in England.
William Roubel was the son of P. Roubel of London. Educated at Westminster School, he was “regularly bred” to the law, and admitted
, François, Étienne, and Joseph, along with their brother-in-law François Romagnac, probably arrived in the colony in 1752, and there they formed a partnership. In 1755 Joseph Rouffio withdrew from the
noble family of Rouer de Villeray. Rouër did his classical studies at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal and in 1838 decided on a career in law. He began his training with the solicitor general of Lower
for the speaker of the Legislative Council. After two months, despairing of any cooperation between the two houses, Smith prorogued the assembly on 1 April 1818
Can., Parl., Sessional papers, report of the Royal North-West Mounted Police, 1916. R. G. Moyles, British law and Arctic men: the celebrated 1917 murder
work; in 1667 Vachon owned 7 head of cattle and 20 acres under cultivation; in 1681 he still had a domestic, Pierre, 61 years old, and owned 2 muskets, 1 pistol, 13 head of
Howard*]. A new provincial law passed by the government of John Jones Ross established a medical board whose
daughters, and his son and daughter-in-law were all in Canada.
By the turn of the century Willcocks was established in York as a shopkeeper, magistrate, and
and in Roxbury (Boston) in 1771, Chipman began to study law under the tutelage of Sewell and in the office of Daniel Leonard. In many law offices a clerk received little guidance or training, but
Township where a church had been built in 1791. His salary was £100 New York currency annually.
On 1 Nov. 1794 after the successful completion
developed an interest in Acadian genealogy and history through listening to his grandfather. In January 1862 his mother moved to her father-in-law’s farm in Dorchester. When the College of St Joseph
salary of $1,500.
The Protestant Episcopal Divinity School opened on 1 Oct. 1877 with ten students, plus two others in “partial attendance
John Guy, governor of the English plantation, had issued a series of laws in 1611. Whitbourne amassed evidence from 170 masters of English fishing vessels but, judging from later controversies
brother, John Austin Worrell, into law. Instead he became a teacher, first as mathematics master at Bishop’s College School in Lennoxville (Sherbrooke), Que., and then at Hellmuth College in London, Ont
he was sheriff. But the city of Quebec needed an administrator to ensure law and order. Even before the publication of the 1838 ordinance to establish an effective policing system in Montreal and
also failed. He then began studying law with lawyer Edward Barnard, and was called to the bar on 17 March 1840
.” By 1833 Collins was in a benevolent mood towards his former tory antagonists, declaring in the Freeman: “It is very well known that ‘the highest law officers of the crown’ prosecuted the
Chaussegros* de Léry, the bride’s brother-in-law, Louis-Philippe Mariauchau* d’Esgly, her uncle, as well as her cousins Eustache
Benjamin directed the business, as Benjamin and Alexander Hart and Company.
On 1 April 1806, in New York, Hart made an advantageous marriage with
, and Church of England clergyman; b. 1 Jan. 1753 in London; d. 6 Nov. 1824 in Sandwich (Windsor), Upper