. After leaving school and working for a short time in his father’s merchandise business, Robert Palmer Howard attended McGill College, receiving an md degree in 1848

. Charles J. Howlett received his early education at the principal Roman Catholic schools in his native city, St Patrick’s Hall and then St Bonaventure’s College, from which he graduated in

him a little time to study on his own. He was fortunate enough to attract the attention of the two Benjamin Sillimans, father and son, who were then both professors at Yale College. From 1845 to 1847 he

at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1831 to 1833, and again in 1836–37 after attending the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière the previous year. Forced to abandon his studies, apparently as a

family established in Nova Scotia since 1787. He received his early education at the local parish school and in Lismore and Cape George. He then studied theology at St Francis Xavier College in

, Scotland, he came to Canada in 1873. He was received on trial as a minister of the Methodist Church of Canada in 1875 and spent two years northwest of London, Ont., before entering Victoria College, Cobourg

associated with Mount Allison College in Sackville, N.B., and their son Humphrey Mellish studied at Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown before attending Dalhousie College in Halifax. He completed a

Meloche did his classical studies up to the sixth year (Rhetoric) with the Jesuits at the Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal, except for 1866–67, when he was at the Collège de L’Assomption. During the same

Johnson*. Mrs Mills took a position at Queen’s College in London. Harriet attended classes there, likely until she married Alfred Roche, a geologist who had spent some time in Canada, and moved to

. The son and grandson of Anglican clergymen, Charles Henry Mockridge was educated in Belleville and at Trinity College, Toronto, where he distinguished himself in classics. After receiving his ba in 1865

women on the same footing as those of McGill and Toronto was by consolidation of what he regarded as the weak, poorly endowed colleges into one well-equipped university. He led every movement to this end

. Born among the mountains of Wester Ross and reared in the sunlight of the Reverend Lachlan MacKenzie’s famous ministry, John MacLennan graduated ma from King’s College

apprentice by the famous Sir Astley Paston Cooper, originally from Norfolk, and after study in London at Guy’s and St Thomas’s hospitals he became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons on 6

years, possibly at Bradford Academy and then in Washington, N.H. In 1827 he began studying medicine at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, graduating md in 1829. He

in 1863 entered McGill College in Montreal to study medicine; he graduated in 1867. Benefiting apparently from the connections of his father

. Born into the prominent Paine–Chandler family, William Paine acquired his lifelong interest in the arts and sciences as a young man at Harvard College. After graduating in 1768, he took up the study of

a temperance organizer, he became a Methodist preacher in 1870. Three years later, upon the completion of his probationary period, he entered Victoria College in Cobourg to study theology. He

1854, also with Pickard as principal. The two academies provided instruction to the college matriculation level and a new institution, Mount Allison Wesleyan College (which later became Mount Allison

Halifax Ladies’ College, the conservatory boasted 240 students by 1890. In addition to serving as director, Porter taught piano and theory, and eventually composition. In 1898 the conservatory

very conscious of his position; in 1837 he resigned from King’s College Council when he found his name listed below those of newly appointed members. At that time, too, he spoke critically of Lieutenant