law in the land of the Copper Inuit, 1914–1930,” Ottawa Law Rev., 21 (1989): 1—64.

, 79: 21. Law Soc. of Upper Canada Arch. (Toronto), 1-1 (Convocation, minutes), 18: 205–6; Ontario bar biog. research project database. Gazette (Montreal

(unpaid and unofficial) in Newfoundland. Hutchings’s retirement to Dartmouth in 1782 was occasioned by the death of his father-in-law two years earlier

Conyngham) is the earliest known to have been issued in Quebec. He had apparently obtained permission to practise law before this date, however, since the Quebec Gazette announced on 28 Feb

School and under private tutors before entering the office of Bytown lawyer Augustus Keefer, whose training provided the foundations for Strong’s distinguished legal career. The Canadian Law Times

Arch. of Manitoba Legal Hist. (Winnipeg), A21 (Percy Hagel, “Gold dust to ashes”); A309-1-A (materials regarding disbarment of R. L. Ashbaugh); A408 (letter from G. H. Kenny to Law Soc. of

law cases which he began in 1735. Lawyers and justices in Nova Scotia at this time, however, were generally untrained in law. Conflicts soon arose in

and Cordelia Wigley; m. in 1853 Mary E. A. Poyntz, and they had several children; d. 1 Feb. 1890 at Halifax, N. S

Kingston, Upper Canada, and in Quebec before beginning the study of law in the Quebec office of his uncle, James Stuart*, attorney general of Lower

.), 256: 219–23; 257: 200–1; 515: 108; 673: 230; 678: 158–59; 1219: 336–38. PANS, RG 1, 410: 1 (mfm.). Wis., State Hist. Soc., Grignon, Lawe, and Porlier papers; John Lawe papers, box 1; M. L

his education at Halifax Grammar School, Robert Motton studied law with Peter Lynch and was called to the Nova Scotia bar as an attorney in 1853 and as a barrister the following year. While an

Toronto, Canada West. George Skeffington Connor entered Trinity College, Dublin, at age 14 and received a law degree in 1830. He and his wife

Maggie Flood on 1 Jan. 1879 in Saint John. Certainly his wife was named Margaret, and they had two children while still in the province

McLeod. Taking advantage of changes to legislation which allowed time spent at approved law schools to count as part of the articling period, he attended Dalhousie law school in Halifax from 1885 to 1887

Colborne had the law of habeas corpus suspended by an ordinance of the Special Council. This law, adopted in England in 1679, had been introduced in the Province of Quebec in 1784. Judges

. AO, RG 18-40; RG 22-305, no.37748. Law Soc. of Upper Canada Arch. (Toronto), 1-1 (Convocation, minutes), 16: 56–58; 1-5 (Convocation, rolls), barrister’s roll, Easter term, 1880; common roll, Easter

the Collège de L’Assomption from 1842 to 1853, Louis-Amable Jetté attended the law school at the Collège Sainte-Marie, which was under the direction of François-Maximilien

Ezekiel Hart* and Frances Lazarus; m. 1 Nov. 1849 his cousin Phoebe David, daughter of Samuel David and Sarah Hart, and they are thought to

storekeeper at Louisbourg in 1724, and in 1735 he received, at the same time as his brother-in-law Guillaume Delort, letters confirming his appointment as a councillor of the Conseil Supérieur of Île Royale

1709. He did his classical studies at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1826 to 1835 and in 1836 he became an articled clerk in the law office of Hector-Simon