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Montreal where an efficient medical institute had been established in 
1824, and afterwards merged into McGill University. In Upper Canada 
no medical education could be obtained until after the opening of King’s 
College in 1843. 
The leaders in the legislative bodies were generally drawn from the 
legal profession, and travellers while giving unfavourable accounts of 
most things in the country, admitted that most of their men “ would do 
credit to the English parliament.” Long before 1840 it was not neces- 
sary to go to England for able lawyers to fill positions on the bench. As 
a matter of fact it was a grievance on the part of the later immigrants of 
1830 that English attorneys could not be admitted to practice in Upper 
Canada until after several years’ study in the office of a Canadian lawyer. 
Some of the most brilliant men of British North America appeared at 
the time of which I am writing. For instance, in Nova Scotia, Chief 
Justice Sir William Young—to give them the titles of the high positions 
they afterwards occupied—once leader of the Liberal party ; Judge 
Johnston, for many years leader of the Conservative party; Honourable 
James Boyle Uniacke, witty and eloquent ; in New Brunswick, Judge 
Samuel A. Wilmot, afterwards Lieutenant-Governor; in Lower Canada, 
Chief Justice Sir James Stuart and Chief Justice Sir Louis Hypolite 
Lafontaine; in Upper Canada, Chief Justice Sir J. Beverly Robinson, 
Judge Hagerman, Chief Justice Sir J. Buchan Macaulay, Chief Justice 
McLean, Chief Justice Draper, and Honourable Robert Baldwin. These 
are, however, only notable examples in a long list of men whose legal 
knowledge and oratorical power were evidences of the intellectual de- 
velopment of the people in the two decades before the union of 1840. 
