laboured on Astor’s behalf for $80 to $200 per year. Franchère advertised for the trip men, travelled to several towns to enlist them, paid notaries to draw up engagements, arranged the

ANQ-M, CM1, Jacob Franks, 22 nov. 1839. Bayliss Public Library (Sault Ste Marie, Mich.), Samuel Abbot, notary-book, Mackinac, 1806–18: 33–39; Misc. coll., partnership agreement, Robert Dickson

the case of his 1911 pamphlet Les données erronées, which pointed out errors in Joseph-Edmond Roy*’s history of Acadian notaries

the Jesuits’ property deeds for a commission established to investigate their estates, he specified that he would do so only in the presence of a notary. Again, in 1789 he maintained that the right to

. Gosselin’s fondness for history went back at least to the earliest days of his priesthood. In 1867 he had been appointed notary apostolic in the case for the beatification of Marie de l’Incarnation

registered his dissent in the presence of a notary and never reconsidered his position. In 1768 also, Gravé took over a cause that Father Récher had upheld before him; with the backing of a colleague, Joseph

-S2, 15 avril 1866, and CE202-S5, 2 sept. 1889); entries in the minute-books of notaries T.-Z. Cloutier (CN201-S4), Jean Gagné (CN201-S5), Raymond Belleau (CN201-S9), and G.-A. Saint

lawyer on the island, was particularly damaging. Hamilton dismissed him from his position as notary in 1818 and later fined him for contempt when Dawe legitimately challenged the authority of a court of

, to cover important credit transactions were passed before the Montreal notary Bénigne Basset* alone. In February 1708, it

Baudouin*. The marriage contract, drawn up two days earlier by the notary Genaple, had been the

comptrollers of the fur trade, in addition to a secretary able to act as a notary public. In fact, the council had jurisdiction over everything that concerned the fur trade and the general interest of the

), Lower Canada, son of notary Jean-Baptiste Hébert and Judith Lemire; d. 17 Jan. 1888 at Kamouraska, Que. Nicolas-Tolentin Hébert received a

Rieutord*, a doctor from Trois-Rivières. She in turn died in 1806. An extremely complex notarial deed, now in the Baby collection, again left Edward William Gray the task of settling the delicate

. 1842 in Boucherville, Lower Canada, son of Louis Lacoste*, a notary and politician, and Marie-Antoinette-Thaïs Proulx; m. 8 May 1866 Marie

, notarial, and medical professions. There was strong and continuing opposition from professional bodies and a portion of the public to this legislation. His second term, though cut short by illness, enabled

, who had just been called to the bar, was elected along with Papin at the beginning of November to the council of the Montreal Annexation Association; notary Denis-Emery Papineau became a vice-president

1810. The partnership agreement, registered before a notary on 13 Aug. 1813, was to last for four years, but the company was dissolved on 1 Jan. 1814. Languedoc and White kept the

France. The inventory of Charles Le Moyne’s possessions, which was drawn up shortly after his death by the notary

painter Théophile Hamel*, the family of notary Louis-Édouard Glackmeyer

supervising hisbshop his workshop.” Amiot always insisted that a notary use the exact word intended, and the result sheds light on his personality and on the organization of work in his establishment. In