University Publications of America
This collection was brought together by the University Publications of America (UPA) to provide reference material for the study of the history of the Southern United States. The strategy guiding the collecting mandate is the geographic and physical location of the records. All the material in Series A has been selected from the holdings of the South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina.
Upper Canada. Court of Queen's Bench
Oyer and Terminer is the name of a court authorized to hear and determine all treasons, felonies and misdemeanors; and, generally, invested with other power in relation to the punishment of offenders. Commissions of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery were issued to the senior judiciary, generally one or more of the Justices or Judges of the Court(s) of King's/Queen's Bench, sometimes along with senior Justices of the Peace. Members of the Courts were usually referred to as Commissioners.
In Upper Canada the jurisdiction of the courts were generally specified by the commissions that established them. In the case of Courts of Oyer and Terminer it extended in practice to all major pending criminal cases for a particular district that were not under the usual jurisdiction of the Courts of Quarter Sessions of the Peace. This meant that the Courts had the same criminal jurisdiction as the Court(s) of King's Bench, and were effectively extensions of the criminal terms of the latter. During the Rebellions of 1837-38, an 1838 ordinance allowed the governor to establish special Courts of Oyer and Terminer where no Courts of King's Bench were in operation, with jurisdiction over high treason, misprision (concealment) of high treason, treasonable practices, sedition, arson, and murder, committed in any district.
Canadian Council of Professional Engineers
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Collingwood Shipyard is one of the oldest ship construction businesses in Canada.
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM, was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (first included in Barrie's adult novel The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland.
Although he continued to write successfully, Peter Pan overshadowed his other work, and is credited with popularising the name Wendy. Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents. Barrie was made a baronet by George V on 14 June 1913, and a member of the Order of Merit in the 1922 New Year Honours. Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, which continues to benefit from them.
Queen's University. Queen's Fund Council
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