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Organized sports first appeared in Montreal, the country’s metropolis at the time. Unfortunately, he had not found the China Sea, although according to the Relation of 1640, he was the Frenchman who “penetrated farthest into these most remote of lands.”
On his return in 1635 Nicollet settled at Trois-Rivières, as a clerk of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés.
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NICOLLET DE BELLEBORNE, JEAN, interpreter and clerk of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés, liaison officer between the French and the First Nations, explorer; b. c. 1598, probably at Cherbourg (Normandy), son of Thomas Nicollet, king’s postal courier between Cherbourg and Paris, and of Marie de Lamer; drowned near Sillery in 1642.
Nicollet’s arrival in Canada – in the service of the Compagnie des Marchands de Rouen et de Saint-Malo – remains difficult to date.
Nationales du Québec, Centre d’arch. In addition, athletes who excelled in their disciplines, such as the Montreal Canadiens’ goalie Georges Vézina, gave their names to trophies created in their honour.
Proponents of moral and social reform in the 19th and 20th centuries also played a significant role in the promotion of sport and the democratization of its practice.
This place was the rallying point of the great Algonquin family commanded by Tessouat (d. 1636). Nothing is known of his education or temperament, except this remark by Father Vimont in 1643: “his disposition and his excellent memory led one to expect worthwhile things of him.”
Samuel de Champlain, at the time of his explorations, had established relations with the Algonquin in the upper reaches of the Ottawa (Outaouais) River.
It is possible that this is the same Martin who was employed by Jean de Biencourt and Du Gua de Monts as navigator on the coast of Acadia, although he would have been very young at that time. Women’s integration into sports where toughness was required (such as hockey, lacrosse, and boxing) came later.
Each year the Nipissing were assuming a more important role in the fur trade, acting as intermediaries between the French and the indigenous communities of the west and of Hudson Bay. It was Nicollet’s task to consolidate their alliance with the French, and to see that their furs did not find their way to Hudson Bay.
Nicollet went to the country of the Nipissing and lived among them for nine years.
Tensions between supporters of amateur sport and professional sport culminated in 1906: the split within the national amateur sport management organization, the Canadian Amateur Athletic Union, is recounted in the biography of its secretary Norton Hervey Crow, who was at the centre of the “amateur wars” (1906–09).
In addition, sport was a means for the expression of manliness.
(9v., Rome et Québec, 1967–87; Rome et Montréal, 1989–2003), 2 (Établissement à Québec (1616–1634)); 4 (Les grandes épreuves (1638–1640)). A wave of resistance to American growth, organized by Tecumseh, was dissipated when the British withdrew from the southwestern peninsula of Upper Canada, and the possibility of a First Nations buffer state south of the Great Lakes disappeared.
MARTIN, ABRAHAM (dit“l’Écossais”or“Maître Abraham”), pilot; b.
Every new relevant biography published by the DCB/DBC will be integrated into the whole, which will expand the range of sports and the number of athletes covered by this thematic ensemble.
The War of 1812
This feature introduces the last major conflict fought on Canadian soil, the War of 1812. (carries Nicollet’s signature).
They made him a chief, allowed him to attend their councils, and even took him among the Iroquois to negotiate a peace treaty.
Nicollet returned to Quebec in 1620. Soc. Coll., VIII, Madison, 1879), 188–94.
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Bibliothèque et Arch. He learned the Huron and Algonquin languages, lived the precarious existence of the indigenous people, came to know their customs, and explored the region.
Sports
Introduction
The year 2017 marks both the 100th anniversary of the formation of the National Hockey League and the 125th anniversary of the commissioning of the Stanley Cup. To highlight these events, the Dictionary of Canadian Biography/Dictionnaire biographique du Canada (DCB/DBC) has put together this thematic collection.
Winter activities quickly became very popular in towns and rural areas. Information to be used in other citation formats:
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| Author of Article: | Jean Hamelin, with the collaboration of Jacques Gagnon |
| Title of Article: | NICOLLET DE BELLEBORNE, JEAN |
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His funeral was held at Quebec on 29 October. Jean Hamelin, with the collaboration of Jacques Gagnon ASQ, Documents Faribault, 7; Registre A, 560f. John Knox, An historical journal of the campaigns in North America for the years 1757, 1758, 1759 and 1760, ed. |