health in October 1910, Hastings immediately began working to convince local dairies to pasteurize milk. Using the Ontario Milk Act of 1911, which enabled municipalities to pass by-laws requiring

game for some time more. Of course, the news of this sorcery seance rapidly spread about Montreal and reached the ears of the law. The next day, 29

). By 1881, for unknown reasons, Julia was no longer at home with her parents. Aged 12, she lived in Durham with her sister Lucy and her brother-in-law, John George Norton, a clergyman. She likely

Sutherland*]. There Heustis met Mackenzie and received a captain’s commission in the Patriot army. Returning to Watertown with Mackenzie, he was later arrested for violating American neutrality laws

degree of influence in labour matters, such as the use of convict labour and the repeal of the criminal law amendment act of 1872, which appeared to prohibit picketing and other forms of labour protest

functions. However, the irregularities that took place in the administration of the Communauté led the Conseil du Roi, on 27 March 1647, to enact a law for “establishing order and surveillance in Canada

local white-Indian relations for the next 40 years. Johnson’s position as interpreter necessitated his living with the Elliot family, where he met the missionary’s young sister-in-law, Emily Susanna

, his son-in-law Solomon Barish, and the Barishes’ three children. Klenman had substantial experience in agriculture, having farmed rented land as a young man and overseen an estate for an absentee

of 1837 in Lower Canada Knowlton helped arm and equip 400 men in Shefford Township and was promoted lieutenant-colonel of the Shefford battalion of militia on 1 Dec. 1837. A detachment under

. Valentin Landry died at the age of 75, but L’Évangéline, the newspaper he had created, would last until 1982. Working at a time when journalists were not muzzled by libel laws and when patriotism

of the workers, was elected secretary and legal adviser to the society; in this capacity he drafted both its request for incorporation and its by-laws. At a meeting on 21 December Laurin declared

the province’s prohibition law. In so doing Lawrence ran in direct opposition to Tilley, who was not only a member of the ousted government but the chief promoter of legislated prohibition. This time

inventors and entrepreneurs. A pamphlet written by Legge in 1867 advocated changes in the 1849 patent laws, and with the passage of a new Patents of Invention Act in 1869 he prepared a second pamphlet

when he was held responsible for his portion of the bond of his brother-in-law, Henry Black, who had absconded as Elgin County treasurer. When railway construction ceased during the crisis of 1857

Assembly, where his son-in-law, Jean-Moïse Raymond*, had already represented Huntingdon for three years. At the opening of the session on 20

development of cavalry in eastern Canada. Many benefited too from the lectures and courses he gave on staff duties, military law, tactics and strategy, and topography at the Canadian Military Institute and

family firm, on Lester’s death his Newfoundland business passed effectively to his son-in-law George Garland, who had formerly assisted him in managing his trade, and then to the latter’s sons

recommended the appointment of lawyer Robert Christie* as law clerk, and he took up his duties on 26 Jan. 1816

contribute as much to Canadian society outside the classroom as in it. Through his father-in-law, Edward Stairs, a prominent Halifax businessman, he met and impressed the right people. In 1908 he was appointed

professions of law, notarial practice, or medicine. Both in Canada and elsewhere in the world, engineers adopted those professions as their models and provided themselves with tools to enhance their status and