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was of the Anglo-Irish gentry for whom education at Trinity College, Dublin, was customary. In 1823, two years after his father died, he entered the college and remained there until he graduated with a
Hazen*, a prominent pre-loyalist merchant. Little is known of Botsford’s childhood or early education; in 1829 he entered King’s College (University of New Brunswick) in Fredericton and later left
 
Boucherville and his mother was an heiress to the seigneury of Verchères. In 1792 he entered the Sulpician Collège Saint-Raphaël in Montreal and six years later began his cours classique. Although a
. After attending the Montreal Academical Institution, Jeffrey Burland entered the faculty of applied science at McGill College in 1878. Specializing in practical chemistry, he graduated in 1882 with a
Collège de L’Assomption, and then began the study of law at Quebec in 1858, completing it in 1862. He had moved to Sherbrooke in 1861, and in that year and the next he taught for a few months at the Collège
-educated, Alexander reputedly worked for three years for a local grocery firm and then taught school in Malden Township. In 1846 he entered Upper Canada College, supporting himself by writing for various
in Matilda. In 1851 he entered Victoria College in Cobourg. The religious climate at Victoria was strongly evangelical, and Carman was converted
College, 1833–36, and then Manchester College, York, 1837–40; that college became affiliated with the University of London and he received a ba degree in the same year, 1841
Casgrain* and Monsignor Henri Têtu, and he spent his childhood years at the manor in L’Islet. He did the classical program at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière from 1857 to 1864 and studied
 XIII in February 1889 pleased him. Henceforth the vice-rector of the university would be appointed by the episcopate of the ecclesiastical province of Montreal; the colleges affiliated to the branch
Collège Sainte-Marie, run by the Jesuits. Two years later he started lessons in harmony and piano with Calixa Lavallée* and in harmony with
 
Chicoutimi mission, Quebec. Claude-Godefroy Coquart entered the noviciate of the Society of Jesus in Paris on 14 May 1726. He arrived at the college
 
Canada. Charles Caleb Cotton’s father was a schoolmaster and his mother a daughter of a Swiss who taught French at Eton College. After attending Eton
-François and became a prosperous farmer. His eldest son, H. Thomas, received the rudiments of education in the country school and then attended St Francis College in Richmond. He continued his
 
instrumental music at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière. In 1875 he studied at the Montreal School of Medicine and Surgery, which had also been known as the Victoria faculty of medicine since its
goods available. Educated at the Toronto Model School and Upper Canada College, he joined the Eaton workforce at the age of 16 and fulfilled his apprenticeship by serving in numerous capacities. By 1896
 
. September 1858 in County Westmeath, and was buried in Castlepollard. Francis Evans, a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, arrived in Lower Canada
house he had built. In 1915 he accepted an offer to coach men’s lacrosse at Hobart College in Geneva, N.Y.; he was rehired for 1916 but an immigration official in Niagara Falls, N.Y., refused him entry
the head of the East River. Fraser entered Dalhousie College in 1869 and earned a ba in 1872. During his freshman year he helped edit the fledgling Dalhousie Gazette, the oldest college
of British consul at Newport, R.I., from 1802 to 1832. His son was prepared for college there and took his bachelor of arts degree at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., in 1831. After a one-year
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