pressing Canadian governments to create a small standing army, and in 1883 the administration of Sir John A. Macdonald* finally

Bayard, of Saint John, who was staying briefly in Montreal, tried to point out to this “beautiful, educated and refined” young lady “the

to 51, chose to be annexed. Along with John Lee, a ship liner and fitter, and Vital Grenier, a tinsmith, Villeneuve would represent Saint-Jean-Baptiste ward on the Montreal city council

. 30 July 1876 Eliza Ruth Marsh in Saint John, N.B., and they had five children; d

governors, minutes. Canadian Baptist (Toronto), 10 March 1904. Christian Messenger, 7 Oct. 1857, 1876–79. Messenger and Visitor (Saint John, N.B.), 23 March

. secondly 1872 Catherine Anne Davies of Pictou, N.S., and they had six children; d. 24 June 1908 in St John’s. Since the Whiteway

 Oct. 1909. Austin Caverhill, “A history of St John’s School and Lower Canada College” (ma thesis, Macdonald College, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Que., 1961). Church of

-Marie-Est, Saint-François, and La Lussaudière, Würtele rendered fealty and homage at the Château Saint-Louis on 3 Feb. 1854, the last Canadian to do so. A stern, dutiful, exacting man, he went

(Saint John, N.B.), 4 Feb. 1904: 5. Gleaner (Chatham, N.B.), 18 Jan. 1873: 2; 16 Aug. 1873: 2. Le Moniteur acadien, 3 mars 1881: 2. Royal Gazette

until the mid 1880s. In the 1870s they also became manufacturers’ agents and wholesale druggists. One of the firms they represented was the St Johns Glass Company of Saint-Jean