his classical education at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1830 until 1839, when he began to study law in the office of James George Baird. In 1841 he published at Quebec a handbook, Notions

until 1787, when he was appointed to a tutorship at Yale. In 1790 he unexpectedly resigned from this position to study law under judge Theodore Sedgwick of Stockbridge, Mass. Sedgwick, a prominent member

llb from Dalhousie law school in 1887 and was called to the bar of Nova Scotia that December. He would be made a kc in 1904

. Angers studied at the Séminaire de Nicolet from 1849 to 1856 and was later an unregistered student in law at the Université Laval. He evidently obtained his legal training from his father. On being called

examiners for the district of Quebec, he was authorized on 1 July to practise physic and surgery in the province. A year later he married the daughter of the wealthy seigneur of Beauport, Antoine

seigneur of Montarville. As he was an only son, it is not surprising that he was sent to do classical studies, which he began in 1846 at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe. In 1857–58 he studied law at the

. Georges-Barthélemi Faribault probably spent some years at John Fraser’s school at Quebec, and then received a secondary education interrupted from time to time. He trained in law in the office of Jean

Fabre*. That year he left Montreal for Rome, where he took courses at the Apollinaris College (1894–95) and at the Roman College (1895–97), from which he received a doctorate in canon law

century, Peter Stevens Hamilton received his education in Wolfville, at Horton Academy and Acadia College. Forced to withdraw from Acadia because of ill health and lack of money, he studied law with

, that all denominations, including Roman Catholics, had a claim on the reserves. Willson had reservations about Perry’s attempt to reform the jury laws but sympathized with its main thrust. “I

brother. He died in Aurora on 31 July 1866 at the home of his son-in-law, William Hartman, brother of Clear Grit politician Joseph Hartman

), he had ready access to the city’s social élite. After three years of private-school education, further training at the Petit Séminaire de Québec, and a year in a law firm, he accepted a post as

together for him by friends. He needed more and in 1875 he migrated to Toronto with his family to develop his law practice. His drinking would break out from time to time. The only person who could do

against those with accounts outstanding to the treasury, Binney and his brother-in-law John Newton were their first major targets. In fairness to Binney, it should be emphasized that his case was not a

untrustworthy. In 1841 Bird acted as guide for a group of settlers being taken from Red River to the Columbia River by his brother-in-law James

, son of Antoine-Nicolas Braun and Marguerite-Victoire Simonet; d. 1 Feb. 1885 at Saultau-Récollet (Montréal-Nord), Que. After completing

in 1840. On the outbreak of the Crimean War in 1854 he volunteered for the commissariat, and on 1 Feb. 1856 became assistant commissary-general. Awarded the Crimean Medal with three clasps

grants. On 8 April 1791 he donated to the fabrique of Pointe-du-Lac the church, the presbytery, and a property measuring 60 arpents. A prominent figure in his community, on 1

that Coughlan be “silenc’d or remov’d” as a “very unfitt Person for a Justice of the Peace as well as a Missionary, being Ignorant of the Laws of his Country & a Person of no Education”; they also

charge tolls. The Cobourg Harbour Company was incorporated in March 1829 but Covert, though one of the first stockholders, was not a director. His son-in-law James Gray