executive officer of the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science. Silver sent three of his sons to King’s College and became a governor of the college as well as a long-time vice-president of its alumni

promoted the establishment of a theological seminary to train Presbyterian ministers, but when this project failed he supported Queen’s College at Kingston

legal career, his family, social affairs, and public duty, including his positions as major in the 1st Regiment of the Queens County militia, and, from 1872 to 1876, as governor of King’s College in

. Because of his considerable intellectual abilities he was invited to serve on the College Committee charged with the development of Knox College founded in Toronto in 1844

and had come to him from the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in Ames, Iowa. Grafting onto this stock, he created new varieties of fruit trees, including the Pine Grove Red apple and

schools in Bandon and Clonmel (Republic of Ireland), he entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1852 and graduated ba in 1858. While in Dublin he came under the influence of

. In 1828 Sweeny moved to Saint John with his family. He studied at St Andrew’s College in Prince Edward Island and at the Grand Séminaire de Québec. Ordained to the priesthood in 1844, he

under a cloud of controversy. He was succeeded by John E. Bryant, principal of Pickering College. That fall Tassie opened a private boarding-school

. 1845 in Perth, Upper Canada. Alexander Thom graduated from King’s College, Aberdeen, with an ma in 1791. On 25

. Richard Rowland Thompson completed his secondary schooling at Cork’s Model School in 1892. From 1895 to 1897 he studied for a medical degree at Queen’s College in Cork, where he was apparently a keen

. During Vail’s tenure as minister the Royal Military College of Canada was organized and opened at Kingston, Ont., and Major-General Edward Selby Smyth was appointed the first general officer commanding the

about 1830 and now in the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. He also ventured into classical themes, but these paintings have been lost. In December 1831 Valentine was an original member of the

they had seven children, two of whom survived infancy; d. 23 Jan. 1903 in Quebec. Arthur Vallée attended the Collège de Lévis from 1861 to

, Que. Michel-François Valois studied at the Collège de Montréal from 1816 to 1821, and like the young men of the period who attended classical colleges

. In 1849, when Victoria College at Cobourg had few students and was low in funds, Vandusen was appointed governor and treasurer. Confronted with the necessity of retaining students “by the argument

Verey was educated in London and studied medicine under Dr John Whaley at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 31 May 1861 and for a

schooling at the École Saint-Joseph in his native city. He spent a year at the Collège de L’Assomption, but following the accidental death of his father in 1893 he broke off his studies. He took them up again

was elected president of the London conference, a post he held for two years. In 1878 he was awarded an honorary dd from Victoria College at Cobourg, “a spontaneous

following year. On his retirement from his office as general secretary in 1878 he was named honorary secretary of missions. Wood had also been involved in the support of Victoria College, Cobourg, and in 1860

Montreal, including the Irish Protestant Benevolent Society, of which he was president for two years, the Fraser Institute, the Mackay Institution for Protestant Deaf Mutes, and McGill College. A