to the commanding officers, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Fisher MacIntosh and Captain Henry Temple, and in his capacity as king’s counsel and doyen of the Montreal bar he later assisted in the

political, ecclesiastical, and commercial circles in Upper Canada. Attorneys general William Henry Draper* and Christopher Alexander

, had been recommended by Senator Alexander Ramsey of Minnesota; Cooke urged him to accept the position. The Department of State considered Taylor to be “the best man we have got in all the Canadian

Alexander Mackenzie, which had come to power in 1873 in the wake of the Pacific Scandal [see Sir

the new dean, Donald Alexander MacRae. His revised curriculum became the standard adopted by the Canadian Bar Association in 1920 and exported to emerging university law schools across the country. The

. Edward Palmer completed his education at Alexander Brown’s grammar school in Charlottetown, and studied law in his father’s office. He was admitted to the bar on 1 Nov. 1830, the second of three

. John Young first appeared at Quebec in about May 1783, having been a merchant in London. He had been engaged by the London firms of Anderson and Parr and Alexander Anderson and Davidson, as well as

, Alexander Fraser noted in 1789, Finlay was much attached to Grant but was “less violent and less formidable.” By that time he had been converted to the idea of an assembly, possibly by the limited prospects

control. He had not consulted the House of Assembly, which raised the question with Alexander Grant*, administrator of the province during the

fell to Alexander Croke*, the senior councillor and a man as stubborn as he was reactionary. Instead of profiting from Tonge’s absence to

.” This early attempt to establish the court was not realized. However, as Ritchie neared the end of his tenth year as New Brunswick’s chief justice in 1875, the Liberal government of Alexander

ANGLIN, FRANCIS ALEXANDER, lawyer and judge; b. 2 April 1865 in Saint John, son of Timothy Warren

. The new prime minister chose as his associate John Alexander Macdonald*, who had been aspiring for some time to the leadership of

Alexander Gillespie Ramsay, former secretary of the Scottish Amicable Assurance Society of Glasgow. David G. Burley

Cook*. With 20 elders and 22 other ministers, including Robert Burns, Alexander Gale, and Mark Young

rights the Rosses had bought in the early 1870s. Aware of the possibilities that the advent of the railway would bring to the region, he went into partnership that year with Benjamin Alexander

Eliza. Burgess credited the Lyceum’s printer, Alexander Jacques, later his advance-agent, with first applying the burnt cork to his face professionally and encouraging him to take up minstrelsy as a

passed, with Cameron’s pension to be £500 yearly. Cameron’s opinions were solicited by the colonial secretary, William Alexander George Young, the husband of his step-daughter Cecilia Eliza Cowan, and

to Alexander Ellice* on 30 July 1795. To receive her share from the sale, Mme Chartier de Lotbinière asked for and obtained a property

adulation”; and in 1789 Alexander Fraser described all the Canadians on the Legislative Council, including Léry, as “illiterate.” Elizabeth Arthur has assessed his voting record in council as uninformed and