Saint-Michel, which had been founded for former women prisoners convicted under ordinary law who wanted to enter a religious order. The Comte de Frayssinous made him superior in the Paris convent of the
not attract as much attention in the assembly as did his brother-in-law Louis-Joseph or Bourdages, being less well educated and less inclined to speak than they, as well as more moderate. At the manor
-in-chief of British North America. As a result, Dickson was appointed agent and superintendent for the Indians of the western nations on 1 Jan. 1813, with a salary of £200 per year plus £300
to appoint a second judge to help the lieutenant-general, it was Paul Dupuy whom he named on 1 June 1695 to hold the office of special lieutenant to the provost court. Dupuy was admitted by
. Gough, Gunboat frontier (cited below), plate 16.
Mitchell Library (Sydney, Australia), mss 1436/1 (W
southwest Ontario. His brother-in-law George Moncrieff was the mp for Lambton East from 1887 to 1896. Provincially, in 1902 he supported the candidacy in Lambton West of his
reality in December 1909, when the municipal councils passed by-laws and the citizens of Limoilou ratified the decision by a vote.
Garneau did not
Montreal as a young man. As early as 1785 he was established there as a merchant, specializing in the fur trade of the Timiskaming region. In 1791 he became a partner with his future brother-in-law William
tract of wilderness land back of Saco and Wells, formerly called Phillipstown, where the present town of Sanford now stands. Major Phillips deeded to Zachariah Gillam and his brother-in-law, Ephraim
taxation. In 1920–21 he was again made chair of an appointed commission, which administered St John’s until the charter became law and provided for elected government. His years in local politics were
Nova Scotian farmers by means similar to the corn laws of England: a ban on the importation of American flour, government aid to encourage oat and flour mills, and a central granary at Halifax where
apparently consisted of a preparation called “essence of spruce for making beer,” the discovery of which they attributed to Johnston’s brother-in-law Henry Taylor, the owner of a Quebec distillery
to go into the backwoods for fear [of] wetting their feet.” He was equally severe towards Indians whom he felt did not make an honest attempt at farming. In a letter to Peter Jones on 1 May
boys, died. On 9 Sept. 1811 the seigneur of Blainville married his sister-in-law, Louise Launière, in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul. His income was apparently modest at this time since by the marriage
claimed that he was in the process of buying one of the province’s newspapers, in contravention of laws governing such matters. The World had to issue an official apology after being contacted by
law firm. A partner in the firm, Thomas Moss*, was also registrar of the university, and in 1863 he helped Loudon obtain a part-time tutorship in
, anatomy, and law, and in 1843 worked at the Institut d’Afrique and the Société de Géographie de France. It is thought that for the rest of his life he remained a contributor to the annals of the latter
to Opitsat, the village of Wikinanish, Callicum’s father-in-law, in Clayoquot Sound. Indian rivalries, however
NAIRNE, JOHN, army and militia officer and seigneur; b. 1 March 1731 in Scotland; d. 14 July
his education in Montreal, where his family had moved in 1845, he studied law and was called to the bar on 3 Sept. 1863, but he never seriously practised his profession as a lawyer