Chauveau*, prompted by Rottermund’s brother-in-law, Lewis Thomas Drummond*, requested him to use his influence in Paris to obtain from

been conducted in partnership with his brother-in-law, Charles Botsford, at least until July 1879. The increasing urbanization and

. His inaction all but ended his promising political career. On 1 May the kidnappers released Wong but the Point Grey police promptly

disapproval to the Indians. Sproat’s successor as sole reserve commissioner was Joseph William Trutch*’s brother-in-law, Peter

Robert Bird*, accompanied by their brother-in-law, missionary John Chantler McDougall*, left Whitefish to attend Cobourg Collegiate

Western University of London and the University of Toronto, and was called to the Ontario bar in Easter term 1886, in which year he became a member of the law firm of Cameron and Cleary in Windsor

from pursuit by the U.S. Army if the Sioux obeyed the laws of Canada and did not conduct raids across the border. Sitting Bull agreed to these terms, denouncing the Americans and claiming to be a

Joliette and his brothers-in-law asked him to recover the estate left by a distant relative whose property had been sold as property of the nation

October 1747 he sailed for France with his two sons, Pierre-François and Jacques, and his son-in-law, Joseph Dufy Charest – the three of them returned, it seems, to New France the following year

signed into law. The CCC became in April 1902 the chief mining and smelting subsidiary of a new nickel conglomerate, the International Nickel

stretch between what is now Clinton and London. Along the former road he established inns which were managed by his son-in-law Andrew Helmer, Sebastian Fryfogel, and Andrew Seebach, and he himself took care

gathering data on weather patterns in previous years and comparing the weather of the existing year against past activity, Vennor claimed to have discovered a “law of recurrences” which enabled him accurately

VINCENT, THOMAS, teacher, translator, and Church of England clergyman; b. 1 March 1835 in Osnaburgh

Content. He concluded his study of “spiritual laws and psychic forces” with the publication of Mediums and mystics

WIDDER, FREDERICK, Canada Company official; b. 1801 in England; d. 1 Feb. 1865 in Montreal, Canada

himself in versification, history, Greek, Latin, and English. Often standing first in his class, he won many prizes as well as debates. In 1910 he enrolled in the law faculty of the Université Laval in

Berthelot*, a wealthy lawyer, bibliophile, collector, and politician. La Fontaine thus laid the foundations of a fortune and legal career, both of which would be noteworthy. Even as a law student he

, trial by jury, and habeas corpus – which guaranteed order, authority, and liberty under law. The other dimension of his loyalism was his belief in the “Unity of the Empire,” under “the supremacy of

, third of four children of Oliver Gourlay, a substantial landowner, and Janet Fleming; m. first in 1807 Jean Henderson, and they had four children, and secondly in 1858 Mary Reenan; d. 1 Aug

run by the Education Society of the District of Quebec on Rue des Glacis, and subsequently attended the Petit Séminaire de Québec. In 1847 his interests turned to law. Since he had followed his family