operated a general store in Elora in partnership with his brother-in-law. He also served as a member of the school-board and was village auditor. Connon

he signed an agreement with his brother-in-law, Jean Guion Durouvray, to exploit the seigneury for five years: Guion was to live in Newfoundland, establish a post, and fish and trade in the area

Manitoba under his father-in-law, Edward Armstrong. He held the position until July 1880 when he became the province’s chief of police. Later he also served as an inspector of licences and as chairman

would later describe as “chafing” the wood, to his wife’s brother-in-law Charles Hamilton in 1838 or 1839, when he was 17 or 18. His discovery would thus predate that of German weaver Friedrich Gottlob

carried out their commission on his own. Having returned to Quebec in 1818, Fletcher resumed the practice of law, and on 1 May 1823 he was

the Lakes.” Overton Smith Gildersleeve was educated in Kingston. He took up the study of law in 1843, was called to the bar in 1849, and began practising in Kingston in 1850. Henry Gildersleeve died 1

Lawrence*]. He married Modeste Landry in Boston on 8 January; the couple had to have a civil marriage, because a local law prohibited Roman Catholic priests from living there. The ceremony was

, modelled after English public schools. He requested a brother-in-law who was the vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, a cousin who was a master at Eton College, and the former headmaster of Elizabeth

. After a ten-year partnership with his brother-in-law George Abraham Buffett in a retail outlet, in 1895 Harris established Samuel Harris Limited, a general merchandise and fish-exporting business. He

Catherine Le Comte Dupré, her mother-in-law. In 1811 Catherine lent the young couple £700 to purchase some land at Petite-Rivière-Saint-Charles, where they settled

brother-in-law, Edward Ellis, be allowed to administer the position for him. The death of his wife and of Ellis shortly thereafter left Kilby with two children of his own, his brother-in-law’s family

represented the riding of Saint-Maurice until 1816. He was present in the house only irregularly and infrequently. A moderate, he wanted to retain the French laws that were in force and took a stand against the

,” Acadiensis (Fredericton), 1 (1972), no.2: 29–42. W. S. Gordon, “Gabriel Ludlow and his descendants,” New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (New York), 50 (1919): 34–55. Laws of

Létourneau began to take on civic responsibilities. On 8 May he became a commissioner for repairing the schoolhouse in Saint-Thomas, a duty shared with his brother-in-law Ignace-Gaspard Boisseau, among

(Douglas; Fisher), homemaker and midwife; b. c. 1855 on southern Vancouver Island; about 1870 she entered into a common-law relationship with Abel Douglas (Douglass) (d. 25

delegation left Dalhousie, N.B., in November 1841 and had an interview with Stanley at the Colonial Office in January. Malie was the spokesman. He informed Stanley that new laws were needed to protect the

passage of a law that would ban the sale of alcohol to Indians. He also requested that “a number of the most active Indian Boys” be taught to read and write. The result of this initiative was a law that

influential committee on laws for the protection of women and children, Miss Perrin initiated investigations into the conditions of working women and children and the prevalence of the sweating system in

title of “first assistant” to the superior, resigned the office of bursar on 1 June 1770 to become head of the Grand Séminaire until 1772. While he held these different offices and even

[Jury*], and she fought for a minimum-wage law for women. Like such progressive Winnipeggers as Armstrong, Frederick John