. of births and baptisms, 4 May 1790. McCord Museum, J. H. Dorwin, “Antiquarian autographs,” 571. Montreal Business Hist. Project, Extracts and digests of Montreal notarial arch., W. N

, lawyers, and notaries. After some 12 years, and repeated appeals for articles to print, Beauchamp, like his predecessor Mathieu, decided to make La Revue légale simply a collection of legal

inherited his land and fortune, turned to the professions of lawyer and notary. In 1793 he was elected by acclamation for the riding of Quebec to the house of assembly of Lower Canada

BIARD, PIERRE, Jesuit priest, missionary in Acadia; b. 1567 or 1568 at Grenoble, presumed to be the son of Jean Biard, royal notary

, 18 janv. 1805. Bayliss Public Library (Sault Ste Marie, Mich.), Misc. coll., diaries, journals, and fraternal records; Mackinac notarial records, 1806–18 (photocopies at DPL, Burton Hist

the notaries of Quebec to sign declarations aimed at the destruction of his adversaries: La Chesnaye, Lalande, Jolliet, and probably Duchesneau, not overlooking

Horan, the future bishop of Kingston (Ontario), introduced him to natural history. Brunet spent part of his holidays with his uncle, the notary Louis-Édouard

*, notary Victor Morin, and Senator Raoul Dandurand*. In view of the inefficient

the administration more firmly. Consequently in 1823 he hired notary Luc-Michel Cressé, whose main task was to run the seigneury efficiently. Thanks to Cressé’s talents, management underwent a

unopposed, but the Rouges ran Luc Letellier de Saint-Just, a notary in Rivière-Ouelle, against him

metropolis. To earn a living, Clerk first tried his hand at being a notary. He then got in touch with Bishop Ignace

his own practice in the fast-growing settlement of Lethbridge; he was admitted to the bar of the North-West Territories that year and appointed a notary in 1886. He served as a crown prosecutor from

management of his affairs at Quebec to notary Michel Tessier. Between 1852 and 1857 he had purchased a piece of land and two building sites at Saint-Lazare, near Quebec, on which he set up his brother François

; b. 7 Oct. 1764, son of Joseph Desbarats, a merchant, and Marie-Louise Crête; m. 24 Sept. 1798 Josette Voyer, daughter of notary Charles Voyer, at Quebec, and they had eight

Kamouraska to Rivière-du-Loup. Although notary Charles-Arthur Gauvreau stated in 1889 that “M. Deschênes was the most beloved and most popular of the

turned to George-Étienne Cartier*; his notary was Théodore-Benjamin Doucet. At

 July 1536, Chief Donnacona and his companions proceeded to live at the king’s expense. Donnacona accepted questioning, even before a notary, about what he had seen on his voyages; the monk and historian

mill owner of Acadian origin, was able to provide for the education of his numerous offspring: Nicolas-Benjamin* became a notary and

. About 1834 Dougall became the agent for the Commercial Bank of the Midland District, and in 1837 he was appointed a magistrate and notary public, posts he retained for the rest of his life. According to

Grant’s advantageous marriage to extend his monopoly. Thus, on 18 Oct. 1771 some ten representatives and agents of the great family to which Grant’s wife belonged met in the presence of notaries Pierre