Numerous important notarial instruments concerning Charles Alexander are at the ANQ-M in the minute-books of Hugh Brodie (CN1-58, 1864–98), James Stewart Hunter (CN1-208, 1869–1910), and Charles Cushing (CN1

documents reveal that Amiot thought more highly of the silversmith’s art and its creators than did Quebec silversmiths before him. In 1816 a notary, at Amiot’s dictation, termed him a “Maître ès Art

-Joachim. Notary Jean-Joseph Girouard*, Baillairgé’s grandson, maintained that his grandfather had apprenticed with a Quebec architect

progressively greater numbers in the neighbourhood of the establishment; this led to the formation of the parish of Saint-Étienne-des-Grès in 1859. Ten years later the notary Petrus Hubert, when describing George

Eudists; from 1868 to 1870 he studied law and worked as a notary’s clerk in that town. During the Franco-German War of 1870–71 he enlisted as a volunteer and took part in the siege of Paris and later the

Université Laval and he was called to the bar of Lower Canada on 5 March 1860. His marriage the following year to the daughter of a Saint-Hyacinthe notary astonished the town’s social élite, since it

. 1824 Burns bought 26 pieces of land at a sheriff’s auction. Less than 11 months later he sold them all to Mary Neilson, notary Thomas Lee’s wife, who had contracted marriage “without community of

participate in his legal proceedings against the notary Jacques-Édouard Plamondon*, following comments made by the latter about the Jewish

of public records, improved measures for fire prevention, the founding of a law school and a school of surveying with salaried teachers and free tuition, a sufficient number of notaries to meet the

Quebec City to assist Louis Lazarovitz, who, with Benjamin Ortenberg, had launched a significant libel suit against notary Jacques-Édouard

. On 8 Jan. 1793 Duberger had married Geneviève Langlais; the two friends who witnessed his marriage contract were the lawyer Alexis Caron and Roger Lelièvre, who became a prominent notary in the

. 1843 in the parish of Saint-Laurent, Lower Canada, son of Augustin-Candide Duclos De Celles, a notary, and Marie-Sarah-Anne Holmes; m. 25 Oct. 1876 in Saint-Ours, Que., Eugénie Panet

Histoire de la colonie française en Canada, which he undertook seriously during his second voyage. He consulted the archives of the Montreal and Quebec communities and the notaries’ registers in the two

notary by profession and a chief cantor at the church, had his office in the centre of the village. Since schooldays Paul Filiatreault had been a friend of Charles-Joseph

ANQ-Q, CE1-66, 29 mars 1798. GRO (Edinburgh), Aberdeen, reg. of births and baptisms, 8 Dec. 1762. Montreal Business Hist. Project, Extracts and digests of Montreal notarial arch

suburbs. They included people from nearly all classes of society – farmers, blacksmiths, members of the professions such as notary Joseph-Bernard

, notaries, doctors, merchants, and persons of independent means) attend the meeting held each year to decide who would replace the outgoing churchwarden. In December 1830 a lawsuit was even brought

of Grandpré to the Quebec notary Charles Stewart for £132; in February 1779 Stewart purchased it for £2,000 sterling. The following month Gray sold for £600 another house acquired by adjudication

principal settlers on 19 Aug. 1652 had to rely on every one capable of handling a weapon. Between times he worked at clearing the land. An act of 21 Jan. 1654 drawn up by the notary

union when the footwear manufacturers at Quebec, who were exasperated at having to negotiate with unions, declared a lockout in October 1900, demanding that all their employees appear before a notary to