the suit of an ironmonger. The warrant had been signed by Panet as notary; although defeated in Quebec’s Lower Town constituency in 1792, he had been elected for Upper Town and, despite

. 27 Jan. 1828 at Quebec, son of Jonathan Wurtele, a merchant, and Louisa Sophia Campbell, sister of notary Archibald Campbell

affectionate father. A daughter married William D. Antrobus, an inspector in the North-West Mounted Police, one son became a notary, and another, Arthur Norreys, followed in his father’s footsteps before

well as the minutiae of daily life in early New Brunswick. Winslow could pierce an opponent with a phrase. Thus Elias Hardy was a “pettifogging notary public,” Richard John

1867 elections he allied himself with a French Canadian candidate, notary Jacques Picard of Wotton. Webb was to support Picard at the provincial level and Picard to support Webb at the federal. Picard

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 public, he

business. Louis-Joseph Massue* and notary Charles-Maxime Defoy were impressed by his abilities, and recommended him to Daniel McCallum, manager

VOYER, JACQUES, notary, landowner, militia officer, office holder, and jp; b

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

Auger de Subercase begged the minister not to send Villieu back to Acadia. But he was popular in the colony; on 15 July 1705 the notary Loppinot wrote: “His piety, his valour, his

In addition to the archives of most of the parishes mentioned in Villeneuve’s biography, the following notarial minute-books were consulted: AC, Arthabaska, Minutiers, Léonidas Laliberté, 15 mars

. 1704). ANQ-M, Greffe d’Antoine Adhémar, 3 juill. 1705 (notarial acts relating to the establishment of the Sisters of the Congregation of Notre-Dame at Prairie-de-la-Madeleine); Juridiction de

. The king induced Champlain to undertake such a voyage. After Vignau had reaffirmed his statement before two notaries, Champlain set off with him

. Notarial minute-books indicate that he engaged in various property transactions. In 1811 and 1812 he and his mother jointly sold some lots on Rue Saint-Paul in Montreal that were part of his father’s estate

presumably he served his apprenticeship in Montreal, where he first began doing pieces of carpentry. On 30 June 1772 he married Périne-Charles, daughter of the notary François-Pierre

Papineau’s most loyal supporters, was “of a fiery and generous disposition.” Consequently, on 16 Nov. 1837, when he learned that Dr Joseph-François Davignon and the notary Pierre-Paul Desmaray

Commission of the City of Montreal, which Premier Gouin had set up on 9 Feb. 1918, after the board of commissioners was abolished. The mandate of the five-member commission, which was headed by notary Ernest

d’Hochelaga and a teacher at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal, and Joseph-Félix-Frédéric Boulais, a notary and manager of various branches of the Banque d’Hochelaga. Initially the company

the heirs of the notary Florent de La Cetière* to deposit his minute-book with the registry of the provost court of Quebec. The

and cultured family and received his first lessons from his father, a notary and in effect his private tutor until 1842. He entered the Petit Séminaire de Québec as a student in the third year (Method