city librarian. His son, Charles, matriculated at St Salvator’s College in St Andrews University in 1832–33 and studied first for the ministry and then for the medical profession. In September
wife Isabella, who died in 1845, had nine sons and six daughters; one of their sons, James*, became principal of Dalhousie College
father settled the family in Poole while he travelled to Newfoundland each year to fulfil the obligations of his post as collector of customs. Randolph Isham studied at Eton College from 1796 to 1803 and
at the Collège Saint-Raphaël in Montreal from 1778 till 1784, and subsequently signed up as a voyageur in the fur trade. When on 7 Sept. 1791 he married his first cousin Marie-Josephte Périnault
children, he left a diary containing anecdotes, notes on his reading, and observations about the people and customs of his time, but little about himself. After beginning his studies at the Collège de Lévis
were few opportunities in Canada to pursue a career, academic or industrial, in chemistry, so Ruttan registered in medicine at McGill College, Montreal. Apparently he was attracted to this institution
establishing the Upper Canada Academy (later Victoria College).
William’s relations with Egerton were not as close as those of John. Nonetheless, he was an
the final years of his life promoting education. In 1821 he had supported Antoine Girouard, the founder of the Collège de Saint-Hyacinthe, by putting his library at the service of the teachers, and by
from the prestigious Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City the following year.
During the 1860s Charles Francis
Little*; d. 22 Oct. 1899 in St John’s.
Educated at St Bonaventure’s College, Patrick J. Scott studied law, first
daughters grow up without knowing how to do anything.” After a childhood at Waubaushene and in company lumber camps, Sheppard attended Havergal College in Toronto, a private girls’ school, where upon
denominational colleges, though these would continue to function as centres of religious instruction and would be supported from the endowment formerly attached to the Anglican King’s College (University of
the Council agreed to a bill making provision for a large grant to the College of New Brunswick contingent upon the removal of religious tests for students. Land for the support of the college had been
. Trinity College Arch. (Toronto), G. W. Spragge papers, Spragg family genealogy. Univ. of Toronto Arch., A73-0015/001, extract of dispatch from Maitland to Bathurst, enclosed in Major Hillier
Trinity College; he is not the same person as the subject of this biography. p.b.l.]
ACC, Diocese of
from McGill College in 1863, was admitted to the bar, and soon afterwards entered into partnership with John Adams Perkins. The partnership was short-lived; by 1868 Stephens was practising alone. He had
.
Curtis Fahey
Canadian Baptist Arch., McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, Ont
, however, impossible to confirm this assertion. In the autumn of 1857 he became a teacher of French at the Collège de Chambly and, soon after, its principal. In July 1858 Stevens settled in Montreal
, and then in Winnipeg, where in 1916 he enrolled at Wesley College. Shortly afterwards, he enlisted in the 196th Battalion and was sent to Seaford, England. While in the infantry he was wounded. The lure
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HPL, Arch. files, Martin papers, 371; Clipping files, Hamilton – social life and customs. NA, MG 30, E157, 16, 29; RG 24, 4290, file 34-1-54, pt.2. Royal Military College of Canada Library, Special