as chairman (1882–86). His two brothers were more politically inclined: John, his one-time business partner and a principal of the Ontario Business College in Belleville, served terms as mayor and as
Annapolis valley. In 1841 he was instrumental in helping secure a charter for Queen’s (Acadia) College at Wolfville, and sat on the new institution’s board of governors
schooling at Quebec and attended the College of Ottawa from 1866 to 1868. Even as a small child he showed a natural talent for drawing and his family gave him his first experience in printing. In 1869 he
Dartmouth College, Rauner Special Coll. Library (Hanover, N.H.), MSS-122, logbooks of the ship Rosie, 1924-25, 21 Sept. 1925. LAC, RG 85, 64, file 164-1 (1); 1044, file 540-3 (3A). William
Strathroy Grammar School and Upper Canada College before attending the University of Toronto (ba 1881; ma
Lostwithiel. He was educated at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, and entered the Royal Navy on 26 Oct. 1814. He served as a midshipman on a number of ships, one of which, the Erne, was wrecked
middle-class Methodists; her father taught literature at a Wesleyan training college. At the age of 23 Florence obtained an art-master’s certificate. Immediately after her father’s death in December
. M. Terris, “Ladner: a pioneer study” (ma thesis, Western Wash. State College, Bellingham, 1973).
, to the college of Saint-Hyacinthe. They entered the third year of the classical course. Médéric was not yet 11 years old. He was said to be brilliant, but inattentive and refractory. Laurent
Halifax and with the hall and library of King’s College, Windsor. In 1862–63 he built the impressive Halifax Club, designed by Stirling.
Unlike his
McGill College in Montreal, from which he graduated three years later. He went into practice in Sorel, but subsequently moved to Montreal. In 1867 he became secretary of the recently founded Montreal
preparatory class at the Collège Saint-Raphaël (from 1806 the Petit Séminaire de Montréal), where he proved studious and brilliant. Upon completing the final two years of the classical program (Philosophy), he
responsibilities according to their respective skills. A graduate of the Belleville Business College in Belleville, Ont., Leitch was in charge of securing contracts while Laurin oversaw work on the job sites. Vanier
-Dame-de-Bon-Secours-de-L’Islet and at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (1873–75), at approximately age 15 Lavoie began working as a junior clerk at the Banque Nationale, probably in Quebec
Collège Henri IV at La Flèche. This was at the time when Father Énemond Massé, who had returned from Acadia
examination set by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba until 1885, although she appears to have practised medicine from shortly after her arrival in the city. In 1890 her younger daughter
.
Émile-J. Legal studied at the petit and grand séminaires in Nantes, the Collège de Machecoul, and the Université de France. He was ordained on 29 June 1874 and served in
first Finnish-immigrant child to graduate from Upper Canada College.
In 1902 Lindala, who had worked for a number of tailoring concerns, established a
of her birth when she was 12. In 1900 she entered the Normal College of the City of New York; she graduated three years later and then went back to Manitoba to take up a post as a teacher in a rural
reputation for accuracy and fearless investigation. Typical of many tributes, that of the Reverend George Bryce* of Manitoba College noted simply that