schools he became a teacher in Whitchurch and Markham townships. He also studied dentistry and on 20 Jan. 1870 was accepted as a member of the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario after

St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church and a founder of Ottawa Ladies’ College in 1869. He and his wife were charter members of the Protestant Orphans’ Home in Ottawa, and took an active interest in many

Church and as a regent of Mount Allison College in Sackville, N.B., which awarded him an honorary dcl in 1917. He was the mainstay of the Protestant Industrial School for

judge of the Superior Court since 1849, and Olivier-Théophile, known particularly as one of the first professors of McGill College’s faculty of medicine. Mont Saint-Bruno and the village of Saint-Bruno-de

Lancelot Marin’s direction he was appointed teacher of the first form in the secondary school (1619–20), then of the second form (1620–21) at the Collège in Rouen. During his second year of

of the Royal College of Surgeons at Edinburgh. He was happy to come home to his wife Catherine who had cheered him with her affectionate letters while he was abroad. A little over a year after his

Allison Wesleyan College, receiving a ba in 1867 and an ma three years later. Called to the New Brunswick bar in 1872, he soon became a partner

successful sealing captain, died at sea in 1865 and young John, who had likely been educated at St Bonaventure’s College, began work in the grocery store his mother opened in their home. He, his brother

attending school in his home town, Kennedy Francis Burns emigrated to British North America; he studied at St Mary’s College in Halifax and then in Saint John, N.B. In 1857 he became a clerk at

in Toronto. An outstanding student, Nelson Burns was educated at Niagara High School and University College in Toronto, where he held a

Naval College, London. Byron was author of: Byron’s journal of his circumnavigation, 1764–1766, ed. R. E. Gallagher (Cambridge, Eng., 1964); The narrative of the

to prevent the risk of fire. When construction of the Quebec prison (from 1862 the home of Morrin College) was undertaken in 1808 under François

. Born to parents of Irish descent, James Frederick Cairns was educated at the academy in Knowlton, Que., Albert College in Belleville, Ont., and Victoria University in Cobourg, from which he graduated in

. George Calvert was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, and, in 1606, was appointed private secretary to Sir Robert Cecil. Advancing rapidly in the public service, he became clerk of the Privy Council

Canadian Literary Institute in Woodstock, Ont., and then obtained a ba at Queen’s College, in Kingston. In 1871 he joined his father’s

College in Toronto, intending to join the Presbyterian ministry. However, he later chose to read law (in Renfrew), was called to the bar in 1860, and became a qc in 1876. In

; 175: 49, 66–70, 362; 176: 11; 214 1/2F: 189; RG 22, 26: 299, 354. Univ. of King’s College Library (Halifax), Israel Longworth, “A history of the county of Colchester” (ms, 2 pts., Truro, 1866–78

College, Kingston, before he took over his father’s lumber business. Overcoming some initial financial problems, he eventually built a large and successful operation: two sawmills and a shingle-mill. One of

(Trois-Rivières, Qué.), 1869–72, 1882. Le Courrier de Maskinongé (Louiseville), 1879–81. RPQ. J.-A.-I. Douville, Histoire du collège-séminaire de Nicolet, 1803

. The youngest of a family of 14 children, Charles William Carrier entered the Collège de Lévis in 1853, the year of its opening [see Joseph-David