the classical program at the Séminaire de Nicolet, he studied law at the Université Laval for two years and then for one year at McGill College, where he obtained a bcl

erratically preeminent in virtue and otherwise, especially otherwise.” Following his graduation with a ba in 1880, Arthur began to article in the Winnipeg law office

daughters; about 1913 she entered into a common-law relationship with Rocco Perri

maintenance of peace and respect for law and order, was read to the gathering. A few days later, on 9 December, Testard de Montigny had to flee, since a number of Patriotes had decided to arrest him. They

Québec from 1841 to 1850, he attended Quebec High School. He was an articled clerk in the office of notary Louis Panet, and at the age of 24 undertook studies in law at the Université Laval. On 5 Nov

had become brother-in-law to the notary Jacques Barbel*, husband of Marie-Anne Lepicard; she and Marie-Catherine were daughters of the merchant

died in 1854. After a year in the law office of James Scott and Nesbitt Kirchhoffer in Port Hope, he finished his education at the University of Edinburgh and travelled extensively in Europe. Although he

during the 1830s in a successful bid to get the tonnage laws changed so that they reflected the true capacity for carrying profitable cargo. Wood kept

of Fort St Johns (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu). He was taken prisoner on 1 Nov. 1775 and spent 18 months as a captive in New England

, militia officer, and office holder; b. 1 Sept. 1792 in Perth, Scotland, son of John McKay and Christina —; m. 20 June 1813 Ann Crichton, and they had 16 children; d. 9

of this site, Robertson asked the governor to engage Daniel Sutherland*, Robertson’s son-in-law and a merchant at Montreal, to supply

, Vilmos told immigration officials that the young family was going to join his brother-in-law, the owner of a delicatessen, in Montreal. It was in Quebec City that, owing to a clerk’s transcription error

in Rhinebeck, N.Y., son of Zacherius and Catharine Reickert (Reichert, Rikert); m. 31 Oct. 1827 Ann Maria Mittleberger in Montreal, and they had three sons and a daughter; d. 1 Nov

New York in the next year. In the winters he studied law under the attorney general of Massachusetts, Jonathan Sewell (Sewall), but his object was to prepare himself for public life, not for a legal

oratory. In 1853 he was created a qc. After law Gray was most active in the militia. On 25 May 1840 he was

(Conservatives included).” Roma would become the first woman to practise law in Prince Edward Island, and her brother John David McLean

, chamberlain of Kintyre. His father was the Church of Scotland minister at Campbeltown from 1709 to 1765. Peter was apprenticed to an Edinburgh lawyer, served for some years as a law clerk in that city, and

hunting and rambles, or was he studying law with his father, the principal law officer in the seneschal’s and then the provost court of Quebec? The latter hypothesis is almost certainly correct, unless he

with his brother-in-law Louis Perrault*, a printer. The two men did business under the name Librairie Fabre et Perrault until 1835. To improve

ACHESON, ARCHIBALD, 2nd Earl of GOSFORD, colonial administrator; b. 1 Aug. 1776 in