. George Eulas Foster, after excursions into college teaching and temperance advocacy, found his life’s work in politics. For all but three years between 1882 and 1921 he served in the House of Commons

qualifications for the position of provincial superintendent of education. He had to have had at least five years’ teaching experience and hold “a first class certificate from some College . . . in some

. Thomas Drury (Drewery), a local painter and the art teacher at Upper Canada College, gave him painting lessons about 1830. When Kane decided to become a professional painter he followed a common practice

. After studying under tutors, Lambton in 1805 enrolled in Eton College, where he spent four years. Surprisingly, in view of his health, instead of going to university he immediately chose a military career

college. That July he became a captain in the British militia at Quebec. He was among the founding subscribers to the Agriculture Society in April 1789, and the following month he was a member of the grand

ma, univ. du Québec, Montréal, 1975). É.-Z. Massicotte, Faits curieux de l’histoire de Montréal (2e éd., Montréal, 1924), 86–98. Maurault, Le collège de

good education, at Mathilda Davis*’s school in St Andrews (Man.) and then at the Wesleyan Female College in Hamilton, Ont. James met her

an English primary school, and then, in 1843, was enrolled by his father in the Collège de Chambly to learn French. From 1845 to 1849 Marchand attended the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe, where he

in law and mathematics as a student at Clare College, Cambridge, where he received a ba in 1752 and an ma three years later. Giving promise

mother. He attended schools in Bristol, Bewdley, Hammersmith (London), and Chobham and mastered Hebrew, Latin, and Greek before entering Wadham College, Oxford, in 1822; he graduated with honours in 1826

gifts to the Montreal General Hospital around 1829 and to McGill College in 1857. His associations were mainly with certain other families – among them the Torrances, McGills, Moffatts, Gerrards

. Richard Montgomery was born into a respectable family of Irish gentry and after his initial schooling was sent to Trinity College, Dublin, in 1754. He did not take a degree, however, but instead on 21

’ Educational Association, of which her mother was a member; this group, headed by Anne Molson*, lobbied for a women’s college at McGill. The fact that the

College, John Bracken*, who became premier on 8 August. Part of Bracken’s appeal was that he had no previous ties to political organizations

speeded up the construction of a new city hall on the site of the former Jesuit college, which had been bought by the municipality in 1889 during the tenure of François

Peters was educated at King’s College, Fredericton. He studied law with John Ambrose Sharman Street* of Newcastle and on 13 July

British government to permit the use of surplus revenue in the arms fund for completion or repair of Anglican churches and the enlargement of King’s College at Windsor. Moreover, he appointed Anglican

. McCulloch was an outstanding educator who subsequently became the first president of Dalhousie College in Halifax and it may be assumed that the young Ritchie received a sound and thorough education. He chose

Saint-Urbain (Montréal, Québec)); AL480 (fonds Collège Villa Maria (Montréal, Québec)); R0046 (fonds Pulchérie Cormier (S.S.-Anaclet)). Bibliothèque et Arch. Nationales du Québec, Centre d’arch. de

engineering in Canada. An early member of the Canadian Institute, he was instrumental in establishing an engineering school at McGill College in 1857 [see Sir John William