Laval in 1891 and, in 1896, the title of officier de l’Instruction publique of France. In 1901 the College of Ottawa awarded him an honorary dcl, in 1903 the French

. Only 5 of the 11 children born to Oscar Dufresne’s parents reached adulthood. Oscar, the eldest, attended the village school from 1880 to 1883, and later the Collège Sainte-Anne in Yamachiche, from

Rivière-du-Loup (Louiseville, Que.). William Oscar Dunn studied medicine at McGill College and practised at Coteau-du-Lac. He married in 1844, was widowed in 1851, and died in December that year in Bermuda

collection of the Soc. Hist. du Saguenay (Chicoutimi, Qué.). A steam-engine Duquet invented in 1865 is at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (La Pocatière, Qué.); the mace of the Assemblée

pioneer who settled in Ville-Marie (Montreal) around the middle of the 17th century, Ernest-Rémi Décary studied at the Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal. He then enrolled in the faculty of law at the

 October in Bath Abbey. The son of a prosperous miller, Alexander Ellice attended Marischal College (University of Aberdeen), and was admitted to the

mathematics at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa, where he stayed until 1892. Realizing that his interests lay in research, and aided by his small inheritance, he moved to Europe as a postdoctoral scholar; he

Canadian Review (Montreal) of 1824–26, which he had helped to establish. Although he had reputedly wanted his library left to McGill College, it was auctioned off after he died intestate, of

Séminaire Sainte-Anne, known as the Collège Français, from October 1888 to September 1889, and then professor of French and Greek as well as spiritual director until September 1893. This missionary school

, graduating with an md from the New York University Medical College in 1896. Foster completed his training at Bellevue Hospital before returning to the Annapolis valley. In 1897

persecuted in France, they decided to go to Lower Canada. Fournier arrived at Quebec on 24 Oct. 1796. He went to live at the Collège Saint-Raphaël

(Montréal), Fonds du collège de Montréal, liste des étudiants. VM-DGDA, “Comités et commissions: 1900 à nos jours” (report prepared by the Div. des arch.), 1906–10; P39; VM6, Dossiers de coupures de presse

college de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière from September 1860 to June 1870. Its director at that time was François Pilote*, an enthusiastic

Upper Canada College in Toronto. He was articled to lawyer Warren Rock in London and was called to the bar in 1869. Thereafter he quickly established himself as one of London’s leading legal figures

from 18 to 54, even though some dozen had been closed; among the projects he piloted were a training house called Mont-de-la-Salle, the Collège du Mont-Saint-Louis in Montreal, and the juvénat

Torrington* in organizing two ventures: the Toronto Music Festival (1886), of which he was honorary president, and the Toronto College of Music (incorporated 1890), which he served as president. A

-Ludger, a commerce graduate of the Collège du Mont-Saint-Louis, consolidated Gravel Sr’s specialization in automotive supplies and garage equipment. The company, which would count some 40

.” After completing his secondary education in 1878, Green entered McGill College in Montreal, where he began the course in civil engineering. The New England Company provided an annual grant of $50 for

schoolboy: enthusiastic, idealistic, and studious. Educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, he graduated from Cambridge in 1873. Brief service as secretary to Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, a

New England tradition of learning. Horatio, having early manifested an interest in Indians and a talent for languages, gained admission to Harvard College at the age of 16 to study Oriental languages