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Canada, où il s’allia à une famille d’origine écossaise.

IIo. Jacques Baby. — M. Jacques Baby, frère des précédents, continua la lignée. Il était l’aîné de la famille, et il peut en être considéré comme le plus marquant.

La notice biographique suivante fut écrite à sa mort par son ami, le lord bishop Strachan, de Toronto :

« James Baby. — It is with extreme concern that we announce to the public, the loss of so valuable and respected a member of this Society, as the Hon. James Baby, who after a very short but severe illness, breathed his last, on the afternoon of Tuesday, the 19th inst., in the 71st year of his age. — As very few persons had heard of his illness, the report of his death produced a great sensation, for he was much beloved by all who knew him. His disease was at first attended with excessive pain and repeated convulsions, and when they abated, he was reduced to a