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68-689: The house was built for William Collis Meredith , the future Chief Justice of the Superior Court for the Province of Quebec . In 1843, Meredith, then a 31-year-old bachelor, commissioned John Wells to build him a new home beyond the confines of Old Montreal . Wells was then one of the best-known English architects in Montreal , whose work included the Head Office of the Bank of Montreal , Prince of Wales Terrace, and

136-451: A Visit to Canada, 1864–1865 : Dick (her husband, Lt-General Richard Monck) and I, and Captain Pem. ( Sir Wykeham Leigh Pemberton ) are going, I hope, to-night to a 'drum' at Judge Meredith's.... There was a very large party, and the house is large. I was much amused and talked to many people, among others to M. Duvergier-d'Hauranne, a young Frenchman, who is come over here to travel, and has brought

204-583: A compensation law for Lower Canada. This was among the main events leading to the burning of the Parliament Buildings . Ferres was subsequently arrested, though soon released on bail and set free without trial. In 1939, The Gazette hired its first editorial cartoonist – John Collins , who worked a term of 43 years. In 1968, The Gazette was acquired by the Southam newspaper chain, which owned major dailies across Canada. For many years, The Gazette

272-504: A daughter of Colonel Bartholomew Gugy , and their half-sister, Eliza Paul, married Major Stephen Heward (1776–1828), brother-in-law of Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of Toronto . The Merediths were the parents of ten children: On moving from their house in Montreal to Quebec City in 1849, the Merediths lived at 19 St. Ursule Street, a large, three storey, brick house with room for five live-in servants. In Christmas 1853, they entertained

340-516: A first cousin of Henry Peard Driscoll and an uncle of Sir Richard Francis Burton and Lady Stisted . Formerly a magistrate at Tuam , Meredith's step-father had "wasted every farthing of his Irish property" and so attracted by the land grants he took the position of the Church of England 's first missionary to Terrebonne, Quebec . In the summer of 1824, Meredith arrived at 'Burtonville', his stepfather's house and farm outside Rawdon, Quebec , then

408-656: A four-day journey north of Montreal . He was tutored there by Burton himself or by whatever tutor his stepfather could procure, who were few and far between. In 1828, William's mother, "a lady of much culture and refinement, and possessed also of great energy and force of character", sent him back to Ireland to complete his studies at Trinity College Dublin . In 1831, a year before his mother and stepfather returned permanently to Cloyne , County Cork , he chose to return to Montreal to commence his legal studies there. He articled under The Hon. Clement-Charles Sabrevois de Bleury and then James Charles Grant , QC, before being called to

476-532: A home beyond the walls of Old Montreal on a spacious plot of land surrounded by fields, Elm and Maple trees. It still stands today, known as the Notman House . In 1844, he was created a Queen's Counsel (Q.C.), declining the office of Solicitor General , and subsequently that of Attorney-General , which he declined again for the second time in 1847 during the Draper administration. Meredith disliked politics. In

544-590: A letter to the Governor-General from Lord Clarendon . His father ( Prosper Duvergier de Hauranne ) was a well-known man in France under Louis Philippe I . My friend, Sir R.M. ( Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell , William's first cousin who spent a year in Canada as Governor of Nova Scotia in 1864) rushed to me, and asked me to walk about with him, and invited us to Government House (Nova Scotia) at H. (Halifax), which he told me

612-590: A loss of 54 full-time and 61 part-time positions at the paper. The August 16, 2014, issue was the final issue printed by the Postmedia-owned facility. On October 21, 2014, The Gazette was relaunched as part of the Postmedia Reimagined project, adopting a similar look, and a similar suite of digital platforms, to its sister paper, the Ottawa Citizen , which had relaunched earlier in the year. As part of

680-496: A nephew of Robert James Graves and a brother of Edmund Allen Meredith . His first cousins included John Walsingham Cooke Meredith , Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell , John Dawson Mayne , Francis Brinkley , Major-General Arthur Robert MacDonnell and Sir James Creed Meredith . A year after Meredith was born his family moved up to Ardtrea, near Cookstown , County Tyrone , his father having resigned his fellowship in Dublin to take up

748-461: A new media group, Postmedia , bought The Gazette and other papers from the financially troubled Canwest. To celebrate its 150th anniversary, The Gazette published a facsimile of one of its earliest issues. Much effort was made to use a type of paper that imitated 18th century paper, with fake chainlines and laidlines to make the paper look old. Today, The Gazette ' s audience is primarily Quebec's English-speaking community. The Gazette

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816-588: A pillar of the Strategy for Entrepreneurship announced by the Quebec Government in November 2011. In 2015, they started a brand new project titled Develop Cuba , to improve the tech startup industry in the technologically isolated country. Notman House is also an event space. Non-profit events related to web and mobile are hosted free of charge. Examples include events such as hackathons and meetup groups. Since 2011,

884-566: A resolution calling on the government to protect the electoral borders of twelve English Quebec constituencies. Subsequently, Alexander Tilloch Galt endorsed the proposal, had the London Conference of 1866 accept it, and included it as Article 80 of the British North America Act, 1867 . In 1866, following the death of one of Meredith's closest friends, Edward Bowen , Sir George-Étienne Cartier appointed him Chief Justice of

952-451: A toujours ete au-dessus du soupcon, bienveillent pour tout la monde, d'un politesse vraiment exquise, M. le juge en chef va laisser une vide bien difficile a remplir. In 1887, on the retirement of Louis-Rodrigue Masson as Lieutenant Governor of Quebec , the Liberal government favoured an English-speaking replacement. Along with his wife's cousin, George Irvine , Meredith was named as one of

1020-514: A typical example of several of the grand houses that once lined Sherbrooke Street in the Golden Square Mile from the 1840s. The OSMO Foundation is a non-profit organization that aims to facilitate the transfer of knowledge, experience and relationships within the tech community in Montreal. Founded by members of the web community in Montreal, including investors, technology and media executives,

1088-470: A very fine voice, and is a pupil of Garcia 's. He was offered an engagement at the Italian Opera, London. The large rooms were too small for his voice, which wants modulation. I got quite giddy with the loudness of it ! He sang from operas; he wants expression and more teaching. Judge Meredith introduced him to me, and he sang again, for me ! Meredith frequently returned to Europe , either touring

1156-510: Is Basem Boshra and the associate managing editor is Jeff Blond. On April 30, 2013, Postmedia Network announced that it would be eliminating the role of publisher at each of its newspapers, including The Gazette . Instead, the company's 10 newspapers were overseen by regional publishers, one each for the Pacific, the Prairies and eastern Canada. Alan Allnutt, who was the publisher of The Gazette at

1224-622: Is led by writer and professor Catherine Mavrikakis on the St. Margaret's Home period of the Notman House. The project aims to allow the erased voices of patients and caretakers to resurface, and to allow better public knowledge of this less known vocation of the House. In January 2011, the OSMO Foundation leased Notman House, making it available to internet entrepreneurs, early stage venture capitalists and

1292-551: Is now possible to find good claret in Ireland!' Chief Justice Meredith was 'a gentleman with exemplary charm and manners', and 'a man of fine scholarly attainments'. He possessed 'troops' of friends and was 'held in the highest respect in the City and Province of Quebec, by all classes of the community' and even more extraordinary for the time, was described as being as popular among the French as

1360-405: Is one of the three dailies published in Montreal, the other two being French-language newspapers: Le Journal de Montréal and Le Devoir . ( La Presse is only published digitally since 2018.) In recent years, The Gazette has stepped up efforts to reach bilingual francophone professionals and adjusted its coverage accordingly. The current editor-in-chief is Lucinda Chodan. The deputy editor

1428-599: Is published weekly. Fleury Mesplet founded a French-language weekly newspaper called La Gazette du commerce et littéraire, pour la ville et district de Montréal on June 3, 1778. It was the first entirely French-language newspaper in Canada. The paper did not accept advertising aside for the various books that Mesplet also published. The articles were meant to promote discussion, and it focused on literature and philosophy , as well as various anecdotal articles, poems and letters. Benjamin Franklin encouraged Mesplet to found

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1496-577: The Montreal Gazette , is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper which is owned by Postmedia Network . It is published in Montreal , Quebec, Canada. It is the only English-language daily newspaper currently published in its eponymous city. Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during the second half of the 20th century. It is one of the French-speaking province's last two English-language dailies;

1564-478: The Bench in Canada, 'still going with his characteristic energy and ability'. Chief Justice Meredith finally retired for health reasons, in this his final office, October 1, 1884. The government did their best to keep him from resigning his post, but Meredith declined their offers to accept leave of absence with the understanding that his full salary would be paid and his resignation subsequently accepted. Two years later he

1632-589: The Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837. Under the command of Lt.-Colonel Clément-Charles Sabrevois de Bleury , with whom he had articled with a few years previously, Meredith joined the Montreal Rifles as a Lieutenant and saw action against the French rebels at the Battle of Saint-Eustache , reaching the rank of Major in the militia . From the late 1830s Meredith, "a careful, shrewd lawyer", was senior partner of

1700-530: The Molson family home that once stood on the site today occupied by the gas station seen on the other side of Clark Street. In 1849, a judicial promotion took Meredith to Quebec City . He leased the house to several prominent Montrealers including Thomas Evans Blackwell , President of the Grand Trunk Railway , before selling it to a grandson of John Molson – Alexander Molson (1830–1897) – who had grown up at

1768-629: The Montreal Daily News closed in 1989, after less than two years in operation, The Gazette kept its Sunday edition going until August 2010. In 1996, the Southam papers were bought by Conrad Black 's Hollinger Inc. Then in August 2000, Hollinger sold the Southam newspapers, including The Gazette , to Canwest Global Communications Corp. , controlled by the Winnipeg-based Asper family. In 2010,

1836-498: The Notman House . Born May 23, 1812, at No.1 Fitzwilliam Square , Dublin , second son of the Rev. Thomas Meredith and his wife Elizabeth Maria Graves, the eldest daughter of the Very Rev. Richard Graves , Dean of Ardagh. He was named for his father's first cousin, William Collis (1788–1866) J.P., of Tieraclea House, High Sheriff of Kerry , a first cousin of Lord Monteagle . Meredith was

1904-464: The Superior Court for the Province of Quebec. Judge Caron rivalled him for the position, but the influential and affable D'Arcy McGee (then Minister of Agriculture), a close associate of Meredith's brother ( Edmund Allen Meredith ), made a few favourable representations on Meredith's behalf, easing the way for his appointment to the position. In the years before his retirement he was the oldest judge on

1972-482: The Bar of Lower Canada in 1836. On Monday, August 9, 1837, at eight o'clock in the evening, Meredith fought a duel with pistols against James Scott, no stranger to such events. Earlier that day, following a dispute over legal costs, Meredith challenged Scott. He chose James McGill Blackwood (son of John Blackwood ) to second him, while Scott's choice was Joseph-Ferreol Pelletier. The duel took place behind Mount Royal , and

2040-836: The English. This is noticeably apparent in an article written about him in L'Opinion Publique on 10 July 1879 : Le Juge-en-Chef est l'urbanite meme, il est attentive comme un Francais de l'ancien regime. A cette grande affabilite qui n'est nulle part plus appreciable que sur le banc d'un tribunal. Le Juge Meredith joint un savoir etendu, un tact parfait, un judgement tres sur. Il voit au fond s'egarent, les avocats qui brouillent les faits, aux elements fondamentaux dont il faut s'inspirer pour retrouver la verite. Tout cela avec infiniment de benevolence et toutes les formes de la politesse . "Esteemed for his high character, wide knowledge and amiable disposition", "his lofty conception of duty, his great learning, and his gentleness of character commanded

2108-602: The FP Publications chain (which owned the Winnipeg Free Press and, at the time, The Globe and Mail ), endured a long strike and ceased publication in 1979, less than a year after the strike was settled. In 1988, a competing English-language daily, the Montreal Daily News , was launched. The Montreal Daily News adopted a tabloid format and introduced a Sunday edition, forcing The Gazette to respond. After

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2176-533: The OSMO Foundation has spearheaded the Notman House initiative by financing the project through grants, sponsorships, and loans from government and private sponsors. Since opening as a proof of concept in January 2011, the Notman Project has become a showcase for collaboration and the landmark in Montreal's startup scene. It is one of the five strategic innovation initiatives supported by The City of Montreal and became

2244-547: The Sainte Anne Market that housed the Canadian Parliament at Montreal until it was burnt down in the riots of 1849 . Meredith's new home was completed in 1845 within la Côte-à-Baron on Sherbrooke Street, then just a quiet country lane. The Meredith house was approached by a horseshoe driveway that was afterwards pushed back as Sherbrooke Street became a main thoroughfare . Meredith's house neighboured Belmont Hall,

2312-450: The admiration and affection of the bench and bar of Quebec." Sir William Colles Meredith died 26 February 1894, aged eighty two after a short illness, and he was buried with many of his family at Mount Hermon Cemetery , Sillery . Part of the inscription on his gravestone reads, "... Thoughtful consideration for others marked all his acts and made bright his daily walk through life." Montreal Gazette The Gazette , also known as

2380-686: The author William Henry Giles Kingston and his new wife, Agnes Kinloch. In 1866, they built a summer house, 'Rosecliff' in the hamlet of St. Patrick, outside Rivière-du-Loup (where they owned 1,400 acres (5.7 km ) of farmland), which is still occupied by his descendants today. In Quebec City , they owned three further houses and two barn stables; keeping five pleasure carriages, sleighs, two wagon-sleds, three horses and one milk cow. When he became financially independent in 1830, Meredith had purchased four town lots in Kent County , Upper Canada , that turned out to be an important investment in consequence of

2448-399: The bench have always been cited with the greatest respect and many of them are models of what a judicial opinion should be. They excel in clearness, are ample without ceasing to be concise, and bring light and satisfaction to the reader . William Collis Meredith was married at Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal , May 20, 1847, to Sophia Naters Holmes (1820–1898). She was the eldest daughter of

2516-560: The continent with members of his family or visiting friends and relatives in Ireland . Rather than their stepfather, he and the rest of his siblings regarded their uncle, Rev. Dr Richard MacDonnell , as a second father. In 1853, Edmund Allen Meredith wrote in his diary that 'the doctor (as they referred to MacDonnell) spoke much of the splendid apples and cider William had sent him'. In return 'the doctor' insisted on opening bottle after bottle of claret for Edmund, 'to prove to William that it

2584-433: The firm Meredith & Bethune (a relation through the explorer Alexander Henry the elder ) and subsequently Meredith, Bethune & Dunkin . Their offices were situated at 33 Little St. James Street and the firm was described in the 1840s as the most influential in Montreal , having brought together the largest legal business by any one firm in the Province of Quebec . In 1843, he commissioned John Wells , to build him

2652-502: The general public. On December 19, 2012, the OSMO Foundation acquired the property with the help of municipal, provincial and federal government grants, as well as private sponsors. The architect, John Wells , stipulated that the neo-classical structure was to be constructed almost entirely with local materials, from the stone to the mortar which was made with sand from the Saint Lawrence River . The house had an inner court that

2720-521: The house has hosted over 150 events. Apart from having a number of paid co-working spaces, Notman House also has a cafe area, which can be used free of charge by those working on web and mobile projects. These initiatives were designed with the hope of attracting people in the web and mobile space under one roof. This is the idea behind the tagline "Home of the web", which was chosen by the OSMO Foundation. William Collis Meredith Sir William Collis Meredith , QC (23 May 1812 – 26 February 1894)

2788-448: The late 'well-known and popular' William Edward Holmes (1796–1825), a Quebec surgeon (son of William Holmes ) and a brother-in-law of Sydney Robert Bellingham . Mrs Meredith's mother, Ann Johnston (1788–1865), was the daughter of Lt.-Colonel James Johnston and his wife Margaret, sister of John MacNider . Mrs Meredith was one of seven siblings and half-siblings, but other than her only two were married: Her brother, William Holmes, married

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2856-534: The left-hand column and English columns in the right-hand column. The columns were originally written in French and translated to English by Valentin Jautard, who served as editor until his death in 1787. The columns were mostly on education, religion, and literature, and after 1788 on politics. Foreign and local news made up the rest of the paper. The paper took a Voltairian and anticlerical stance, wanted Quebec to have its own legislative assembly and sought to import

2924-635: The neighbouring Belmont Hall. In 1876, Molson sold the house to William Notman , the celebrated Scottish photographer whose collection of over 450,000 photographs form the basis of the Notman Photographic Archives kept at the McCord Museum in Montreal. It is from him that the house takes its name today, and he lived here with his family until his death in 1891. 45°30′43″N 73°34′12″W  /  45.511928°N 73.570064°W  / 45.511928; -73.570064 After Notman's death,

2992-400: The newspaper for several issues, but the paper ceased publication soon after. Two rivals, Louis Roy and Edward Edwards fought over the right to publish the newspaper over the course of two years. Edwards eventually won the printing press and newspaper and continued operations until his assets were seized in 1808. The newspaper was then the property of James Brown for fourteen years. In 1822, it

3060-722: The newspaper to persuade Canadians to join the American Revolution . A secret resolution of Congress dispatched Mesplat and his printing equipment to Canada in February 1776 "to establish a free press...for the frequent publication of such pieces as may be of service to the cause of the United Colonies." Mesplet, an immigrant from France, had previously lived in Philadelphia and supported the Americans when they occupied Montreal during

3128-667: The other is the Sherbrooke Record , which serves the anglophone community in Sherbrooke and the Eastern Townships southeast of Montreal. Founded in 1778 by Fleury Mesplet , The Gazette is Quebec's oldest daily newspaper and the oldest continuously published newspaper in Canada. The oldest newspaper overall is the English-language Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph , which was established in 1764 and

3196-540: The pistols used were Meredith's which he had bought in London, on a previous trip to England. On the first exchange Scott took a bullet high up in the thigh, and the duel was called to a stop. List of duels Meredith v Scott, 1837, under 'Canadian Duels'. The bullet in Scott's thigh bone lodged itself in such a way that it could not be removed by doctors, causing him great discomfort for the rest of his days. Ironically for Scott, this

3264-471: The position for seven years 'with marked ability and success'. On December 28, 1854, he was given an honorary D.C.L. ( Doctor of Civil Laws ) from Bishop's University College, Lennoxville . In 1880, he received the honor for a second time, from Université Laval . In 1865, at a private meeting of the board of governors of Bishop's University he was unanimously elected to become the university's new Chancellor , but due to his existing official duties he declined

3332-491: The position of Rector there. In 1819, Meredith's father died of 'a sudden and awful visitation' at his home while attempting to shoot a ghost with a silver bullet . His mother returned to Harcourt Street, Dublin , and he joined his Meredith and Redmond cousins at Dr Behan's school in County Wexford . Five years later, against her parents wishes, Meredith's mother remarried her mother's cousin, James Edmund Burton (1776–1850),

3400-565: The position. His youngest son, Frederick Edmund Meredith , would hold the position from 1926 to 1932. Meredith's friend Sir John Abbott , who had studied law under him and later became Prime Minister of Canada , was a reluctant supporter of Canadian Confederation in 1866. Abbott feared that it would reduce the English-speaking inhabitants of Lower Canada to political impotence. Among others, he consulted with Meredith and Meredith's former business partner, Christopher Dunkin . They drafted

3468-459: The principles of the French Revolution to Quebec. The newspaper also introduced advertising and announcements, taking up half of four pages. It is the direct ancestor of the current newspaper. The newspaper did well, and Mesplet's operation moved to Notre-Dame Street in 1787. Mesplet continued to operate the newspaper until his death in 1794. Following Mesplet's death, his widow published

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3536-642: The property was purchased by Sir George Alexander Drummond , a wealthy philanthropist and future President of the Bank of Montreal . In 1894, Drummond purchased the house in order to donate it and its land to the Anglican community, the Sisters of the Society of Saint Margaret . Based on the plans of the architect Sir Andrew Thomas Taylor , they enlarged the house and built a hospital known as St. Margaret's Home for Incurables that

3604-434: The railway that was built there. Frances (known as Feo) Monck was the maternal granddaughter of Henry Monck, 1st Earl of Rathdowne and the sister-in-law of the then Governor-General Charles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount Monck . 'Not generally given to benevolence in her judgments,' she gave an unusually long account of a party - or 'drum' as it was known - given by Judge Meredith in her book, My Canadian Leaves, An Account of

3672-524: The same year Chief Justice Joseph-Rémi Vallières de Saint-Réal offered him the position of Dean of Law at McGill University , which he also turned down - a position his grandson, William Campbell James Meredith , later held. He was one of the founding members and a director of the High School of Montreal , which was established with his help in 1843 and soon superseded the Royal Grammar School. He

3740-624: The time, became the regional publisher of Postmedia's Alberta and Saskatchewan papers. Gerry Nott, publisher of the Ottawa Citizen , now also oversees The Gazette , the Windsor Star and Postmedia's flagship title, the National Post . On May 5, 2014, it was announced that printing of The Gazette would be contracted out to Transcontinental Media in August 2014 and that the existing Notre-Dame-de-Grâce facility would be closed, resulting in

3808-514: The two men, who if appointed, would bring the greatest satisfaction to the English-speaking minority. Neither Meredith nor Irvine were appointed, the new government instead choosing another French-speaking Quebecer , Sir Auguste-Réal Angers . At Meredith's death in 1894, the Legal News printed: The late Chief Justice was a diligent advocate and judge, and conscientious and painstaking in the performance of every duty. The opinions delivered by him from

3876-526: The war. The newspaper was shut down in 1779 when Mesplet and the editor, Valentin Jautard , were arrested for sedition and imprisoned for three years. Mesplet began a second weekly, The Montreal Gazette / La Gazette de Montréal , on August 25, 1785, which had a dual French-English bilingual format similar to that used by the Quebec Gazette . Its offices were located in the house of Joseph Lemoyne de Longueuil on rue de la Capitale. French columns were in

3944-554: Was Chief Justice of the Superior Court for the Province of Quebec from 1866 to 1884. In 1844, he was offered but refused the positions of Solicitor General of Canada and then Attorney-General for Canada East - the latter position he turned down again in 1847. In 1887, he was one of the two English-speaking candidates considered by the Liberals for the role of Lieutenant Governor of Quebec . The home he commissioned and lived in at Montreal from 1845 to 1849 still stands today, known as

4012-600: Was able to accommodate 50 patients. The Sisters of St. Margaret operated the hospital for almost a century until 1991, when financial responsibility for operating St. Margaret's passed from the Drummond Trusts to the Government of Quebec , and a new Centre d'Accueil St. Margaret was established at 50 Hillside Avenue in Westmount . Since 2022, Les vies de la maison Notman , a research-creation project from Université de Montréal

4080-509: Was appointed to be one of the first ten judges of the newly established Superior Court for the Province of Quebec , by the Lafontaine – Baldwin government, a position he held for ten years. However, this meant abandoning with some reluctance the practice of a profession to which he was greatly attached, and in doing so relinquished a profitable business in Montreal . During Lord Elgin 's term as Governor General of Canada (1847–1854), Meredith

4148-493: Was caught in a three-way fight for the English newspaper audience in Montreal with the tabloid Montreal Herald and the broadsheet Montreal Star . The Gazette was second in circulation to the Montreal Star , which sold more newspapers in the city and had a significant national reputation in the first half of the 20th century. The Montreal Herald closed in 1957, after publishing for 146 years. The Montreal Star , part of

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4216-747: Was counsel to the board of the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning and on the committee to save McGill University in the early 1840s. He conducted a good deal of business for the university, and it was with his influence that his younger brother, Edmund Allen Meredith , became the sixth principal of McGill from 1846 to 1853. In 1848, he was a founding director and trustee of the Montreal Mining Company along with Peter McGill , George Moffatt , Sir George Simpson , Sir Allan Napier MacNab and James Ferrier . In December 1849, Meredith

4284-563: Was created a Knight Bachelor by Queen Victoria . Meredith had been as popular among the French as he was among the English, which was extremely rare for the time. This is made clear from an article written in the French journal L'Electeur at his retirement, La retraite de M. le juge Meredith va creer un vif chagrin dans le barreau comme parmi le public. Jamais en effet un magistrat ne sut mieux se concilier leftie des avocats sans cesse en rapport avec lui et la confiance du public. Jurisconsulte eminent, magistrat dont la reputation d'honorabilite

4352-430: Was elected one of the judges of the Seigneurial Court. In 1859, 'at the earnest solicitation of the government and in compliance with the members of the Montreal bar', he accepted a seat from Sir George-Étienne Cartier , as a judge in the Court of Queen's Bench , that being the Court of Appeals for the province. Several of his judgments were spoken of very highly by the lords of the Privy Council in England. He filled

4420-408: Was exactly where he had shot Sweeney Campbell in a duel when they were students. In the early 1850s (Scott died in 1852), when both the adversaries had become judges, one of the sights then to see was Meredith helping his brother judge up the steep Court House steps, Scott being still hindered by the lameness in his leg since their encounter. Not long after the duel, his career was interrupted again by

4488-436: Was filled with greenery, and according to the 1991 Montreal Gazette article on the Notman House, 'the central hall plan of the house - symmetrically placed grand rooms off a generous corridor - followed the tradition of aristocratic domestic architecture in both Britain and the United States'. The portico is decorated with palmettes and rosettes . The house is considered a fine example of Greek Revival architecture and

4556-427: Was much finer and larger than ' Spencer's Wood '. Lady M (Lady Blanche MacDonnell) and Dick flirted together for a long time; she is so pretty and pleasant. A Miss Tilstone sang—a handsome girl with a pretty voice. Then a Madame Taschereau (a daughter of Robert Unwin Harwood ) sang—good voice; and then THE man sang, Mr Antoine Chartier de Lotbinière Harwood (brother of Madame Taschereau) an M.P.P., half French. He has

4624-412: Was sold to businessman Thomas Andrew Turner who converted into an English-only paper in 1822. Under Turner, The Gazette identified with the interests of anglophone business leaders in their fight with the Patriote movement . On April 25, 1849, The Gazette published a special edition in which its editor-in-chief, James Moir Ferres , called the " Anglo-Saxon " residents to arms after Royal Assent of

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