- James Monk
Sir James Monk (1745–1826) was
Chief Justice ofLower Canada . He was born inBoston , Massachusetts and educated in Halifax, Nova Scotia where his father had settled in 1749.cite web|url=http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/QuebecHistory/encyclopedia/SirJamesMonk-QuebecHistory.htm|title=Sir James Monk|last=Bélanger|first=Claude|date=2006|work=The Quebec History Encyclopedia|publisher=Marianopolis College |accessdate=2008-05-29]He was knighted in 1825. In 1826, he would die at his home in
Cheltenham ,England at the age of 41.References
Further reading
* W. Stewart WALLACE, ed., The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. IV, Toronto, University Associates of Canada , 1948, 400p., p. 320.
*F. J. Audet, Sir James Monk (Les Annales, 1924)
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