the late judge Edward Jarvis Hodgson. Stewart served as president of the Charlottetown Board of Trade in 1914; a member of St John’s Lodge No.1 since 1892, he was grand master of the Island’s

); m. Mary ———, and they had several sons and daughters; d. 1 May 1935 near Nordegg, Alta. Peter Wesley was born during the

colony, on 1 April 1735. Used to administering public funds, the agent had the idea of speculating on his own account by entering into partnership on 16 Oct. 1736 with François-Étienne

about 1813, Thresher is said to have taught art in Philadelphia before moving to Montreal with members of the Brooks family when Honoria Brooks, his sister-in-law, married a John Dillon of Montreal. In

 1808 until 2 Oct. 1809. In the course of the only session, held in the spring of 1809, he took an interest in the laws regulating commerce, particularly trade with the United States, at a time

, and they had four daughters and three sons; d. there 1 April 1912. In 1840 Jacob V. Troop took his family to Saint John, where he

1860), (re-organized under act, 1863): the act of incorporation (23rd Vic., cap. 13), and the by-laws adopted 11th January 1864 (Montreal, 1864); Report

clergy. Having completed his classical studies, in 1878 Jacques began to study law at the Université Laval in Quebec City. After obtaining his bachelor’s degree, he was called to the Quebec bar in January

his nephew’s education. After attending the local school, the Collège de Lévis (1861–64), and the Séminaire de Québec (1864–69), young Lemieux studied law at the Université Laval in Quebec City (1869–72

MOLSON, THOMAS, brewer, distiller, miller, and merchant; b. 1 Sept. 1791 at Montreal, second son of John

. Ignace Juchereau Duchesnay, Peuvret’s brother-in-law, dragged Barbel before the courts, but the affair petered out in the registry of the Conseil Souverain. According to Ruette d’Auteuil, the

son and three daughters; d. 1 March 1918 in Calgary. Harlan Carey Brewster learned the “sailor’s craft” in his father’s shipyard. He was

were still an ordinary bourgeois family of limited means living in Tournai (Belgium). Through their interest in the law and the church, they began to rise in society. The titles of squire and knight

seven years. (Auclair’s apprenticeship papers were transferred to Nathan Starns, his brother-in-law and guardian, on 16 Oct. 1807

. Fraser often worked with reformers on matters of local interest. In 1848 he and Sandfield Macdonald each put up a £500 surety to enable Fraser’s brother-in-law Donald Aeneas

HOWARD, HENRY, doctor; b. 1 Dec. 1815 at Nenagh (Republic of Ireland); d. 12 Oct. 1887 in

the government issued a proclamation ending martial law. Jobin came out of hiding that day and was arrested on 3 May. Although charged with seditious practices, he was never tried, being released

. Educated first in the town where he was born, he commenced the study of law but entered the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Paris on 12 June 1724. There he “gave proof of as much talent as piety [and

Canada in 1657 and settled in Montreal, where he formed a business partnership with his brother-in-law, Charles Le Moyne, the following year. Thanks to the fur trade, their enterprise quickly prospered. Le

be shown in order to impart to young people the rules and exceptions of French grammar, arithmetic, and geography.” While still engaged in teaching, Leblanc began studying law at McGill College in 1875