. Throughout his life White kept in constant touch with his family and friends in Massachusetts, which he visited in 1787 and 1791. As his brother-in-law’s executor, White spent nearly a year in England

dissolved in 1854. On 1 July 1855 Whittemore formed E. F. Whittemore and Company in partnership with two young but enterprising employees, Elswood Chaffey and Edmund Morris. The firm, which

WILLIAMS, RICHARD, Wesleyan Methodist minister; b. c. 1790 in England; d. 1 Aug. 1856 in

. He worked under his father-in-law on the rebuilding of Quebec’s ramparts. In 1755 Governor Vaudreuil

on 1 Sept. 1859. He was supposed to spend only a few months at the mother house in Vourles, France, but after the chapter was over, he was asked to remain as novice master, and he spent nearly

. first 6 Feb. 1850 Adeline Augusta Whittemore in Toronto; m. secondly 1 Aug. 1861 in Sherbrooke, Lower Canada, Susan Celina Smith, daughter of Hollis

offered another post, but soon after his dismissal he left the Island to enrol in the law school attached to McGill College. He had never fully abandoned his studies, and indeed during his first year as

greatest part of America from other sources.” They proposed that their case be submitted to the law officers of the crown. The Colonial Office countered by suggesting that the Indians relinquish their claim

, where he swiftly completed classical studies with honours. Campbell began to study law at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, in 1876. Until that time he may have

. Ewart: a great Canadian,” Manitoba Law School Journal (Winnipeg), 1 (1962–65): 3–22. F. H. Underhill, “The political ideas of John S. Ewart,” CHA, Report of the

(Lincoln). Dublin Gazette, 1–4 Aug. 1752. Gentleman’s Magazine, 1744, 424; 1747, 307; 1752, 285. Johnson papers (Sullivan et al.). The Law papers

Cambridge was not content to act simply as Clark’s agent. In 1785, with the backing of merchants in London, including his brother-in-law William Winchester, he began commercial activities of his own. He

studied law with Alexander McDougall, and he was admitted to the bar as attorney in 1840 and barrister in 1841. Henry was active in politics and in the 1840 election successfully opposed McDougall to gain

church. Edward received a ba in 1809 from King’s College in Windsor, N.S., was admitted to the New Brunswick bar as an attorney at law on 12 Oct. 1811, became a

(Rhetoric). He left the seminary in July 1857 because of frail health. After a year’s rest, he began the study of law and he became an articled clerk in June 1858. Within a month he abandoned law

governor, lieutenant governor, or chief justice, and five members of the council, served both districts. These ordinances became law in early 1777, and although they were to be in effect for a two-year

certified that Mercier had completed the subjects required to study law and declared his conduct to be irreproachable. The elder Honoré Mercier died of diabetes on 30 Oct. 1894

sisters. In 1834 he enrolled as a law student and entered the office of Simon Ebenezer Washburn*. One of his younger brothers, Angus, was

steamboat to carry passengers between Montreal and Quebec. The most surprising technical aspect of this undertaking was the construction of the engine at George Platt’s foundry in Montreal. On 1 Nov

his burial in the hospital chapel two days later were Andrew Stuart and Papineau with his brother-in-law Jean