Canadian Deaths 1878-1886
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BABY, Clothilde Pinsonneault (Madame) – Died October 18, 1883 at Quebec – Relict of the Hon. François Baby, M.L.C. of Canada – (Obit. 83).

BACHAND, Pierre (Hon.) – Provincial Tresurer of the Province of Quebec – Born March 29, 1835 at Verchères, Quebec – Died November 3, 1878, St. Hyacinthe, Quebec – He married first, in 1859, Miss Delphine Dufort of Montreal (she died 1864); secondly, in 1868, Marie Louise, daughter of Louis Marchand, Esq., of the same city – (Obit. 78).

BACHANTE, Ovide – Died February 13, 1882 in Montreal, Quebec, aged 8 – Excessive use of liquor – (ADS 82).

BAILLAIRGE, Jean François Xavier (Rev.) – R. C. priest – Born March 11, 1798 in Quebec – Died October 5, 1880, Quebec – (Obit. 80-81).

BAILLARGEON, Marie Genevieve Angele (Madame) – Died April 23, 1883 at Quebec aged 66 – Wife of Hon. Dr. Baillargeon, senator to whom she was married in 1842. She was the eldest daughter of the late Dr. Joseph Painchaid, of Quebec. – (Obit. 83).

BAKER, Chas., of Montreal, Quebec - Steamfitter – Died May 8, 1885 in Toronto bay – Drowned by upsetting of a boat – (JRO 85).

BALDWIN, Augusta (Miss.) – Died May 9, 1884 at St. John's, Quebec aged 63 – She was a daughter of the first Anglican Rector of St. John's – (Obit. 84).

BALL, James – Died January 8, 1885 at Knowlton, Quebec aged 97 – He was one of the oldest Freemasons in the Province of Quebec – (Obit. 85).

BANBRU, E. – Died January 7, 1883, Laprairie, Quebec, aged 11 – Railway accident – (ADS 83).

BARBERIE, Francis – Died October 25, 1886 at Brownsburg, Quebec aged 99 – (DL 86).

BARBOUR, Wm. - Supt. of Lights, Dept. of Marine (1883) – Born October 16, 1831 – Died December 17, 1885 at Lévis, Quebec – He emigrated to Quebec in 1855. – (Obit. 85).

BARLOW, E. M. ( Miss) – Died August 2, 1882, Danville, Quebec – Drowned – (ADS 82).

BARLOW, Robt. – Late chief draughtsman, Canadian Geological Survey – Born February 18, 1813 at Margate, England – Died February 17, 1883 in Montreal, Quebec – He came to Canada in 1854. Father of Mr. Scott Barlow, the present chief draughtsman of the survey. – (Obit. 83).

BARNARD, Edward – Advocate – Died June 14, 1885 at Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. aged 79 – He held for many years the office of Prothonotary and Clk of the Crown at Three Rivers, Quebec – (Obit. 85).

BARNES, Lewis – Died April 7, 1880. Dillonton, Quebec – Killed when a platform falls about 30 feet in the Huntington Copper Mine – (JRO 80-81).

BARNSTON, George – Retired factor of the Hudson's Bay Co. – Born in 1800 in Edinburgh, Scotland – Died March 14, 1883 in Montreal, Quebec – He came to Canada in 1820. When in British Columbia he established the first factory in existence on the Fraser River. – (Obit. 83).

BARRETTE (Miss) – Died August 22, 1882, Napierville, Quebec – Drowned – (ADS 82).

BARRETTE, Joseph (Rev.) – R. C. clegyman – Born in 1809 at St. Cuthbert, Quebec – Died January 17, 1879, St. Ligori, Quebec – (Obit. 79).

BARRY (Miss), of Glasgow, Scotland – Died July 10, 1884 at Valois, on Lake St. Louis, about 14 miles above Montreal, Quebec – Drowned – (JRO 84).

BARTLEY, W. P. – Iron-founder – Died April 11, 1885 in Montreal, Quebec aged 68 – (Obit. 85).

BATE, Daisy (Miss) – Died August 5, 1881, Thurso, Quebec – Accidentally drowned – Daughter of Mr H. N. Bate, of Ottawa, Ontario – (JRO 80-81).

BATES – Died November 13, 1882, Yamachiche, Quebec – Railway accident – (ADS 82).

BAUDRY, Isidore (Rev., R.C.) - Born March 17, 1813 at Luçon, Vendee, France – Died April 17, 1884 in Montreal, Quebec – He came to Canada in 1849. – (Obit. 84).

BAYFIELD, Henry Wolsey (Admiral) – Born January 21, 1795 at Hull, Yorkshire, England – Died February 10, 1885 at Charlottetown, P.E.I – He was the scion of an ancient English family, of Bayfield Hall, Norfolk. He resided for 14 years in the City of Quebec, viz., form 1827 to 1841, when he removed to Charlottetown, which continued to be his home until his death. He married in 1838 Fanny, only daughter of Gen. Chas. Wright. – (Obit. 85).

BEAR, Freeman – Died September 20, 1886 at Sherbrooke, Quebec – Suicide by taking Paris green – (ADS 86).

BEATLY, Thos. – Died December 3, 1886 at Buckingham, Quebec – Killed by a mine explosion – (ADS 86).

BEATTIE (Constable) – Of the Montreal, Quebec Police – Died September 20, 1885 – Dies from the effects of wounds received in an assault made upon him by roughs on August 6. – (JRO 85).

BEAUBIEN, J. O. (Honorable) – Representing the electoral district of La Durantaye, Legislative Council of the Province of Quebec – deceased – Successor appointed on May 28, 1878 – (PAPS Quebec 78).

BEAUBIEN, Pierre – M.D. – Born August 13, 1796 at St. Antoine de la Baie du Febvre, Quebec – Died January 9, 1881, Outremont, Montreal, Quebec – He married in 1829 Marie Justine Casgrain, relict of the late Dr. C. Butler Maguire, R.N., and a daughter of the late O. Casgrain, Esq., Seigneur of Rivière Ouelle. One of his sons is Hon. L. Beaubien, M.P.P., late Speaker of the Quebec Assembly. – (Obit. 80-81).

BEAUCHAMP, D. – Died June 17, 1882 in Montreal, Quebec – Drowned – (ADS 82).

BEAUDEAU – Died July 6, 1883, Hull, Quebec – Drowned – (ADS 83).

BEAUDOIRE, Edouard – a Frenchman, lately arrived in Canada – Died June 12, 1878 in Quebec City – Killed in a labour riot when the troops fire on the mob – (JRO 78).

BEAUDRY, J. L. – Member of the Legislative Council, Quebec – Deceased, successor appointed on October 15, 1886 – (PAPS Quebec 86).

BEAUDRY, Jean Louis (Hon.) – M.L.C. of Quebec (1867-86) – Born March 27, 1809 at Ste Anne des Plaines, Quebec – Died June 25, 1886 in Montreal, Quebec – (Obit. 86).

BEAUDRY, M. - Born in Quebec – Died December 26, 1884 at St. Sauveur, Quebec aged 107 – (DL 84).

BEAUMONT, Pierre (Rev.) – Curé of St. Jean Baptiste des Ecureuils – Born in 1808 in Quebec – Died September 24, 1879, St. Jean Baptiste, Quebec – (Obit. 79).

BEAUPRÉ, Joseph Edouard – Registrar of Montcalm, Quebec – Born in 1817 at L'Assomption, Quebec – Died December 21, 1880, St. Julienne, Quebec – (Obit. 80-81).

BECKET, John C. – Printer and publisher – Born May 14, 1810 at Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland – Died September 5, 1879 in Montreal, Quebec – Mr. Becket emigrated to America in 1831, and landed in New York, where he worked for a few months. Thence he removed to Montreal, and established himself in the printing business – (Obit. 79).

BECKNER, G., of Quebec – Porter – Died February 10, 1882 at sea between New York and Porto Rico – Lost in the founder of the steamer Bahama in a hurricane – (JRO 82).

BEDARD – Died May 21, 1886 at Rigaud, Quebec – Drowned – (ADS 86).

BEDARD, John – Carpenter – Died September 16, 1879 in Quebec City – Falls from the large dome in the central front of the new Parliament building and is instantly killed – (JRO 79).

BEGAULT, Octave – Died May 18, 1882 near Rivière du Loup (en bas), Quebec – Lost when the steamer Progress is destroyed by fire – (JRO 82).

BELANGER, Alex – Died June 13, 1883 in Quebec – Drowned – (ADS 83).

BÉLANGER, Mad. (née Houde) – Born Quebec – Died March 27, 1882 St. Jean P. Joli, Quebec aged 101 – (DL 82).

BELANGER, Pierre (Rev., R.C.) - Curé of Rigaud, Quebec – Died April 10, 1884 in Rigaud, Quebec aged 60. – (Obit. 84).

BELLEAU, Jean C. – Late Collector of Customs at Gaspé, Quebec – Died in January 1885 at Gaspé, Quebec aged 75 – He was out as a ''patriot'' in 1837. – (Obit. 85).

BELLEAU, Marie Remo Josephte (Lady) (née Gauvreau) – Born in 1811 – Died December 11, 1884 in Quebec - Wife of the Hon. Sir Narcisse Fortunat Belleau, K.C.M.G., formerly prime Minister of Canada, and subsequently for some years Lieut.-Governor of the Province of Quebec to whom she was married in 1835. She was a daughter of M. Louis Gauvreau, at one time representative of the County of Quebec in the Lower Canada Assembly, by Marie Josephte Vanfelson, sister of Mr. Justice Vanfelson. – (Obit. 84).

BELLEAU, Siméon (Rev.) – Born March 12, 1814 at Ste. Foye, Quebec – Curé of Ste. Croix, Quebec – Died April 14, 1880, Ste. Croix, Quebec – (Obit. 80-81).

BELLEMARRE, Napoléon – Shoemaker – Died June 22, 1884 in Montreal, Quebec – Killed when a wall of a building on fire falls on the hotel adjoining. – (JRO 84).

BELLEVILLE, Mrs. – Died December 31, 1879, Cowansville, Quebec, aged 112 – (JRO 79).

BENAIS, G. - Died April 6, 1886 in Montreal, Quebec – Smothered – (ADS 86).

BENNETT, C. G. – An Englishman – Died March 5, 1885 in Montreal, Quebec aged 40 – Commits suicide in Montreal in a fit of depression owing to being out of employment – (JRO 85).

BENNY, James – Member of the hardware firm of Peck, Benny & Co., Montreal – Died March 17, 1883 in Montreal, Quebec – (Obit. 83).

BENOIT, Saml. – Late manager of La Banque Nationale, Ottawa – Died April 28, 1883 at Ancienne Lorette, Quebec aged 53 – (Obit. 83).

BERESFORD, Matilda (Mrs.) (née Hinks) - Died January 1, 1884 in Montreal, Quebec aged 45 – Relict of Capt. Henry Clement de la Boer Beresford, 3rd West India Regt., and younger daughter of Hon. Sir F. Hinks, C.B., K.C.M.G. – (Obit. 84).

BERGERON, Norbert – Engineer of the steam-tug Dauntless – Died November 8, 1879 in Montreal – Scalded to death by the bursting of a steam pipe while the tug is taking a tow – (JRO 79).

BERRY, Alice (Mrs.) - Born in Wexford, Ireland – Died December 30, 1884 in Montreal, Quebec aged 96 – (DL 84).

BERTHELOT, Jules Randolphe – Prothonotary of the Dist. of Terbonne, Quebec – Born in 1822 – Died December 2, 1884 at Ste. Scholastique, Quebec – (Obit. 84).

BERTRAND, H. – Died May 11, 1882 in Montreal, Quebec, aged 90 – Railway accident – (ADS 82).

BERUBE, J. B. – Died May 18, 1882, near Rivière du Loup (en bas), Quebec – Lost when the steamer Progress is destroyed by fire – (JRO 82).

BÉTOURNAY, Louis (Hon.), – Puisne Judge of the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba – Born November 13, 1825 at St. Lambert, Quebec – Died October 30, 1879, Winnipeg, Manitoba – (Obit. 79).

BIBAUD, J. Gaspard – M.D. and Professor of Anatomy in the Montreal School of Surgery and Medicine – Died October 18, 1881 in Montreal, Quebec aged 61 – (Obit. 80-81).

BICKBENE, W. F. – Died July 28, 1883 in Montreal, Quebec – Suicide by drowning – (ADS 83).

BIENVENU, Joseph Napoleon – Journalist – Born April 22, 1849 in Montreal, Quebec – Died May 8, 1884 in Montreal, Quebec – (Obit. 84).

BILLION, L. L. (Rev., R.C.) – Born in 1814 in France – Died August 3, 1882 in Quebec – (Obit. 82).

BIRTLE, Maxime – Died September 19. 1882 in Montreal, Quebec – Street car accident – (ADS 82).

BLACK, S. M. (Mr.) – Teller of the Quebec Bank at Three Rivers, Quebec – Died December 26, 1879 – Commits suicide by shooting himself through the head – (JRO 79).

BLANCHARD, P. R. – Died September 19, 1886 at St. Hugues, Quebec – Suicide by hanging. – (ADS 86).

BLANCHET, Chas. – Born in 1794 – Died October 18, 1884 – His wife, Marie Charlotte Champut died the same day. They had been married 69 years. They are buried together in the parish of St. Madeline, Quebec. They leave living 5 sons, one of whom, Mr. Gideon Blanchet, is Mayor of Ste. Madeline, 39 grand-children, and 90 great grandchildren. – (JRO 84).

BLANCHET, François Norbert (Most Revd.), D.D. – Archbishop of Amida (1880) – Born September 3, 1795 at St. Pierre, Rivière du Sud, Quebec – Died June 19, 1883 at Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. – (Obit. 83).

BLEAKLEY, John – Advocate of Lower Canada – Died November 30, 1879 in Montreal, Quebec aged 75 – (Obit. 79).

BOISVERT, Maxime – Died October 26, 1882, Piles, Quebec – Drowned – (ADS 82).

BOISVERT, Victor – Died July 9, 1885 at Lotbinière, Quebec aged 18 – Killed by lightning. – (JRO 85).

BOIVIN, Eugenie – Died January 9, 1883 in Montreal, Quebec – Frozen to death – (ADS 83).

BOLDUC – Died October 24, 1882, Chaudiere, Quebec – Cause of death : a slide in the shaft of a gold mine – (ADS 82).

BOND, Eliza Langley (Mrs.) – Born St. Johns, Newfoundland – Died June 20, 1879 in Montreal, Quebec aged 62 – Died from pneumonia complicated with some trouble of the heart – Wife of Rt. Rev. W. B. Bond, D.D., Lord Bishop of Montreal – (Obit. 79).

BONISSANT, Mathurin-Claude-Louis (Rev., R.C.) – Born in 1816 at Nantes, France – Died November 14, 1886 in Montreal, Quebec – He came to Montreal in 1847 – (Obit. 86).

BORLASE, Geo. H. – Died August 7, 1883, Sherbrooke, Quebec – Suicide by drowning – (ADS 83).

BORLASE, George Henry – Advocate – Born June 9, 1832 at St. Keyne, Cornwall, England – Died August 6, 1883 at Sherbrooke, Quebec – Drowned – Came to Canada in 1846. He married the eldest daughter of the late Sir Edmund Cox, Bart. His father was Rector at St. Keyne, Cornwall – (Obit. 83).

BOSSÉ, Joseph Noël (Hon.) – Late a Puisné Judge of the Superior Court, Quebec (1868-80) – Born November 25, 1806 at Cap St. Ignace, Quebec – Died September 24, 1881 in Quebec City – (Obit. 80-81).

BOSWELL, Wm. – M.A., M.D. – Born October 11, 1809 in Dublin, Ireland – Died July 20, 1880, Norwood, London, England – He took up his residence in Quebec in Nov., 1851, and there continued to live up to within a short period of his death. – (Obit. 80-81).

BOUCHARD, Hector – Died January 27, 1886 at St. Etienne, Quebec – Accidentally shoots himself – (ADS 86).

BOUCHARD, Joseph E. Z. – Advocate of Lower Canada – Died August 29, 1879 in Montreal, Quebec – (Obit. 79).

BOUCHER, G. (Mad.) (née Magny) – Born in Quebec – Died March 27, 1886 at St. Etienne des Grès, Quebec aged 105 – (DL 86).

BOUCHETTE, Robert Shore Milnes – Late commissioner of Customs of Canada – Born March 12, 1805 – Died June 4, 1879 in Quebec City – He was de youngest of the four sons of the well known Col. Joseph Bouchette, for many years Surveyor General of L. C. – (Obit. 79).

BOUCHY, Pierre Hy. (Rev. R.C.) – Born November 3, 1818 at Metz, France – Died July 3, 1886 at Metz, France – Came to Quebec in 1842 – (Obit. 86).

BOULIANE, Rev. Joseph – Curé of the R. C. parish of Anse St. Jean, Chicoutimi, Quebec – Died September 4, 1879 aged 28 – Died of small-pox – (Obit. 79).

BOULIN, Elz. – Died November 6, 1886 at Hull, Quebec – Falls from a roof – (ADS 86).

BOULTON – Died September 1, 1882, Chateauguay Pt., Quebec – Drowned – (ADS 82).

BOURGAULT dit SÉRAPHIN, Lisette (Mad.) – Born in Quebec – Died April 5, 1883 in Quebec City aged 101 – (DL 83).

BOURGET, Ignace (The Most Rev.) – Archbishop of Martianopolis, in partibus (1876) – Born October 30, 1799 at Pointe Lévis, Quebec – Died June 8, 1885 at Sault-aux-Recollets, near Montreal – (Obit. 85).

BOUTHILLIER, Louis Tancrède – An old public official – Born in 1796 – Died February 28, 1881 in Montreal, Quebec – (Obit. 80-81).

BOWNS : a young lad, son of Thos. Bonws – Died July 4, 1884 at Lennoxville, Quebec – Drowned in the Massawippi River – (JRO 84).

BOYCE, J. R. (Mrs.) – Died October 19, 1882 in Montreal, Quebec – Leaps from a window in Hotel Dieu hospital – (ADS 82).

BOYD, Jno. Edward, C.E. – Asst to the Chief Engineer of the Dept of Public Works of Canada and resident Supdt Engineer of the Lévis Graving Dock and Quebec Harbour Improvements – Born in May, 1834 in St. John, New Brunswick – Died November 17, 1886 in Quebec City – Died suddenly – He was a son of the late Dr. Boyd, of St. John, N.B. – (Obit. 86).

BRADLEY, Edward – Night watchman for the Canada Bank Note Co. – Died August 20, 1885 in Montreal, Quebec – Suffocated to death by smoke from a fire which extends to the building where he was working. – (JRO 85).

BRAKEN, Henry – Died May 28, 1886 in Ste Cunégonde, Quebec – Railway accident. – (ADS 86).

BRAULT, Pierre – Born Quebec – Died in September, 1882 in St. Sebastian, Quebec, aged 111 – (DL 82).

BRAUN, Antoine Nicholas (Rev., of the Order of Jesus) – Born February 5, 1815 at St. Avold, Lorraine (then in Prussia, today in France) – Died February 1, 1885 at Sault-aux-Recollets, Montreal, Quebec – He came to Canada in 1851. – (Obit. 85).

BREHAUT, Wm. Henry– Joint Clerk of the Crown and Peace – Born November 24, 1809 at St. Roch, Quebec – Died January 20, 1880 at Three Rivers, Quebec – (Obit. 80-81).

BRIERE, Jean – Died June 26, 1882, Lachine, Ontario (or rather Quebec?) – Drowned – (ADS 82).

BRILLANT – Died November 14, 1883 in Quebec – Railway accident Died May (ADS 83).

BRINIQUET (Mad.) – Born in Quebec – Died in August, 1886 in Ottawa, Ontario aged 102 – (DL 86).

BRISSON, Louis – Died September 8, 1886 in Montreal, Quebec – Struck by a derrick. – (ADS 86).

BROIS – Died April 18, 1879, near New Liverpool, Quebec – One of four men and two boys drowned by the upsetting of a market boat – (JRO 79).

BROOKS, Alphonse, C.E. – Contractor – Born January, 1825 in Ascot, Quebec – Died September 5, 1879, Brockville, Ontario – (Obit. 79).

BROUILLET, Jean Baptiste Abraham (Rev., R.C.) – Born in 1812 at St. Jean Baptiste, Quebec, near Montreal – Died February 5, 1884 in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. – He also lived in Oregon. – (Obit. 84).

BROWN, Alfred – Retired commission merchant – Died February 10, 1886 in Montreal, Quebec aged 54 – He came to Canada in 1854 – (Obit. 86).

BROWN, J. H. (Mrs.) – Died September 7, 1882, Peche, Quebec – Drowned – (ADS 82).

BROWN, William – Nurseryman – Born in 1824 in Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland – Died July 4, 1883 in Montreal, Quebec – Came to Canada in 1847. – (Obit. 83).

BROWNE – A girl – Died February 24, 1886 at Hochelaga, Quebec aged 7 – Killed on a toboggan slide – (ADS 86).

BROWNE, George – Architect – Born November 5, 1811 at Belfast, Ireland – Died November 19, 1885 in Montreal, Quebec – He came to Canada in 1830 – (Obit. 85).

BRUNEAU, Elmore – Died May 10, 1883, Oxford, Quebec – Mining accident – (ADS 83).

BRUNEAU, Jean Casimir (Hon.) – Born May 2, 1801 in Montreal, Quebec – Late a Puisné Judge, Superior Court, Quebec – Died June 7, 1880 in Quebec City – (Obit. 80-81).

BRUNELLE, Frs. – Died July 6, 1886 at Beloeil, Quebec – Railway accident. – (ADS 86).

BRUSH, George – Proprietor of the Eagle Foundry, Montreal – Born January 6, 1793 in Vergennes, Vermont, U.S.A – Died March 21, 1883 in Montreal, Quebec – He came to Canada about 1814. – (Obit. 83).

BRYSON, Alexander – Customs Appraiser – Born in 1808 near Belfast, Ireland – Died November 15, 1879 in Montreal, Quebec – Came to this country with his parents in 1810 – (Obit. 79).

BRYSON, Benjamin, Elliott, and Claude, sons of Mr. T. M. Bryson – aged 25, 22, and 4 – Died July 18, 1880, Sault-au-Recollet Rapids near Montreal, Quebec – Drowned. – Their brother Alfred, 11, and their sister Alice, 13, manage to swim to shore. – (JRO 80-81).

BRYSON, Thomas – M.P.P. for Pontiac in the Quebec Assembly – Born September 26, 1826 in the Tp. of Ramsay, Lanark, Ontario – Died January 4, 1882 at Calumet Island, Quebec – He was a brother of Hon. Geo. Bryson, M.L.C. – (Obit. 82).

BRYSON, Thomas Macfarlane – Retired merchant – Died March 6, 1883 in Montreal, Quebec aged 64 – (Obit. 83).

BURCHELL, Wm. – Formerly serving in H. M.'s 14th Regt. – Died March 9, 1885 in Montreal, Quebec aged 55 – Commits suicide by shooting himself through the head. – (JRO 85).

BUREAU, J. O. (Hon.) – Senator for the Electoral Division of De Lorimier, Quebec in the Canadian Senate – Deceased, successor appointed on January 12, 1884 – (PAPS Dominion 84).

BUREAU, Jacques Olivier (Hon.) – Senator – Born February 1820 in Three Rivers, Quebec – Died February 7, 1883 at St. Remi, Quebec – (Obit. 83).

BURKE, Hy. – Died December 12, 1885 at Philipsburg, Quebec aged 21 – Accidentally drowned – (JRO 85).

BURNS, Wm. – Died April 17, 1880, near Buckingham, Quebec – Drowned in the Ottawa by the sinking of his canoe – (JRO 80-81).

BURTON (Mrs.) – Died in February 1883 at Shefford, Quebec aged 107 – (DL 83).



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