Kerr replied that his acquaintance with criminal law was very superficial and his knowledge of civil law often inadequate; in addition, his French was extremely poor. The other judges, James
, Scotland, third son of the Reverend James Black; m. first, before 1822, Elizabeth McCullough Craw, and they had one daughter; m. secondly c. 1837 Wilhemina MacMillan, and they had one
, ALEXANDER JAMES WHITEFORD, lawyer and politician; b. 3 Aug. 1845 in Armagh (Northern Ireland), son of Isaac McNeily and Olivia Whiteford; m. 24 June 1878 Jessie Emma
speaker on 10 March 1823, he held office until 22 Jan. 1827, when he was replaced by James Kerr*. During his term, Perrault came
DUNLOP, JAMES, businessman and militia officer; b. November 1757 in Glasgow, Scotland, third and youngest
, about 1797, Laura married James Secord, a young merchant of Queenston. He was the youngest son of a loyalist officer of Butler’s Rangers, who had brought his family to Niagara in 1778. James and Laura
GEORGE, JAMES, Presbyterian minister and educator; b. 8 Nov. 1800 at Muckhart (Perthshire, Scotland), son of
Americans at Beaver Dams on 24 June, a victory that British officer James FitzGibbon* later credited entirely to the Indian contingent. Brant
Township from James Durand* for £1,750. Within a year he reached an agreement with a neighbouring landowner Nathaniel Hughson to develop a town site
, such as James Hoyes Panton, whose lectures in chemistry and geology ensured that the science as well as the practice of agriculture would flourish at Guelph. Also he was the first to recommend that the
Victoria as the proprietor of a jewellery and watchmaking business and the alderman for James Bay Ward on the municipal council. Through him she became a member of Victoria’s somewhat elastic social élite
. . . think themselves superior in rank and fortune to the Soldier and the Canadian.” In partnership for a few years with Charles Kerr, Aylwin specialized in the retail sale of imported products including dry
career. In 1885 a prominent Liberal, James Kirkpatrick Kerr, became the head of his law firm (Kerr, Macdonald, Davidson, and Paterson). From 1900 Paterson was the University of Toronto’s solicitor. Named a
congregation that Forrest had extracted from St Gabriel Street Church after losing his bid for its pulpit to James Somerville* in 1803
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The firm of Ryckman, Kirkpatrick, Kerr and MacInnes, which was located in Toronto’s financial district, quickly achieved prominence in the field of commercial and corporate law. Among its clients were
, and grazing cattle – became his predominant subject matter. In the words of curator Darlene Kerr, “Homer Ransford Watson … quite simply loved the woods. It was his sanctum sanctorum, or sacred
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James Hannay, History of New Brunswick (2v., Saint John, 1909), I, 145–46. W. B. Kerr, The maritime provinces of British North America and the American revolution (Sackville, N.B
ba in 1872. After studying law with the firm of Blake, Kerr, and Bethune, he was called to the bar in 1875. The following year he received an llb from the