arrested. Ferguson now again assumed sole control of the Spectator. A committed Gourlayite, he continued unabashed in his support of the imprisoned Scot. On 1 July 1819 the paper carried

assemblyman David McGregor Rogers* from his post as registrar of deeds for Northumberland County. When the law officers in London upheld

Canada, only surviving son of John A. Macdonald* and Isabella Clark; m. first 1 June 1876 Mary Jean King, née Murray (d

denied by the English law officers. Finally, in 1791 remedial legislation was passed by parliament. The act 31 Geo.III, c.29, created “a court of civil jurisdiction” to determine “all pleas of debt

objects. He also constructed a lock, probably to carry timber rafts past the dam. The resulting community, composed of his workmen and those of his son-in-law Benjamin Van Norman, who set up an axe

his stance he had to be satisfied with the chairmanship of the House of Commons committee on expiring laws. On 1 Dec. 1899 Laurier appointed him postmaster in Montreal, a position he held for the

7 Jan. 1848 and practised first in partnership with Charles Gates Holt, and later with Edward H. Pemberton. Eventually he became a specialist in commercial law and taught it at Morrin

. On 7 May 1676, on Frontenac’s orders, he set off to cruise along the Acadian coasts to spy on the enemy. While thus occupied, with his brother-in-law Sieur Richard

the exclusion of Wilmot from the assembly on the grounds that, as a lay preacher, he was disqualified under the law prohibiting the election of religious teachers and ministers. He also voted against a

. McCarthy was a tailor who about 1821 was employed by R. Law and Company of London. Subsequently, he joined another establishment (reputedly tailors to George IV) as foreman. He then opened his own

Belleville for several years; by 1857 they were established in Yorkville near Toronto. Here Ross practised law in partnership with Abram William

his civilian life to the senior customs position in Newfoundland; he knew even less about law, but became chief justice of the island. Routh

marriage the couple each contributed 10,000 livres to their joint estate. The following year Simon bought a house on Rue Saint-Louis in Montreal from his father-in-law for 22,000 livres; he

following year he reached his political zenith when he tabled a motion in the commons for a law to prohibit Chinese immigration. It was made necessary, he claimed, by their unfair economic competition and

, among other things, a reorganization of the administration of justice, the introduction of a school system, a land registry office, and a bankruptcy law, as well as the building of a new prison in

*. Made a clerk on 1 June 1847 with a salary of £100 per annum, Christie was sent in 1848 to take charge of Fort Churchill (near Churchill, Man.), which he found “an out of the way corner

Montreal fur-trader and possibly his father-in-law. Perhaps to aid his army victualling Jordan entered the grain trade and in 1767 formed a partnership

campaign. In the same year Little arranged for his brother-in-law, George Calvin Wardrope, to win a fixed tender for a timber licence; Wardrope promptly flipped it to a bona fide operator at a higher price

MAROIS, ARTHUR, bricklayer and trade union leader; b. 1 Nov. 1872 at Quebec, son of Ferdinand Marois, a mason, and Marie

Plessis*, Viau soon emerged as the epitome of the curé always anxious to delve into the imperatives of Catholic doctrine, especially in regard to ethics and canon law. His approach was rather casuistic