while in Edinburgh, but he failed the examinations of the Royal College of Surgeons. In fact he had not been able to complete the programme of study and the period of internship required for a diploma

McCulloch*’s Pictou Academy, and he later studied with McCulloch at Dalhousie College. He interrupted his education between 1843 and 1846 to serve as the first editor of the Eastern Chronicle

 Aug. 1829. Schooled at Eton College, John Reeves was denied a fellowship at King’s College, Cambridge, but matriculated at Merton College

Dryden, he took up the new position of farm superintendent at the Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm in Guelph [see William

-Joseph Richer attended the mission school at Sabrevois and became a student in the faculty of medicine of Bishop’s College in Montreal in 1888. After graduating in 1892, he enrolled at the New York

daughter; d. 31 Oct. 1905 in Toronto. Born into Toronto’s élite, Christopher Robinson was educated at Upper Canada College, took a

. Joseph-Avila Roch was the eldest son in a family of 12 children, 3 of whom would become priests and 2, nuns. Following his classical studies at the Collège Joliette (1889–97), where he

future mayor of Toronto, Charles Sheard was raised in the rapidly expanding city of the 1850s and 1860s. After attending Upper Canada College, he enrolled in Trinity Medical School, from which he graduated

and college in Sackville, Stockton pursued higher studies with an ma from Mount Allison in 1867 and an llb and earned

Street Baptist Church, a position he would hold until 1906. His conversion to the Baptist faith may have caused a rift with his father. Active as secretary of a short-lived college of organists in 1889–92

and expansion of Presbyterian colleges, such as Dalhousie in Halifax, Queen’s in Kingston, and Knox in Toronto, to educate local men for the ministry

correspond with her during his studies at the Collège de Nicolet. In 1816, through the influence of Abbé Rémi

instruction was left largely in the hands of his father, a teacher and Temperance Society member. In his teens George enrolled in college in London to acquire the education required for army-officer training

.” Young Robert Wright was evidently a complete unknown in Canada when he successfully applied that year for the chair in natural history at University College, Toronto, to succeed Henry Alleyne Nicholson

group founded the Montreal Medical Institution, which became the Faculty of Medicine of McGill College six years later. Under a new medical act of 1831

College, Kingston, in securing possession of their property. A year later Bayne and Liddell publicly debated the disruption at Galt, and it was generally conceded that Bayne won

1894 and then Manitoba College until 1896, taking second-year courses. He financed his education partly by working as a public-school teacher in rural areas and by helping one of his elder brothers

proceeding to Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown for at least one year of study, during which he won several prizes and came first in his class. At some point prior to mid 1868 he also attended the

. In 1852 Trinity College opened in Toronto, and McMurray was deputed to tour the United States and solicit funds for the new Anglican institution. Strachan advised him to “interest Ladies in our cause

, with whom he also attended the University of Oxford from 1827. At University College, Oxford, he did not do so well. He missed all but the compulsory lectures to play cricket or to hunt. At one stage he