approved important legislation that had a significant impact on the province, including laws on women’s suffrage, compulsory education, labour relations, and the creation of Hydro-Quebec. The Second World
promoted ensign in the 49th Foot. His military career curtailed by regimental cutbacks at war’s end, MacNab searched restlessly for alternative employment. In 1816 he entered the law office of Judge D’Arcy
so in the New World.
Bell, his parents, and his widowed sister-in-law arrived in Quebec City on 1 August and then journeyed to Paris. They
DEMERS, JÉRÔME, Roman Catholic priest, author, architect, educator, and vicar general; b. 1 Aug. 1774 in
to $1 million, this was Herbert’s only real-estate investment. He was not a rentier. According to the 1901 census two unilingual, literate servants lived with the Molsons: Lizzie Brown, a 48-year-old
*, member for Victoria County, for disallowance of the bill or remedial legislation to guarantee New Brunswick Catholics their right to separate schools. Although the courts declared the 1871 law valid and
on 22 Nov. 1844. Instead of practising law he elected to travel, spending “upwards of two years” in the West Indies. He served in India during the Sikh War of 1848–49, and at the end of the
Ontario. He was responsible for the sections of the final report that dealt with mining laws and proposals for reform, recommendations for assisting the industry, the collection of statistics, and the
. 23 Oct. 1878 William Hepburne Scott (d. 1881) in Campbellford, Ont.; they had no children; d. 1 Aug. 1931 in Winnipeg and was buried there in St John’s cemetery
concession from the federal government. On 1 December Slavin, who remained behind, applied on their behalf for a lease of ground on the Klondike River
control “nuisances” and deal with the ever present menace of fire, but he soon found himself following Carson and Morris in agitation for wholesale reform of the laws as they related to Newfoundland. By the
education in the local school. In 1835 he and his brother-in-law Hiram Colton left for the Pontiac region of Lower Canada and set up in the timber trade at the former fur-trading post of Fort-Coulonge on the
public documents, laws, and official papers, and if necessary co-opt assistant commissioners possessing the same authority.
Anxious to complete his
”; b. 1 Sept. 1857 in Norton, N.B., son of Sarah White and Benjamin Burlock Betts Butler; m. 5 June 1895 Margaret McLean in Fredericton; d. there 24 Aug. 1915
city. When in 1831 a new law authorized licensed doctors in Montreal and Quebec to participate in the election of 12 members to a board of medical examiners for each district, Caldwell and his
La Corne, who had played an important role in French-Indian relations during the Seven Years’ War. The continuing influence of his father-in-law may have been one of the factors in
then by the latter’s son-in-law (Frederic N. Oliver, 1938–63). Stephen Stoot was in charge of tasks related to artistic direction from 1933 to 1958
Chandler’s activities. He discharged his official duties satisfactorily, but also applied himself to increasing his wealth by buying land and lending money. In 1819 Thomas Trigge, his future son-in-law
. 9th, 1849 (London, [Ont.], 1849); A mother in Israel; or some memorials of the late Mrs. M. A. Lyle, by her sons-in-law
by example, in religion, patriotism, business, law, medicine, education and agriculture; containing portraits of some of Canada’s