. Frederick Loomis was educated in the public schools of Sherbrooke and at Bishop’s College in nearby Lennoxville (Sherbrooke). In 1891 he joined D. G. Loomis and Sons, which made bricks, sold building

. Maurault, Le collège de Montréal (Dansereau; 1967). P.-G. Roy, La famille Panet (Lévis, Qué., 1906). Marthe Faribault-Beauregard, “L’honorable François Lévesque, son neveu

speakership. After considerable hesitation, he accepted. As speaker, however, he was unable to voice his and his constituents’ dissatisfaction with the government’s support of sectarian colleges and separate

Brunswick Street United Church and Mission with its Methodist inheritance (Hantsport, N.S., 1984). Directory, Halifax, 1870–1927. Halifax Ladies’ College and Conservatory of Music, [Calendar

, and others with formal training, and he would continue to do so even after assuming a new chair in natural history at Albert College in Belleville in 1868

and two years later married Charles Jeffers, a business clerk, who died of pneumonia in 1889. After studying at a Toronto business college, she worked for Brown Brothers Company, nurserymen, where she

hospital and Knox Church in Kincardine and Queen’s College in Kingston, and rewarded his workers with a bonus adjusted to length of employment. Doubtless this formidable self-made man with a parish-school

, a Methodist, attended Victoria College in Cobourg, but illness forced him to leave before he completed his studies. He purchased land near Warkworth in Percy Township in 1863 and cleared a farm. At

Europe to serve in the missions and teach in the colleges and seminaries, thus freeing the Canadian priests for parish ministry. Although he himself was not worried about whether the foreign priests were

Lancaster], supported the establishment of Union Sunday schools, subscribed to Queen’s College in 1840, and served for a short time as manager of the local library. He was a founding member of a

some time at university. Clara entered Toronto’s Trinity College in 1888, a mere three years after it had begun to admit females. Women’s efforts to enrol in universities inspired considerable

studying at the Montreal Diocesan Theological College. Bond ordained him deacon in January 1888 and priest that December. From the latter date until late 1895 he carried on his service to the poor as

working people. Appointed lecturer in political economy and statistics at St Mungo’s College in Glasgow in 1888, he lectured as well at the Glasgow Athenaeum and in the extension programs of Edinburgh

bequests totalling $575,000 to the Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, and Bishop’s College (both academic institutions had conferred honorary degrees on him in 1927) and to two special pension funds

Victoria College in Cobourg, Ont.), which at the time was a major rival of the Montreal branch of the Université Laval. After obtaining his degree in 1888, he is thought to have practised medicine in the

succeeded to its titles and estates when his father died on 20 April 1849. Monck was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and then at the Inns of

McGill College where, following a tradition going back at least four generations on his father’s side, he took law. Having obtained his bachelor’s degree in 1877, he was called to the provincial bar the

, from 1856 to 1859, Upper Canada College in Toronto. Having studied medicine at the Université Laval at Quebec from 1859 to 1861, he set out for Scotland in 1863. He specialized in surgery and obstetrics

having attended Upper Canada College as is often reported; more likely, he attended a grammar school in Toronto, though after the death of his father in August 1834 and a rift in the family over the estate

to the religious tests imposed at King’s College, Windsor. Mortimer was both the political father and the most generous financial backer of Pictou Academy from its founding in 1815. In keeping with his