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August 8: Madeleine de Verchères, daughter of François Jarret, a seigneur in New France, and Marie Perrot (b.1678); Madeline (alt spelling) achieved recognition when, as a young girl, she successfully fought off Iroquois attackers and helped to save Fort Vercheres (Quebec).
Globensky was the grandson of August Franz Globensky, a Hessian surgeon who settled in Verchères, Quebec, and the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Maximilien Globensky.
Jean Blaquière (Verchères, QC) (won party leadership in 1994, stepped down, 1995) (also ran in 1995 byelection)
Thanks to Jean Blouf of Vercheres, thousands of people find themselves today named Plouffe across the North America, including mathematician Simon Plouffe .
From 1996 until 2001, he was an attaché and chief of staff for Stéphane Bergeron, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Verchères—Les Patriotes, then called Verchères.
Born in Verchères, Lower Canada, Maximilien was the seventh child of August Franz Globensky, a Prussian-born Polish surgeon who served with Hessian mercenaries and settled in Lower Canada after his detachment fought on the side of the British in the American War of Independence.