. Notarial minutes enable us to have some idea of the fortune and the economic activities of this member of the colonial aristocracy who bore the title of esquire and belonged to the Conseil Supérieur. His

auctioneer, notary public, agent for trustees of insolvent estates, broker of codfish sales, and renter of wharfage and warehouse space, he was in a mercantile partnership with Joseph H. Costello in 1811

certificate from the Université Laval in Quebec City; b. 12 March 1878 in Quebec City, daughter of Louis-Philippe Sirois, a notary, and Atala Blais; m. there 20 Oct. 1908 Joseph-Pierre-Henri

. Thomson*’s shop; he opened his own in 1820. He was elected assessor for Kingston in 1819 and commissioned magistrate for the Midland District in 1821 and notary public in 1823. His skill in accounting

deposition, recorded by notary William Franklin Odell*, Statia described how, in the early 1790s, her former owner, Clarke, “seized upon her

his arrest. His support of the government enabled him to keep his position as commissioner of small causes during these months of disturbances, even though his son-in-law, the notary André Bouchard

Bourdages*, a notary and member of the assembly, who was the son of Acadians; in 1810 Bourdages wrote and promoted the sale of a “seditious” pamphlet entitled Le sincère ami, to which

American star James O’Neill. His first one-act play, The notary, was sold to American actor-manager Felix Morris in 1893 (no copy has been located). In collaboration with Logan Fuller he wrote

and notary public at Carlyle in the North-West Territories, just as settlement was beginning on a substantial scale in the early 1880s. Subsequently he moved to Alameda (Sask.), where he dealt in grain

Donegani*. The only evidence of Voyer’s business activities dates from this period. Some 30 notarial instruments, concluded between 1834 and 1843, show him busy in real estate. Most of these are leases

. His Bow River Saw and Planing Mills was a major supplier of construction materials for the developing town, including its new NWMP barracks in 1883. A jp and notary

, and office holder; b. 25 Aug. 1850 in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada, son of Philippe-Napoléon Pacaud*, a notary, and

compiled, would be tediously long, but the crown ordered him to pay a total of some one and one-half million livres as “restitution.” Through a friend, Bernis, and by a notarial contract in Paris

of a departure for England, John Molson prepared a will before a notary, in which lie mentioned the activity of his two youngest sons, Thomas

*, notary Michel Berthelot who was agent for Pierre de Sales* Laterrière and his partners, and Monro and Bell. Rather strangely the

had an altercation with his compatriot Thomas Giroux. The document that records this incident, drawn up by notary Guillaume Tronquet on 12 Sept. 1638, specifies that Boucher and his family made the

contract that day before Trois-Rivières notary Antoine-Isidore Badeaux. In it they agreed to have community of property, administered according to the Coutume de Paris. When Neilson announced this decision

handed over to Grothé until the contract had been signed in the presence of a notary. In 1796 Rousseau again became a merchant, moved into a house on

AO, Hiram Walker Hist. Museum coll., 20–138; RG 1, A-I-6: 303–4, 638–39. DPL, Burton Hist. Coll., Detroit notarial papers, 1737–95 (transcripts at PAC). PAC, RG 1, L3, 3: A4/45; 16: A misc

Archambeault*, a notary and politician, and Marguerite-Élisabeth Dugal; brother of Sir Horace Archambeault