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Thomas Kenny grew up in the household of the richest and most powerful of Halifax’s Irish Catholic merchants. Educated at Stonyhurst College in England and the Collège Saint-Servais in Liège, Belgium, he
. 8 Oct. 1839 in Saint John, N.B., son of George King* and Mary Ann Fowler; m
Thomas and friend James Anderson Laidlaw established the Delta cannery, William Ladner sold Donald Chisholm land for the town of Ladner and donated the land for the Church of All Saints (Anglican
writer; b. 19 Sept. 1849 in Saint-Anselme, Lower Canada, son of David Kemner
Kirkconnell (4th ed., Wolfville, 1953). Baptist year book of the Maritime provinces of Canada . . . (Halifax; Saint John, N.B.), 1873–1903. Mrs
. 16 Nov. 1869 Ellen (Ella) McGourty in Saint John, N.B., and they had one son, who died in infancy, and one daughter; d
native of the parish of Saint-Paul in the diocese of Paris. Their family worked the land until early in the 19th century, when Jean, the father of Hector-Louis, abandoned farming to become a shopkeeper and
than 70 church commissions across Ontario and one as far east as Saint John, N.B
years as a preacher at Fredericton, Cornwallis Township, N.S., and Saint John, N.B., Lathern was ordained and received into the Wesleyan Methodist Conference of Eastern British America in 1859. That same
de Sainte-Thérèse for two years and then went back to Nova Scotia
Sainte-Foy.
After classical studies at the Collège de L’Assomption from 1845 to 1852, Siméon Le Sage was articled in the law office of
LEE, GEORGE HERBERT, lawyer and historian; b. 8 April 1854 in Portland (Saint John), N.B., son of the Reverend Charles
levels of community life, Letendre conducted negotiations to get a resident priest and oversaw the construction of the church and rectory of Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue parish. He was a generous benefactor
several fine ships until James’s death in 1892, becoming one of the more successful firms in Yarmouth and a leader in the Maritime shipping industry. During these years John spent much time in Saint John
LYON, ROBERT ADAM, merchant, lumberman, and politician; baptized 4 Oct. 1829 in Barony (Glasgow), son of John Lyon and
. 29 Dec. 1869 Harriet Robertson in St Andrews (Saint-André-Est), Que., and they had one son and three daughters; d. 28 Nov. 1901 in
educator; b. 10 July 1837 in Halifax, daughter of John Maguire and Elizabeth Meister; d
was the first Masson to be born at the manor in Terrebonne. His father, who had come from Saint-Eustache to Montreal in 1812 to earn his living, had gradually made a place for himself within the middle
the province’s history that they had provided aid to the civil power. Two years later members of the 62nd (Saint John) Battalion helped their city in the aftermath of the great fire [see