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 – she would, for example, translate popular songs into Cree and Saulteaux. During some of the family’s years at Fort Qu’Appelle, she attended St John’s College Ladies’ School in Winnipeg
woman graduate of Dalhousie University in Halifax (1885) and later principal of the Halifax Ladies’ College (1911–18). After obtaining a
. Between 1836 and 1856 his civil commissions included the custom-house on Place Royale (1836), the McGill College arts building (1839–43), the McGill Normal School (1845), the Protestant Orphan Asylum of the
expressed a wish to enter the priesthood, and were admitted into the Franciscan order. Some time about the mid 1760s James Louis was sent to the Irish Franciscan college of St Isidore’s at Rome (Italy
 
brother had formed a partnership with Governor William Franklin of New Jersey and the Reverend John Witherspoon, later president of the College of New Jersey, to entice settlers to Boston and
 
and respect of such worthies as the Reverend Dr John Witherspoon, president of the College of New Jersey (Princeton University) and a member of the Philadelphia Company; James Phyn, partner in the
private schools, Arthur to Upper Canada College and Helen to Bishop Strachan. Fifteen acres of Durie land west of Toronto were confiscated by the city in 1893 for unpaid taxes, and Anna was forced to sell
. Joseph-Léonide Perron studied at Collège Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir in Marieville. He then enrolled at the Montreal branch of the Université Laval to study law, obtaining his llb
 
ministers. He then joined his father in London, and in 1789 went to school in Arras, France, where he remained for three terms. He matriculated into Trinity College, Oxford, on 12 Oct. 1792; in that
Petitot’s family had moved from Marseilles to Grancey-le-Château in 1837, and in 1840 they returned. There Emile attended the minor seminary and the Collège du Sacré-Cœur. At 17 he began keeping diaries that
 
André Picquet and Marie-Philippe Berthet; d. 15 July 1781 at Verjon (dept of Ain), France. After studying at the Jesuit college in
 
the education of young Canadians and Englishmen) and at least one attempt to create a local equivalent – a proposal for a Royal Union College which would be “most liberal” and attract “all
 
classical studies at the seminary as a day student, while continuing to work on the farm. On the advice of the head of the Institut Agricole d’Oka, in 1912 he enrolled at the Ontario Agricultural College in
 
weariness that in the autumn led Pouget to consider for a moment leaving the parish and becoming a member of the community of the Collège Saint-Raphaël. In any event, Labadie does not seem to have won his
Quesnel, the son of a prosperous merchant, attended the Collège Saint-Louis in Saint-Malo. When he had finished his studies, he took ship for Pondicherry (India) and visited Madagascar. In 1772 he travelled
 
, Frédéric-Auguste*, was educated by the Sulpicians at the Collège Saint-Raphaël in Montreal, but he was a student there for only two years (1797–99). By 1804 he was a clerk for the North West Company at
 
Duart and conducted a college of piping on Mull. Neil Rankin, the last in this tradition, married a cousin of Alexander Maclean of Coll and became the resident piper at Breachacha Castle. Samuel Johnson
. Rattenbury studied at Leeds Grammar School, where he obtained excellent results, and then attended Yorkshire College in the same city. In 1885 he began an apprenticeship with his uncles’ architectural
father, who immigrated from Surrey, England, became a registrar in the village where his son was born. Hayter received his education in Toronto at Upper Canada College and then the Model Grammar School
moderately less keen on rugby. After schooling in Kingston at Hillcroft Academy, he entered Queen’s College in 1902 and studied economics, English, and philosophy. He and George graduated in 1906, two months
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