Aug. 1910; Add. mss 54 (J. S. Matthews coll.), .03489; By-laws, vol.1, no.94: 561–68 (mfm.); City Council, minute-books, vol.3, 3 Feb., 17, 24 March 1890

 Jan. 1895 in Montreal. Joseph Tassé completed his classical studies at the Collège Bourget in Rigaud in 1865. He articled in the law office of

entered Mount Allison’s college branch, where he received his ba in 1863, one of its first two graduates. He began a career in law, but gave it up because of the serious

the age of 14 he went to Quebec; there he learned the trade of saddler from Louis Girard and entered into partnership with the saddler Louis Tanguay, his future father-in-law. In 1874 he joined his

of John Caven and Mary Milroy; m. July 1856 Margaret Goldie, daughter of botanist John Goldie, and they had three sons and three daughters; d. 1 Dec. 1904 in Toronto

assistant clerk to the Court of Queen’s Bench, registrar of the Circuit Court for the District of Gaspé, and secretary-treasurer of the municipality of Percé. He studied law at the Université Laval in Quebec

conflict with the governors of the time. In 1778 he opposed the governor over certain details of the militia law in particular; he wanted a clearer definition and distribution of the obligations of militia

, and bishop; b. 4 Dec. 1830 in Saint-Pal-de-Mons, dept of Haute-Loire, France, second son of Blaise Durieux and Mariette Bayle; d. 1 June 1899 in New Westminster, B.C

, judge, lieutenant governor of the province of Quebec, and titular lieutenant governor of Detroit; b. 1 Oct. 1720 in Dublin (Republic of Ireland), son of Hector-François Chateigner de Cramahé et

trade. Around the same time he set up one or several stores. In 1775–76 he was running his father-in-law’s store on Rue Saint-Paul, and he owned another on Rue Notre-Dame. Ten years later he was selling

, was educated at Central Academy in Charlottetown and at St Dunstan’s College. He completed his law apprenticeship under Joseph Hensley

to Montreal in June 1780, several months after his father’s death. The next year he moved into a house on Rue Saint-Jacques bought from his father-in-law Louis

career in earnest. Articles in the paper from 1 to 4 July 1857 took issue with the thesis of Abbé Jean-Joseph Gaume, who had unleashed a widespread controversy in France over the use of pagan

launch of the battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916. He noted in his diary that Lord Lansdowne, his father-in-law and a former governor general, spoke on 21 June of “a good many attractions but at

Wells was land agent. In March 1774 Gale was appointed clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Cumberland County (Windham County, Vt), on which his father-in-law sat as a judge

Council of Montreal (CTLC). It was in 1885 that an act to protect the life and health of persons employed in factories was signed into law under the

Toronto law offices of William McDougall to discuss issues of the day. From these meetings emerged the Clear

Hume’s brother-in-law, a number of evangelical Anglican clergymen, Hume’s widowed mother and two single sisters, and other relatives by marriage. The group was dominated by the clergymen who, with

. Little is known about Gustave Blanche’s childhood and youth. From 1858 to 1866 he attended the Collège Saint-Sauveur in Redon, run by the Eudists; from 1868 to 1870 he studied law and worked as a notary’s

. D. M. Johnston, “The quest of the Six Nations Confederacy for self-determination,” Univ. of Toronto, Faculty of law, Rev., 44 (1986): 1–32. Nellie Ketchukian, “Chief