Hérons in the Lachine rapids near Montreal. Critics were never quite sure of the nature of his financial or political involvement with these companies, or with the contracts awarded his son-in-law James

curriculum, which, under the new law, was to be controlled by the Council of Public Instruction, would not satisfy the educational demands of Catholics. When Tupper pointed out that the council was to consist

resolution of this conflict in 1875, the schools came under the law and the sisters began to prepare themselves for the provincially prescribed licensing examinations

Cameron, the governor’s brother-in-law, on 2 Dec. 1853 as judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Supported by the HBC chaplain, the Reverend Robert J

of law and order. His establishment of the first printing-press in the colony enabled him to publish A few reasons for a crown colony, a broadside he circulated to counter the arguments of

belonged to the king of France, and these 14 nations were dependent on His Majesty and subject to his laws and customs. In return they could count on his protection. The French intoned the Vexilla Regis

sédentaire de l’Acadie. After Nicolas Denys’s rights in the Chedabouctou (now Guysborough, N.S.) area had been reaffirmed in 1667, Richard and his brother-in-law Michel

possession of Burnside and the other to receive the endowment. In 1821 it received a royal charter for McGill College and in court contended that as a result the college was “erected” in law, in fulfilment of

Congregationalist connection in the 1880s. He formed the Buffalo Law and Order Society which fought the Sunday opening of saloons but he refused to join the Prohibitionist party as he thought abstinence should be

the only legitimate heirs. The complex case involved French civil law in Lower Canada and the rights of aliens in France and England. The lower courts in Montreal in 1828, the appeal courts in 1832, and

.” In the early 1850s James had returned to Windsor, where a land boom accompanied the construction of the Great Western Railway. He developed the land owned by his father-in-law, and in 1856 he and

Mellis; d. 14 April 1886 in New York City. After serving a five-year apprenticeship under Dr Thomas Law of Penrith, England, James

s. 2 1/2d., but Montgomery, realizing that Lawson was, in fact, impoverished, was not vindictive. On the contrary, he arranged for Douglas to give his former agent an annual payment

by law established (Montreal, 1844); Answer of the Rev. Henry Esson, to the charges and statements of a committee of the session of St. Gabriel Street Church

Saint John. A fourth-generation loyalist on his father’s side, W. S. Fisher was named for his mother’s brother-in-law, William Shives (the brother

, in 1887 he succeeded in having a by-law passed to reduce licences. In 1892, with Liberal support, he ran successfully for the mayoralty on a reform platform that included opposition to the operation of

the Congress of Chambers of Commerce of the Empire, where he argued that the colonies should have their own laws on copyright. Elected president of the board the following year, he pushed for the

deranged, he sometimes imagined, according to Fidèle, that his wife was his daughter-in-law, believed that his dog had bewitched him, thought that his house was going to be seized, and would no longer go to

appointment of justices of the peace on this island”; he even added that he himself was “duly qualified under the law to be a justice of the peace.” Faced

Charbonnel*, bishop of Toronto, as well as with Richard William Scott*, a member of the Legislative Assembly, in order to obtain a law