STRACHAN, JAMES McGILL, soldier, lawyer, politician, and businessman; b. 1 July 1808 at Cornwall, Upper Canada, son of John

authority, and of a third work in 1827. His increasingly successful practice of the law was matched by a profitable advance into established society. These interests converged in 1823–24 when Willis was

, son of Louis-Philippe Sirois, a notary, and Atala Blais; m. there 1 June 1910 Blanche Lavery and they had one daughter and two sons; d. there 17 Jan. 1941 and was buried on 21

school taxes were based, violated his right to denominational schools as guaranteed in the Manitoba Act, section 22, subsection 1. This law required him to pay for both public and private schools

, which his father in-law Alexander Fraser had transferred to Walter Davidson in 1791, and which Davidson was managing in trust for his son. In any event, the total value of his estate in 1807 was £960 3

law, had brought a suit for brutality against the two soldiers responsible for his arrest. Murray himself was probably angered most by Brooke’s friendship with Allsopp, the governor’s obstreperous

regain employment after the strike, he worked on relief on roadworks. He left Cumberland late in 1915 and signed on as a pony driver in No.1 East Mine of the Crow’s Nest Pass Coal Company at Coal Creek

Toronto to become editor of Hugh Scobie*’s British Colonist. He returned in 1853 when, on 1 November, he and his brother-in-law Brown

). Law Soc. of Nfld. (St John’s), Barristers’ roll. MHA, George Lilly name file; William Lilly name file. PANL, GN 2/1/A, 20–22, 34, 39; GN 2/2, January–April 1835: 273; July–December 1838: 179–236

activist and first came to prominence in labour’s campaign for the repeal of the “violence, threats and molestation” provisions in an 1872 amendment to the criminal law. The campaign was reinforced when five

Rocke Robertson and Effie Eberts; m. in 1868 in Chatham his cousin Margaret Bruce Eberts, and they had seven sons; d. 1 Dec. 1881 in Victoria, B.C

1858 at a salary of £175 per year, part of which was paid by a bequest from his mother-in-law’s estate. To lighten his burden, Ross’s congregation in West River was halved in 1848, and he dissolved his

Winnipeg as commissioner of crown lands. William, who attended public and high school in Simcoe, studied law at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall. Called to the Ontario bar in 1880, he first

landholders and very prominent in the Guelph area. Marion could not have been much older than the minimum age of 16 when he began to study law in

 1843. In 1844 young Irving entered the Toronto law office of Joseph Clarke Gamble as a student and five years later he was called to the bar. He

children, Wallace was raised there. After attending Woodstock College, he was articled as a law clerk and studied at Osgoode Hall in Toronto, where he won prizes. Following his call to the bar in Hilary term

Howland of Lambton Mills (Etobicoke). He next opened his own grain business and general store in Milton. He soon returned to Brampton, however, and with his future father-in-law John Elliott

. Exempted from military service by lot, he served as principal clerk for a notary in Héréville (Arronville) until he was 24. After his marriage he lived and worked on his father-in-law’s farm in

for him, however, and he remained an acting lieutenant for less than a year. In 1900 he enrolled in the faculty of law at McGill University and he completed his bcl with

acroteria (some of which contained chimneys). The square was a brave attempt to combine law and order, religion, and urban amenity in the commercial heart of the town