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Authority record- CA QUA05452
- Person
- 1876-1955
Louvigny de Montigny was an author, editor, and translator based in Ottawa, Ontario.
- CA QUA00434
- Person
- n.d.
Dr. De Naut appears to have lived in both Delta, Ontario and Hamlet, Indiana.
- CA QUA00435
- Family
- n.d.
Dr. De Naut appears to have lived in both Delta, Ontario and Hamlet, Indiana.
- CA QUA01614
- Family
- n.d.
Joseph Deacon was born in in Perth, Ontario, in 1830. Deciding on law as a profession he entered the office of his brother, John Deacon, late senior judge of the County of Renfrew. He was sworn in as solicitor in 1854, admitted as an attorney in 1857, and called to the bar in 1860 and in the fall of that year moved to Brockville. After practising for eleven years he was appointed police magistrate of Brockville and he held the position from 1871 to 1918. He was created a Queen's Counsel in 1884 by the Federal Government. He practiced law in Brockville until his death in 1918.
Charles Rufus Deacon, son of Joseph Deacon and Amanda (Teskey) Deacon, graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School and was called to the bar in 1902. He practised with his father until his father's death. In 1924 the family moved to Toronto where, until his retirement, he was Master of Titles for the Province of Ontario. In 1933 he was appointed a Kinf's Counsel and he died in 1955.
John Albert Deacon, son of Charles Rufus and Anna (McConachie) Deacon, graduated from Osgoode Hall in 1939. He served with the Royal Canadian Artillery and the Judge Advocate - General's Staff during World War II. After the war he practisec in Toronto and was appointed a Provincial Court Judge in 1965.
- CA QUA02999
- Person
- 1890-1977
William Arthur Deacon, literary critic and editor (b at Pembroke, Ont 6 Apr 1890; d at Toronto 5 Aug 1977). Trained as a lawyer in Winnipeg, Deacon was book review editor of, in turn, the Manitoba Free Press (1921), Saturday Night (1922-28), the Toronto Mail and Empire (1928-36) and the Mail and Empire's successor, the Globe and Mail (1936-61). A pioneer literary nationalist, he was both a provoker of and a participant in the cultural ferment of the 1920s, when he did his own best work: this includes Pens and Pirates (1923), Poteen and Other Essays (1926) and especially The Four Jameses (1927), a satirical study of Canadian poetasters. But in the 1930s his reputation withered in the shade of modernist writing and radical politics. At length he came to appear as a retrograde force to a literary culture that did not give him the credit he deserved for his long years of tireless activity.