and international guests, such as the famous Jewish authors Sholem Aleichem and his son-in-law Isaac Dov Berkowitz. Visitors found Masha to be very outspoken, modern, and sophisticated

argument. “Anyone with reason has a right to help in determining what laws shall govern him,” she maintained. “Women have reason, and, therefore, should vote.” Cameron’s commitment is connected to her

Carmichael* and Christian McKenzie; m. 5 June 1851 Maria Jane McColl (d. 1874) in Guysborough, N.S., and they had one son and five daughters; d. 1 May 1903 in New Glasgow

came at the invitation of his brother-in-law, Thomas Andrew Turner, who found him a house and medical practice in Dorchester (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu). Christie obtained a licence to practise in Lower

and government meant that a potential source of political criticism was muted. Moreover, the merchant-politicians in Halifax tended to pass laws which benefited business but did little for other groups

became one of the largest landed families in Dorset during the 19th century. Like his father-in-law, Garland laid careful plans for his succession. He

on an invitation from Emperor Maximilian, son-in-law of Leopold, and then left for Cuba (and possibly Brazil) before arriving in New York in May 1865

. Between 1795 and 1798 William Johnston apprenticed as a law clerk in Edinburgh. Shortly thereafter he came under the wing of such substantial members of the Scottish aristocracy as Lord Selkirk

. Herbert Marler, whose father was a successful notary and a professor of civil law at McGill University, was born into Montreal’s English-speaking Protestant mercantile elite. The Marlers treasured their

but also on colonial preference and, when milling and lumbering businesses throughout the province suffered after the abolition of the corn laws and timber preference in 1846, C. and J

Yacht Club in 1900–1. In September 1902 Plummer retired from the Commerce. Although overwork was stated as the reason, he was actually about

she did so on 23 Aug. 1763. In 1765 she left with her daughter Charlotte-Marguerite, her son-in-law, and their two children to join her husband in La Rochelle. Ramezay, who had been

. . . in shaking ye Royal Prerogative thro’out ye Province, within mens minds, especially among ye disaffected.” The issue was referred by Gore to the imperial law officers, who upheld the decision of the

remaining quarter was divided among Richard Simonds, James White (another of Hazen’s cousins), and Robert Peaslie (Hazen’s brother-in-law). The three junior partners joined Simonds on the Saint John while

, whose political careers were to be closely intertwined, became the centre of a coterie of business connections, in-laws, and cousins who favoured a more open society. They were independent parliament men

, and only 46 per cent were Presbyterians. In 1864 the faculty of law had been disbanded, and in 1866, despite negotiations undertaken by Snodgrass, the medical faculty separated from the university

defeat of the Conservatives in 1880, he resigned office. In 1885–86 he served as colonial secretary under Lord Salisbury. On 1 Feb. 1888

battle of the Boyne. When it became known that they would proceed through the Catholic districts in 1849, Wilmot asked them not to march but, since there was no law banning public processions, he could do

 April 1979 Corinne Côté (d. 2005) in Montreal; d. there 1 Nov. 1987 and was buried 5

, arbitrary behaviour, denounced the naval surrogates (who presided over surrogate courts around the island) as ignorant “of the most common principles of law and justice,” and declaimed against the apparent