Michel Blais (Blay) ( – 5 September 1783) was a Canadian born militia Captain and a co-seigneur.
The son of Pierre Blais and Françoise Baudoin, Blais was a landowner in a seigneury of
Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud. In 1741, he married Marie-Françoise Lizot. He was the father of
Louis Blais who also was actively involved in the militia.
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Although Blais remained loyal to the British government, in January 1776, he announced at the local church that a ]Pierre Ayotte
Pierre Ayotte was a French-Canadian soldier and fur trader who served with American revolutionary foreces during the American Revolutionary War. Ayotte, who was an inhabitant of Kamouraska, was just as devoted to the revolutionary cause as other Q ...
was recruiting for the American side; it was later said that no one showed up.[ In March of that year, Blais' house became the headquarters for the royalist advance guard. The house was attacked by the Americans in what was to be known as the ]Battle of Saint-Pierre
The Battle of Saint-Pierre was a military confrontation on March 25, 1776, near the Quebec village of Saint-Pierre, south of Quebec City. This confrontation, which occurred during the Continental Army's siege of Quebec following its defeat at t ...
; three British supporters were killed, several were wounded and many were captured.[
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1711 births
1783 deaths
Francophone Quebec people
French Canadians in the American Revolution
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