in law, and Pierre Brassard, the parish priest’s brother, became the legal heir. Faithful to the deceased priest’s intentions, he gave the house and land to Pierre

(1933), Newfoundland Law Reports (St John’s), 13: 105–9. National encyclopedia of Canadian biography, ed. J. E. Middleton and W. S. Downs (2v., Toronto, 1935–37), 1: 118

the years 1635–40, Agnes (Mackworth) Watts, widow of Richard Watts and daughter-in-law of John Watts, an alderman and lord mayor of London, 1606. Mrs. Crowne was the sister of Humphrey Mackworth of

-Élise Chouquet; m. 8 Feb. 1897 Eda Gravel in the parish of Notre-Dame, Montreal, and they had one daughter; d. 1 April 1939 in Quebec City and was buried there four days later in Saint

–1 7 November a detachment of the Royal Montreal Cavalry under Charles Oakes Ermatinger Jr burst into the homes of Démaray and Davignon and took them prisoner. Learning that they were being taken to

returning from a trip to England. John Charlton Fisher was a brilliant student and obtained a doctorate in law. He subsequently left his native England to

 April 1733, he was appointed to the Conseil Supérieur. While conceding that Foucault possessed no legal training, Hocquart assured the minister that he would study law under the attorney general

George Fowlie and Jane McKnight; m. 1 July 1858 Mary Ann McLeod (d. 1890) of Truro, N.S., and they had two daughters; d. 11 Jan. 1923 in Kingston, Ont

great buildings churches music [h]alls theaters circuses and law coarts,” and “got acquainted with the italians greeks and turks which I thought was quite a treat they told me of things I had never heard

provinces and superintendent general of Indian affairs. He was moved to the Department of Inland Revenue on 1 July 1873 but the Pacific Scandal and the defeat of Macdonald’s government on 6 Nov

,” Journal of Civil Law Studies (Baton Rouge, La), 12 (2019), no.1: 33–52.

little English, appeared at St Mary’s School on 1 September. Appointed superior of the Sacred Heart Convent as well as principal of the school, Greene qualified for a first-class certificate

HARTSHORNE, LAWRENCE, businessman, office holder, jp, and politician; b. 1

. The Holl administration lasted but four months. A large Liberal majority in the appointed Legislative Council fought the Conservatives’ major legislation – the Maine liquor law prohibiting sale of

. For the next six years he studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec. After being articled to Joseph-Noël Bossé, he was called to the bar of Lower Canada in March 1850, and he practised law at Quebec

, Napoléon Legendre began his classical studies in 1856 at the Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal. Called to the bar on 5 Jan. 1865, he practised law for some time in Lévis. “But,” writes Camille

the Tories won. The new government, however, rewarded him with a position as controller of customs and navigation laws, and collector of customs for the port of Charlottetown. In 1873 he became

not been subject to military law at the time, but Luard wrote to the newspapers about the incident and later tried, by every means in his power, to prevent Scott’s promotion to command the battalion

. 11 April 1930 in Alexandria, Ont. A native of Glengarry County in eastern Upper Canada, John Alexander Macdonell’s father practised law in

California. The war exacted a heavy toll on her, with the death overseas of her only son, Patrick Douglas Maclure, in 1917 and a son-in-law on Armistice Day. Following World War I she arranged through a