. 1749 at Quebec Madeleine-Thérèse, daughter of Louis-Thomas Chabert* de Joncaire; d. 1 July 1779 in the parish

. Ross Cuthbert received his secondary education at the English Catholic college in Douai (dept of Nord), France. He was called to the bar of Lower Canada in 1803 and apparently practised law at Quebec

for most Acadians in Massachusetts was difficult, to say the least. Deprived of priests in that Puritan colony, separated from immediate family members and prevented by law from searching for them, many

Rémy Guillouet d’Orvilliers (d. 1713) arrived in Canada in 1682 as captain of the guards of his father-in-law, Governor General Le

, where a brother-in-law practised medicine. After a few years he returned to Upper Canada and kept general stores at Mud Creek, Beaver Dams, the Deep Cut, and Thorold. In 1826 he was commissioned to

business, did brilliantly in his studies at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1806 to 1814. He then went into law under the guidance of Joseph-Rémi

establishment. Two years later, on 1 March 1702, the Sieur de Sourdeval was appointed “commandant for the king on the Îles Saint-Pierre,” with the

; he spent the next few years on the family farm while teaching locally. In 1865 he was admitted to the study of law; after articling, he obtained his bcl from McGill College in May 1868, along with

militia on 1 May 1871. When Military District No.10 was formed on 16 Oct. 1871 he was appointed supply officer and promoted major, at the rate of $4.90 a day. He was made a lieutenant

Augustin Rivard-Laglanderie and Marguerite Rivard-Dufresne; m. 1 Aug. 1863 Delphine Choquette in Montreal, Canada East; d. there 4 Feb. 1888

accused of being too severe in his judgements and of adhering too rigidly to the law. The celebrated case in 1838 of Dr Edward Kielley*, a

SHORT, HARRY BERNARD, businessman and politician; b. 1 Sept. 1864 in Bear River, N.S., son of William H. Short and his

educated at home by such tutors as Abbé Édouard Quertier*. He early developed his passion for the law, described as “the only love in his life

studied law and was admitted to the Nova Scotia bar on 25 July 1810. Hoping to improve his prospects, in 1813 he went to Cape Breton. That colony’s administrator, Major-General Hugh

1 Dec. 1884 he was placed on the permanent list. At the outbreak of the North-West rebellion, Wood went west as a lieutenant in the 90th (Winnipeg) Battalion of Rifles and participated in

the carpet in his parlour was “much wore.” His library of some 50 volumes included works of history, law, religion, and poetry, as well as books on business

, business, and law, and had married well. Baby’s grandfather François* had taken part in the sieges of Quebec in 1760 and 1775, been a

Department, where for two years he superintended the New Caledonia and Cariboo districts. On 1 June 1870, with his brother-in-law Roderick

Chartier de Lotbinière]. As attorney general, Lanoullier had to follow the orders of his superior, the intendant. Furthermore, Lanoullier’s former father-in-law, Pierre André de Leigne, was one of

he was admitted to the Court of Common Pleas as a lawyer. He became at that time one of the six lawyers given entry to the Common Pleas, the only court in which Canadians could then practise law. On 14