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benefactor in his county (he gave to French and English, Protestant and Catholic alike), and he endowed a fund to pay the way of a Glengarry native at Queen’s College, Kingston
helped subsidize his studies. Apparently he taught school there during the summer months. Between 1857 and 1860 he studied at Kenyon College, an Episcopal school for men in Gambier, Ohio. According to his
£20,000 when he died in 1767. A friend and patron of John Wesley, he sent William to the Methodist school at Kingswood, near Bath, for a classical education. Osgoode then attended Christ Church College
1906. The sons of a German-born professor at University College took exception to an anti-German speech by their school principal. The protest led two newspapers to demand the dismissal of all three of
interest he likely pursued as a student at Toronto’s Upper Canada College (1844–46), where he studied drawing, perhaps under John George Howard
, Histoire du collège-séminaire de Nicolet, 1803–1903 . . . (2v., Montréal, 1903). P. A. Dutil, “The politics of Liberal progressivism in Quebec: Godfroy Langlois and the
late 19th century; a copy of this portrait hangs in the Painted Hall at Greenwich Naval College. BL, Add. mss
. Parkman, a gentleman always, graciously accepted the situation without rancour, declaring himself to have been moved by the attempt to honour his work. Shortly afterwards McGill College in Montreal, that
 Warren Road. The next year they sent their son, William Thomas, to St Andrew’s College in Aurora, north of the city. Not surprisingly, Pentland, always on the go, was enthusiastic about fine, fast
. Byron Fairchild The principal manuscript collections of Pepperrell papers are those of the Harvard College Library, the New
England to be educated; Joseph went to Prince of Wales College, a local grammar school. When he was ten his father took him on board the Queen Victoria to meet the Canadian delegates
, William’s mother, with eight children to provide for, was able to count on friends important in business and government. After a few years at Hammersmith College in London, William began to study law under a
, Le collège de Montréal (Dansereau; 1967); Nos messieurs (Montréal, [1936]), 101–21. Meilleur, Mémorial de l’éducation (1876), 86, 101–2, 184–88. Pouliot, Mgr Bourget et
Ottawa in 1877 when he accepted the positions of organist and choirmaster of Ottawa’s Christ Church Cathedral and music director of the Ottawa Ladies’ College. He revived the Ottawa Philharmonic Society
1850s at Western Reserve College in Cleveland, he began his working life as a school-teacher. In the early 1860s he entered the lumber business as a railway subcontractor, supplying ties. He became a
the College of New Jersey (Princeton University) whom he had met shortly before leaving America for England; but Sir William Johnson’s description of Rogers in 1767 as “a very illiterate man” was
College. In three years he earned three bachelor’s degrees – arts (1921), letters (1921), and civil law (1922) – as well as a diploma in economics with distinction (1921). In the thesis for his second
himself enrolled in a commercial course at the Collège de Lévis in the fall of 1872, but he transferred to classical studies at the Petit Séminaire de Québec the next year. After entering the Grand
-Jacques in Montreal. Pilon paid Royal’s way to the Petit Séminaire de Montréal, where he studied with the Sulpicians from 1850 to 1854. He then attended the recently opened Jesuit-run Collège Sainte-Marie
and where he became “a very pretty Schollar” according to Parkinson. For six months in 1751 he attended St John’s College, Cambridge, but his university career ended abruptly because of his
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