, attended Wesley College at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, receiving a ba in 1910 and an md and

colleges. He hoped to see an increased number of such schools set up, each in affiliation with an experimental farm and run by a community of farming monks. A debate was then raging as to the relative merits

to the Geological Society of London, and a set of the mineral specimens to King’s College, London. Papers by Bayfield on the geology of the north coast of the St Lawrence and Labrador appeared in

Grant* of Queen’s College in Kingston and his enemy Goldwin Smith* – who were blind to the Georgite light. In this crusade he was joined

and accused Methodist clergymen of being agents of Americanization, and by the university charter, secured in England by Strachan, which reserved seats on the council of King’s College to Anglicans. In

Borden], an exclusive college-preparatory institution in Lower Horton that offered, according to historian Arthur Wentworth Hamilton

the visual arts. At least three large institutions in Montreal had him teach their students: the École Normale Jacques-Cartier in 1861–62 and the Collège Sainte-Marie and the Institut Canadien-Français

son of a merchant, William John Bowser received his early education in the public schools of his hometown. He then attended Mount Allison College in Sackville and Dalhousie law school in Halifax, where

secured the voluntary position of curator of its museum. Encouraged, among others, by the institute’s corresponding secretary, William Henry Vander Smissen of University College, Boyle issued a circular to

Queen’s College in Kingston. He had extensive business interests, which in the 1850s had included various railway companies, the Kingston Fire and Marine Insurance Company, and the Cataraqui Cemetery

Harvard College Library, Houghton Library, Harvard Univ. (Cambridge, Mass.), ms Can. 58 (Joseph Howe papers) (mfm. at PAC). N.B. Museum, W. F. Ganong papers, box 42

. des patriotes (1975), 117, 207–8, 274–76, 401–9, 428–32. Labarrère-Paulé, Les instituteurs laïques, 17, 23, 63. Maurault, Le collège de Montréal (Dansereau; 1967). Ouellet

funds for the founding of an agricultural college and experimental farm, later established at Guelph [see William Fletcher Clarke

celebrate her love of nature and her perceived closeness to the indigenous people of British Columbia. Writing courses and friends – Ruth Humphrey, a professor of English at Victoria College, and Flora

Library Board in 1892. He served as president of the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning and also of McGill University College of British Columbia, which he endowed with a chair of mathematics

for nurses, the first in Canada. In 1895 he was named professor of mental diseases at nearby Queen’s College, which would confer an lld on him in 1906. In 1904 he became

Caldwell*. Ten years later he moved to Grand Falls, to manage Sir John’s mills there. John was educated locally and from 1850 to 1852 at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière in Lower Canada

office clerk before articling to become a lawyer. Then he decided to train as a doctor instead and attended an American medical college. That life did not suit him either and he returned to Canada to

, especially the battles on the Niagara frontier during the War of 1812. He attended Toronto’s Upper Canada College as a boarder

 pounds with one finger and used his back to raise a platform holding 15 men off its sawhorse support. On 1 Oct. 1888 he successfully repeated the challenge with a 3,536-pound load at the Collège