Bowmanville, Upper Canada, second son of William Wade, a bank clerk, and Harriet Coate; m. 1 Sept. 1886, in Toronto, Edith Mabel Read (d. 1932), daughter of David Breakenridge
Fisher came to the province of Quebec with the British forces sent out during the American revolution. He had been appointed a hospital mate for the military hospital at Quebec on 1 Feb. 1776 and on
promised him nor had the men received their wages. A letter which he wrote in 1614 strongly suggests that his dispute with the company had gone to law (Middleton MSS, Mi X 1/28); however his land must have
firm. After it went bankrupt, he and Robert Reid, a brother-in-law and former partner, decided to emigrate to Upper Canada in search of a new life.
In
never shared the religious tenets of the group. In 1792 he was listed as an ensign in the Ontario County militia. His father-in-law, Abraham Dayton, was interested in obtaining the grant of a township in
specialist in canon law, Archambeault played a very active role in the first plenary council of Canadian prelates, held at Quebec from 19 Sept. to 1 Nov. 1909. Appointed secretary of the
another with his brother-in-law, bookseller and publisher Hew Ramsay. The firm Armour and Ramsay acquired Robert Armour’s interest in the Montreal Gazette in May 1836, publishing it until 1
, on 1 April 1687, Jeanne Janier. Every year he sailed between Canada and La Rochelle, which was in control of trade with New France at that time. From there sailed the king’s ship and those of the
Cawdell had the “Usual Classical Education” before beginning, “in compliance with my Father’s Wishes, tho’ repugnant to my own,” the study of law. A self-declared romantic and more interested in “Rank
Allain*, deported as “Frenchmen Enemies to the King who . . . live in open defiance of all law & carry on a contraband trade with the Americans to the great detriment of his
marriage of Dr Jacques Dorion and Catherine-Louise Lovell; d. 1
.
Having renounced the priesthood, Macdonald was faced with financial difficulties, since he no longer received assistance from Plessis. In the early 1820s the former seminarist took up the study of law, did
a career in law, and in 1882 he was called to the province’s bar. During the 1880s he practised in the city with his brother Lewis Griffith and various other partners (including Edmund Marter
London wholesale houses. In 1858 he was joined by his son-in-law, William John Macdonald. They profited greatly by the rapid growth of trade resulting from the Fraser River gold rush of that year. Their
family took in boarders, and Soupiran in 1737 claimed payment from his former mother-in-law for six years’ bed and board.
Official recognition of
to article in the law office of John Farquhar Bain and Sedley Blanchard shortly after arriving in Winnipeg. While a student, he was a member of the Prairie City Baseball Club in 1877–78; he served
Drummond*, and received his call to the bar on 6 Oct. 1849. He was destined to have a brilliant career in the law: numerous clients, important cases, positions of trust within the profession
. 1 Feb. 1882 at Montreal.
After classical studies at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal from 1831 to 1840, Maurice Laframboise articled in law and
decided to use his analytical skills in the study of law. Called to the bar on 26 Nov. 1872, he would practise in Toronto for 57 years
Canada posed special problems at times in the application of the law. Until 1825 the judiciary considered them to have – by virtue of their treaty rights and unceded lands – a legal immunity from