Adam Thom was a teacher, journalist, lawyer, public servant, and recorder.
20 Facts About Adam Thom
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Adam Thom was born in Brechin, in the Tayside region in Scotland.
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Adam Thom's father was Andrew Thom, a merchant, and his mother Elizabeth Bisset.
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Adam Thom entered the King's College in 1819 and obtained a Master of Arts in 1824.
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In 1840 Thom was awarded an lld by the same institution.
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Adam Thom taught briefly at the Udny Academy, in Aberdeenshire and in a school of Woolwich where he settled.
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Adam Thom published a grammar of Latin entitled The Complete Gradus in 1832.
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Adam Thom emigrated to Lower Canada in 1832 and settled in Montreal.
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Adam Thom began articling in the law office of James Charles Grant.
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Adam Thom went back to teaching at the Montreal Academical Institution.
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Adam Thom published a public letter addressed to Colonial Secretary Lord Stanley in 1834.
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Adam Thom strongly opposed the policy of governor Gosford, which he judged too conciliating toward the parliamentary majority.
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Adam Thom was admitted to the Bar of Lower Canada in 1837.
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Adam Thom became the spokesman of Durham and the paper he wrote with fellow assistant commissioner William Kennedy was included in the Report on the Affairs of British North America.
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Adam Thom left England for Red River Colony to fill the position of recorder offered to him by George Simpson, governor of the Hudson's Bay Company.
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Adam Thom was asked to reform the administration of justice, and to codify the laws of the colony.
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Adam Thom refused to use the French language, which he knew, even though the duties of his office required it.
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Adam Thom entered in conflict with the Metis, which were mainly French-speaking and Catholic, when he recommended the governor Assiniboia, Alexander Christie, to repress the business of small independent fur traders on the company's territory.
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Adam Thom was however unconditionally released and permitted to keep the furs in spite of the verdict, because the Metis who attended the trial, Louis Riel Sr.
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Adam Thom however continued to displease a good part of the population of River Red and in the autumn of 1850, Louis Riel Sr.