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Louis-Hector de Callière or Callières (French pronunciation: [lwi ɛktɔʁ də kaljɛʁ]; 12 November 1648 – 26 May 1703) was a French military officer, who was the governor of Montreal (1684–1699), and the 13th governor of New France from 1698 to 1703. [1]
Maisonneuve was baptised on 15 February 1612 at Neuville-sur-Vannes in Champagne, France. He was the son of Louis de Chomedey, seigneur of Chavane, Germenoy-en-Brie, and his second wife Marie de Thomelin, the daughter of Jean de Thomelin, a king's counsellor and a treasurer of France in the generality of Champagne, and of Ambroise d’Aulquoy. [1]
The actual Saint-Louis-de-France Church in Old Terrebonne (Vieux Terrebonne), near the historical site of the Île-des-moulins, was established in 1878, while the parish was founded in 1723 by Louis Lepage de Sainte-Claire, priest of the diocese of Quebec, parish priest of the Île Jésus, and lord of the Seigniory of Terrebonne. The parish was ...
Louis d'Ailleboust de Coulonge (c. 1612 – 31 May 1660) was the French governor of New France from 1648 to 1651 and acting governor from 1657 to 1658. He caused to be built the house that is today known as the Duke of Kent House, Quebec .
Louis, Dauphin of France (1 November 1661 – 14 April 1711), commonly known as le Grand Dauphin, was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Louis XIV and his spouse, Maria Theresa of Spain. He became known as the Grand Dauphin after the birth of his own son, Louis, Duke of Burgundy , the Petit Dauphin.
Founded in 1904, it had the status of a parish municipality from 1904 to 1993 and then a city from 1993 to 2002. Saint-Louis-de-France (secteur), Trois-Rivières CityIt is argued that Saint-Louis-de-France (1214-1270) being the first holder of the former mission of the Vieilles-Forges (1740), to which Saint-Louis-de-France once belonged, renamed in 1921 Saint-Michel-Archange-des-Forges ...
Louis-Thomas Chabert de Joncaire (French pronunciation: [lwi tɔma ʃabɛʁ də ʒɔ̃kɛʁ]; 1670 – June 29, 1739), also known as Sononchiez by the Iroquois, [1] was a French army officer and interpreter for New France who worked with the Iroquois tribes during the French and Indian Wars in the early 18th century.
He had two seigneurial titles conferred on him along with additional lands; in 1672 Governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac and Intendant of New France, Jean Talon confirmed the seigneury title of Longueuil. The following year Frontenac granted him a seigneury at Châteauguay. His eldest son, Charles, was given the Longueuil fief in 1684.