Temagami band of Ojibwa, who now regard themselves as a non-Ojibwa “border people” called the Teme-Augama Anishnabai. Probably born on White Bear (Cassels) Lake, Tonené entered the Euro-Canadian accounts in
COPE, JOHN NOEL (Newell) (Bolmoltie, Bowlmawltie, Paul Martin), Micmac guide and hunter; b. April 1847 in Sheet Harbour, N.S., son
. c. 1832–35, probably in Berens River (Man.), son of Mahquah (Maskwa, Bear) and Amo (Bee
District Grammar School, Hugh was admitted to Osgoode Hall as a student in 1842 and read law with John Wilson*. He was called to the bar in November
WALBRAN, JOHN THOMAS, master mariner and toponymist; b. 23 March 1848
Hay Johnson was a great-grandson of John Johnson of Yorkshire, England, who in 1775 emigrated to Nova Scotia to take up a grant of land in the fertile Horton Township. In the second decade of the 19th
(Northern Ireland), and they had one son; d. 28 Jan. 1915 in Montreal and was buried in Belvedere Cemetery, St John’s.
James
ore and prove the presence of copper.
The discovery of the property that would bear his name, the famous Frood mine, occurred in May 1884 when
July 1831 in the first frame-house erected in what became Springville, N.S., one of the ten children of John Holmes
and then at St George’s Hospital Medical School, a private institution made famous by John and William Hunter. He was admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1854. After serving as
Rosebrugh, of uel descent and a Wesleyan Methodist, began medical studies at the age of 18 at John
Cross Society, to encouraging recruitment, and to visiting training camps and hospitals. Rabbi Max John Merritt of Montreal, in a eulogy delivered at his funeral, would attribute to Jacobs’s inspiration
become surveyor general of British Columbia, but he declined. In parliament Dewdney supported the Conservative government of Sir John A
Oxford House (Man.), third child of John Isbister and Frances Sinclair; m. 1 Jan. 1859 Margaret Bear at “Nepowewin Station” (Nipawin, Sask.), and they had at least 16
singing. Her musical talents were much admired and she served as choir director and organist at St Andrew’s Church. Canon John Grisdale, later Anglican bishop of Qu’Appelle, referred to her as “our
brought the critical spirit to bear with the rigour of an intellect that rivalled some of Europe’s finest minds. From 1871 to the turn of the century he was active in the Ottawa Literary and Scientific
French Canadian soldier to be given this honour. Streets, buildings, and even a mountain still bear his name and keep his memory alive
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