establishment of an institution of learning for Nova Scotia Baptists who were at the time excluded from Anglican King’s College in Windsor. As first vice-president of the Baptist Education Society, he was a key

Portsmouth, N.H., son of Major William and Margaret (Cutt) Vaughan; d. 20 Nov. 1724. A graduate of Harvard College in 1696, Vaughan

the summer of 1842 Thomas Liddell*, appointed the previous year first principal of Queen’s College, at Kingston, Upper Canada, travelled to

. William Johnston Almon was educated at King’s College in Windsor, N.S., and in 1834 was awarded a ba. He registered in the faculty of medicine at the University of

people and the officials of the Indian Department. Jean-Baptiste’s close relations with whites were reflected in his decision to send his son, Francis, a young man of some promise, to Upper Canada College

instructor in music at the recently established St Bonaventure’s College, a position he held until the 1880s. He became familiarly known as Professor Bennett

confederation and for the intercolonial railway, improvements to the Trois-Rivières–Arthabaska railroad and to the Collège de Trois-Rivières, and the transfer of the Collège de Nicolet in order that the Collège

. Business was probably fairly good since Jean-Antoine attended the Collège Saint-Raphaël from 1792 until 1800. He was a good student and several times was on the honours list at the end of the year. He

next two years he taught at several schools in the Port Hood area and then in 1866 he left for St Francis Xavier College in Antigonish, where he “succeeded no better than I should have.” After

remained in existence until the Brothers of the Christian Schools came to Nicolet in 1887. The building which it had occupied became in 1803 the Séminaire de Nicolet, a classical college, but the school

education than his own and in September 1839 William entered the Upper Canada Academy in Cobourg, Canada West. He continued on into Victoria College, but left in 1845 without a ba

in Killarney, Man., his parents having moved to that province in 1889. He went on to study at Wesley College at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, and took a ba with

church at Long Buckby. After leaving school Thomas learned the trade of shoemaker, but his interest in preaching led him to further study. When no opening as a student at a Baptist college was available to

York” in 1796 and enjoyed a long career as surveyor and office holder, as did his son James Grant. After entering Upper Canada College in 1837, William Cameron attended King’s College (later the

Divinity College (Hamilton, Ont.), Amherstburg Regular Baptist Assoc., minutes, 1841–79. Haldimand Baptist Assoc., Minutes (Cobourg, [Ont.], et al.), 1837–51. Long Point

. Alfred Chipman Cogswell enrolled at Acadia College in Wolfville in 1849, but moved for reasons of health in 1851 to his parents’ farm near Portland, Maine. In 1852 he began a four-year apprenticeship under

left to attend medical lectures at Yale College in New Haven, Conn., in 1817 and graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., in 1821. He then began to practise in Derby. Although a boundary line

, Couture began studying veterinary medicine at the Montreal Veterinary College, where he took courses conducted in English by Duncan McNab

in Tournai on 27 Sept. 1658, then studied philosophy at the Jesuit college in Douai; he did his classical studies at the college in Lille, where from 1662 to 1666 he taught, chiefly in the

College, he graduated in 1771 and settled at Hatfield, Mass., where he is said to have studied law. He joined the British forces in Boston at the outbreak of the American revolution and in September