law at Montreal under Irish lawyer Lewis Thomas Drummond*. He was called to the bar of Lower Canada on 27 Oct. 1847. In the same
particularly concerned with land granting problems, the provisional agreement with Lower Canada on tariffs, and the administration of the courts and law. In land and tariff matters he was greatly influenced by
legal career. In February 1868 he was appointed law clerk to the Legislative Council, a post which he would hold until 1878. He first practised alone, and then with another lawyer, before becoming
time in 1834 Willson had been a purser on a steamer on Lake Ontario. In 1836 he began to study law and was admitted to the bar in 1841, but before practising he travelled to the West Indies for his
Berthelot Dartigny received a commission as notary on 28 Jan. 1773, and from then on he practised law as both a lawyer and a notary. On 20 July of that year he married Marie-Angélique Bazin, the 22
]. In 1766 the younger Lees went to England to complain about the laws governing the administration of justice [see Maurice
Reuben, Elijah, and Ira and two sons-in-law into Upper Canada. Reuben and Elijah brought their families; the others planned to return for theirs upon obtaining land. Elijah farmed briefly on a rented lot
Philosophy program, his sixth year (Rhetoric) was the last one he spent at the school. He then appeared before a board of examiners to obtain the diploma that would admit him to the study of law
first of three cheese factories in partnership with his brother-in-law W. G. Parish. In the 1870s and 1880s he travelled a great deal, with frequent trips to the United States, but it was northern
classical program, without Latin except for those who would need it; it included jurisprudence and the study of the country’s laws, as well as all branches of philosophy and science, their enumeration
GUYON, LOUISE (Thibault; Damours de Freneuse), baptized 1 May 1668 on Île
the northern United States to find employment. Canada did not have explicit Jim Crow laws enforcing segregation, but it did have customs that prevented social equality, such as those that denied Blacks
Strachan, his brother-in-law and legal counsel to the Canada Company. A violent campaign followed and Strachan was elected with a plurality of ten votes. Dunlop’s supporters petitioned for an
Sainte-Vierge. Despite his musical bent, Labelle chose a career in law. After articling in the office of Sir George-Étienne Cartier
(Jeffers; Lovering), social activist; b. c. 1863 or 1 Nov
farm and moved to Baddeck to take over the store established by his son-in-law Angus Tupper, who had died. After finishing public school, Arthur attended the collegiate institute in Whitby, Ont. He was
(d. 1 Feb. 1934), and they had two daughters; d. 25 March 1915 in Montreal.
Probably the eldest in a family of at least six
of Ireland), son of John Keeffe (O’Keefe) and Mary Russell; m. 23 Jan. 1862 Helen Charlotte Bailey (d. 1899) in Toronto, and they had a son and two daughters; d. there 1 Oct
to national and international prominence. McGill’s leadership was particularly evident in medicine, law, the sciences, engineering, architecture, and general education. Through its normal school, its
, governor of Trois-Rivières; b. 1638 in Paris, son of Charles Provost and Jeanne Du Gousset; d. 1 June 1702 at Quebec.
The first mention