at, 190. ...
St Pierre
(Samuel de Champlain era) One of the vessels of Company of New France, 245. ...
St Pierre
An island on the southern coast of Newfoundland, which, with the Miquelon Islands immediately north-west, constitute all that remains of New France still under French government. From 1635 it was alternately under British and French control until 1816...
St Regis Indians
A band of Roman Catholic Iroquois from Caughnawaga, Quebec, who settled about 1755 in the village of St. Regis, on the south bank of the St. Lawrence, on what afterwards became the boundary line between Canada and the United States. =Index=: (Sir Fred...
St Rome Chevalier De
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Sent in charge of provisions to Quebec, 226; delayed by bad roads, 229. ...
St Sacrament Lake
See Lake George. ...
St Simon
(Count Frontenac era) His statements regarding Frontenac, 65. ...