and his father-in-law, and when Richmond was appointed governor-in-chief of British North America in 1818, his influence was one factor in Maitland’s appointment that year as lieutenant governor of
versifier. He next studied law at the University of Edinburgh; at some stage of his academic career, he also joined the University Officers’ Training Corps. In 1914 he received his
, occasionally bibulous, Baptist. Her stern teetotal Methodism became in her family the law supreme, its emphasis on work, diligence, and self-denial. Make sure, John Wesley had said, not to waste time on “silly
councillors and hastened to support their request for a salary increase. Similarly he recognized the necessity of providing a good legal library for these men who had little knowledge of the law. It was the
situated in Bay d’Espoir, Fortune Bay, and the Burin Peninsula. The lease was referred to the imperial law officers who reported that it was ultra vires. In 1860 Bennett agreed to surrender the
another tribute, in 1936 the Legion awarded her 1 of the 100 medals struck to commemorate the erection of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France. Lillian’s portrait long hung in the
remained its member until 1 July 1867. During this period he supported the “Great Coalition” [see George Brown*] which promoted
had agreed that this type of life should be tried, and the settlers had long called them “sisters.” But Marguerite Bourgeoys and her companions could make only promises valid in civil law, since the
DeLancey*, and studied law with Thomas Chandler Haliburton*; m. secondly 25 Dec. 1831 Jane Ashton in Boston, England, and
Commission of Ontario for more than $1 million. Again in partnership with McVittie, Cochrane speculated in various mineral properties, the most valuable being the so-called Frood Extension, purchased in
1. MTL, Sir Thomas Galt papers; John Harvie papers; Northern Railway of Canada papers; T. A. Reed scrapbooks. PAC, MG 24, E17, 2; RG 30, 121, 167, 197. UTA, A70-0005, Senate
pounds with one finger and used his back to raise a platform holding 15 men off its sawhorse support. On 1 Oct. 1888 he successfully repeated the challenge with a 3,536-pound load at the Collège
entirely to undermining the still considerable opposition to confederation. As a result of his efforts, on 1 July 1867 he was named the province’s lieutenant governor, a post he held until the following
Laval’s law faculty (1899–1903). Admitted to the Quebec bar on 10 July 1903, he decided against a legal career and never practised.
During his
was expanded to include a brother-in-law, Samuel Finley.
Gault’s efforts were being watched by R. G. Dun and Company. In January 1858 he was
remaining minister, to form a government. Thus on 1 Dec. 1874, for the first time in Manitoba, a premier tendered the resignation of his cabinet. The Girard government had been formed to meet the
, was put up for sale or let from 1 May. However, the Hamiltons carried on as George and William Hamilton until the end of 1816, when the company was dissolved following William’s retirement
, including, from 1795, that of the merchant Edward Harrison*. Harrison may have been his father-in-law, since he had been a witness at Jones’s
ma from the Université Laval in Quebec City on 23 June 1880, he travelled that same year to the French Seminary in Rome to further his training. He received a doctorate in canon law from
Sir John A. Macdonald*, and the “reluctant maiden” joined the confederation on 1 July 1873