Episcopalians – George’s brother Alexander would serve as vicar of Great Baddow, England, from 1779 to 1812 – they appear to have placed a premium on literary values. Longmore attended King’s College

privileged class. After taking private lessons, he was sent to study with the Jesuits, first at Georgetown College in Washington, D.C., and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass. He was obviously

, Molson had a college built for training clergy of the new sect; some 20 students were enrolled in 1858. However, in 1860 the church’s minister, Alfred Stone, resigned; when British troops arrived in

 May 1803 in Lachine, Lower Canada. Born of a Catholic father and a “heretic” mother, Alexander MacDonell entered the Jesuits’ Scots College at Rome

.” He attended Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., from 1799 to 1803, studied theology under various Congregational ministers, received a licence to preach in 1804, and was ordained a Congregational

Thomas Robert, becoming clergymen; d. 17 Dec. 1888 at Port Hope, Ont. Frederick Augustus O’Meara entered Trinity College, Dublin, on

adopted. Education for the young was one of Panet’s main concerns during his term. He supported the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière and especially

. Although possessing only average intellectual abilities, Benjamin worked hard and succeeded in entering Dalhousie College, Halifax, in 1872. After his first year, however, he was forced to return to Truro to

of seven children. After her marriage at age 21, she moved to Upper Canada with her husband, who was then professor of philosophy at Queen’s College in Kingston. In 1872 he took up a similar

freer treatment of the Château Frontenac. The long arcade on the ground floor, framed by the pavilions jutting out at either end, is reminiscent of the façade of Royal Victoria College in Montreal, which

schools and classical colleges, as was being done in the colleges and universities of Upper Canada. He deplored the fact that educational institutions offered young people little opportunity to study

College in Sandwich two years later, he resumed his pedagogical career and was soon made headmaster of the school at Amherstburg. According to friends and family, Reaume was among the best sprinters in

, worked in the watch- and clock-making industry in the Montreal area. As for young Fernand, he began his studies at the Collège Notre-Dame in Côte-des-Neiges (Montreal) and continued at the Collège Sainte

school in Castleknock, County Dublin, and entered Trinity College, Dublin, in October 1824. He left in 1828 before graduating and joined the staff of Admiral Thomas John

Anderson*, bishop of Rupert’s Land, later wrote that Ross was “a distinguished scholar at the Red River College of St. John’s . . . who afterwards went through a very creditable academic

family which was large and poor, Pierre Roubaud entered the Jesuit college in Avignon at the age of 13. His teachers noted that he was seriously lacking in prudence and judgement, but in September

continue his scientific work, and in 1834 began work on what was to be the first complete magnetic survey of the British Isles. James Clark Ross and Humphrey Lloyd of Trinity College, Dublin, also took part

. Admitted to membership in the Royal College of Surgeons in 1809, he did a period of training in a military hospital at Ramsgate. On his return to Quebec in

stability for the institute and to erect buildings and provide schooling from primary to college levels. Despite his understanding that the school was racially integrated and supported by voluntary funds

preaching in Onondaga, near Brantford, and later worked as a missionary in Fort William (Thunder Bay) and then in Toronto. It was there, as a student at Knox College, that he witnessed the realities of inner