law, he moved constantly, living for periods in Burlington, in Lower Canada, and in Washington, D.C. Finally, about 1836, he settled in Detroit, where he practised medicine and ran a grocer’s store

– hence Salaberry’s anger when Prevost commissioned him a lieutenant-colonel in the militia, effective 1 April 1812, instead of giving him an army rank. But on 29 Jan. 1813 Rottenburg

ROWELL, NEWTON WESLEY, lawyer, churchman, politician, and judge; b. 1 Nov

purchase freedom for fugitive slaves, kept his wife’s sister, Mary, as a housekeeper on wages, and aided another sister-in-law, Jane, who married Adolphus H. Judah in Toronto

Trottier* Desauniers, his wife’s brother-in-law, on a voyage to Bordeaux and returned to Quebec via Martinique with a cargo from Provence. By that time he had become one of the more experienced masters

immediately became professor of classics, but he also taught political economy, constitutional history, and international law. In 1869 he succeeded Humphrey

Labrador of four leagues by four, and signed an agreement in 1735 to develop it with his son-in-law, Nicolas

. Meanwhile, Angel had taken a son-in-law, Alexander D. Brown, into the business, in 1883 incorporating James Angel and Company to run the Victoria works. Later in the decade he was also joined by his

the homes of his parishioners. In addition, he performed the duties of deputy chaplain to the local garrison even though the stipend attached to this position remained in the hands of his brother-in-law

stable; in the marriage contract signed by the governor and the intendant, both her prospective husband and his father are designated merchants and bourgeois of Quebec. Her future brother-in-law, Joachim

James Barber and Hannah Patrick; m. first 1 Jan. 1868 Mary Barclay, and they had three sons and three daughters; m. secondly 26 June 1900 Agnes Alberta Bessey in Georgetown, and they

de Nicolet from 1833 and the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe from 1836 or 1837. After finishing his classical education in 1842, he began studying law in Montreal. There, while still a student, he married

, legal practitioner, seigneurial attorney, and notary; b. c. 1640 in France; buried 1 Dec. 1729 at Quebec. Hilaire Bernard de La

Milne, the Anglican congregation of Fredericton recommended Best’s appointment as rector there. He began his duties in July, and also acted as his father-in-law’s ecclesiastical commissary in New

Quetton* de Saint-Georges, a close business connection of Boucher de Boucherville’s brother-in-law Louis-René Chaussegros* de

open conflict with Dessaulles. The law of 12 Aug. 1850 partially reflected his views in that it placed the non-urbanized territory up-river from the church outside the town limits, but it

. Breland became one of the more prosperous farmers in Grantown, gradually acquiring his father-in-law’s land. In 1875 he held just over 376 acres. By 1880 he is said to have owned Grant’s entire domain

, including Ellice’s son and daughter-in-law. Brien himself would take them to Châteauguay. He more than other leaders (for example, Toussaint Rochon, a blacksmith in Beauharnois, and Joseph Dumouchelle, a

his entourage. Brooks may have met the Martins after a talk given at Barnard by Gorky’s common-law wife, Mariya Fyodorovna Andreyeva, who was their guest. Brooks travelled with the Gorky party from New

Langevin, a federal cabinet minister, he enjoyed considerable influence in Ottawa. More important, however, the fact that his brother-in-law, Pierre