Charlottetown Guardian would note, he “enjoyed the advantage of aristocratic birth, ample fortune, a liberal education and the inherited aptitude for the legal profession.” Despite this “advantage,” young

partners from Auburn had come to Upper Canada, and the next year they established a sawmill on the Bay of Quinte at Mill Point (named Deseronto in 1881). Following the dissolution of the partnership, young

studious young man, he soon developed his innate business sense. In 1860 he set up Mile End Omnibuses to serve Mile End (Montreal), Terrebonne, Sault-au-Récollet (Montreal North), and New Glasgow. He married

. 4 Dec. 1855 Mary Eliza Carney, daughter of Richard Carney, in Sydenham (Owen Sound), Upper Canada, and they had four daughters and three sons who survived infancy; d

artistic virtuosity of his mother’s family – his great-grandfather was the noted statesman and dramatist Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan. His father, whose influence was perhaps limited to being a

or no formal schooling, the young Dan became a crucial part of the family economy, especially after his brother Morris migrated to the United States to enter the Union army during the Civil War. While

 Mary’s Indian Reserve. It is as a hunter, guide, and interpreter that Gabe is best known. “From his earliest youth,” according to Captain Richard

the Noel and Peter who guided army officer Richard Lewes Dashwood from the Restigouche River to the Tobique headwaters and on to the Miramichi in 1862

Ann Young Mercer; d. unmarried 2 March 1901 in Ottawa

Bulmer and Benjamin Russell. All were ambitious young lawyers anxious to improve the status and standards of the profession; many of them became good friends. An attempt by Sedgewick and others

company, of which he was president and which had a funded capital of an estimated $300,000; among his partners were Rowley, Sturgis Salmon Cushman, Richard Reid

received a prize in 1856 from the Hamilton Horticultural Society for the “best invention” for protecting the young trees. In 1898, after an inspection of streets in Battle Creek, Mich., Fearman recommended

. Almost nothing is known about Michele Rigali before he arrived at Quebec. From Tuscany, he immigrated as a young man to the United States, and around the time he married he enlisted in the American army

Thomas Young*, began to tell. Between 1845 and 1850 Tully submitted designs in competition for several major projects, including Toronto’s

practice, with a number of other partners, until the end of his life. Préfontaine was one of the young Liberals who frequented the Club National, that

Benefit Association, the Young Men’s Society of St Joseph, the Father Mathew Association, St Malachi’s Total Abstinence Relief Society, the Irish Literary and Benevolent Society, the

. 6 May 1856 Margaretta Josepha Gowen at Quebec, and they had five sons, two of whom died young, and six daughters, three of whom survived him; d

. 13 Aug. 1823 in Reading, England, son of Richard Pritchard Smith, an Oxford-educated physician and railway promoter and director, and Elizabeth Breton, and the only one of their seven children to

, but as a young man he was associated with the Methodist church to which his wife belonged. His Scottish and non-conformist background, and early success in making his way in the world, led him to be

so as to learn from direct observation points of law and procedure. Later accounts speak of his days being “passed in study and retirement, the young student of law not making many friends.” An