moneymaking projects as church repairs, laundering, and embroidery. In 1773 the sisters were able to take advantage of the housing of the Collège Saint-Raphaël in the Château de Vaudreuil [see Jean
assisted at St Luke’s by George McCawley, president of King’s College. During much of his life Bullock was
preparation for service overseas, he entered the newly established Queen’s (after 1841 Acadia) College in Wolfville, N.S. Before graduating with a BA in 1844, he spent his summers fostering interest in the
offices, Government House, the Central Academy, Prince of Wales College, and the Charlottetown Court House.
Every article of-household furniture was
to 1625 he studied philosophy at the Collège in La Flèche, where Father Massé, the pioneer of the Acadian
not considered healthy enough for heavy work on the land, and was early guided towards study. When the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière was opened on 1 Oct. 1829, he took up the
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In 1907 Bélanger, now in his sixties, transferred the management of his foundry to his 30-year-old son, Joseph-Adrien-Amable, who had studied accounting and business at the College of Ottawa. He in
Cramp*, later president of Acadia College. Another was William Bristow*, after 1854 publisher of the Argus. With such editorial
astronomy at the University of Oxford. He earned a mathematics scholarship to the University of Cambridge in 1865, and he was sixth wrangler at graduation in 1869. Elected a fellow of St John’s College
under the direction of the parish priest Charles-Joseph Ducharme*, who had just founded a classical college. Although he lived in the
married John Adolphus McArthur. Following his graduation in medicine from McGill College in 1879, she accompanied him to Clinton, Iowa, where he first practised. In 1884 the couple moved to Winnipeg; there
. 1687. He studied at Pau in 1689–90, taught the three classes, grammar, classics, and rhetoric, at the Jesuit college in La Rochelle from 1690 to 1695, and completed his studies at Poitiers in the
the grandson of the famous René-Pierre Chartier, doctor in ordinary to Louis XIII and professor of surgery at the Collège Royal. The Chartiers were connected by marriage with some of France’s high
, established to secure funds for Baptist missions at home and abroad. He was also on the Board of the Nova Scotia Baptist Education Society, which founded Horton Academy in 1828 and Queen’s (Acadia) College in
, established his own large farm, took a leading role in the Baptist Church, assisted in the founding of that church’s Horton Academy (1828) and Acadia College (1838), and held numerous public offices in Kings
College in York, England, where he earned a gold medal in languages, and the University of Edinburgh (mb, cm). In 1882, while a medical student
biography” (typescript), available only at Haverford College Library (Haverford, Pa.) and Library of Religious Soc. of Friends (London). D. C. Harvey, “Early settlement and social conditions in Prince
graduated in 1735 from Harvard College, where he was known as an outstanding wrestler, swimmer, and skater, “a large and powerful man.” In 1739 he was ordained in the Congregational church at Haddam
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The precocious son of an Anglican cleric, Andrew William Cochran grew up in a family of modest financial means but of rich intellectual resources; his father was the first president of King’s College
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The son of a wealthy British merchant, Eden Colvile had a comfortable childhood. He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, from which he graduated in 1841. Early the following year he