Robert, 19, and Egerton, then 21 years old, headed east to enter Cobourg Collegiate Institute in preparation for studying at Victoria College. They walked and paddled across the prairies to the

mentor that Lister invited the young man to accompany him as clinical clerk (senior assistant) when he went to London that year to become professor of clinical surgery at King’s College and its associated

in Northumberland County, Hart Almerrin Massey was educated locally and at Watertown, N.Y., where he had relatives; between 1842 and 1846 he attended three sessions at Victoria College, Cobourg. An

in the interests of Scottish colonists and the Church of Scotland, and in the founding of Queen’s College at Kingston. His son inherited the legacy of a mid-Victorian sense of public duty and family

activity,” he told an audience at Smith College in Massachusetts in 1985, “but the metaphor of ‘field’ I have in mind is something like a magnetic field, a focus of energy, not a farmer’s field with a fence

Agricultural College [see James Mills*] in Guelph. He worked hard at balancing academics with athletics and enjoyed success in both, earning

Fisher was educated at the Fredericton Collegiate School and at King’s College (University of New Brunswick), where he received a ba in 1830. He turned to the study of law

Laura and William Black Creighton met and fell in love. When he had completed degrees in arts at Victoria College in Cobourg and in theology after the institution moved to Toronto, they were married in

especially apparent in the matter of higher education, which involved both denominational and financial questions. King’s College, the Anglican establishment at Windsor, was not only rent asunder by a long

later a trustee. He joined the board of management of Manitoba College in 1891 and served as its chairman between 1895 and 1907, and he took an interest in the Winnipeg Young Men’s Christian Association

. George Dawson lived in Nova Scotia until 1855, when his father became principal of McGill College, Montreal. The wilds of the McGill grounds reinforced in George a love of nature as a field for study that

École Potvin, Desjardins attended the Collège de Lévis from 1864 to 1870, completing the four-year commercial course and the first year of the Latin one. His academic record shows that he was capable of

the diocese of Montreal, that if God would grant this wish he would provide a building for Montreal Diocesan Theological College, which he did. The story is a good one, but may be apocryphal – the

the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Frederick Dobson Middleton was granted a commission without purchase in the 58th Foot on 30 Dec. 1842. Two years later the regiment was sent to New South

.” McGill also left £10,000 and the Burnside estate of some 46 acres towards the endowment of a college or a university, specifying that the college or one of the colleges of the university should bear the

the future British prime minister Herbert Henry Asquith, of Balliol College, on the issue of the desirability of imperial unity, Parkin arguing for the affirmative despite the widespread Little

his mother; by 1877 the family’s straits obliged him to take employment as a stationmaster on the Boston and Lowell at Medford. In 1879 a loan from an uncle allowed him to enrol there in Tufts College

completed the examination set by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Lower Canada. Returning to Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, the parish in which he had grown up and one without a resident physician, Ross

secondary instruction, a scholarship took him in 1887 to Nelson College, where he achieved a solid grounding in the classics and in mathematics; however, he showed no inclination towards a scientific career

promise.” In 1792 Charles matriculated to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he received a ba in 1795; he was granted an ma four years later