HUNT, GEORGE (Xawe, ’Maxwalagalis, K’ixitasu, Nołq’ołala)

fishing occupied much of his year, it was Tuff’s work in the spring seal hunt that earned him public attention later in his life. The hunt was economically and culturally vital to communities such as his

of the hunt, but felt that it was “no fun killing seals.” About 40 minutes long, The swilin’ racket (called The great Arctic seal hunt when it was released the following year) was

Sutton (d. possibly May 1892) in Winnipeg; they had no children; m. secondly 1893 Anne Hunt, and they had five sons and three daughters

to tending the orchard and garden, family members hunted and fished, and sold clams, berries, fish, and seaweed. Maria’s determination to provide

mission school; often they remained only for short periods. In 1903 Egerton favourably recalled these early school days: “Sometimes I had the pleasure of going on a buffalo hunt with my parents, who

-class suburbs of Winnipeg. He was a long-time member of the First Baptist Church and the Manitoba Club. On 26 Dec. 1935, while hunting for rabbits that threatened his cherished orchard trees, Chipman

hunted, trapped, and prospected. His trailblazing took Wilson to several places previously known only to natives. His most famous “discovery” was made

-unsettled regions of the northwest. He bought a horse, a Red River cart, provisions, a gun, and trading goods, and lived with a hunting party of Métis. For the next year he traded with the Blackfoot

missions at Fort Edmonton (Edmonton) and Pigeon Lake (Alta). According to Woolsey, he was a particularly effective interpreter, and his hunting skills helped keep the mission communities fed

relations. He enjoyed a childhood that combined the pursuits of hunting, trading, and learning local languages with a formal European-style education obtained at St John’s College in the Red River

weighted down with shot to ward off mosquitoes and flies. Sometimes she drove their horse and wagon while her husband hunted prairie chickens, a novel food for them both. On the ten-day trip along Lake

. An avid outdoorsman, McPhillips’s favourite recreation was horseback riding. He also enjoyed high jumping, hunting, and camping. On one outing with a group that included fellow British Columbia

and mining intensified. Subsistence and trade that had traditionally centred on hunting, fishing, and trapping persisted, but state-imposed regulations pushed the Carrier from communal usage of land

Street, Ryckman was a member of the Toronto, National, Albany, Hunt, and Royal Canadian Yacht clubs in his own city, the Manhattan Club in New York, the Rideau Club in Ottawa, and the Caledon Mountain

, when it won the Canada Cup in Toledo, Ohio. Bayly was also a talented horseman and a member of the Toronto Hunt Club, of which he served as secretary

his children. He loved the outdoors. Every fall he took Donald out of school (as he had likely done with his other son, the elder by ten years) and they went duck hunting for two weeks

Caledonian Society and the St Andrew’s Society. He was fond of hunting and curling, and in his youth he had enjoyed fencing. In Toronto he founded the Military Indoor Baseball League and the Miniature

was made commanding officer of the 8th Infantry Brigade, a post he held for three years. Rogers, who enjoyed rifle shooting, hunting, and