Years Chaboillez had held an important place in the Canadian fur trade. In 1778, John Askin wrote to Benjamin Frobisher commenting on him: "I know no person so well off in the North Trade as he is." In 1802, he was appointed storekeeper for the Indian Department at St. Joseph Island in Upper Canada. He returned to Montreal in 1807, where he died the following year, however, his fortune had vanished. His business hit serious difficulties in the 1790s from which he never recovered, and at his death he was heavily in debt by many thousands. Much of his debt (some £5,000) was owed to his son-in-law, Simon McTavish, who had predeceased him. By McTavish's will, all debts owed to him by Chaboillez were to be cancelled and McTavish's generosity had then gone one step further by providing his father-in-law with an annuity of £150 a year. Family In 1769, at Montreal, Chaboillez married Marguerite Larchevêque (1749-1798), daughter of merchant Jacques Larchevêque, dit La Promenade. As her dowry, his wife brought 40,000 livres in the form of a lot with house, furnishings, silverware, and cash. Mrs Chaboillez's sister, Mrs Charlotte (Larchevêque) Jobert, was the mother of Charlotte Jobert who married Joseph Frobisher of Beaver Hall. The Chaboillezs were the parents of nine children, but only five survived infancy: Charles Chaboillez (1772-1812), of Terrebonne, the second of four Canadiens to be made a partner in the North West Company. He married Jessy Dunbar Selby Bruyères Bruce (1792-1857), daughter of Captain John Bruce. After his death, at Montreal his widow remarried Lt.-General Sir Robert Bartley (1789-1843) K.C.B., grandfather of Sir Edmund Bartley-Denniss. Marie-Marguerite Chaboillez (b.1775), married (1) Simon McTavish, senior partner of the North West Company (2) William Smith Plenderleath, recognised son of General Gabriel Christie and his mistress Rachel Plenderleath. Adélaïde Chaboillez (1781-1847), married Joseph Bouchette, Surveyor-General of the Canadas Marie-Charlotte Chaboillez (1784-1805), became a nun at the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal. Marie-Louise-Rachel Chaboillez (1786-1853), married The Hon. Roderick Mackenzie of Terrebonne. References External links The Quebec History Encyclopedia Memorable Manitobans 1736 births 1808 deaths American fur traders Canadian fur traders Pedlars (fur trade) People from Montreal Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada)