that same year, had been a ship’s captain there since 1774. William served as clerk to Samuel’s father-in-law, John Askin

at Port-Toulouse (St Peters, N.S.). In 1739 he returned to Louisbourg to succeed his brother-in-law, Robert Tarride* Duhaget, as

commission as advocate at law in Lower Canada and opened a lucrative law practice in Montreal devoted largely to land transactions. A charter member and sometime president of the St Andrew’s Society of

received his early education and acquired an interest in law at Quebec, probably under the tutelage of his godfather Isaac Ogden. Young Gray benefited

. Adolphus Mordecai Hart took up the study of law and spent part of his time as a law clerk in the office of the attorney general of Lower Canada, Charles Richard

THOMSON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, railway promoter, author, and politician; b. November 1816 in Wigtownshire, Scotland; d. 1

was shattered between the ankle and the knee. Walker was one of the original members of The Brothers In Law, a social organization for Montreal lawyers. He was also an ensign in the 6th Battalion of

relationship with two families of the landed gentry, the Hewetts and the Osbornes, which had been linked in marriage in the Elizabethan period through Sir William Hewett and his son-in-law Sir Edward

Johnson*’s King’s Royal Regiment of New York until 1781; he was then commissioned a lieutenant in the 2nd battalion. On 1 March 1781 he was on a list of loyalists quartered at St Johns (Saint

meeting. The new law was to remain in force until 1 May 1836. The first elections took place in 1833, and Caron became one of the representatives for the Palais district. Elzéar

his brother-in-law William Dow as district surgeon for Conception Bay and jail surgeon. His wife’s brother-in-law John Munn* was the town’s

supervised by his father-in-law, Dr John Boyd Sr. At that time concern was being expressed throughout the province over the care of sick and disabled seamen. When many sick immigrants arrived in 1818

 April 1785 approved an ordinance which forbad the simultaneous practice of the professions of notary and lawyer. Deschenaux therefore gave up law to devote himself solely to being a notary in the

(Berthierville), Lower Canada. Barthélemy Faribault belonged to a family trained in the law: his father and three of his brothers were notaries. Seeking to

wheelbarrow. Business prospered so much that one year later, on 1 Aug. 1883, he signed a partnership agreement with Samuel Martin Toy, his brother-in-law and a bookkeeper, to form Grand and Toy, with a store at

, and he became a justice of the peace for Charlottetown in 1795. The following year he assisted his future father-in-law, Colonel Joseph

honorary member of the Executive Council on 6 Jan. 1812, and then a regular member on 18 Jan. 1817. Meanwhile, on 1 April 1813 the Quebec Gazette announced that he had

Township in Lower Canada, following the path of his father-in-law, who had settled there with his family when the Eastern Townships were opened to the loyalists

Taschereau; m. first 1 Sept. 1840 in Kamouraska, Lower Canada, Louise-Adèle Dionne, daughter of Amable Dionne*, and they had

studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1841 to 1850 and on 1 Aug. 1850 began a five-year apprenticeship in chemistry and pharmacy to his brother-in-law, pharmacist Pierre-O. Giroux. In 1855