family farm in Leeds County, Leonora Howard attended teachers’ college in Syracuse, N.Y., and spent some years teaching in eastern Ontario, but she really wanted to be a physician. Because the Royal

 1862 and was a licentiate of the King’s and Queen’s College of Physicians of Dublin and the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. After another year of study in Edinburgh Howley worked briefly as a

Victoria College in Cobourg, at the same time gaining initial experience as an evangelist in neighbouring churches. After serving at Ancaster and then at Waterdown for two years, he was ordained in 1882. He

son and two daughters; d. 6 Aug. 1920 in Toronto. Solomon Jacobs studied at the People’s College, Sheffield, and at Aria College

College at various times during these years, and a trustee of the Toronto Grammar School. In the United Presbyterian Church, he took an interest in theological education, home and foreign missions, the

studying at Bishop’s College, Lennoxville, and the faculty of medicine at McGill College, Wyatt Galt Johnston was licensed to practise medicine on 30 Sept. 1885. That year he became a resident physician

I am rendered totally unfit for.” In August 1838 he left for England, with his family. He served at Lampeter as curate and as professor of Welsh at St David’s College and, from March 1843 until

Halifax. Thomas Kenny grew up in the household of the richest and most powerful of Halifax’s Irish Catholic merchants. Educated at Stonyhurst College in

Royal) and it enabled her to attend the Royal College of Music in England for five years. There she studied the violin with the Spanish violinist Enrique Fernández Arbós and began voice lessons with

remnants around Sandoské, La Richardie returned to Quebec in summer 1751. During his retirement he became vice-superior of the Jesuit college (1755

area had been established. Its aim was to obtain – for gifted but poor children of the region – scholarships which would allow them to receive their full classical education at the college of

. Under the ancien régime colleges in France drew their pupils from bourgeois families, those of the gold- and silversmiths being among the most influential. It is not surprising, therefore, that

then moved to Shediac, which, unlike Chatham, was the heart of a francophone area, well served by communications, and close to the College of St Joseph in Memramcook, the centre of Acadian

). In 1827, realizing that an institution for secondary education was needed for the people in the lower St Lawrence region, he added responsibility for the establishment of a classical college to

classical studies in France at the Jesuit college in Poitiers, Pierre de Lauzon entered the noviciate of the Jesuits of the province of Aquitaine in Bordeaux on 26 Nov. 1703 and pronounced his first

. It is known that in 1824 he was running a Latin school there, a sort of classical college, which he had set up himself. On 10 Jan. 1826 he married Elmire Dumont, daughter of Nicolas-Eustache

. François-Gabriel Le Courtois is believed to have begun his studies at the college run by the Eudists in Avranches, France. He joined the order in 1784 and continued his training at Valognes. Ordained

was an elected member of the board of governors of Acadia College in Wolfville, N.S., despite the fact that he had had very little formal education himself

. John Keast Lord, who was brought up in Tavistock, Devon, received his diploma from the Royal Veterinary College, London, in 1844, and returned to Tavistock to practise his profession, but his “convivial

. Machray studied mathematics at King’s College, Aberdeen, and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, graduating with an ma from King’s College in 1851 and a