its governing institutions while promoting a vision of state-backed, pan-Canadian amateurism. After completing his local schooling, Nelson attended the Oblate-led College of Ottawa, where, according to

Havergal Ladies’ College in Toronto and Ridley College in St Catharines. As well, he was a justice of the peace for York County, vice-consul for Liberia from 1887, and consul for

. Paddy Nolan’s family tree included soldiers, bishops, poets, and a mid-19th-century American outlaw. He attended Sacred Heart College in Limerick, Trinity College in Dublin, and the University of London

particular caught his imagination. He made large contributions and endowed scholarships at McMaster, the Baptist university in Toronto, and at Brandon College in Manitoba, where he was counselled by President

earned a phd from the University of Erfurt in Germany. He was appointed professor of agronomy at the teacher’s college in Lemberg

. Young Richard was educated at two bilingual Roman Catholic institutions: in French at the Collège Saint-Louis in Saint-Louis de Kent, N.B., and in English at the Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal. (He

 Aug. 1810 in the British Isles. George Panton received his ba and ma from Marischal College (University of

Papineau received one of the first Rhodes scholarships awarded to a Canadian. He read law at Brasenose College, Oxford, achieved a second, and rowed stroke for the college eight. After returning to Montreal

University of King’s College found a new home on the Dalhousie campus in 1923, but sectarian concerns and the other schools’ reluctance to relocate and unite under the Dalhousie name defeated the plan’s larger

Derbyshire, Pearson was drawn to the field of construction, perhaps because his father was a stonemason. Following the completion of his liberal studies at Wesley College in Sheffield, Pearson came to Toronto

grandson of a lord mayor of Dublin. In 1837 he entered Trinity College, Dublin, but after only a year of studies, which included science and mathematics, he took an engineering job with the Midland Railway

his elder brother Frederick, a lawyer. Arthur’s early years followed an established family pattern. Educated first in Charlottetown by private tutors and later at Prince of Wales College, he then

one time and, although it was a step in the right direction, the college failed to resolve the church’s difficulties. The paramount influence

collège Saint-Anne de la Pocatière (Quebec, 1894), 399–404. J.-A.-I. Douville, Histoire du collège-séminaire de Nicolet, 1803–1903, avec les listes complètes des directeurs

Collège de Montréal from 1796 to 1803. Frédéric-Auguste was noted for the purity of the French he learned there, but, unlike his fellow pupil, Louis-Joseph Papineau, he probably imbibed also the

four, Jean Raimbault did his classical studies at the Collège Royal d’Orléans, and in 1787 he enrolled at the Séminaire d’Orléans, which at that time was run by the Sulpicians. A student of “brilliant

indefinite, and that ultimately it was left up to the legatee to interpret it as he wished. In his view, therefore, Morrin College and the Finlay Asylum, the former Presbyterian and the latter Anglican, could

, parliamentary freedoms, and the interests of empire. From 1809 to 1815 he studied at the Collège de Montreal, then took legal training under his brother-in-law, Basile-Benjamin Trottier Desrivières-Beaubien, and

he helped establish the Ontario College of Pharmacy [see William Elliot*]. Six years later he became president of the American

. W. College, as a partner and renamed the business Sharpe and College. The firm grew during Winnipeg’s boom. In 1911 its assets were estimated at $125,000–200,000 and it received a high credit rating