army on 1 March 1782. Promoted lieutenant in 1785, he resigned in September 1791, probably because of developments in the French revolution, and returned to Poland. There he commanded a battalion of
also suffered the loss of five more beloved relatives. Before her death Émilie’s mother had entrusted the girl to the care of her sister-in-law Marie-Anne Tavernier, the wife of Joseph Perrault, who was
, Windsor. After classical studies there Cochran went into law, and in 1810 a report that he and Charles Rufus Fairbanks
[Edward* Augustus], Lord Camden (lord lieutenant of Ireland in 1798), and Charles O’Hara (an Irish member of parliament), Colclough was appointed chief justice of Prince Edward Island on 1 Jan
Marguerite, the daughter of merchant René-Alexandre Lemoine, dit Despins. His marriage, which made him brother-in-law to Jacques-Joseph
the intervals between parliamentary sessions. He also solicited the advice of fellow mutualists, among whom he recruited the colleagues who helped him to draft a constitution and by-laws and to set up
. Ontario elections, 1883; pamphlet no.1: legislative and territorial rights ([Toronto, 1883?]). Paul Romney, “From the rule of law to responsible government: Ontario political
BOYLE, DAVID, blacksmith, teacher, author, bookseller, archaeologist, and museum curator; b. 1 May 1842 in
the city and gave work to a number of carvers. Côté’s marriage in 1856 opened doors for him. His father-in-law, Jacques Auger, was a ship’s carpenter and a foreman at Rosa’s yard, and Auger’s brother
distinguished himself at the siege of Nijmegen, and he led his regiment throughout the reconquest of Egypt in 1801. On 1 Jan. 1798 he was promoted colonel in the army
.
On 1 April 1886 Sir John A. Macdonald selected Herchmer to succeed Acheson Gosford Irvine as commissioner of the North-West Mounted Police. The change was greeted with general approval
John’s, fourth of the six children of Edward Morris and Catherine Fitzgerald; m. 19 Jan. 1901 Isabel Langrishe LeGallais (d. 1 July 1934), widow of politician James Patrick Fox, and
close friend and brother-in-law John McDonald of Garth. Thompson accepted in January 1817 a position as astronomer and surveyor for the boundary commission created under the 6th and 7th articles
,” authorized this leasing in the king’s name. The agreement, signed on 20 Sept. 1762, provided for renewal of the lease for a 14-year period from 1 Oct. 1763 at an annual rent of £400, a relatively
Quebec Act, judicial reform, and the institution of English commercial law. Seen by Carleton, now Lord Dorchester, as a “decent sensible man” with “no hostile intentions to administration,” and
and the Montreal Emigrant Society, the measures proved wholly inadequate. Moreover, by insisting that only the law officers of the crown should prosecute he hindered the work of the boards, and by
– Policy – & Law.” By mid May he had still not made a decision, after which date nothing further is known of the incident.
Forsyth next
Ritchie*, a member of the provincial assembly. Ritchie assumed the role of James’ guardian, placed him in his law office as a clerk, and enrolled him under his command in the local militia during the
Fisher was educated at the Fredericton Collegiate School and at King’s College (University of New Brunswick), where he received a ba in 1830. He turned to the study of law
New York. After graduating from King’s College (Columbia University) in 1772, he entered John Jay’s law office as a student and was called to the bar in 1775. His legal career was soon interrupted by