department of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. Ritchie was one of eight suffragists who met with the house’s law amendments committee to present the case for enfranchisement. She also sent direct

, app.EEE, sect.ii, no.1. Canada, Indian treaties and surrenders . . . [1680–1906] (3v., Ottawa, 1891–1912; repr. Toronto, 1971), 1: 15–17, 42–43, 203–5. Muskoka and Haliburton, 1615

stationed there. The following year he served as intermediary in the abortive attempt made by his brother-in-law, John Bradstreet*, to purchase Sir

inoculation with smallpox extensively, one of his few failures being with his first-born son in 1787. Although his father-in-law humorously referred to him as the “System-Monger,” he respected his expertise

studies at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (La Pocatière), where he was enrolled from 1852 to 1862, Guillaume Amyot chose a career in law. Like many of his colleagues, he dabbled in

Leménager (the husband of his sister-in-law Élizabeth Bourgeois), Gabriel Herbert, Alexis-Théodore de La Burgue, Jacques Grenet, and Henri Renouard, Frenchmen who in the first half of the 19th century taught

Freiman*, established a department store in Ottawa and would serve as president of the Zionist Organization of Canada. Another son-in-law, Allan

probably the factor that induced him to decline nomination in the election of that year. In his last years he appeared publicly only as law clerk of the assembly for the sessions of 1844 and 1845, and as a

to have introduced to Yarmouth in 1799. Bond was in addition an important creditor, holding various mortgages, bonds, and promissory notes. His largest debtor was his son-in-law George Bingay, a

laws. He was accused of having bribed people either not to vote or to vote for him, as well as of having opened and maintained inns and taverns, serving voters at his own expense during the polling. The

Bright’s disease, his children and – by Ontario law – his widow, Annabella, contested his will, which left most of his estate to his second wife, in a messy case that would not be settled until

Patterson’s first council. In the same year he became attorney general and surrogate general and judge of probate. He had a law practice as well, and Patterson, writing after the death of Chief

other jps could also sit as judges of a county court with jurisdiction in civil and criminal cases. The law which they were to interpret was basically French with some

, consecrated him bishop of the titular see of Arindela. Because of a technical flaw in the ceremony – Faraud was assisted by only two priests rather than the two bishops called for by canon law – Clut

career. It is quite probable that his brothers-in-law, James and Edmond Quin, both of whom were priests active in charitable work among the immigrants, also encouraged him to go there. Distressed by “the

Angélique Jarret de Verchères, Madeleine*’s sister. On 1 July 1715 he was promoted lieutenant on the active list

the American privateer raid of 1 July 1782 on Lunenburg. Some 90 men from several vessels landed near the town, took the small garrison of regulars prisoner, and then began to pillage. As a

have loyalist sympathies, enjoyed less than cordial relations with his daughter-in-law’s family, but at the time of his death he did leave his grandson some property. As the Connecticut Disbrows were

one of the leading figures in the village. On 13 Feb. 1809 he married Victoire Félix, who was the sister of Maurice-Joseph Félix, parish priest of Saint-Benoît, and later the sister-in-law of

colleague Francis Badgley*, launched a protest movement which two years later resulted in valuable amendments to the existing medical law