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Quebec from 1840 till 1849, parish priest of St. Clair from 1850 till 1854, at Beauport from 1854 till 1858, and principal of Laval normal school from 1858 till 1867. On 1 May, 1867, he was con- secrated bishop of St. Germain de Kimouski in the province of Quebec. In 1870 he attended the (Ecu- menical council of the Vatican, and while on a second visit to Rome in 1886 was made a Roman count, and assistant to the apostolic throne. He founded the College of Rimouski in 1870, L'hospice des soeurs de la charite in 1872, Les scaurs des petites eeoles in 1874, and established a chapter in his cathedral in 1877. He is the author of " Traite de calcul differentiel " (Quebec, 1848) : " Histoire du Canada en tableaux" (1860); "Notes sur les archives de Notre Dame de Beauport" (1860); " Reponses aux programmes de pedagogie et d'agriculture" (1862); and "Cours de pedagogie" (1865). — His brother, Edmund Charles Hippo- lyte, clergyman, b. in Quebec, 30 Aug., 1824, was ordained a priest in 1847, became vicar-general of Quebec in 1867, and of Rimouski in the same year. He is the author of a life of Bishop Laval (Montreal, 1874), and " Notes historiques sur le chapitre de la cathedral de Quebec" (1874). — An- other brother, Sir Hector Louis, Canadian states- man, b. in Quebec, 26 Aug., 1826, was educated at the seminary in that city. He studied law, was admitted to the bar of Lower Canada in October, 1850, and was appointed queen's counsel in 1864. He was ed- itor of the "Melanges religieux," of Mont- real, from 1847 till 1849, also of the "Journal d'agricul- ture " of that city, and in 1857 of the " Courrier du Cana- da," of Quebec. He was mayor of Quebec from 1858. till 1861, represented Dorches- ter in the Canadian assembly from 1857 till the union in 1867, and afterward in the

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till 1874, when he retired. He also represented Dorchester in the local legislature from 1867 till 1871, when he was elected by acclamation for Quebec Centre, which he repre- sented till he retired in January, 1874. He was elected to the Dominion parliament for Charlevoix in January, 1876, and again returned for this con- stituency in April, 1877, after having been unseated on petition, and unsuccessfully contested Rimouski in 1878. He was elected by acclamation for the city of Three Rivers, 17 Nov., 1878, without oppo- sition for that constituency in 1882, and again in 1887. He was a member of the executive council of Canada from 30 March, 1864, till 1867, held the office of solicitor-general for Lower Canada from 30 March, 1864, till November, 1865, and was post- master-general from that date till 1867. He was sworn as a member of the privy council, 1 July, 1867, and appointed secretary of state, for Canada, which portfolio he retained until appointed minister of public works, 8 Dec, 1869. While in the state department he was ex - officio registrar-general, superintendent-general of Indian affairs, and was a commissioner to assist the speaker in the manage- ment of the interior economy of the house of com- mons ; also chairman of the railway committee of the privy council. He was a delegate to the Char- lottetown union conference in 1864, to that in Que- bec in the same year, and to the London colonial conference of 1866-'7, to complete the terms of union of the British North American provinces, lie acted as a leader of the Lower Canada Con- servatives in 1873, during the absence in England of Sir George Etienne Cartier, and after his death became, in 1873, leader of the party in that province. He was made postmaster-general, 19 Oct., 1878, and minister of public works, 20 May, 1879. On 5 April, 1879, he was chosen by the Mar- quis of Lome, the governor-general, to go to Lon- don and lay before the British government the views of the Canadian cabinet relative to the pro- posed dismissal of Mr. Letellier de St. Just, the lieutenant-governor of the province of Quebec. His mission resulted in the recognition by the home government of the constitutional rights of the Canadian government to remove lieutenant- governors for proper cause. He was created a com- panion of the Order of the Bath in 1868, a knight- commander of the Order of Pope Gregory the Great in 1870, and a knight-commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in May, 1881. He is the author of " Le Canada, ses institutions " (Quebec, 1855) ; " Droit administratis ou manuel des paroisses et fabriques" (1862; 2d ed., 1878); and "Report on British Columbia" (1872).— An- other brother, Edward Joseph, Canadian official, b. in Quebec in 1833, was educated at the seminary of his native city. He was admitted as a notary in December, 1858, and was a member of the cham- ber of notaries for the district of Quebec. He served as a volunteer officer during the excitement that was caused by the " Trent " affair, was ap- pointed clerk of the crown in chancery, 4 Jan., 1865 ; to the same office for the Dominion, 5 July, 1867 ; deputy registrar-general, 1 July, 1868 ; under- secretary of state for Canada, 9 July, 1873; secre- tary for the civil-service board in 1876, and clerk of the senate, 25 Jan., 1883.

LANGLADE, Charles Michel de, French soldier, b. in Mackinaw, Mich., in May, 1729 ; d. in Green Bay, Wis., in January, 1800. He was the son of Augustin de Langlade and of Domitilde, widow of Daniel Villeneuve, and sister of Nis-so-na-quet, the principal chief of the Ottawas. At the head of the Ottawas he planned and executed the ambuscade that resulted in the defeat of Gen. Edward Braddock on Monongahela river in 1755. After that event he retired to Green Bay, and the following year returned to Fort Duquesne, where, as a lieutenant of infantry, he rendered valuable service to the commander of that post in obtaining information of the movements of the English in the vicinity of Fort Cumberland. In 1757, at the head of 337 Ottawas, he joined Montcalm just as that general had completed the investment of Fort George, and, for the aid which he gave the French on that occasion, he was, at the end of the campaign, appointed by the Canadian governor. Vaudreuil, second in command of the post of Mackinaw. He was again with Montcalm during the siege of Quebec by Gen. Wolfe, and on 20 July, 1759, planned an ambuscade and attack on a detachment of Wolfe's army, 2,000 strong. Had he been properly supported he probably would have put an end to the English expedition. He took an active part in the battle of the Plains of Abraham, and, on 28 April, 1760, fought under the Chevalier de Levis, when that officer, at the head of the Canadian militia, achieved an abortive triumph upon the same field which had witnessed the defeat of Montcalm. At the time of Pontiac's conspiracy, in 1763, he gave the western garrisons