compared Hunter’s fees between 1 July 1802 and 30 June 1805 with his own fees for a three-year period. The results were interesting: Hunter had collected £4,393 whereas Gore only managed £1,870

the new company after only a year, to go almost immediately into the import-export business. On 1 May 1829 he went into partnership with the Davies brothers, George and George Crew, Quebec

her cousin Marie was married to the father of the elder Pontchartrain, minister of Marine. It was perhaps through the latter connection that Jean Raudot became a farmer-general and on 1 May 1640 a

was to represent until 1885. Though not on the Executive Council, he was an influential and important member of the Conservative party. Both his brother and his brother-in-law William J. S

Charbonnel as a candidate for the diocese of Toronto, Walsh was ordained on 1 Nov. 1854. For the next 13 years he laboured diligently at

. “Surely the time has arrived when men and women, who do the same work, under the same exacting circumstances, shall be put on an equality by the school law

. According to the law and the practice of racial chattel slavery, children of enslaved Black women inherited the status of their mother. John, his mother, and his elder brother, Simon, were enslaved by Major

practised law in that city from 1870 to 1873. Whatever the case, in 1874 he was a reporter for the Montreal Bien Public. When it collapsed in 1876, he moved to La Minerve but left two

that the Old Testament views of God were true “but in a few cases were not the whole truth,” and that, in judging and punishing, God “acts in accordance with general laws or through secondary causes

pass the law,” Macdonald responded coyly. In 1883 Youmans visited England and Scotland after the federal WCTU delegated her as their representative to the British Women’s Temperance Association. Seeking

experience that would fundamentally shape his subsequent business career. In 1877 he returned to Nova Scotia, residing in Amherst, where he formed a partnership with his brother-in-law Nelson Admiral

university. As for de Blaquière, he resigned the chancellorship in October 1852 in protest against Francis Hincks’s bill, made law in 1853, that reorganized the University of Toronto along lines

of Saint John, and a nail factory at nearby Coldbrook. Following his father-in-law’s death on 8 July 1869, Domville assumed full ownership of the company. Its several operations subsequently came

to 1871 he studied law at the Université Laval in Quebec City and he would be called to the bar on 12 July 1873. Having acquired this liberal education, De Celles pursued his career as a

commission [see Thomas Allen Stayner*], before becoming deputy provincial secretary for Canada East, an office he retained from 1

£714 11s. 10d., he entered into partnership with James Phyn, brother of his brother-in-law and possibly a cousin, and with John Duncan, to engage in the fur trade and general

, arranging support for his pension claim, when his wife died suddenly in Victoria. Two years later, having returned to Victoria, he served as pallbearer on 14 Nov. 1883 at the funeral of his son-in-law

years, although this instruction was not yet compulsory. (It would become so on 1 Jan. 1910, when the Quebec Medical Act came into force [see Albert

vote consistently with his Canadian colleagues. Instead, he acted and voted according to his conscience and his concerns. In 1815 he came out in favour of applying English private law in the province as

. AO, RG 80-5-0-122, no.15134; RG 80-8-0-1552, no.3145. TRL, Special Coll., Biog. scrapbooks, 1: 383, 386–93 (mfm.). Globe, 26, 29 April 1935. Mail and Empire, 26