Anderson Phillips, a notary, and Mary Anne Johnstone; d. there unmarried 17 April 1937 and was buried two days later in the family plot at Mount Royal Cemetery in Outremont (Montreal

.  r.r.g.] Baylis Public Library (Saint Ste Marie, Mich.), Mackinac notarial records (photocopies at DPL, Burton Hist. Coll.). Private arch

Peter Diehl (incorrectly named John Justus Diehl), should be treated cautiously. A notarial act (ANQ-M, CN1-29, 5 Feb. 1800) indicates that this nephew was placed with surgeons as an apprentice

v Fornel), merchant and entrepreneur; b. 26 Aug. 1704 at Quebec, daughter of Jacques Barbel*, royal notary, and Marie

politician he was. His vehement attacks on the municipal administration of notary John George Crebassa in the 1860s won him election as mayor of Sorel in 1864, an office he held for nine years. During his term

success. Benjamin also initiated the macadamizing of roads in his district. His early appointments included that of notary public in 1836 and town clerk

money. More than a hundred instruments signed before a notary in connection with loans, leases, and transactions concerning buildings have been located

of evidence at the beginning of 1782. But his bakery business fell off, and he had difficulty again with his creditors. In May 1785 he received a commission as notary at Michilimackinac, and he

. Henry took commercial studies at the High School of Montreal, which he completed in 1856. He then spent a winter in Rivière-du-Loup (Louiseville) with notary Jean-Baptiste-Arthur Chamberland in order to

. It was in foodstuffs that Louis Boyer was to build the fortune that would be systematically invested in landed property. Gradually, as successive notarial contracts were drawn up, the designation

of Olivier-Eugène Casgrain, a notary and the seigneur of L’Islet, and Hortense Dionne, daughter of Amable Dionne*, a seigneur and member of the

in L’Assomption, Lower Canada, son of Louis-Amable Cazeneuve, apothecary and doctor, and Esther Daguilhe, daughter of notary Joseph Daguilhe of L’Assomption; d. there 29 Nov. 1856

’ father, was first a merchant, and then became a judge and royal notary at Nuits. François was a first cousin of Nicolas Clairambault (1643–1730), chief clerk of the Marine, of Charles Clairambault (1645

. The notary Pottier drew up a detailed inventory of the possessions of this picturesque career soldier

28 September he left an inventory of his assets with notary Louis Chaboillez*, bequeathing a life interest in them to Jean-Baptiste

become involved in a flour mill and bakery in Saint-Hyacinthe. Perhaps the venture was an unprofitable one. To settle his estate, notaries proposed paying his creditors 76 or 77 cents on the dollar. Côté’s

name first appears in a notary’s minute-book in 1721, when he was building the foundations for a square-timbered house on Rue Saint-Flavien in Quebec. He was then still a minor and had to have his

his sons-in-law. They would include a notary, Olivier-Eugène Casgrain, who owned the seigneury of L’Islet and was the son of Dionne’s former partner; a lawyer, Pierre-Elzéar Taschereau, colleague of

Douglas married Charlotte Saxton Campbell, daughter of Archibald Campbell, a royal notary at Quebec; seven

Lower Canada that he looked for the future of his grandchildren. From 1831 to 1838 he received four appointments as justice of the peace on Île Bonaventure, where because of a lack of notaries he was