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, that he entered the college at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière in 1854, at the age of 12. There, under the influence of Abbé Pierre-Stanislas Vallée, a teacher at the college and an enthusiast of military
Agricultural College, the Agricultural College of Manitoba, and the experimental farms at the University of Minnesota, at Brandon, Man., and at Indian Head (Sask.). All expressed the sentiment that Waugh’s
 
second year at the Baptist Acadia College in Wolfville. Wells was obviously liked and respected by his peers, for he was elected valedictorian when he graduated ba in 1860. He then returned to teaching in
, probably to supervise the construction of Dalhousie College. Lord Dalhousie had endowed the college and Woolford is said to have designed the new building, of which he painted a water-colour in 1822. In
 
, Adam Wright began his long association with the University of Toronto when he attended University College in the 1860s. He was active in athletics, especially football, cricket, tennis, and hockey, and
Barber secure contracts with the Church of England in Manitoba. His plans for the St John’s College Ladies’ School (1877) combined the Gothic elements favoured by Anglicans with a mansard roof in the
Church, where his father officiated. In 1855, after receiving private tuition, he entered Yale College in New Haven, Conn., from which he graduated with a liberal arts degree in 1859. He studied medicine
 
Canada College. It was evidently for the college’s course in bookkeeping, which Burn presumably taught, that he prepared The principles of book
receive an md there. That degree he acquired later, on 24 Jan. 1817, by attestation from Marischal College, Aberdeen. After his studies at Edinburgh, he became a
 
. A descendant of United Empire Loyalists on both sides of his family, James Chalmers Cameron attended Upper Canada College in Toronto before entering the medical faculty of McGill College, Montreal, in
since his daughters had not finished school. Susie did enter Woman’s Medical College in Toronto [see Emily Howard
the Université Laval. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in medicine in 1863 and was licensed to practise by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Lower Canada in the same year. After serving as
 
1872 and become a veterinarian (1879) and a teacher in the French section of the Montreal Veterinary College (1879–85). Then, in 1885, he co-founded the École de Médecine Vétérinaire de Montréal, with
 
reputation, Graham accepted the mastership of a boys’ grammar school in Richmond, Lower Canada, and became professor of mathematics at St Francis College there. He took the chair of classics and English
convent that Gravel served as chaplain and patron. His tenacity and spirit were also responsible for the establishment in 1918 of a college, of which he was procurator for a time, as well as for the
, son of John Jenkins and Mary Evans; d. 12 April 1898 in Dulwich (London), England. John Jenkins was educated at Redford College
Pharmaceutical Association in 1867; after it became the Ontario College of Pharmacy, he was elected president in 1873, holding that office for several years. He was also one of the founders of the Canadian
primary education in Zorra and at the Woodstock Grammar School, he taught for two years, and then in 1865–67 took arts at Knox College, Toronto, where he gained a reputation as a diligent eccentric. “He
 
became registrar of King’s College, chartered in 1827, and was later involved with Sir John Colborne in the
temporary position of sessional clerk from 1860 to 1864; in 1862 he interrupted this work to attend Morrin College in Quebec. He served as private secretary first to Isaac
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