religious instruction given in schools and colleges in the grip of the clergy: “it is the sole cause; for here in brief are the social guide-lines of the mass of our population: eat and pray to God

. Brother Aphraates began his North American career in Baltimore, Md, where he was in charge of Calvert Hall for four years, from 1853 to 1857. In the autumn of 1857 he founded Rock Hill College at Ellicott

d’Yamachiche (précis historique) (Trois-Rivières, 1892). Chapais, Cours d’hist. du Canada, 3: 252; 4: 150. Douville, Hist. du collège-séminaire de Nicolet, vol.2

secretary, and Father Angus MacDonald*, the rector of St Dunstan’s College. In June 1862 MacDonald wrote to Dundas and demanded

Richelieu. After taking her first communion at the age of 12, she returned home; there she was again tutored privately by Abbé Jean-Marie-Ignace Archambault, a teacher at the Collège de Saint-Hyacinthe. Eager

Wales College in 1877 and 1878. A firm adherent of the Church of England, DeBlois was intensely interested in the debate on education which

. At age 19 Eby began preaching, and in 1865 the annual conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada permitted him to attend Victoria College in Cobourg as part of his probation for the

who was then vice-principal of Bishop’s College in Lennoxville and completed his career in Canada as bishop of Huron; Emily Anne married in 1856 Adam

College, Rome, and was ordained a priest on 19 Jan. 1776. His next years were spent at Franciscan houses in Bohemia at Prague, and in France at Nimes and Avignon; for a time he was lecturer in

Grouard* as a successor and to submit his resignation; Faraud complied on 20 March 1890. During an ordination at the Collège de Saint

“visitors” were to travel from city to city judging which individuals were to be admitted to membership – Field and seven other English expatriates founded the rival Columbianum, or National College of

(1906). He was awarded an honorary lld by Queen’s College in Kingston, Ont., in 1896. Fletcher travelled extensively

. Educated at the College of Altona in Denmark, (today in the Federal Republic of Germany), Charles John Forbes joined the Commissariat Department of the British army at age 19 in 1805. Daring, personable, and

Petit Séminaire de Montréal, graduating in 1841. He later studied medicine at McGill College, and after his graduation in 1845 returned to Laprairie where he practised for two years. He spent his time in

 14 he experienced a religious awakening when he encountered a student preacher from Queen’s College, Kingston, who had come to supply the local Presbyterian congregation. After completing high school

Quebec. He spent his childhood in Rivière-Ouelle and did his classical studies at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière from 1859 to 1863. Accepted as a student for the notarial profession the

, called on his services, and Gauthier drew up the plans for many religious buildings in the region, including the Collège du Sacré-Cœur in Sorel, the Saint-Hyacinthe cathedral, and the parish churches of

freedom from serfdom, an important distinction in pre-1848 central Europe. He first studied in Kolomyya and then in Stanyslaviv (Ivano-Frankivs’k), where he graduated from a teacher-training college. After

at Montreal, Que. After receiving an education at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe from 1821 to 1830, Louis Giard taught as a cleric at the Collège

Jacob Erb, had made with the government, but without any written authorization such as location tickets. When the block was granted to King’s College in 1828, their claims were “totally forgotten.” To his