Adam Dollard des Ormeaux (July 23, 1635 – May 21, 1660) is an iconic figure in the history of New France (modern day Quebec). Arriving in the colony in...
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martyr Adam Dollard des Ormeaux. The town was merged with the city of Montreal in 2002, and became part of the borough of Dollard-Des Ormeaux–Roxboro...
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La Fontaine Park (redirect from Dollard des Ormeaux Monument)
open-air venue, the Calixa-Lavallée cultural centre, a monument to Adam Dollard des Ormeaux, playing fields and tennis courts. Its ponds are a popular attraction...
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May 25 of each year was unofficially the Fête de Dollard, a commemoration of Adam Dollard des Ormeaux, initiated in the 1920s to coincide with Victoria...
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New France (section Coureurs des bois and voyageurs)
to hostile Iroquois forces completely as well. In 1660, settler Adam Dollard des Ormeaux led a Canadian and Huron militia against a much larger Iroquois...
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the Island of Montreal on Lac des Deux-Montagnes and Rivière des Prairies. It contains the cities of Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Pierrefonds, Roxboro and L'Île-Bizard...
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Ormeaux may refer to: Adam Dollard des Ormeaux, colonist and soldier of New France Canada Dollard-Des Ormeaux–Roxboro, former borough in the West Island...
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temper Iroquois aims. Adam Dollard des Ormeaux was a 24-year-old commander of the garrison at Ville-Marie (modern day Montreal). Dollard requested permission...
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Alfred Laliberté (category Academic staff of the École des beaux-arts de Montréal)
France such as Louis Hébert, François-Xavier-Antoine Labelle, Adam Dollard des Ormeaux, and the Lower Canada Rebellion. Although he produced hundreds...
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French-Canadian folklore are individuals who stood up to such attacks. Dollard des Ormeaux, for example, died in May 1660 while resisting an Iroquois raiding...
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dean Adam Dolatowski (born 1957), Polish field hockey player Adam Doleac (born 1988), American country music singer-songwriter Adam Dollard des Ormeaux (1635–1660)...
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dominion status in 1867. Some French-Canadians celebrate instead Adam Dollard des Ormeaux, a French-Canadian hero from the New France times on this day;...
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name Dollard include: Dollard Ménard, a Canadian general Dollard St. Laurent, a retired Canadian ice hockey defenceman Adam Dollard des Ormeaux, a colonist...
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daughter of French philosopher Rene Descartes (d. 1640) July 23 – Adam Dollard des Ormeaux, iconic figure in the history of New France (d. 1660) July 28 –...
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Bonaventura Peeters the Elder, Flemish painter (d. 1652) 1635 – Adam Dollard des Ormeaux, New France garrison commander (d. 1660) 1649 – Pope Clement XI...
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Picote de Beletre (related to another Picoté de Bélestre, see Adam Dollard des Ormeaux) arrived at the mouth of the Tippecanoe and Wabash with four soldiers...
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April 30 – Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer (b. 1576) May 21 – Adam Dollard des Ormeaux, iconic figure in the history of New France (b. 1635) May 29 Frans...
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Desmarteau (1996) Viola Desmond (2012) John Diefenbaker (1980) Adam Dollard des Ormeaux (1960) Tommy Douglas (1998, 2012) Marie Dressler (2008) Gabriel...
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prohibits foreigners from trading with English colonies. May 1660: Adam Dollard des Ormeaux and about sixty others withstand an attack by over 500 Iroquois...
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Collingwood: 168 Dawson City – George Mercer Dawson: 315 Dollard-des-Ormeaux – Adam Dollard des Ormeaux: 240 Drummondville, Quebec – Gordon Drummond: 241 ...
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April 30 – Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer (b. 1576) May 21 – Adam Dollard des Ormeaux, iconic figure in the history of New France (b. 1635) May 29 Frans...
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fort of Ville-Marie (now Montréal), a title that he shared with Adam Dollard des Ormeaux, (1635 – May 1660). His father was also governor of Fort Detroit...
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territory and was named after Blaise Juillet Avignon, a companion of Adam Dollard des Ormeaux, who drowned on April 19, 1660, near Nuns' Island. "Banque de noms...
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Beauvais. Parallels have also been seen with Madeleine's contemporary Adam Dollard des Ormeaux, the hero of the Battle of Long Sault during the Beaver Wars. Verchères's...
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Adam Dollard des Ormeaux in the Battle of Long Sault...
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Gravelbourg) to honour the memory of a hero of New France, Adam Dollard, Sieur des Ormeaux. A post office was established in 1909 and in 1911 the church...
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century, and then a relay station for voyageurs. Here in 1660, Adam Dollard des Ormeaux and his companions saved New France from attack by the Iroquois...
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daughter of French philosopher Rene Descartes (d. 1640) July 23 – Adam Dollard des Ormeaux, iconic figure in the history of New France (d. 1660) July 28 –...
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France, and Thérèse Juillet, descended from one of the members of Adam Dollard des Ormeaux's party at Long Sault. Durocher served as a major in the militia...
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writer (d. 1688) July 19 – Francine Descartes (d. 1640) July 23 – Adam Dollard des Ormeaux (d. 1660) October 7 – Roger de Piles, French painter (d. 1709)...
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