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Henry Bethune grew up in Cobourg, where his father was the Anglican priest. He and his brothers were educated in private schools and then sent to Upper Canada College in Toronto. In 1853, at the age of
 
and chatelain of, Gières near Grenoble, and of Jeanne de Cluzel; admitted 3 June 1583 into the noviciate of the Society of Jesus, at the Collège in Tournon; d. at the noviciate of Avignon, 17
taught at Université Laval, led to pressures for Braun’s removal from the diocese of Quebec from which he was ousted in 1870. Accepted by the Collège
 
first vice-president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Province of Quebec (1903–7); he would reportedly refuse the presidency in 1907. Within these organizations, he focused on the question
impossible. By 1893 he was working as a reporter for the Evening Star (Toronto). When Miller obtained a teaching position at the new School of Mining and Agriculture affiliated with Queen’s College in
 
by Abbé Jean Harper; it became a classical college the following year. In 1827 he indicated a wish to enter the priesthood, news that could only please Bishop Joseph-Norbert
1888 from the College of Saint Joseph in Memramcook [see Camille Lefebvre*], a francophone institution in southeastern New Brunswick
 
studied at the Collège Saint-Raphaël from 1773 to 1780. By 1786 Cadot’s sons were working with him under the name of Messrs Cadot and Company and from 1787 evidently conducted most of the firm’s activities
classical studies at the Collège Masson in Terrebonne, Lower Canada, Joseph-Damase Chartrand, the eldest of seven children, left for Toronto at the age of 16, ostensibly to learn English. He went on to
Bigelow Company. He was vice-president of the Eastern Townships Bank, and was on the boards of Bishop’s College in Lennoxville, the Compton Ladies’ College, and the Sherbrooke Protestant Hospital. Cochrane
(Gingolx), B.C. Educated at the Church of Ireland Training College in Dublin, William Henry Collison began his career as a schoolmaster in charge of
was a student at the High School of Montreal and won the Governor General’s Medal for literature and history. Colquhoun then studied these subjects at McGill College, where he earned a
, where he graduated at age 14, James George Aylwin Creighton went on to earn a ba with honours at Dalhousie College in 1868. He then studied under Sandford
 
 June 1859 in Harbour Grace, Nfld. Charles Dalton is known to have been a student at St Kieran’s College, County Kilkenny (Republic of
schooling with private tutors up to the fifth year (Belles-Lettres) of the classical program. From 1832 to 1835 he finished his classical studies at the Collège de Chambly
1830 in conformity with the 1829 primary school act. He had then received a classical education at Chambly, on the Richelieu, at the Collège de Saint-Pierre, founded in 1825 by Abbé Pierre-Marie
*, president of Dalhousie College. In 1847 Benjamin took his family to Montreal, and purchased the bookstore and the newspaper and periodical agency of Robert Walter Stuart
with well-educated priests, sent him for further studies at the college of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda in Rome, where he obtained a doctorate in theology in 1891. The Université Laval would
father, primarily a chandler, was a merchant of considerable means. De Smet’s early education was at home and in various colleges; in his 19th year he entered the Petit Séminaire at Mechlin. In August
 
. Charles-Simon Delorme studied at the Collège Saint-Raphaël in Montreal from 1783 to 1784. Then he probably apprenticed with a master craftsman, as was the practice at the time, particularly in the building
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