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, the criminal code, and education. As a result of editorials he wrote in the fall of 1863 several major improvements were made to Prince of Wales College. Before 1864 the Monitor advocated
James Grasett*] an arithmetic adapted for Canadian schools, and educational publishing – from public school readers to college
 
, N.S. Ranna Cossit graduated from Rhode Island College with an ab in 1771 and then studied theology in England, where
 
the shop that occupied the lower floor of his house on Rue Saint-Jean, close to the Jesuit college. In 1730 and 1731 he shared the shop and the dye works behind the house with his apprentice Joseph
 
at Mount Allison Wesleyan College in Sackville, N.B. After receiving his ab in 1867, he was ordained in Halifax. That same year he married Annie Buchanan, a fellow
 
. Douglas L. Flanders Canadian Baptist Arch., McMaster Divinity College
 
. Born into a prominent Irish family, John ffolliott Crofton was educated privately and at Trinity College, Dublin, receiving a ba in 1824. Later that year he enlisted as an
they had one son and two daughters; d. 2 June 1928 in Calgary. Charles W. Cross was educated in Toronto at Upper Canada College
 
. Accordingly, they had first approached Presbyterian divines at Manitoba College in 1898. Five years later, when Seraphim arrived in Canada, Bodrug and others presented themselves for ordination and then, in May
 
, and entered the University of Toronto. There he became a founding member of the University College Young Men’s Christian Association and was involved with Professor James Colton Yule in religious work
father was a lieutenant-colonel attached to the militia in Nova Scotia. In December 1826, following an education at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, England, he began a military career as ensign in
 
.] Dartmouth College Library (Hanover, N.H.), Stefansson Coll., Vilhjalmur Stefansson corr., letter to Agnes Dudley, 30 Sept. 1912. Dawson Daily News (Dawson, Y.T.), 6 July 1911. P
 
commercial chemist, when his reading of the Tractarians awakened a vocation to the priesthood. At the age of 24 he entered Exeter College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1871, the year he became a
. Andrew Duncan Davidson was educated at Glencoe and briefly attended the Canadian Business College in nearby Chatham before immigrating to the United States in 1872. After working briefly for the Green Bay
ardent Baptist, and he gave generously to church causes, including McMaster University in Toronto and Brandon College in Manitoba. He also supported hospitals and sanatoria for victims of tuberculosis. An
 
(Paris et Montréal, 1974), 205. Maurault, Le collège de Montréal (Dansereau; 1967). S.-A. Moreau, Histoire de L’Acadie, province de Québec (Montréal, 1908), 116–17. Claude
at Upper Canada College, he articled under George Cartwright Strachan, son of John Strachan*, and was admitted to the bar of Upper Canada in
London and Balliol College, Oxford. In his third year at university, his father abruptly gave him the option of finishing his degree and becoming a clergyman or departing immediately to seek his fortune in
 
at the local Jesuit college, Jean-Nicolas Desandrouins was commissioned lieutenant in the Régiment de Beauce in 1746. Five years later, following active combat service in the War of the Austrian
 
, was renamed Bruno, and professed his first vows in 1893. His superiors were quick to recognize his scholastic talent and spiritual commitment and later in 1893 sent him to the International College of
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