, Larcher was one of four acting councillors appointed to the Conseil Supérieur in September 1754, probably by Prevost. The appointment, made permanent on 1 June 1755, may have been partly an
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Like most Canadian gentlemen in the 1780s, Le Comte Dupré was opposed to an elective legislature and the extension of English law, but like many others, when the change came, he secured election to
association with his brother-in-law, John Aird, which traded in property, liquor, dry goods, and groceries. Macnider also established a partnership with James Scott; they did a large mercantile trade on
immigration policy. In addition, the legislative committee campaigned for factory and sanitary legislation and for changes in mechanics’ lien laws.
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of law suits resulted. These developed into a constitutional test case over whether a province or the federal government had the right to escheat estates under sections 102 and 109 of the British North
very busy, and he was also quite active in the assembly. On one occasion in 1800 he informed his father-in-law that he had been “so distracted with Business that half my time I know hardly which way to
to 1868 he was head of the united public and grammar schools in Oshawa. Active in the provincial teachers’ association, he served as its president. While teaching he found time to study law with Adam
family which would distinguish itself in the law and the Royal Navy, David Owen chose a career in the church. After attending the free grammar school in Warrington (Cheshire), England, where his uncle
exempt from a law which concerned the use of forges, claiming that it would injure them in several respects [see Michel Forton*]. Picard
appointment, 12 May 1848, as 1st lieutenant under Captain Thomas Edward Laws Moore in hms Plover. The Plover was to sail for the Bering Strait as a base
hydrographer; baptized 27 Feb. 1819 in Antony, Cornwall, England, son of George Spencer Richards, rn, and Emma Jane —; m. first 1 March 1847 Mary Young (d
, and he was also deeply involved in developing the profession in French-speaking circles in the province. His brother-in-law and colleague Emmanuel-Persillier Benoît used to say that Rottot was “the
on real estate. Acting in partnership with his brother-in-law, Foster Hutchinson Jr, he acquired 8,000 acres, including Joseph Scott*’s estate
families in New Rochelle as they did elsewhere; while Schurman’s two brothers-in-law adhered to the patriot cause, his own brother was imprisoned for two years after signing a protest against sending local
daughters and daughter-in-law, setting up trusts “for their separate use free from the control of their husbands.”
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Ursulines lost a great benefactor who, in their view, had truly put their temporal affairs in order. Subsequently his son-in-law, judge Olivier
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J. S. Lutz
BCARS, GR 443, box 23, file 1; box 59, file 6; GR 1415, file 1910/1614. City of Vancouver Arch., Add
. Museum (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.), B.1, 1827–32 (mfm. at AO). PAC, RG 5, A1: 56425–27, 65996, 65998, 70569–70, 88245–47, 88253–55, 92151–52, 113393–95; B9, 62: 260, 262, 506; C1, 21, file 210; 56, file
taking place Tonge endeavoured to enforce the navigation laws rigidly, and to increase his income he again began to collect fees. Reaction was swift. The attorney general, Sampson Salter
meticulously rolled each one of them. He suggested that there be a law like the one in Ontario to limit the number of apprentices according to the number of cigar makers employed in a factory