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The Scot in New France (1535-1880)


The widow of the third Baron de Longueil Charles Jacques LaMoine gave her hand in marriage at Montreal,. on the 11th September, 1770, to the Hon. William Grant, Receiver General of the Province, while on the 7th May, 1781, Capt. David Alexander Grant, a nephew of the Hon.

W. Grant, led to the altar her daughter, who subsequently assumed the title of Baroness de Longuenil; Charles Colmore Grant, a lineal descendant, now inherits the Baronial title in Canada by warrant of H. M. Queen Victoria, published in the London Gazette, * of 7th Dec. 1880.

Later on, we find the haughty Scotch family of Lennox t connected by marriage with the proud and warlike family of LaCorne de St. Luc.

It furnishes quite a curious study to follow the chain of events, and to see how antipathies of race fade away before the harmonizing influence of Hymen. Scotch as well as English officers, of Montreal and Quebec, are united to the best French blood in the colony: thus we have such noted names as DeGaspé, Duchesnay, de St. Ours, DeSalaberry, Panet, LeMoine, de Longueuil, de Montenach, Coursol, Sicotte, Duval, Chauveau, changing to Stuart, Fraser, Campbell, Hatt, Herbert, McPherson,


* This graceful recognition of the most distinguished French house in Canada is republished under authority of the Dominion Government in the Canada Gazette, of 22nd January 1881, as follows:

Extract from the London Gazette of the 7th day of December, 1880.

DOWNING STREET, December 4, 1880.

"The Queen has been graciously pleased to recognize the claim of Charles Colmore Grant, Esq., to the title of Baron de Longueuil, in the Province of Quebec, Canada.

This title was conferred upon his ancestor, Charles le Moine: by Letters Patent of Nobility, signed by King Louis XIV, in the year 1700."

t Miss M. Lennox was a daughter of Major the Earl of Lennox, son of the Duke of Richmond and Aubigny, and of Mademoiselle Marguerite Lacorne de Chapt de St. Luc—a family equally distinguished on Canadian battle fields and among the French noblemen. After the death of Earl Lennox his widow married Le Commandant Jacques Viger, the Montreal antiquarian. A detailed obituary notice of Madame Viger appeared in the Montreal "Minerve."


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