finance it. His brother-in-law, Lussigny, an officer in Buade* de Frontenac’s guards, perhaps introduced him to the

. Hearn’s popularity in the Irish community had earned him election in 1856 as city councillor for the Irish-dominated Champlain ward, where he himself lived and had his business; his father-in-law had held

on her, hints of exile, an annual pension from a law firm, a ban on photographs, a confusion of names on the couple’s marriage certificate, and a granddaughter’s note pencilled on the back of John’s

entrance examinations in 1897, he enrolled at the Sorbonne, where he obtained an llb on 8 Jan. 1901, an lll in maritime law on 31

. Although Jack had envisaged the inclusion of navigation, law, medicine, engineering, and agriculture, nearly five years elapsed after his retirement in 1885 before any new chairs were established. But

1 July 1843. During the next four years, Kane served on various peace-time postings off the west coast of Africa, in the Mediterranean, and along the eastern coast of the United States

. A catalogue of the graduates in the faculties of art, divinity and law, of the University of Edinburgh, since its foundation (Edinburgh, 1858). Gordon Harland, “John

he was ordained a priest in Sainte-Rose on 1 June 1856, before he had reached the required canonical age. Having served three and a half years as curate at Sault-au-Recollet (Montréal-Nord) and at

maintained, would serve as an example to others and prove to potential immigrants that law and order would be enforced in the west. He drastically overestimated the participation of the Indians, whom he

parish priests, and electoral contests that eventually were incorporated into the political folklore of Quebec. On 1 Feb. 1851 Letellier beat Chapais by 59 votes. According to his opponent, the

; b. 15 March 1800 at Amsterdam (Netherlands), son of Solomon Koopman, a jeweller, and Judith Diutz; d. 1 July 1881 in Montreal, Que

Grampian Mountains, assisted by Sir William Murray, Anthony’s brother-in-law. Through the sponsorship of Sir George Murray and Logan, Alex was appointed to the Geological Survey of Great Britain as

required towns of more than 15,000 people to establish their own constabularies. In rural areas law enforcement was the responsibility of local justices of the peace and county constables, who were

, but also maintained that the proposed establishment of a new diocese in Montreal was contrary to canon law. The mood of independence prevailing at the time in the Petit Séminaire de Montréal certainly

university. Hence, in addition to faculties of arts and theology, Victoria established faculties of medicine [see John Rolph*] and law in 1854

, Philippe de Rigaud* de Vaudreuil, in Quebec. Later, on 1 Sept. 1731, he appeared before the intendant

called to the bar of the province of Quebec in 1877 and then to the bar of New Brunswick in 1887. For at least a few years he practised law in his native province

Black and white attendees. None could refute the clarity of his argument, grounded as it was in the Christian doctrine that slavery was against the laws of God. It was through these meetings, and his able

-trade merchant Gabriel Cotté* and a sister-in-law of former fur trader François-Antoine

. James W. Robertson’s father, a farmer, was also a Church of Scotland evangelist and an activist who worked to enforce school-attendance laws and prevent child labour in mills. James thus grew up in