classical college and provided Montreal’s parish priest and vicar general. Orders for religious and educational works consequently bulked largest among those that came to Mesplet’s shop, as was true for

MacDonald* of Glenaladale, a Roman Catholic landed proprietor on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, and Margaret MacDonald, Donald McDonald was educated by the Jesuits at Stonyhurst College in

Library, and George Monro Grant*, principal of Queen’s College, were on the executive committee. In 1888 George Maclean

.” John attended the High School of Montreal and McGill College, from which he graduated in 1874 with first-rank honours in philosophy and the Dufferin Medal. In 1879 he obtained a second

Yale College and Harvard University catered to the student trade. Notman had been making inroads into the American market since 1869 when he had

tasks essential for the harmonious development of the system. The doctorates in law conferred on him by the Université Laval and Bishop’s College were a recognition of his effectiveness. His

. John Joseph O’Gorman’s surname at birth was Gorman, but in his youth he would adopt the family’s ancient patronymic. He was educated in St Patrick’s School and then attended the College of Ottawa

). John Palliser belonged to a distinguished Irish family founded by William Palliser, archbishop of Cashel, who had come to Ireland from Yorkshire, England, to enter Trinity College, Dublin, in 1660. The

), designed by Mesnard, with Perrault’s bare façades, in which a few Gothic features reiterate the church’s décor to create a desired unity. Additions made to the Collège Saint-Marie in 1892 can also be

, his parents sent him to Canada. He was educated first at Bishop’s College, in Lennoxville, Que., and later at St Mark’s School in Windsor, England. His classmates nicknamed him Chile Price. In 1885

tutor until he was nine, he was then sent to the Collège de Laval, the Collège de Sées, and the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Paris. The seminary’s superior saw that this 17-year-old had no

barred him from normal activity and encouraged his interest in intellectual pursuits very early. Rae entered Marischal College in 1809 or 1810 and in

him later in life. In 1829 he went to Edinburgh to study medicine, and he qualified as a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in April 1833

Macdonald, who gave it to McGill University to form the basis of an agricultural college. Reford was a part owner of the Labrador Seigniory and Lumber Company, which sought to develop

Rousseau’s career. To support himself, he practised medicine in Fontainebleau, finally returning to Quebec in 1897, the year he was admitted to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Province of Quebec

to the University of Toronto and entered University College in 1895. Tall and fit, he was an avid rugby player, a member of the winning intercollegiate debates team, and, during his final year

Scott’s grand vision for Saskatchewan, captured the imagination of his government. His first big idea was to create a university, not just a local college, that would compete on the national and

conservative and Protestant schooling at King’s College, Windsor, N.S., and at the early age of 14 began his apprenticeship in the law in Lower Canada. After four years with John Reid, clerk of the Court of

. Adam Thom studied at King’s College (University of Aberdeen) from 1819 until 1823, receiving the degree of ma on 31 Aug. 1824; in 1840 he was awarded an

. Throughout his whole career he took an interest in education. For many years he was special procurator and member of the corporations of the Séminaire de Nicolet and the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière