Dafoe and notary Joseph Sirois. Rowell hesitated because he realized that he would have less time to

are governed by the priest, with the occasional assistance of the notary. . . . The French-Canadians . . . retain their exclusive national character.” Confederation had failed to

bringing together the inhabitants, who could better help one another, and of placing them near the priest, the surgeon, and the notary

them. After articling for a few years he was called to the bar on 6 Nov. 1790. His brothers Joseph and Thomas took the same route, becoming respectively a lawyer and a notary. (Three of his own sons

in M. de Maisonneuve’s own hand, one reads: “Acceptance of the said grant made before the notary Jean de Saint

marked decline of the old seigneurial aristocracy and portrayed the new parliamentary leaders – for the most part lawyers, notaries, and shopkeepers who came from the people – as ambitious

and Numismatic Journal É.-Z. Massicotte made available numerous unpublished documents concerning Dollard and his companions: notarial papers, wills, death certificates for the Seventeen

development of the land would be slow, Grant, undoubtedly with the complicity of some local notaries and government officials, elevated what had been a simple roture to the rank of fief, and took the title of

, notarial practice, and medicine). By springtime the storm was subsiding. The Equal Rights Association was isolated. Mercier had regained the trust of Protestant voters and Montreal financial circles. He had

1866, he made a fresh start as a notary, financial agent, and broker. The following year fellow bank employee Edmund Boyd Osler* became his

Royal*, notary Marc-Amable Girard, and civil servant Alphonse-Alfred-Clément

Samuel de Champlain [no.1512, ff.256v–259v; f.284, notary Marcos de Rivera, 1601]) is held by the Archivo Histórico Provincial de Cadix, Spain, and transcribed in Samuel de

and the emerging bourgeoisie. The legal fraternity was further alienated from the church by professional functions involving the taking of interest – preparation by notaries of legal obligations