rowing, the Grand Challenge Cup of the world-famous Henley Royal Regatta. They lost narrowly in the semi-final to the crew from the University of Oxford’s Magdalen College in what was considered to be one
registrar of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. He also served on Toronto’s Board of Education and the Board of Health. In the provincial election of 1 March 1898 he ran as a Conservative
themselves to business, including several real-estate ventures in partnership with him.
Pétursson enrolled in Winnipeg’s Wesley College in 1896, and two
principal (and superintendent of Summerside schools). She completed her formal education with a year at Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown, from which she graduated with first-class standing in June
” – such were the words penned in 1920 by Abbé Thomas Albert in his Histoire du Madawaska (published in 1985 as The history of Madawaska). The first classical college for French-speaking
enterprises emerged the Canada Portland Cement Company, incorporated in 1900 with Rathbun as first president. By that time he had become a millionaire, a trustee of Queen’s College in Kingston, and governor of
charitable man in the best Christian tradition. He supported established institutions such as the Montreal General Hospital, the Montreal Presbyterian College, and the mechanics’ institute, all of which he
then studied for two years with Paul Letondal, one of the pioneers of professional musical life in Quebec. He pursued, but did not complete, classical studies at the Collège Sainte-Marie (1886–87 and
Gamble, founded the Toronto, Hamilton, Niagara, and St Catharines Electro-Magnetic Telegraph Company. He was as well treasurer of Trinity College for a short time before his death
Brunswick and the Gaspé region of Quebec. An avid reader of philosophy and literature, he demonstrated his long-standing interest in education by helping to found Bishop Ridley College in St Catharines
1919 at his family home, Hollybank, in Victoria.
The son of a respectable farmer in Dumfriesshire, R. P. Rithet was educated at the college
section of Montreal, and was baptized as Charles only, the Séraphin being added at a later date. Of his early life little is known; he attended the Sulpician college of Montreal, 1809–10, and entered the
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Upper Canada refunded Rolph’s membership fee on the grounds that he had “exhibited no qualifications for being elected a member.” Thus, Rolph’s status as a surgeon must
King’s College (University of Toronto) and Canada’s pre-eminent chemist. In Croft’s view, the report, which shows little understanding of chemistry, was a work of pure imagination. Rottermund counter
. . . , Rowsell and Thompson are listed as “publishers to the University [of Toronto] and booksellers to the University and Upper Canada College.” They also published the Church, an Anglican newspaper
.
Thomas Ryan’s family had sufficient means to send him and his two brothers, Edward and John B.*, to the Jesuit college of Clonglowes Wood in County
championship football teams. He graduated from Victoria College in Cobourg with a ba (1887) and an ma (1889), earning gold medals in classics and
Club. He insisted that his sons be educated at Upper Canada College. During his later years he became involved in commercial pursuits which further established him as a successful entrepreneur. When he
buried in Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, where she had been married in 1889.
Saint-Martin studied at the Collège Laval in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Laval
BL, Add. mss 19069, pp.50–55 (transcripts at PAC). Halifax County Registry of Deeds (Halifax), Deeds, 1753–89 (mfm. at PANS). Harvard College Library, Harvard University