father in 1879 he remained as a day-pupil. An average student, he attained excellent marks in English, but his behaviour in class and his perseverance left something to be desired. He enrolled in the law

vessel near Grand Pré. In 1744 Bourg was again accused of negligence in carrying out his duties and was even accused of having collaborated, along with his son-in-law Joseph Leblanc, dit Le

titles in the region led to a law being passed in 1819 “to secure the inhabitants of the Inferior District of Gaspé in the possession and enjoyment of their lands,” and claims commissioners were appointed

“Prévôté des Maréchaux.” The marshalcy had been established in Canada by royal edict of 9 May 1677. It was a body of law enforcement officers, called “archers,” headed by a provost. The office of

at the Toronto Normal School. He taught school in Thornhill, Bloomfield, and Belleville before beginning the study of law in the office of Caleb P. Simpson in 1858. He was admitted to the bar in

returning to Halifax in 1823 to study law with Richard John Uniacke*, the old attorney general. While still a student in Uniacke’s

superintendent of pilots, had to enforce the regulations concerning pilotage on the St Lawrence and the laws regarding quarantine of ships calling at Quebec. In addition he was required to make and sign a

in 1817. He then studied law in the office of Jonas Jones* of Brockville, was admitted an attorney in 1820, and was called to the Upper Canada

law clerk. Sometime before he emigrated to Prince Edward Island in May 1835, he married Catherine Lennon of Tullycorbett. Upon arrival on the Island, Kelly settled at Fort Augustus in Lot 36

apprenticeship in the fall of 1819, and sailed for Quebec in the spring of 1820. An item in the Quebec Gazette of 1 Aug. 1820 announcing the opening of a sail loft on 12 June 1820 by

adopted by his uncle, the notary Pierre Lanctôt, who had him educated at the college of Montreal. He was admitted to the bar in 1847 and first practised at Montreal, where he specialized in criminal law

LeVesconte was placed in charge of the business at Arichat. Because of his business acumen and his knowledge of the Bible and the law, LeVesconte was often

. She came to Acadia in 1636 with her two sisters and her brother-in-law, Nicolas Le Creux Du

) harbour. The English seized a fair number of French fishermen, among them Marc La Londe, the son-in-law of Claude Petitpas. The latter placed his own schooner at the disposal of the English so that

parish. After his marriage his father-in-law had given him a house. Subsequently Philippon bought 120 arpents of land. While teaching he had been at the same time engaging in trade and serving in

serjeant at law (process-server) with jurisdiction for the whole of New France. Pottier, who had a fairly large family on his hands, was perhaps little better off; in any case, on 1 May 1711

October, 14 more of his prizes had been lawfully condemned by the Court of Vice-Admiralty, and the shareholders of the Liverpool Packet had amassed considerable capital. Seely then handed over the

1816 he went to Scotland to complete his secondary studies. He returned to Canada in 1823 and settled in Montreal, where he studied law under Benjamin Beaubien and the future judge Samuel

, Claude-Sébastien de Villieu, asserted that the domains claimed by Tibaudeau and Blanchard formed part of the fief belonging to his father-in-law

. 25 Dec. 1798 at Saint John, New Brunswick. Elias Hardy, the son of a nonconformist minister, read law and in 1770 was admitted as a solicitor