. Many of his judgements have been summarized and published in the Territories Law Reports (Toronto), 1 (1885–93)–4 (1898–1901). ANQ

ship in 1739. He had received this punishment for having broken the law of the salt tax. The gabelle, a term which originally referred to any sort of tax, was soon reserved for the tax on salt

to his “Yankee principles.” In 1803 young Forbes went to London to study law, and he was called to the bar of Lincoln’s Inn in April 1812. In March

conservative and Protestant schooling at King’s College, Windsor, N.S., and at the early age of 14 began his apprenticeship in the law in Lower Canada. After four years with John Reid, clerk of the Court of

Upper Canada College in Toronto, Bristol attended the University of Toronto to prepare for a career in law. As an undergraduate, he was elected president of University College’s Literary and Scientific

Compton, young William Bullock Ives attended the Compton Academy for four years, and then he continued his education on his own before undertaking the study of law at Sherbrooke. He was called to the bar on

Inheriting a lucrative law practice, Thomas Ritchie (1777–1852) went on to a successful career as a member of Nova Scotia’s House

Derome*. Soulard went to Quebec in 1837 and studied law successively under Joseph-Noël Bossé and George Okill Stuart

offices were ones of trust, the holders representing the interests of both king and public in seeing that laws were obeyed and justice rendered impartially. The king’s attorney was responsible for

actions were not unlike measures against Catholics enacted elsewhere under the British penal laws. Yet other than religious motives were involved: many Irish served in the French military forces, and, with

a photographic studio “from the carpet to the most delicate photographic instruments.” After his death the business was continued as Duffin and Company by his son-in-law, Newman Fletcher Calder, until

an articled clerk with Badgley and Abbott, one of the most prestigious law firms in the city [see Sir John Joseph Caldwell

, prosperous enough to allow him to hire for a year Jean-Baptiste Dumontet, dit Lagrandeur, and his wife “to serve him in all lawful and honest matters which will be ordered them.” In the 1750s Durocher

was secretary of the agricultural society in his county, and was concerned about the stagnation in the farming sector and about emigration to the United States. Taking advantage of a law passed during

Thomas Gill, a farmer, and Catherine Bazin, and greatgrandson of Samuel Gill who as a child was kidnapped by the Abenakis of Saint-François at Salisbury (Mass.) in 1697; d. 1 Sept. 1865 at

child was buried on 8 October of the same year, Payne’s sister-in-law represented the family. The absence of any later record of Payne’s immediate family and the disorder in which he left his affairs

did the classical program at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière from 1845 to 1856, and then studied law for three years at the Université Laval in Quebec City. He was called to the bar of Lower

” Poulin de Courval had “a little more experience in legal affairs.” On 1 April 1740 the king consequently made the appointment, which Poulin held until his death on 19 Feb. 1743

[Rigaud*] sent Péan to command at Fort Frontenac (Kingston, Ont.), where he served until 1725. Two years later he was named commandant of Fort Chambly (south of Montreal) where his father-in-law

Simpson’s in-laws while on furlough in 1838, he was captivated by “the amiable & accomplished Miss Simpson,” and the couple were married in November. However, Isobel’s health was considered too