La Terrière, Pierre de Sales

Came to Canada from France, 1766; appointed agent at Quebec for the St. Maurice forges, 1771; his place of busine in front of the lower town market, facing the church of Notre Dame; in 1775 appointed inspector of works, and removed to the forges, on the banks of the St. Maurice, a few miles above Three Rivers. Left an interesting account of the works, in his Mémoires de Laterrière . Implicated in the American invasion of 1776, and arrested. Index : Hd Inspector of St. Maurice forges, 48; arrest of, 277; dislike of Haldimand, 277; suspected of supplying Americans with petards and cannon-balls from St. Maurice forges, 277-278; his defence of Du Calvet, 284-287; his description of Haldimand, 293. Bib. : Christie, History of Lower Canada .