potential immigrants.
In 1885 McMillan was named to the advisory board of the Ontario Agricultural College and two years later he was appointed to serve as
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In 1828 the 150-acre sections of the block were transferred to King’s College, the provincially supported university, which set a high price on the land. Christian Nafziger and the German settlers
entered the noviciate of the Society of Jesus at Sault-au-Récollet (Montreal). After two years of training, he was assigned to the Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal to serve as prefect of students and teach
Toronto.
Dennis Ambrose O’Sullivan attended St Michael’s College in Toronto from 1868 to 1870, graduating from the University of Toronto with a
attended King’s Collegiate School at Windsor, N.S., in 1810–11 and King’s College from 1811 to 1814, where he received his ba and ma. His
from 1887 to 1923. Along with his musical activities, he attended the Petit Séminaire de Montréal from 1854 to 1859, and then studied at the Collège Sainte-Marie to become a notary. He obtained his
philosophy at the Collège Henri IV in Paris. He began medical studies in Paris, went to Edinburgh to complete them, and after two years obtained his doctorate there. On 21 Feb. 1846, after his
education at the Collège de Montréal from 1836 to 1844, then began to study theology at the Grand Séminaire of Montreal. He completed his formal education at the Sulpician seminary in Paris, 1847–49. At the
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At the request of Benoît-Joseph Flaget, first bishop of Louisville, Ky, he and several other Jesuits were sent in 1835 to open a college at Lebanon, Ky. That venture failed, and Point was sent to
, France.
François-Louis, only son of Louis-Jean Poulin de Courval, studied at the Jesuit college in Quebec. Bishop Pontbriand
subsequently took formal training at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and at the University of the City of New York, from which he graduated in 1865. In that year as well he served briefly as an acting
studying in his native town, he attended Madras College at St Andrews. In 1847 he emigrated to Canada with his parents, and they settled at Saint-Hugues. He articled in the Montreal office of William
Bristol to Philadelphia with his family in 1820, settling in York (Toronto), Upper Canada, the following year. When Upper Canada College opened its doors in 1830, Lionel Augustus Clark Ridout and his
of Quebec and was buried two days later in the chapel of the Séminaire de Québec.
Antoine-Bernardin Robert studied first at the Collège Saint
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Born into a family prominent in the public life of Virginia, Christopher Robinson was raised in the household of John Robinson, apparently his uncle. He was educated at the College of William and Mary in
put all the denominational colleges on the same footing by repealing the permanent annual grant to King’s College. Amazingly, despite Rudolf’s support of reform bills which the tories, including
Amable Sénécalle; d. 3 Dec. 1863 at Saint-Laurent, Montreal Island, Canada East.
Jean-Baptiste Saint-Germain attended the College de
Chaussegros* de Léry; d. 29 July 1865 at his manor-house, Coteau-du-Lac, Canada East.
Georges-Réne Saveuse de Beaujeu studied at the Collège de
College, Dublin, but spent a year at Penzance, Cornwall, caring for his brother William, a promising young engineer who had developed tuberculosis. There the two men devoted much time to sketching. After
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Peter Frederick Shortland entered the Royal Navy in January 1827 and two years later graduated with distinction from the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth. In 1834 he was appointed sub-lieutenant and