renamed Bancroft in honour of his mother-in-law, Elizabeth Ann Bancroft. However, fires, railway failures, and advancing age contributed to Flint’s selling his Skootamatta properties by 1883 and largely
. In 1831 he and his brother, Charles, were apprenticed to William Grenew (perhaps an uncle but conceivably Theodor’s future father-in-law), a piano manufacturer in Berlin who specialized in the
papers; W. D. Powell papers. PAC, RG 1, L3; RG 5, A1; RG 68, General index, 1651–1841. PRO, CO 42/362; 42/365. York North Land Registry Office (Newmarket, Ont.), Abstract index to deeds
baptized there 25 Dec. 1882, son of George Hiram Kendall, industrialist, and Jane McClosky (McCluskey, McKlosky); m. 1 June 1907 Myrtle Agnes Pagels in Montreal, and they had two daughters
-laws, and became professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children. Although George Monro Grant
suicide of McLoughlin’s son-in-law, William Glen Rae, at San Francisco in January 1845 had revealed that the company’s affairs there had been poorly managed, and McLoughlin sent Mactavish to close its
grievances and abuses as all persons now admit,” but asserted that they did not justify the rebels in “taking up arms against their sovereign and the lawfully constituted authorities.” Although largely
… and God will not permit Canada, either at Ottawa or Victoria to carry out an unjust law discriminating against people who have received citizenship in our land.” Odlum also suggested that the Indigenous
Scotia Catholics guaranteed by law, a “gentlemen’s agreement” had been reached between the church and the government regarding education in Halifax, where virtually half the population was Catholic
.
By 1890 Perley and Pattee had a third partner, Pattee’s son-in-law Charles Berkeley Powell. Following the death of William that year, George succeeded to his father’s position in the business. After
several lawyers. Later he tutored a seigneur’s children and managed his business affairs. He left this position to aid his father in a complicated law suit which took six years to resolve. His father
, Thibaudeau*, followed in his father’s footsteps and pursued a career in law. From 1924 he sat on the Supreme Court of Canada, where he was chief justice from 1944 to 1954. The other brother, Charles
112 pounds of gunpowder in the bonfire to celebrate the peace, while drinking healths to his mistresses, and that he and the Sieur Martel, his son-in-law, became drunk while so doing.” It seems, however
too ill to move. He nursed the man back to health from what he later believed to be either typhoid fever or appendicitis. When he returned home, he was determined to study medicine instead of law, his
, restated his predecessor’s warning that mistreatment of the Beothuk would be punished to the fullest extent of the law. And they needed protection: many of the fishermen and furriers of the Newfoundland
specific issues which touched the central Canadian business community. The first of these concerned the establishment of protection for Canadian industry in the aftermath of the repeal of the Corn Laws. Weir
School, Andrew entered his uncle’s law office at age 14, and on Segee’s death in 1863 completed his legal studies under John Campbell Allen
presented to the court by his father, treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada. The true meaning of the occasion was shared only with Eliza: “When I reflect how much of our happiness depends on my success
British immigration, an aristocratic form of government, development of the Eastern Townships, abolition of the seigneurial system, and abrogation of French civil law, which was considered a nuisance