at La Vacherie (1646), at the college in Quebec (1648) as superintendent of construction, and at Sillery (1655). Because of his intelligence

had left enough money to send his sons to college and the life of a scholar appealed to him more. He enrolled in 1890 at Queen’s College, Royal University of Ireland, in Belfast, and graduated in 1894

Trinity College, Dublin, but the college records do not bear out this claim. He was, apparently, apprenticed to Williby Hemans under whom he learned civil engineering. Having acquired a trade, and

for McCausland and Bullock was a secular one, for Cumberland and William George Storm* at University College, in the University of

and Nevers. After two years as minister of the Collège in Bourges (1622–24), he came to Canada in 1626. He spent the winter in the Huron country with Father de

the colleges at La Flèche and Clermont before becoming a Jesuit 7 Aug. 1621, thus preceding his brother Pierre by eight years. While still a student he is said to have been cured of an

his father’s death in 1824. In 1830 Henry was the first pupil enrolled in Upper Canada College in York, and in 1833, through the generosity of Mrs Simcoe

following year he was elected to the board of governors of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Province of Quebec. His presence in the top decision-making circles of his milieu enabled him to

to Storm, especially with respect to the delayed completion of the cemetery chapel of St James-the-Less. In the preparation of the design for their major monument, University College (1856–59

Boyd*, and they had three sons and four daughters; d. 24 May 1921 in Montreal. Herbert Symonds was educated at Framlingham College

 Flèche in 1667. He sailed for Quebec in 1670 without finishing his studies and taught junior classes in the college there, preparing himself at the same time for the priesthood, which was conferred on him

as a novice on 28 Nov. 1851, and taught English to his fellow novices at the Collège Sainte-Barbe. Soon after the reception of tonsure, he was one of four men chosen by the superior general

eight, his family moved to Halifax where it had close ties to the inner circle of pre-revolutionary families. After being educated in England and in Nova Scotia at King’s College, Windsor, he returned to

Holmes. Dismayed by the lack of general interest in natural science in Montreal, in 1854 Barnston started lobbying for a chair in natural history to be established at McGill College. By the

Court in Norwich. Little is known about her childhood. A talented individual, she attended the Brantford Young Ladies’ College. Upon graduation in 1883 she received rewards for excellence. She was also

devote himself full time to communal service. Alfred was educated at Alphonse Hartog’s school in Camden Town (London) and later at University College School. Though in 1867 he passed the University of

. By July 1842 the Jesuits had assumed responsibility for the parish of Laprairie, where a year later they set up a noviciate. However, the college for which they had been summoned was slow in

Baldwin* commissioners to investigate the financial affairs of the University of King’s College and of Upper Canada College. Their report, presented in 1852, was severely critical of the financial

Congregational minister, poet, and wit. A precocious boy, Byles entered Harvard College at the age of 12 and graduated in 1751. He was later to receive the degree of ma from Harvard

took up again the Gaumist quarrel through his opposition to George Saint-Aimé [Alexis Pelletier*], professor at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de