John McConville

John McConville (ca 1793 – September 10, 1849) was an Irish-born educator in Lower Canada.

Life and career

John was born in Newry, the son of Meredith McConville and Mary McCardle, and came to Lower Canada, teaching in Montreal, then Vaudreuil and finally Berthier-en-Haut. Although his application supported by the legislative councillor James Cuthbert, McConville was originally rejected for the post in Berthier-en-Haut because he was Roman Catholic, even though he was able to teach in French. He finished his teaching career as principal for the Académie de Berthier. McConville married Mary Magdalen Mackie in 1832. He died in Industrie (later Joliette).

His son Joseph Norbet Alfred served in the Quebec legislative assembly and his son Lewis Arthur served in the Canadian House of Commons.

gollark: Do cloud providers start stuff that much faster than generic VPS ones? All the VPS providers I've used can manage initialisation in a few minutes.

gollark: But it still seems like a big price delta given that, like you said, they have ridiculous economies of scale.

gollark: I have an old tower server which costs maybe £5/month to run, which provides ~4x the CPU/RAM and ~10x the disk I'd get from a cloud provider at similar pricing, plus I could install a spare GPU when I wanted that. This is a very extreme case since I am entirely ignoring my time costs on managing it and don't have as much redundancy as them.(Edit: also terrible internet connectivity, and colocation would be expensive)

gollark: Possibly also that you can hire fewer sysadmins? But I'm not sure they're that expensive if you have a lot of developers anyway.

gollark: I think the argument for cloud is mostly that it's much faster to scale than "have a bunch of servers in your office", but it seems like you pay an insane amount for that.

References

Thivierge, Marîse (1988). "John McConville". Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Retrieved 2009-02-28.

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