tradition, he was then a soldier and a Huguenot. He settled in the province of Quebec at the time of the conquest and became a merchant. His son Jean studied with the Sulpicians at the Collège Saint-Raphaël

superintendent, but reluctantly accepted them as a necessary condition of union. Dewart also regarded the federation of Victoria College with the University of Toronto as a necessary step for Methodism [see

in 1844 on property now the site of the Royal York Hotel in Toronto. These were occupied by Knox College and the Toronto Academy before becoming Sword’s Hotel and, later, the Revere House. Famous in

. Following service with the Royal Artillery, the Royal Horse Artillery, and Congreve’s Mortar-Brigade, Douglas had been appointed commandant of the senior department of the Royal Military College at High

studies in August and obtained his diploma as a surgeon from the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh in April 1820. During his training he had diligently taken the anatomy classes of dynamic young Robert

arranged for them to spend some time at a Presbyterian institution, the Ottawa Ladies’ College, perhaps as much to monitor their fitness for service as to prepare them for it. By the autumn of 1873 it had

, Hamilton, Bermuda. Edward Feild was educated at Rugby, where he gained distinction in Latin composition, and at Queen’s College, Oxford, graduating

McGill College. By June 1846 he had fulfilled all the requirements for graduation except one; he was not yet 21. That obstacle was eliminated in October, and on 29 Jan. 1847 a special convocation

State College of Forestry at Cornell University in Ithaca. A popular and stimulating teacher, he enjoyed social gatherings with his students, and he impressed many with his abilities as a dancer, pianist

. He also took an active part in religious and philanthropic endeavours. Several times president of the St Andrew’s Society, he also played a leading role at McGill College, as a member from 1845

. Having begun his studies at the school of Sainte-Geneviève (Montreal), Joseph-Philéas Filion continued them in that city at the Collège de Saint-Laurent, where he very likely took part in amateur

Trinity College, Dublin, in 1843. Three years later he was ordained priest. He began his ministry as curate in Coltrain, County Fermanagh (Northern Ireland), later taking charge of a district church in the

1712, when he was 13. He left it two years later and continued his studies at the Jesuit college. Around 1719 he took his vows with the Recollets of Quebec under the name of Brother Simon, and on 18

before the creation (in 1668) of the Petit Séminaire of Quebec. As early as 1666 Francheville, a student at the Jesuit college, publicly defended a thesis in philosophy, together with Louis

under-secretary in Henri III’s private household and later maître des comptes in Normandy, and of Anne de Garault, who came from a noble family of Orléans. After attending the Collège de

, Ont. Joseph-Bruno Guigues, to whose first name Eugène is sometimes added, began his studies at Gap and continued them at the classical college at

Toronto. Samuel Bickerton Harman attended King’s College School in London. He started his career as a clerk with the Colonial Bank’s office in Barbados in

. Ernest Hawkins attended Balliol College, Oxford, and received from the university his ba in 1824, his ma in 1827, and his

the firm of E. and J. Stinson in Hamilton. Hodgins showed promise as a businessman, but he nevertheless enrolled in the Methodist Victoria College at Cobourg in 1841. He quickly became one of

teaching was carried out under the supervision of neighbouring Dartmouth College, young Holmes embarked upon a serious program of classical studies at a school of good standing. There his desire to be a