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Am. Biog._; Christie, _History of Lower Canada_. =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=: =WM= Commands Quebec and Three Rivers militia, 105; wounded in battle of the Plains, 199. =Bib.=: Doughty, _Siege of Quebec_; Parkman, _Montcalm and Wolfe_. =St. Pater's Port, Guernsey.= =Bk= Home of the Brock family, 3-5. =St. Paul's Bay.= On St. Lawrence River. =Hd= Contagious disease breaks out at, 190. =St. Pierre.= =Ch= 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, when it was finally ceded to France. =Index=: =Ch= French captured by Kirke, landed on, 174. =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=: =Hd= Compensation paid to, for lands required for Loyalists, 258. =St. Rome, Chevalier de.= =WM= Sent in charge of provisions to Quebec, 226; delayed by bad roads, 229. =St. Sacrament Lake.= _See_ Lake George. =St. Simon.= =F= His statements regarding Frontenac, 65. =St. Vallier, Jean Baptiste de la Croix Chevrieres des= (1653-1727). Born at Grenoble. Came to Canada in 1685 as vicar-general under Laval. Succeeded Laval as bishop of Quebec, 1688. Returning from France in 1704, on _La Seine_, taken prisoner by the English and detained in England until 1709. Returned to France, spent four years there, and finally arrived in Quebec in 1713. Remained in charge of his huge diocese until his death. =Index=: =L= Recommended to succeed Laval, 199, 200; accepts position, 200; appointed provisionally grand-vicar, 201; his liberality to Quebec Seminary, 202, 203; sails for Canada, 202; makes visitations, 203; Laval's caution to, 206; disagrees with Laval on certain questions, 208; his eulogy of Laval, 209; sails for France, 209; consecration of, 219; returns to Canada
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