John Strachan*. After articling at York in the law office of his uncle, Solicitor General

admitted to the profession of notary on 3 May 1871. At the time he was living in his father-in-law’s home and had a child a few months old. He opened his office in Archambeault’s premises at

considered this action “not only irregular but illegal,” and appealed to law officers of the Colonial Office. They decided in his favour, and the Newfoundland government accepted the verdict

 Stanley*. In 1891 he was admitted to the faculty of law at the Université Laval in Montreal. He articled with his father’s law office from 1891 to 1893, completed his llb

surrogate of New York City from 1771 and provincial surveyor general from 1774. On 6 July 1774 the University of Oxford awarded him a doctorate of civil laws. At the outbreak of the American

authority on Froebel’s teachings. William Torrey Harris, a respected American educator, asked Hughes to write what would become Froebel’s educational laws for all teachers (1897), which put the

. The support of her family and in-laws was critical to the success of her marriage to a man driven by entrepreneurial ambition. The toll was heavy. Once, not finding Edward in his shop on a visit, Celia

Law’s Compagnie d’Occident – soon to be called the Compagnie des Indes – the office of royal governor ceased. The new role of commandant general, with responsibility for royal defence of the

in the production of tobacco with over 1 million pounds in 1870–71, while Ontario produced just under 400,000 pounds. In the 1860s and 1870s Macdonald played an active role in his business. Although he

Elizabeth became Agnes’s sister-in-law in 1879. Later, as a well-known author, Agnes developed her own circle and, especially at Ferncliff, her summer home in Gananoque near the Thousand Islands, she hosted

. In February 1894 Marchand failed the difficult entrance examinations of the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts. He took them again in the summer and passed, with the result that he enrolled on 1

February. Raised to the rank of colonel in the army on 1 Jan. 1798, he took part in the Mysore War of 1799, including the siege of Seringapatam. He suffered such persistent ill health during his time in

boundary between Lot 37 and Lot 38 resurveyed. The new survey, conducted by his brother-in-law, had assigned much additional territory to Stewart. The matter, however, became the subject of interminable

Quebec and was buried 1 April in Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery, Montreal. Lomer Gouin’s paternal ancestor Mathurin was born in 1638 in Poitou

continue to do so in his adult years. In September 1887 he entered Dalhousie law school in Halifax, the only university law school in the common law provinces. He did moderately well in a three-year

and Alderman Lawrence Geoffrey Power began by putting together an organized cumulation of all the laws of Nova Scotia that applied to the city of Halifax. It was typical of him. He liked to make

Cox’s son-in-law and business associate Alfred Ernest Ames* decided to distance himself somewhat from the network and organized the

lands. His focus on the region might relate to John Andrew Mara, his brother-in-law, who at the time was the mp for the electoral district of Yale. Also in 1890, with Mara

Deschenaux three lots with buildings at La Canoterie in Lower Town. Black was apparently already indebted to his father-in-law, who in March 1802 had all Black’s property on Rue Saint-Nicolas

Ellen Hynes (d. 1894), and they had three daughters; d. 1 Aug. 1901 in Toronto. Patrick Boyle immigrated with his family to the United