McDONALD, JAMES, lawyer, politician, and judge; b. 1 July 1828 in Bridgeville, N.S., son of Alexander

Latin in 1875, he moved on to the Université Laval at Quebec, where he took courses in Roman law and philosophy in 1875–76. He completed his studies at the law school of Boston University, from which he

in Annapolis Royal, and was later tutored at home rather than sent to college. In the mid 1820s he began studying law in Halifax with his uncle, James William

Bethune*, as well as in the United States and Lower Canada, before studying law in the office of Marshall Spring Bidwell* in Kingston

Admiralty instructed Baynes to ascertain that a sufficient naval force was on the northwest coast of North America to maintain law and order in the gold mining districts of British Columbia, then being

BETZNER, SAMUEL D., settler and district constable; b. 1 March 1771 in Lancaster County, Pa, a son of Samuel Betzner (Bezner

faced a choice: to complete the articling as a student-at-law which he had begun on 1 August in the office of Michel-Amable

, a farmer, and Matilda Bartlett; m. 12 Oct. 1886 Grace Louise Taylor in Birr, Ont., and they had two daughters; d. 1 Nov. 1921 in London, Ont

land with a mill site on it about 1 1/2 miles south of Dundas Street. In 1835 he sold the King’s Mill to William Gamble*, who added a

HARGRAVE, JOSEPH JAMES, fur trader, journalist, historian, and businessman; b. 1 April 1841 in York Factory (Man.), eldest

John Law’s Compagnie d’Occident, brought about Lespinay’s recall at the end of 1717. Nevertheless he did not fall into disgrace, since on 1 Nov. 1717 he was nominated governor of Grenada. He

pension. In April 1761 he received additional income when he was appointed “Interpreter in the Courts of Law and Equity . . . of the German and French Languages.” When the post of Lunenburg

commercial brickmaker; a sister married the prominent merchant Rufus Fairbanks. Charles himself took up the profession of his brother-in-law, and by 1800 had established himself in partnership with another pre

he would hold until his appointment to the bench; the following year he was elected first president of the Perth County Law Society. From 1891 to 1904 he was a bencher of the Law Society of Upper

formation of K. F. Burns and Company. In 1878 he took his brother Patrick and his brother-in-law Samuel Adams into partnership with him, establishing Burns, Adams and Company. They built a steam

active politically in the Reform party in Kent. Following his stint as school superintendent, Mills enrolled at the University of Michigan Law

of Wales Medal for rhetoric in 1894. He subsequently enrolled at the Université Laval in Quebec City; in 1899 he earned a law degree with high honours and, jointly with a fellow student, was awarded

Central Methodist Church there. An interest in law had developed over the years, and Wegenast became articled to attorney John Soper McKay while in

, the firm was nominally four men strong, with three fully employed. The original partnership of Weatherbe and Graham had become a small modern law firm, complete with the distinction between profit

ROE (Row), WALTER, lawyer and office holder; b. c. 1760 in London, England; m. 1 March 1790 Ann Laughton