protest his treatment, Wentworth made his way back to the United States and was soon practising law in Portsmouth. On 7 Jan. l 802 he married Martha Wentworth, granddaughter of the former governor

three-man delegation being sent to England to discuss the proposed Intercolonial Railway without specific approval by the legislature Estranged from his colleagues, he returned to the practice of law

Wright; m. 12 Sept. 1787 Mary Cochran in New York City; d. 1 Aug. 1819 in Halifax, N.S. George Wright was educated at Trinity

: 1–174; 1944–45: 175–266. The founder of our monetary system, John Law, Compagnie des Indes & the early economy of North America: a second bibliography, comp. L. M. Lande

law and medicine. At the meeting it held on 1 Oct. 1861, he delivered a lecture entitled “Essai sur la littérature nationale,” which was published on 12 October in L’Écho du Cabinet

regard nevertheless to the laws of England”; French laws and customs were “allowed and admitted” (providing the cause of action was between Canadians and had arisen before 1 Oct. 1764); exponents of

subsequent whereabouts are sketchy until he advertised his services as a portraitist “from London” in Toronto’s British Colonist on 1 Jan. 1845 and later in other local newspapers, notices that

of public records, improved measures for fire prevention, the founding of a law school and a school of surveying with salaried teachers and free tuition, a sufficient number of notaries to meet the

Denis-Benjamin*. Following his mother’s death in 1801, Côme-Séraphin was brought up by the Viger family. After attending the Petit Séminaire de Montréal from 1806 to 1816, he studied law under Denis

secured by real-estate speculation. Each of his annual reports as inspector of insurance is filled with a multitude of improvements to the body of insurance law which would provide the framework for

Canada, eldest surviving son of William Jarvis* and Hannah Peters*; m. 1 Oct

nominal, he was able to enrol in the University of Toronto in 1859, and he obtained a ba in classics in 1863. For a time in 1862 he had also studied law at Osgoode Hall, but

Gooderham* and Harriet Tovell Herring; m. 14 March 1851 Harriet Dean in Toronto, and they had four sons and eight daughters (all but one daughter survived infancy); d. there 1 May

-D1, ser.1, vol.24 (Ward Chipman (senior and junior) fonds), Lawrence coll., Muster master’s office, Muster roll of the following disbanded officers, discharged and disbanded soldiers and other

-Français, where Girouard found more amenable intellectual surroundings. In 1857 Girouard had entered Edward Carter’s law office and had begun the study of

). Lawyer and Liberal politician After attending the Guelph High School, Hugh followed his father into law and then politics. He studied law at Osgoode

been an efficient and thoughtful magistrate. He prepared A summary of the laws of commerce and navigation, adapted to the present state, government, and trade of the island of Newfoundland

1844 from Yale College; he then studied law in a St Catharines office, at King’s College in Toronto, which granted him a ba ad eundem in 1845, and at Harvard

. Chase-Casgrain studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1867 to 1873 and spent the following year as a medical student at the Université Laval. Having transferred to the faculty of law, he remained

. When he had finished his sixth year (Rhetoric), Chicoyne began studying law on a part-time basis. He was called to the bar in 1868 and moved to Saint-Hyacinthe, but did not find the practice of his