equally dubious purposes: to support the clergy of the Church of England and the unpopular King’s College and to increase the salaries of the small official clique which surrounded him. He foolishly

days later in Notre-Dame de Belmont cemetery in Sainte-Foy (Quebec City). Lawrence Arthur Cannon began his studies at the Collège Commercial du Sacré

. Adolphe-Philippe Caron was the only surviving son of a middle-class Quebec family. After his early education at the Petit Séminaire de Québec he began the study of law, which he completed at McGill College

the Jesuit college in Quebec, and then in adolescence joined the colonial regulars as a cadet, thus breaking with the family tradition of winning fame on the bench. Commissioned second ensign in 1744

and offices conferred upon Cherrier over the years testify to his fame. To recognize his assistance in 1851 in establishing a law course at the Collège Sainte-Marie [see François-Maximilien

medicine and maintained a life-long interest in medical matters, but whether or not he was a fully qualified physician is not certain. He studied mathematics at Marischal College, Aberdeen, for two years and

educated at Montreal Academical Institution and Collège Sainte-Marie and was called to the bar in 1855. A Roman Catholic, he had command of both English and French. He practised law in Montreal until 1858

promoted the creation of an imperial press service. Described by the Star (Montreal) in 1907 as a millionaire, Clouston was created a baronet in 1908 and sought and received a coat of arms from the College

the Irish Roman Catholic priest Patrick Dowd to worship temporarily in rooms at St Patrick’s Church. The following year Cordner was honoured by McGill College with a degree of

, Benjamin Cronyn*, was the first Anglican bishop of the diocese of Huron and a founder of Huron College. His father, Verschoyle, was a noted lawyer

Arthur Davidson, Master of Arts of King’s College, Aberdeen, landed at Quebec. Following his indenture to Henry Kneller*, an attorney and later the

course at Hamilton Commercial College. In 1868 Andrew Davis took back control of the Lowell Tannery and E. J. began his apprenticeship in the trade

Harvard College and his licence to practise medicine in the province of Quebec were given to the Arch. de l’univ. Laval by his great-grandson Edmond de Sales Laterrière, a notary at Les Éboulements (Que

Saint-Henri-de-Mascouche to settle in Montreal, where he studied at the École Saint-Jacques and the Collège de Saint-Laurent. Recognizing the young man’s obvious artistic talent, his uncle Philippe Edmond

Weston. Here the Dennis family were to play a prominent role in the economic life of the community. John Stoughton was educated at Victoria College in

, such as negotiating the sale of the buildings of the Collège de Nicolet to the federal government in 1868–69, and in 1871 evaluating the orthodoxy of Judge Joseph-Ubalde

 31, C1, 1871, 1881, 1901, Tuscarora Township, Ont. St John Fisher College, Lavery Library (Rochester, N.Y.), G. P. Decker papers. Ville de Genève, Suisse, Dép. municipal des affaires

Beaton Institute of Cape Breton Studies, College of Cape Breton (Sydney, N.S.), A. C. Dodd papers; MG 13/4. PANS, MG 1, 262B, 263A. PRO, CO 217/115–36; CO 220/15. St George’s Anglican

the Jesuit college. In 1790 he became a member of the Fire Society and the Agriculture Society. The following year he joined the Canadian Militia of the Town and Banlieu of Quebec as an ensign, and in

Plymouth, England. Descended from an old landed family, John Thomas Duckworth went to Eton College as a young boy but at the age of 11, on the invitation