Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy was born on July 30, 1809, in Kamouraska, Quebec.

He was a controversial Canadian Catholic priest who left the Catholic Church and became a Presbyterian minister. He studied at the Petit Séminaire in Nicolet, Quebec. In 1833, he was ordained a Catholic priest and served at parishes in Rivière-Boyer, Quebec City (1834) and Beauport (1838), where he founded the Temperance Society in 1839. During the 1840s, he led a very successful campaign throughout Quebec against alcohol and drunkenness. Later he immigrated to Illinois in the United States. In 1855, he was sued by a prominent Catholic layman named Peter Spink in Kankakee, Illinois. Chiniquy hired the lawyer Abraham Lincoln to defend him. The spring court action in Urbana was the highest-profile libel suit in Lincoln's career. The case was ended in the fall court session by agreement. Chiniquy also clashed with the Bishop of Chicago, Anthony O'Regan, over the bishop's treatment of Catholics in the city, particularly French Canadians. The bishop excommunicated him and Chiniquy left the Roman Catholic Church in 1858. He claimed that the church was pagan, that Roman Catholics worshipped the Virgin Mary, that its theology spoiled the Gospel, and was anti-Christian. He also claimed that the Vatican had planned to take over the United States by importing Catholic immigrants from Ireland, Germany, and France. He became a Presbyterian minister and dedicated his life to trying to win his fellow French Canadians, as well as others, from Catholicism to the Protestant faith. He wrote several books and tracts expressing his views on the alleged errors in the faith and practises of the Roman Catholic Church. His two most influential works are “Fifty Years in The Church of Rome” and “The Priest, The Woman and The Confessional”. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity (D.D.) from the Presbyterian College at McGill University, Montreal.

In 1864, he married Euphemie Allard (1835–1911). He died on January 16, 1899, in Montreal, Quebec.

Edward William Chipman was born on November 13, 1826, in Lawrencetown, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, a son of Samuel Bishop Chipman (1803-1855), a merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia.

He was for many years one of the most prosperous dry goods merchants in Halifax. He also served as the city's alderman (1865-1866). In 1865-1866, he built an expensive and extravagant home in Halifax. After his business started to fail in the early 1870s, he lost the house, and it was turned into the Waverley Inn. In 1878, he moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota.

He was married to Mahala Jane Northup. He died about 1916 in Minnesota, USA.

Isaac Logan Chipman was born on July 17, 1817, near Berwick, Kings County, Nova Scotia, the son of a pastor.

He attended Horton Academy and was licensed by the Church to preach the Gospel in 1836. In 1839, he graduated from Waterville College (later Colby University) in Maine and in 1840, he became professor of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and Geology at the Acadia College in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Chipman was a man of great vision and energy, who also had an earnest love of study. He began the library at Acadia and started the College Museum for which he personally collected numerous plant, animal and mineral specimens and encouraged others to make donations. He was also an early proponent of adult education and gave special lectures in geology. His approach to teaching was practically oriented with a strong emphasis on lab and fieldwork, rather than books and recitations. He was very fond of geological excursions, and it was while leading such an excursion to Blomidon around Minas Basin that he lost his life. The boat capsized and Prof. Chipman and four students drowned on June 7, 1852.

Architect Noel I. Chipman attended McGill University when World War I intervened and he did not return to complete his studies there until 1920. He served with the Canadian Army Medical Corps as well as the Canadian Machine Gun Corps. Before the war he had articled with Alexander Dunlop in Montreal and had taken some courses in London in 1919. After working briefly for Fetherstonhaugh & McDougall in Montreal, then Huntley W. Davis and W.L. Bottomley in New York, then again in Montreal for Huntley W. Davis and for Samuel A. Finley, he finally opened his own Montreal office in 1927. He worked there, while living in Montreal and Como, Quebec, before retiring to Florida in 1963.

Walter W. Chipman was born in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. He obtained his B.A. from Acadia University in 1890 and his M.D. in 1898 from the University of Edinburgh. After postgraduate work in London, Paris, Vienna and Berlin, Chipman joined the teaching staff of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill in 1900 as demonstrator in gynecology, and in the same year joined the staff of the Royal Victoria Hospital. He was appointed Professor of gynecology in 1910. From 1943 to 1947 he served as president of the Royal Victoria Hospital and he was a member of the Board of Governors of McGill from 1932 to 1948. Chipman retired as Emeritus Professor in 1929. He passed away in 1950.

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