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=St. Nicholas.= =WM= 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. Travelled in Europe in 1785; and on his return to Canada took an important part in public affairs.

=Index=: =P= Follows Papineau's leaders.h.i.+p, 34; urges him to accept mission to England, to oppose union of Canadas, 45. =Bib.=: _Cyc. 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, const.i.tute 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 Gren.o.ble. 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, as bishop, 221; reverses Laval's policy in regard to Seminary, 236; captured at sea by English vessel, 243. =F= Chosen by Bishop Laval as his successor, 191; comes out to Canada first as vicar-general, 191; his first impression of country and its inhabitants, 192; his revised opinion, 193, 220; pays pastoral visit to Acadia, 1686, 271; issues mandate concerning the theatre, 337; pays Frontenac 1000 francs on condition _Tartuffe_ shall not be produced, 337. =Bib.=: Charlevoix, _History of New France_; _St. Valier et l'Hopital General de Quebec_; Parkman, _Old Regime_.

=St. Veran, Marquise de.= =WM= Mother of Montcalm, 3; her fort.i.tude, 8; Montcalm's letter to, describing capture of Oswego, 34.

=St. Vincent, John Jervis, Earl of= (1735-1823). British admiral. Served at Quebec in 1759; defeated Spanish fleet off Cape St. Vincent, 1797; became admiral of the fleet, 1821. =Index=: =Bk= Gains victory off Cape St. Vincent, 10. =WM= Wolfe's conversation with, on eve of battle, 175.

=Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._

=Ste. Anne.= =Ch= French vessel seized by the English, 22.

=Ste. Anne, Brotherhood of.= =L= At Quebec, 101.

=Ste. Croix Island.= Near the entrance to the Bay of Fundy; explored by Champlain and De Monts in 1604, who in that year erected buildings and fortifications on the island. Scurvy breaking out among the French colonists, they soon afterwards removed from the island to Port Royal.

The foundations of these buildings were dug up in 1797, settling a boundary dispute between New Brunswick and Maine in favour of the former. =Index=: =Ch= Occupied by the De Monts expedition, 21; settlement there a failure, 24. =Bib.=: Parkman, _Pioneers of France_.

=Ste. Croix River.= Also known as Schoodiac and Pa.s.samaquoddy. Rises in Grand Lake on the borders between Maine and New Brunswick, and flows into Pa.s.samaquoddy Bay. It was discovered by Champlain in 1604. =Index=: =Ch= Name changed to St. Charles, 148.

=Ste. Foy.= Above Quebec. =Index=: =L= Settlement of Christian Indians at, 74.

=Ste. Foy, Battle of.= Took place on April 28, 1760, when Murray, in command of the British troops, made a sortie from the citadel of Quebec upon the besieging French force under Levis, and was defeated, being driven back into his intrenchments. =Index=: =WM= Description of, 264; horrors of battlefield, 265; news of, causes joy in Canadian parishes, 266; victory nullified by arrival of British fleet, 267. _See also_ Quebec, siege of, 1759; Quebec, siege of, 1760; Levis; Murray. =Bib.=: Doughty, _Siege of Quebec_; Wood, _The Fight for Canada_; Bradley, _The Fight with France_.

=Ste. Suzanne.= =Ch= Name given by Champlain to the Upper Riviere du Loup, 52.

=Ste. Therese.= On the Richelieu River. =Index=: =L= Fort erected at, 53.