immediately resigned from this position and returned to Montreal. A notarial deed, signed 9 June 1721, on the eve of his departure for the west, is the last positive record of Pierre-Charles de Liette

notary and conveyancer, interested himself in the growing temperance movement, and promoted an agricultural society (of which he became secretary in 1841

. In 1846, with the concurrence of his sons, François-Xavier Malhiot sold the seigneury of Contrecœur to John Fraser, a notary and merchant of Terrebonne, and retired to Boucherville. He lived there

studies at the Collège de L’Assomption from 1859 to 1866. He began articling in law, but then decided to enrol in the École d’Agriculture de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière on the advice of notary Louis

Labrador fishery in a more profitable manner. An initial agreement, signed in 1732 before the notary Henry Hiché, gave

, Marie-Jeanne Renaud d’Avène Desmeloizes. Jean-François was willing but the young lady, who was a former Ursuline novice, was reluctant. The matchmakers appeared before a notary on 4 May 1711 to

19 Dec. 1758, François Maurin could declare to the notary Pierre Panet* that he owned 200,000 livres “in ready money

not leave a diary and there is almost no mention of her in the voluminous Molson family archives (NA, MG 28, III 57). Her personal life can be sketchily reconstructed from parish records, notarial

declaration they made in the marriage contract drawn up that day by notary Jonathan Abraham Gray, they wanted to acknowledge their mutual affection and legitimize their three children. Sarah signed the contract

withdrew from Monro and Bell and from the management of the ironworks. On 26 Oct. 1816 he handed his share over to Bell, on conditions drawn up before notary Joseph-Bernard

. On his return to Louisbourg in 1749 Morin was appointed royal notary and clerk of the Conseil Supérieur, a post he held until 1753. He was also employed in the service of the financial commissary

. 1771 in Montreal, Que., son of Pierre-François Mézière, a lawyer and notary, and Michel-Archange Campeau; d. some time after 1819, probably in France

. It must be concluded, however, that even before they were outdoing themselves in this way the Nattes had made plans to retire; for in December 1790 they had arranged with a notary the sale of

to face unpaid bills with a wife to support. Abigail, referred to in Montreal notarial deeds as “Marguerite Stebens,” had greater cause for disappointment, however; not only was she in a foreign

instructed his executors, the notary Vildebon-Winceslas Larue and his trusted manager George-Alfred Vandry, to complete the organization of the company and divide the assets of his estate among his sisters

. Indomitable, the father, at an unknown date, broke into the house of the notary Guillaume Audouart, the secretary of

McColl*]. He then practised law there and worked as a notary in partnership with Michel Carey. In 1877 he represented the Collège de Saint-Boniface on the council of the University of Manitoba. Two

Catholic priest, auxiliary bishop, and educational administrator; b. 13 Oct. 1845 in Sault-au-Récollet (Montreal North), fourth of the six children of François-Xavier Racicot, a notary, and

businessman; b. 29 Jan. 1834 in Varennes, Lower Canada, son of Louis-Adolphe Robitaille, notary and Patriote, and Marie-Justine Monjeau; m. 6 Nov. 1867 Emma Quesnel, granddaughter of

had three children; m. secondly 1879 Aglaé Benoît, widow of the notary Napoléon Migneault; they had no children; d. 28 Sept. 1910 in Montreal