Trois-Rivières (1844), clerk of the Circuit Court (1849), and clerk of the Superior Court. He purchased 34 acres of land and established a farm on it that was bought by the Collège des Trois-Rivières

University, Baker Library, Thomas Hancock papers (contain letters of Bastide); Harvard College Library, ms Can 62, bms Can 3 (Bastide mss). PAC, MG 11, Nova Scotia A, 27, pp

got to know his famous grandfather. Edward went to Trinity College School in Port Hope and then the University of Toronto (ba 1887). Admitted as a student to the Law

Victoria College, Cobourg, where he received a ba (1860), ma (1863), and llb (1864). In 1865 he was elected to the

. Honoré Beaugrand studied briefly at the Collège Joliette in Joliette, Lower Canada, and spent a few months as a novice with the Clerics of St Viator before taking a short training course at the School

claimed, for Beck’s conversion to Catholicism in 1883. He began editing the Catholic Northwest Review (Winnipeg) and represented the Collège de Saint-Boniface in the senate of the University of

allegiance to what he termed his “native Country,” Belcher donated a set of bells to St Paul’s, subscribed to a fund-raising drive by King’s College, and provided books to the fledgling Halifax library

subsidize his entry into the college at Rochefort, where he received an education that would have been beyond his father’s limited means. The city of Rochefort continued to support him financially when, on 10

*. When his father died in 1905, Dick, as he was called, became head of the family, and it was almost certainly he who paid for Mildred’s attendance at the Mount Allison ladies’ college in Sackville, N.B

French Seminary in Rome, where he was ordained in 1874. That same year he obtained a doctorate in philosophy from the Gregorian University and a doctorate in theology from St Thomas College, part of

 Feb. 1809 (copies at Canadian Baptist Arch., McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ont.); RG 1, E3,100: 186; L3, 32: B5/31–32, 54, 85, 92; RG 5, A1: 6514–15, 6523–24, 6528–30, 6569, 6613, 6615, 6617

evangelical former members of the Presbyterian Scotch Church. A request to share that congregation’s room (used during the week as a court-house) in the Jesuit college was rejected by the Presbyterian minister

brothers to the Petit Séminaire de Montréal and the Collège Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir, in Marieville, and opened three schools. He participated in the early activities of a charity that would be of great

obtained his classical education (1888–95) at the Collège Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir, in particular through the generous support of Louis-Philippe

Côte-des-Neiges. At 18 he entered the Collège Saint-Raphaël in Montreal, where he studied until 1806; he then became a tutor. In 1813, while still in Montreal, he began a career as a journalist, working

University College in Nottingham. John Jeremiah Bigsby’s contributions to Canadian mineralogy and palaeontology were substantial, despite his brief sojourn

College in Cobourg. After only a year, ill health prompted him to return to Oakville, where he worked for a dry-goods merchant. He opened his own grocery store in Stratford in 1870, and then one in Chatham

1871 he was admitted to Upper Canada College in Toronto, where he studied rhetoric. Intent on a career in law, he entered Osgoode Hall in 1874 and graduated four years later

Fyfe*], and worked as an editor of a Watford newspaper before enrolling as an apprentice with a pharmacist to learn the profession. In 1880 he obtained his licence from the Ontario College of

did not fail. At the age of 10 Hewitt was enrolled at a boarding school in Brighton and he subsequently studied in Guildford. His early education was followed by a mathematics degree at Trinity College