. The youth learned his trade with sailors from Carleton, among them his future brother-in-law, Captain Sébastien-Étienne Landry. At 18 he was skipper of the Marie-Joseph, a 40-ton schooner

to the more than 70,000 settlers the continuance of law and order. One of Pickmore’s personal worries was the governor’s residence in Fort Townshend, intended for summer use only; he found snow had

.” Finally, on 1 June 1703, he became king’s lieutenant at Quebec, in consideration “of the favourable testimony that you [Callière] have given of the good conduct of . . . M. de

in a state of flux, and Price insisted that the doctor was merely an assistant to nature in matters of health. “It is not the doctor who ‘cures,’” he stated, “but it is the laws of Nature that only can

well as his brother-in-law. William Pryor and Sons pioneered in trade with Brazil and at its mid-Victorian height “carried on the largest mercantile business in Halifax.” In 1862 its Lower Water Street

in 1706, at the time of his first wife’s death, reveals the largest collection of books known to belong to any one individual at the beginning of the 18th century; it comprised 35 works: 7 law books

to law and trained with notary Jean-Marie Mondelet*. On 11 April 1799 he received his commission as a notary public. He went into

to the Upper Canada assessment act, the Grand Trunk Railway charter, and the usury laws; and he opposed Francis Hincks*’ tariff and efforts

RINE, DAVID ISAAC KIRWIN (Kirwan), Methodist minister and temperance lecturer; b. in 1835 in Pennsylvania; d. 1 July

, opened on 1 Jan. 1840 and enlarged in 1843, became a leading centre of Congregationalism from which other sister churches in the city and province developed, given impetus by Roaf’s vigorous

heritage buildings,” T. D. Atkinson, coordinator. H. R. Banks, “The Barrington Robertsons,” N.S. Hist. Rev., 3 (1983), no.1: 94–111; “Cape Sable Island

. Victoria Daily Tines, 1901–6; 19 March 1906; 27 March 1929. British Columbia Protestant Orphans’ Home, Constitution and by-laws; incorporated under the Benevolent Societies Act

son-in-law in Ottawa. Mrs Robinson died that year, followed by her husband in 1896. As well as their daughter in Ottawa, the Robinsons were survived by two other daughters and a son

Rollo went into partnership with another cabinet-maker, George Gray, who may have been his brother-in-law. The new firm, with Rollo as the senior partner, made a bold start, advertising that it could make

City. Dunbar Ross immigrated to Canada while still a youth. He was called to the bar of Lower Canada on 2 Feb. 1834 and practised law in

residence in what was then called “the village of Chicoutimi,” and lived there from 1850 to 1858. As the first law courts were not built until 1862, the hearings of the court were held first in

; they were to be a devoted couple for the rest of their lives. In 1791 Peter Russell was appointed receiver general of Upper Canada, and on 1

. In 1732 Bleury exploited the timber in the seigneuries of Chambly and Longueuil. He also ventured into intercolonial trade when the same year he joined his father-in-law, Jean Guichard, in building a

Canadian party, to join the Legislative Council, on which his brother-in-law, Louis-René Chaussegros de Léry, already sat. On 1 October of the following year he drew up his will, making his wife heir to

practitioner of temperamental disposition. With the support of his father-in-law, he was appointed in 1850 medical superintendent of the new Provincial Lunatic Asylum in Toronto at a salary of £300 per