Scotia; b. 1 Oct. 1845 in Brooklyn (Plymouth), Pictou County, N.S., eighth child and fifth son of Alexander Fraser (Alasdair an Ceannaiche) and Ann Chisholm; m. 24 Oct. 1878 Bessie
Henry* the elder: “French Laws having been established in Canada last April [1775] they suspect the Pedling Business will be confined to few hands as in the French time and consequently that the
by their brother-in-law Jean-François Bourdon* de Dombourg. After the general capitulation at Montreal on 8
GIARD, LOUIS, doctor and office-holder; b. 1 Nov. 1809 at Saint-Ours, Lower Canada, son of François Giard, a
1837 he auctioned off his farming equipment and some property, leaving his father-in-law, Andrew Geddes, in charge of his land interests. By September 1838 he was reported to have resettled in Elora
, he delivered an address on church and state that attracted wide attention and was published later in the year. The text showed he was an orthodox and unbending ultramontanist. God and his law, he
-law were bankers or merchants.
Hay’s interests had shifted in later life. He had been a founder and provisional director of the St Lawrence Bank
of an amended will and a brief reunion with Yetta, he died of internal bleeding at 1:05 a.m. the following morning. The official cause of death was recorded as “Gun
probably a brother-in-law, enabled Hoyles to survive the post-1815 depression in the fish trade. With branches at Port de Grave and Trepassey and fishing stations on the Labrador coast, Brown, Hoyles and
he was apprenticed to an Edinburgh grocer and wine merchant. In autumn 1852 he came to Toronto to manage the grocery and wine shop of his brother-in-law, John B. Smith. He had become a partner by
1866 at Saint John.
Jardine apparently had some schooling in Scotland and dabbled in both law and business before immigrating to Saint John in the
, Halifax, 1871, Ward 5, sect.2: 15; 1881, Ward 5, sect.2, subdiv.1: 168; 1891, Ward 5, sect.E: 27; 1901, Ward E, sect.2: 14. PANS, MG 20, 516, no.6, 20, 23, 26, 28 Feb. 1885; RG 32, M, Halifax
invariably dignified (Jenness, Indians of Canada, 200–1). Woven belts of wampum were used as gift exchanges by the orator to confirm his statements
fathom the judicial system and French law, explain seigneurial tenure, and assess the church’s hold on the Canadians
wedding in England for much of the time before the competition closed on 1 August, the greater part of the work in preparing their submission fell upon Stent. The first premium for the design of the
member of the House of Assembly between 1773 and 1785, he and his sons-in-law, Cornelius Higgins and James Curtis
son-in-law Alexander D. Brown under the partnership James Angel and Company. Ledingham and Angel vied for repair work on the steamers entering St John’s Harbour. They carried it out throughout
appointed principal of Queen’s at a salary of £600 a year from 1 June 1860. He arrived at Kingston in October and expressed much pleasure at the quality of the students there, pronouncing them
and mathematics. Although the number of students at Bishop’s never exceeded 40 during his tenure, he was occupied with expanding the curriculum to include science and law, laying out a scheme for a new
commissioner of public lands in May 1857, he was obliged by law to seek re-election. He was defeated by the Conservative James Colledge