without trial, Mondelet returned to his law practice until his partner and brother Dominique was appointed to the Trois-Rivières Court of Queen’s Bench on 1 June 1842. Then Charles practised briefly

, office holder, politician, and businessman; b. 1 Jan. 1842 in Toronto Township, Upper Canada, son of William Gibson and Mary Sinclair; m. first 26 Oct. 1869 Emily Annie Birrell (d

Shepody region (N.B.) in preparation for an attack on Fort Cumberland. Opposition to the provincial government was marked in Cumberland County, but like his father-in-law Baker was undoubtedly loyal during

Picoté* de Belestre, and Pierre-Amable De Bonne and his brother-in-law, Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain

his brother-in-law Thomas Coffin* went into partnership with Thomas

WILSON, lawyer and politician; b. 30 Nov. 1872 in Madoc, Ont., son of Thomas Cross, a merchant, and Marie Mouncey; m. 1 Jan. 1900 Annie Louisa Lynde in Edmonton, and

-law. It was likely in Quebec that he apprenticed as a silversmith, perhaps with Joseph Schindler* or Jean-Nicolas Amiot (who were witnesses

until 1758. In the summer of that year he returned to Acadia, joining Manach, the family of François Arsenault (his future father-in-law), and other Acadian friends at Baie des Ouines (Bay du Vin, N.B

command of his brother-in-law, Charles-Michel d’Irumberry* de Salaberry. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel in the Chambly

government of Quebec.” Like his predecessor, Intendant François Bigot* had confidence in Henry Hiché, since on 1 Sept. 1748, shortly

league worked actively for women’s suffrage and waged a campaign to expose the “inefficiency” of some of the provincial laws affecting women and children. It also published a monthly magazine, the

mood of the province was now more liberal, and began to smooth Kavanagh’s way. He informed the Colonial Office that no law expressly forbad Roman Catholics from holding legislative office and that he

metallurgist. After his call to the bar in 1884 he joined the law practice there of his brother Thomas Alexander Keefer and Edward Robert Cameron, who soon left. The brothers combined their legal work with an

which Dugald Mactavish had resigned. A change in the laws of the provisional government in 1846 required that justices of the peace or judges be elected, and on 7 June 1847 Lane was one of three

enforcement of the law (passed in 1908) requiring “bosses” to provide seats for “girls and women employed in stores.” Around 1915, on the initiative of Marie-Louise Brodeur

Collège de L’Assomption from 1859 to 1866. He began articling in law, but then decided to enrol in the École d’Agriculture de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière on the advice of notary Louis

Cherrier*, he attended the meeting in May at Saint-Laurent, on Montreal Island, and the one in August at Saint-Constant, near La Prairie. He was imprisoned for high treason on 1 December

marriage, still forbidden by English law, was generally accepted in Canada even though its legal status was not fully secure until 1882. Punshon’s

, including his brother Louis and his brother-in-law Louis-Joseph Riopel, to form the Bay of Chaleurs Railway Company. The following year a provincial law was passed authorizing the construction of a railway

. Educated at the East Branch River Philip public school and Amherst Academy, John James Stewart served the latter as headmaster from 1870 before moving to Halifax to study law in the office of Howard Maclean