Ascension, a position he would hold for 20 years. A year later he was appointed musical director of the Wesleyan Female College (later known as the Wesleyan Ladies College and then the Hamilton Ladies

American institutions, notably Woman’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, established in 1868 by doctors Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell

education at the local school, Joseph-Octave Arsenault enrolled at Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown and then entered the normal school there, from which he received a teaching certificate. He also

Robertson*. He obtained his license to practise on 19 May 1826. A year later Badgley received his diploma from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Edinburgh, and went to Belfast and

1676 he succeeded Father Guillaume Matthieu as professor of theology at the Jesuit college in Quebec and also became procurator of the mission. Until 1698 he devoted himself to teaching rhetoric

higher education, as well as by the example of an uncle, Lachlin Taylor, a prominent Canadian Methodist minister, Nathanael enrolled at Victoria College in nearby Cobourg in 1852 as a preparatory student

Toronto, Canada West. George Skeffington Connor entered Trinity College, Dublin, at age 14 and received a law degree in 1830. He and his wife

Craigie studied at Marischal and Aberdeen colleges in Aberdeen, the University of Edinburgh, and Trinity College, Dublin. In 1820 he became a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and

building a clock from materials found on the family farm. Some three or four years later he began teaching school. He also developed a taste for mathematics, and in 1863 he entered Queen’s College in

musical studies in Berlin with Carl August Haupt (organ) and Carl Albert Loeschhorn (piano). In 1875 he moved to Ottawa, where he became music director of the Ottawa Ladies’ College, conducted the Ottawa

Rolph*’s Toronto School of Medicine, which was affiliated with Victoria College, Cobourg. He graduated in 1863 with an md and in 1864 received an

Crawley*, of Acadia College, Wolfville, in the late 1840s. Uninterested in education, Higgins intended to work instead of attending Crawley’s meeting, but a broken axe handle forced a change in plans

. Robert Edwards Holloway arrived in Newfoundland in June 1874 to assume the duties of principal of the St John’s Wesleyan Academy. Having attended the Wesleyan Training College in London and

assistant during his Sudbury days, the Reverend John Dunlop Ellis, wrote that “Huntington was a great man. He deserves a monument somewhere in the north country.” Today, Huntington College, the United

children; d. 15 May 1907 in Inverness, Scotland. James Kelly was educated privately and at Clare College, Cambridge, where he received a

College, Toronto. He resigned in 1850 to become professor of mental and moral philosophy and classical literature at the Free Church College in Halifax. In 1860, following a union of Presbyterian churches

Augustine Ralph, who were sent to their father’s Catholic alma mater, Stonyhurst College in England, William was educated at Central Academy in Charlottetown. At 16 he was apprenticed, apparently

-Hyacinthe took over its management. He also endowed the Congregation of Notre-Dame with a magnificent convent. His major achievement, however, was the founding of the Petit Séminaire or classical college of

 Andrew’s College in 1832 at the age of 16. The college, located in St Andrews, had been opened the previous November by Angus Bernard

. James Walton Nutting probably obtained his early schooling at King’s Collegiate School, Windsor, N.S. From 1804 to 1810 he attended King’s College, distinguishing himself academically and graduating