an eighth soon to be born.
George Taylor was sent to Gale’s Boarding School at Saint-Augustin, near Quebec, and remained there until he was old
to win some backing from this group Davis offered a cabinet seat to John Norquay*, leader of the opposition. Norquay dropped his demand for the
and Canada. The project, which had been put forward by the cabinet of Sir John A. Macdonald* and in which the leader of
Furnace Company Limited, in which his brothers George Edward*, John James, and Thomas Joseph, all of whom were to become influential
DUBUC, SOPHIE-LOUISE, named Saint-Jean de la Croix, sister of the Congregation of Notre-Dame, teacher, and superior
. The youngest brother, John, settled a few miles from the Rivière Saint-François and became a prosperous farmer. His eldest son, H. Thomas, received the rudiments of education in the country school
1848 at the newly established Collège Saint-Joseph (incorporated the next year as the College of Bytown and known as the College of Ottawa after 1861). He later studied under its principal, Joseph-Henri
.
During his career Dumaresq made a significant contribution to the appearance of the cities and towns of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. He was among the architects who flocked to Saint John, N.B., after the
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In April 1888 Dumont went to Montreal at the behest of Laurent-Olivier David*, president of the Association Saint-Jean-Baptiste de
London in 1863. Six years later he accepted a position with the London-controlled Bank of British North America, which posted him in turn to Halifax, Saint John, N.B., and New York
emigrated with his wife and family to Saint John, N.B., in the summer of 1863. That September he became an incorporator and managing director of the New Brunswick Sugar Refining Company, apparently a holding
. He took the third year (Method) of the classical program at Saint-Hyacinthe, spending 11 months there, and then returned to the Montreal seminary, where he finished his studies. His father, a
Chamberlain*’s Catalogue of Canadian birds, with notes on the distribution of the species (Saint John, N.B., 1887). Fannin wrote for a variety of journals in addition to Forest and
*, in Saint John, N.B., and they had eight children, five of whom survived him; d. 14 May 1902 in Fredericton.
Archibald Fitz
as a novice on 28 Nov. 1851, and taught English to his fellow novices at the Collège Sainte-Barbe. Soon after the reception of tonsure, he was one of four men chosen by the superior general
Collège Sainte-Marie, Montreal. In 1877, along with his brothers John and James, he started a dry-goods business styled J. J. and L. Furlong. He launched his own commission agency on 1 Jan
Quebec. He spent his childhood in Rivière-Ouelle and did his classical studies at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière from 1859 to 1863. Accepted as a student for the notarial profession the
cemetery of Notre-Dame de Belmont at Sainte-Foy.
After studying for a short time at Cap-Santé, Pierre Garneau left for Quebec in 1839 and went to
been influenced by the stories of the American Revolutionary War that her father passed on to her. In January 1861 she was examined at the Normal School in Saint John, N.B., and received a class
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Daily Telegraph (Saint John, N.B.), 14–15, 17–18 April 1903. Freeman (Saint John), 24 March 1900. Saint Croix Courier (St Stephen [St Stephen-Milltown], N.B