Captains having the order of St. Louis 9
Captains named in the order but not invested 1
Captains who have not the order 4
Lieutenants having the order 1
Lieutenants 16
Ensigns 2
Officers de Reserve 2
Cadets 23
Have never been in the service 44
In the upper country who have never been in the service 6
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Total 126
(At least eighty-five of these are reported as in the Montreal district.)
Noblesse in France:
Grand Croix 1
Governors, lieutenant governors, majors, aide majors,
captains and lieutenants of ships of war, having the
order of St. Louis 26
Aide-majors and captains not having the order 6
Lieutenants 12
Ensigns 19
Canadian officers in actual service whose parents have
remained in Canada 15
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Total 79
Natives of France who came over to Canada as cadets, served and
were preferred in the colony troops and were treated in France as
Canadian officers:
Captains not having the Croix of St. Louis 7
Had the rank of captain in 1760, raised to lieutenant in
France, Knight of St. Louis 1
Lieutenants 7
Was captain in the colony troops at Mississippi, came to Canada
in 1760 and is raised to the rank of colonel in the Spanish
service at Mississippi; Knight of St. Louis 1
Having had civil employment 5
Officers of the port 2
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Total 23
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