. 1767 obtained a commission as a lawyer. He had practised law for several years, had been an assessor to the Conseil Supérieur of New France in 1751 and deputy king’s attorney from 1755 to 1759, and had
bodies pursued such objectives as the repeal of the Quebec Act, the obtaining of a house of assembly, and the introduction of English commercial laws. They were dissolved in December 1791, after the
POOLE, HENRY SKEFFINGTON, mining engineer and author; b. 1 Aug. 1844 in Albion Mines (Stellarton), N.S., son of Henry Poole
further Pursuits of the Law,” according to Byles, and went to New York. In 1780 he was a second lieutenant in the City Militia. A contemporary historian of art, William Dunlap, described him at about this
. 26 June 1875 in Saint-Jean-de-Matha, Que., son of Zotique (Zothique) Renaud, a law student, and Dorothée La Salle; d. unmarried 3 Oct. 1932 in Montreal and was buried there two days
Girouard in Deux-Montagnes against the tory candidates Frédéric-Eugène Globensky and his brother-in-law James Brown*. A group of
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At the beginning of the 21st century, Sganism Sm’oogit (James Robertson) brought the traditions of his ancestors into the political and legal arena. Drawing on “ancestral native law in order to protect
participated in the capture of Michilimackinac (Mackinac Island, Mich.) from the Americans in the summer of 1812, and on 3 October he was appointed major in the Corps of Canadian Voyageurs. On 1 Nov
on a visit home to Scotland in 1856–57. There he issued a short-lived news-sheet entitled the Scottish Canadian Emigration Advocate. On 1 Feb. 1858 the Ottawa City Council
the following year Robert Morrow, William Machin’s son-in-law, became a partner. The firm was then known as William Stairs, Son and Morrow, a name it would retain until its demise in 1976
, and on the modern discoveries in that science and the known operations of the laws of nature, as evinced by the discoveries of Lavoisier and others in pneumatic chemistry (Toronto, 1836; this work
apprenticeship under his father. In 1801, immediately after his marriage to a daughter of another prominent loyalist family, he formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, Charles Boggs, to operate a general
Petit Séminaire de Québec and at the Université Laval, where he received his llb in 1869. He was called to the bar two years later. Before his marriage he practised law
remained at work, and law and order was maintained by company police and dominion soldiers; UMWA members were arrested on the picket lines and evicted from company houses. With District 26 counting more than
the War of 1812 Askin had four sons, two sons-in-law, and ten grandchildren fighting for the British and one son-in-law for the Americans. As his health failed, his son Charles took over responsibility
Protestant Hospital for the Insane in Verdun had not been born in Canada, he took a clear stand in favour of greater control over immigration. Following the enactment of more restrictive immigration laws in
which he also appointed Baillie’s father-in-law, William Franklin Odell, and George Frederick
Philosophie, from 1882 until 1889. A brilliant student, Denault placed first in the examination for the baccalauréat ès lettres, thereby winning the Governor General’s Medal. He went on to study law at
(Montréal) in 1920. He did his classical studies at the Petit Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse from 1850 to 1858. Despite his mother’s wish that he enter the priesthood, he studied law at the Université Laval at
1678 he obtained his degree in law, and the following month he was called to the bar of the parlement of Paris. Having returned to Quebec that same year, he worked with his father the attorney