situation, which challenged the government’s ability to enforce the law, by conducting a series of public protest meetings intended to get Schultz a place in the provincial cabinet. Archibald secured the

YOUNG, JOHN, merchant, author, and politician; b. 1 Sept. 1773 in Falkirk, Scotland, son of William Young

level as a consequence of municipal incorporation, assessment law reform (which facilitated the raising of tax revenue), and rapid local growth. Beaty had learned much from his years on city council and

king on 1 Jan. 1776 requesting Legge’s removal (Butler noted that “Mr. Bulkeley is under Some fears”), he appears to have overcome his misgivings. In June 1776 he was a member of the

attach the People to the Mother Country, and make them happy in the Enjoyment of their Religion, Laws, and Liberties.” On 1 Oct. 1784 La

. Progress to the west was soon arrested by the ice, and the Hecla and Griper put into Winter Harbour on Melville Island, where they remained frozen in the ice until 1 Aug. 1820. Before

Masson*, held important positions in the business world. Pinsoneault studied at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal from 1824 to 1835. He was attracted to law but in the end chose an ecclesiastical career

1 April 1817, which was drawn up a year after his wife’s death. In addition to his property on Rue Saint-Jean, Ranvoyzé left two others, on Rue des Remparts and Rue des Ursulines, as well as

merchants’ movement for an elected assembly and the introduction of English commercial laws [see George Allsopp*; William Grant]. In 1787 he

Lovell* to join him in his publishing ventures, Adam accepted. Lovell, a well-known figure in the book trade in Montreal and, since 1850, in Toronto, had had as partner John Gibson, his brother-in-law

to deal fully with medicine was signed in 1831. In the period of the union of the two Canadas this law, which had undergone various changes, was contested regularly in Lower Canada, particularly by the

, Ont.), daughter of John Coutts and Rachel Young; d. unmarried 1 Aug. 1940 in Calgary and was buried there in Burnsland Cemetery. The

house of assembly, which had not been set up when the colony was founded because of its small population. Dodd had at first opposed his brother-in-law, but as chief justice he seems to have become

widowed mother in 1825 and was educated at the Séminaire de Nicolet. He then studied law in the Montreal office of the prominent Tory attorney, Charles Dewey

-in-law, but quickly abandoned law for journalism. In June 1866 he was editing Le Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe and remained with the paper until March 1868, when he sailed for Europe

dealt first with a partnership that included Ward’s father-in-law, Thomas Stahlschmidt. This firm became Stahlschmidt and Ward and then Robert Ward and Company, incorporating in 1892

January the following year Gooderham and his brother-in-law and legal counsel, Thomas Gibbs Blackstock, put together a syndicate that also included Senator George Albertus

the national park surrounding the town was soon dampened when the vehicle was impounded in accordance with park laws that prohibited such access. Undaunted, the party spent the day in the park before

North West Company and the Hudson’s Bay Company conducted the fur trade. In the words of his son-in-law Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, he was “free and pointed in remarks against the rapacity with which they

, including his own. Accordingly, he set out to restrict quite drastically the credit made available by the Bank of Montreal in Upper Canada. By 1867 the bank could claim that it had “appropriated $1 million