Thomas. In July 1856, as an initial step, he subscribed $1,000,000 of stock and deposited the 10 per cent required by law in his own bank. For negotiations with the railway company he enlisted the aid

time to read. Once authorized to practise law in 1810, he carried on his profession intermittently, and continued to make his dissatisfaction heard. In 1816 he wrote to his brother: “In truth, I am very

Marie-Joseph-Eléazar), ship’s captain, shipbuilder, harbour master, businessman, prison warden, and explorer; b. 1 Jan. 1852 in L’Islet, Lower Canada, son of Thomas Bernier and Henriette-Célina

, a front man, 13 French businessmen formed a company of purveyors general to the ministry of Marine and Colonies for six years beginning on 1 Jan. 1757. Among them were figures such as Pierre

programme of voluntary purchases of estates. Consequently, he had little use for the Tenant League movement; their “open defiance of the law” was “the disgrace of the Colony.” He was proud that the leading

meridians; the history of surveying and mapping in Canada (3v., Ottawa, 1966–69), have tended to accept Chipman’s word as law, even his speculations regarding Holland’s second marriage and ancestry

, he rose through the ranks to become a major general on 1 Jan. 1812. In May 1791 he was a lieutenant and serving in Gibraltar as adjutant of the 7th Foot, under the command of Prince

practise law, but John was not inclined to book learning; he later admitted that he had read only a single book in its entirety. Carling would be regarded

was to enact laws only with the consent of a council and a house of assembly, but the Board of Trade recognized that under the existing circumstances the calling of an assembly was impossible. For

COSTIGAN, JOHN, politician; b. 1 Feb. 1835 in Saint-Nicolas, Lower Canada, son of John Costigan and Bridget

was married to James Finlay; and Richard. Dobie made a substantial gift to his son-in-law soon after his marriage to enable him to buy a house and establish a trust fund to protect his family from need

FRASER, JOHN JAMES, lawyer, politician, judge, and office holder; b. 1

school there and that fall he enrolled in law courses at the Université Laval. According to Abbé Isidore Desnoyers, “This year of set-backs and ordeals strengthened the young student in his original

Tucker*, who while acting as administrator some months earlier, had given the post to Carson’s son-in-law, Joseph Shea. But Cochrane was determined to give Kielley an even greater boon. On 31

La Rocque*, who was to precede him in the episcopal see of Saint-Hyacinthe, was also noticed. On 1 March 1821, at the initiative

LANDRY, Sir PIERRE-AMAND, lawyer, politician, and judge; b. 1 May

party,” when he received from DesBarres a licence to practise law in the Supreme Court but was prevented from pleading by Attorney General Peter

Newcastle, Peter Mitchell entered the law office of George Kerr where he worked for four years. He was admitted as an attorney on 14 Oct. 1847 and called to the bar on 7 Oct. 1849. In the

in opera. During the 1912–13 season he obtained the position of rehearsal pianist at the Montreal Opera Company, founded and directed by Albert Clerk-Jeannotte, his future brother-in-law

an avid sportsman and developed his intense lifelong interest in natural history. Perley studied law and was called to the bar in 1830. As a young