Watson. After obtaining his ma (1893) and llb (1896), Haydon studied at Osgoode Hall law school in Toronto, graduating in

 – a jury – since he was in a country under English criminal law. The two legal points were rejected. He then made a speech, saying that his sole mistake was to have been unsuccessful, but he

, bolted the “Great Ministry” of La Fontaine and Baldwin in 1849 and joined the new movement, he was replaced in the cabinet by Wetenhall. Required by law to seek re-election, Wetenhall faced a by

appointed collector of customs at the port of Fort Erie, and his rigid application of the law aroused a good deal of hostility. In 1840 he also became the lessee of ferry rights at Fort Erie, which he hoped

November 1901, thus going into partnership with his father-in-law. The firm of Gariépy and Lessard prospered until the partners sold out in April 1909

Murray*, who suspected French army officers returning to Canada of being spies in the pay of the French monarchy. His father’s death on 1 Jan. 1766 probably influenced Lavaltrie’s decision

it. When his brother-in-law commented on this dedication to the pet, Meyers informed him, in the German accent he never lost, “We may have to eat him yet.” That is the earliest of the stories

. The young couple lived in Norfolk and London while William studied law. In 1779 he went to Quebec, leaving his wife and three sons at Norwich; the following year Anne joined him in Montreal, where he

were being manipulated by spies. They were led to this conviction by the refusal of Canadians to enrol in the militia under the terms of the new law of 1794 in the fear that they would have to serve far

, unable to do farm work because he had lost a leg in an accident, took up law in 1848. After studying in Sandwich (Windsor) and in Toronto, he was admitted to the bar of Upper Canada in 1854. He also became

a partnership there with his brother-in-law John Hegan. Over the years their firm was involved in groceries, dry goods, and shipping. After the partnership was dissolved in 1846, William, together

the Indian Head municipal council to submit to electors a by-law to raise $6,000 for the building of two farmer-owned grain elevators, one in Sintaluta and the other in Indian Head. Ratified by the

absent herself from his service, the public is hereby cautioned from employing or harbouring her without the owner’s leave. Whoever does so after this notice, may expect to be treated as the Law directs

citizens and two of his brothers-in-law. As a result he was considered to be an enemy, was ordered to put up a guarantee, and then was imprisoned. Being daring and resourceful, he succeeded in escaping after

African War, but both requests were turned down. Stewart was promoted corporal on 1 June 1900 and re-engaged for three years on 3 June 1901. Shortly afterwards he reverted to constable for having

American Spirit of innovation should not be nursed among the Loyal Refugees by the introduction of Acts of the Legislature, for purposes to which by the Common Law and the practice of the best regulated

McLean*. In 1808 Jonas embarked on a career in law as a student in Levius Peters Sherwood’s office at

was charged by the Canadian merchants and seigneurs with presenting a petition in London defining their position to the British authorities. It requested the preservation of traditional laws, privileges

establishment there of the Church of England implied a society in which religious and social inequality was guaranteed by law. Anglicans constituted an élite and from his first days in the legislature Perry set

feminist, author, public speaker, and journalist; b. 19 May 1879 in the parish of Notre-Dame in Montreal, daughter of Edmond-Napoléon Saint-Jean, a law student, and Marie-Élizabeth-Emma Lemoine; d