. Linking the Waters bill with the temperance movement, he argued that most people supported female suffrage only because they thought that women would vote for prohibitionary laws. In spite of his own

brother Michel and entrusted his business affairs to him during his frequent trips to France. Both were shrewd businessmen who knew how to manipulate credit and use the law to protect their investments

, the two operations provided underground access through one pit (160´ deep) and two main shafts (one reaching 310´). The purchase gave the firm a further “4 ½ miles of railway; 1 locomotive

. At 17 he was admitted to the Middle Temple as a special pleader; he gave up this practice when he was called to the bar in 1832. He then carried on a private law practice in London and compiled

Mure* and others. Clark’s personal account-books for the period 1 January to 30 June 1810 record the firm’s profit from flour sales at Montreal and Quebec as £11,461 15s. 6

Preston also changed his personal life. Trutch met Preston’s sister-in-law, Julia Hyde of New York, and in 1855 the two were married. The couple settled in Illinois, where Trutch again worked for Preston

helpful in their hours of need. James, after graduating from King’s College, Windsor, in 1818, articled in his father’s law office and was admitted attorney and barrister on 5 April 1823. Later that

charge of conspiracy as a result of George Brown’s invoking of an archaic English law against combinations of workmen, then still applicable in Canada

, Pierre Garnot, he went to Montreal in 1844 to study law, and entered the office of lawyers Pierre Moreau and Charles-André

faculties.” The book included object-lessons previously published in the magazine L’Enseignenrent primaire, to which he added elements from other writers such as his future son-in-law Charles-Joseph

left by Quesnel on his death in 1866. From 1828 to 1834 he was educated at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal and later studied law with Côme-Séraphin

health began to fail, several years before her death in 1840, his sister-in-law, Julia Maria Lambert, came to manage his household; her letters tell us a great deal about Toronto society. Crookshank’s son

DAWSON, SAMUEL EDWARD, businessman, publisher, author, and civil servant; b. 1 June 1833 in Halifax, second son of Benjamin

. In many respects Deane was a typical officer. He came from a respectable but not wealthy family, had a military background, was Anglican, knew about military and criminal law, and held the values of

Fabre* and J.-A. Gravel. Eager for knowledge, he utilized the leisure left him in his work to satisfy his passion for reading. Soon he began to study law under the direction of Côme-Séraphin

. During Foster’s term as president, the MTLC’s main demand of the provincial government related to instituting a law on workplace accidents, based on a government-administered fund, that would compensate

in 1784 and brought them to the island, where they soon multiplied. In 1810, when they were in danger of extermination, the provincial legislature passed a law for their protection, one of the earliest

valued at £1,650 to Lake Nipigon; Grant himself wintered at Michilimackinac. Prior to 1777 he was also in business with John Grant, Dobie’s son-in-law; the arrangements governing the partnership, which was

many English, admirers of the [French] National Assembly, who are already talking of establishing the rights of man as principles in the laws.” In March 1791, as superior of the seminary, proprietor

of George Hanna and Jane Murdock; m. first 1 Jan. 1891 Jean Gibson Neil (d. 1895) in Point Edward, Ont., and they had at least one son; m. secondly 30 June 1896 Maud MacAdams