contracted smallpox, from which she soon died. Her daughter and son-in-law became Jemima’s family. With this couple Jemima suffered considerable physical

1890s to begin a school of horticulture were, however, frustrated by the decision of the provincial government to build an agricultural college in Truro. Courses in law and medicine were taught

. While intermittently serving as a fighting officer at numerous postings in the west, Schwatka studied both medicine and law. He was admitted to the Nebraska bar in 1875 and received his medical degree

General’s Office and John Godfrey* was articled as a law student

. In 1851 the Stewart family moved from New York to London, Upper Canada, where George Stewart Sr managed a fur and leather business for his father-in-law, Pascal Dubuc. Then in 1859 the family

. Over the next several years Talbot, generally in partnership with his brother-in-law Freeman Baird, purchased or rented a few parcels of land in both King’s and Tipperary counties. By 1800 he had moved

anticipation of French retaliation. On 1 June Tanaghrisson and some 80 to 100 Mingos joined him, but left before he surrendered on 4 July to a French siege. The Indians made their way first

surveyed with a view to putting up a house. In 1788 he rented this house, to which he added a stable, to his brother-in-law François Coupeaux, and in 1815 sold it for £240. Thibodeau also rented his other

(Victoria), 17 April 1916: 1–2. Valerie Green, Excelsior!: the story of the Todd family (Victoria, 1990); “Good Roads Todd,” British Columbia Hist. News (Victoria), 24 (1990–91), no.4

they made no scruple to take all he had; and he came . . . to this Province in Order once more to enjoy Peace under His Majestys Good Laws.” Troyer settled near Long Point on Lake Erie on a

Delezenne. For a number of reasons it seems certain that Jacques Varin received his training as a silversmith from his brother-in-law. Gadois was dead by 1750; Delezenne had moved to Quebec in 1752

Morin*, who had been among the law students participating in the journalist’s funeral rites. Waller had been much admired as a firm advocate of liberalism, a spokesman for French Canadians, and “an

of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada (6/1), vols.17 and 20, and the Albert Carman papers (3022), file 8

A scrapbook of Madelein Marcia Weller, daughter-in-law of William Weller, in the possession of the author, has been useful in preparing this biography. PAC, RG 1, L3, 538a, bundle 3, no.37; RG 11, ser

WHITEWAY, Sir WILLIAM VALLANCE, lawyer and politician; b. 1 April 1828 at Buckyett, near Totnes, in Devon, England

used elsewhere as far as possible. Enthusiastic for temperance, in 1907 Wilcox strongly supported a bill to establish a provincial temperance law. The

), parish registers, 1752–1800, 1, ff.2, 4. PRO, Adm. 80/121, f.108; CO 194/12, ff.123–24, 196; 194/13, ff.31, 74, 137, 184, 207, 234; 194/14, ff.10, 28; 194/16, f.193; 194/20, f.19; 194/23, ff.325, 341; 194

and Company was formed in 1810 with his brother-in-law Benjamin Lemoine. Then came Woolsey, Stewart and Company, from 1815 to 1820. On the dissolution of this partnership Woolsey ceased to act as an

redress officially, Wyatt brought a law suit against Gore in England in June 1814. He charged that Gore had suspended him “maliciously, and without probable cause,” had sent “false representations to

federal authorities was being negotiated. The following year his brother-in-law Alfred Corbett Smith would