from King’s College (University of Aberdeen) in Scotland, in 1851. He then worked in London, England, for a manufacturing firm managed by an uncle and, having acquired some knowledge of French, German

scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he won the Ferguson scholarship in classics and secured a first in classical Moderations and, anomalously, a second in the final examinations. After a brief

received the appointment of professor of divinity at King’s College in Toronto. Beaven arrived in Toronto in February 1843. During his years at King’s

into a theological college. The first year of this preparation was spent at the Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution in Hamilton, New York; the second, in the Baptist College in Montreal. In

southern Aberdeenshire. After attending the local parish school he went on scholarship in 1815 to Marischal College (University of Aberdeen), graduating with an ma in 1819. He

playing an active role in the establishment of a Presbyterian college at Kingston. He was a trustee of Queen’s College when it was granted a charter in 1841 and opened under its first principal, Thomas

resuscitating Dalhousie College in Halifax, which had operated from 1838 to 1845 but had since been dormant. Urged on by George Monro Grant*, one of

 Andrews, and in 1853, despite slight academic experience, he was appointed to the chair of history and English literature in University College, Toronto. His application was supported by Lord Elgin

an important part in the establishment of an agricultural school at the college of L’Assomption. In 1866 the agricultural societies of the counties of L’Assomption, Montcalm, and Joliette requested the

benefactor of Queen’s College and Chalmers Presbyterian Church, he was also a supporter of the Royal Military College of Canada. It was here that Bruce, who shared his father’s interests, received his higher

burning of the College Building at Acadia College in Wolfville in 1877 that provided Dumaresq with his first major commission. He collaborated on a design for a replacement building with Charles Osborne

merchant and alderman in Montreal, he grew up in comfortable circumstances. From 1895 to 1897 he studied at the Collège Sainte-Marie, where he began his hockey career in 1896 and met students who would later

. John Forrest was educated at the Free Church College in Halifax and was ordained in 1866, immediately becoming minister of St John’s Church there. At St John’s he developed a strong and loyal

. In October Houdet received an appointment to teach at the Collège Saint-Raphael. He began his career there just at the time when the director, Jean-Baptiste

work in the Acadian parishes. Lafrance went to Prince Edward Island with the bishop in 1838 and after studying at St Andrew’s College was ordained in Rustico on 2 April 1841. For the next 26

establish the Presbyterian College of Montreal (opened in 1867). In addition to his original gift of $2,000, he made further liberal donations and was also active in soliciting subscriptions for the college

Royal College in Mauritius, but the climate there did not suit his wife, Margaret Emma Glenn. In 1848, he, his wife, and their daughter, Laurestine Marie, moved to Fredericton, N.B., where he had been

Mountain*, the third bishop of Quebec, and son of an Anglican minister, Jacob George Mountain too became an ecclesiastic. He was educated at Eton College, where he won the Newcastle medal, a high

Montréal (also called the Collège de Montréal), where, at that time, the teaching of science and philosophy had been separated and assigned to different teachers. In addition to mathematics, physics

. Charles Pelham Mulvany entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1850 and was elected a scholar of the house in 1854 before receiving a ba with 1st class honours in classics in June