. 1868 at Harbour Main, Nfld. Educated at St John’s College, Waterford (Republic of Ireland), Kyran Walsh came to Newfoundland about 1839 at the

 Dunstan’s College. The newspaper condemned the Normal School as “essentially a Protestant Institution” and Webster himself as a “foreign educational humbug”; the coeducational classes meant that the Normal

north as Nova Scotia. He gave shell collections to local colleges, the British Museum, the Boston Society of Natural History, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and the Smithsonian

family was of the old nobility; it had for centuries furnished legal officers, aldermen, and mayors to the town of Saint-Quentin. Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix began his studies at the Collège des

education. The schoolmaster, having discovered Neil’s prowess in mathematics, persuaded the family to let him pursue further learning as well, and in 1869 Neil entered St Francis Xavier College in

College in Ohio. He returned to Toronto and, according to historian Daniel G. Hill, graduated from the Toronto School of Medicine in 1857. By Abbott’s own account, he matriculated in medicine that year

a loyalist and his mother was a daughter of Mather Byles Jr., a loyalist. Almon may have been educated privately for there is no record of his having attended the University of King’s College in

Presbyterian parents and, after graduating from the Provincial Teachers’ College, received her licence to teach on 30 Nov. 1863. She pursued her profession in Fredericton for a number of years and was later

introduced into Acadian schools by encouraging the Board of Education to authorize a new series of French-language readers. Arsenault was also a friend of St Dunstan’s College, Charlottetown, the College

longitudes by exchanging time signals via telegraph, a novel technique, with William Cranch Bond of the Harvard College observatory. Ashe was also

. Arlee Hoyt McGee Beaton Institute, Univ. College of Cape Breton (Sydney, N.S.), Biog. and geneal. files, Barrington; Brown; MG

basis, Bell pursued a degree in applied science from McGill College in Montreal, graduating in 1861 with the Governor General’s Medal. Two years later, after a period of study at the University of

-de-Paul. A widower, he left, according to La Patrie, “a fortune of $30,000, of which $25,000 was to be divided equally between the Collège Laval and the convent of the Sisters of

philosophy at Wesley College in Winnipeg [see Joseph Walter Sparling]. Five years later he returned

. John Gervas Hutchinson Bourne matriculated to Pembroke College, Oxford, on 17 Oct. 1821 and received a ba from Pembroke in 1825 and an ma

ophthalmologists, and they had eight children, including Henri, a rector of the Collège de Saint-Boniface in Manitoba, and Edmond, a physician in Ottawa; m. secondly 31 July 1911 Georgine Gagnon in Montreal; they

Upper Canada College in Toronto, Bristol attended the University of Toronto to prepare for a career in law. As an undergraduate, he was elected president of University College’s Literary and Scientific

botany at the Royal College of Science for Ireland in 1868 and at the University of Edinburgh in 1873. In 1876 he joined the editorial staff of the Echo (London) and transferred to the

the University of Toronto and two years later its bursar, a position he also held at Upper Canada College. Briefly in 1850–51 and permanently from 1866 the Buchan family lived in Toronto

year at St Dunstan’s College in Charlottetown, he spent three years at the Collège Saint-Louis in Saint-Louis de Kent, N.B., founded by Marcel-François