finest lads I ever saw.” After briefly attending Brasenose College, Oxford, Jonathan left England in early 1785 under the care of Attorney General

expensive proposition for the son of a country storekeeper, but Louis was buoyed by Compton’s abbé, Joseph-Eugène-Édouard Choquette, who had persuaded the college authorities to waive the customary tuition

Bourget* of Montreal appointed him regent at the Collège de Chambly and then, in January 1844, mathematics teacher at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe. His mind, however, was elsewhere. Since a

the Collège de Montréal without difficulty, and then decided to enter the much sought after profession of law. From 1794 to 1799 Viger received his legal training under Louis-Charles Foucher, who was

. In the spring of 1874, as the school year was drawing to a close, Borden surveyed his prospects. They were not encouraging; without completion of his formal education in school and college, a career in

. He studied at the Jesuit college in his native town until 1658, the year when he entered upon his noviciate in the Society of Jesus in Paris. He was to spend nine years in that order. He made his vows

colony’s local government. A first school, founded in 1635, became the Collège Saint-Charles-Garnier, a well-known secondary school, at the beginning of the 21st century. That autumn, 18

Collegiate School and King’s College, Windsor, N.S. Samuel early proved to be a shrewd trader and at the wharves bought goods which he sold in town

, which opened the next year. A warm friend to the Royal Victoria College for women [see Ethel Hurlbatt

, Sherbrooke, McGill, Ottawa, Toronto, Western Ontario, New Brunswick, and Moncton, as well as Dartmouth College, the Panteios School of Economic and Political Sciences, and Sir George Williams University). In

minister, and the establishment of a military training college in Canada in 1874 [see Edward Osborne Hewett

professed a very moderate liberalism. Once his primary education was completed, Louis-Joseph Papineau entered the college of Saint-Raphaël in Montreal

priesthood and withdrew from the college in March of the following year without graduating. Hoping to support his family in Red River, whom Riel Sr had left impoverished and in debt, Louis became a clerk

was well known to the minister and requesting that something be done for the deceased’s son who was still at college. This episode had been a vexing

Pontchartrain family, and the one in Champagne, to which Jean Talon belonged. Talon studied in Paris, with the Jesuits at the Collège de Clermont. Around the