Off (Alta).
The daughter of a leading chief of the Blood tribe of Blackfoot Indians, Natawista was wed according to Indian custom to Alexander
DAVISON (Davidson), GEORGE, entrepreneur, officer-holder, and agriculturist; son of Alexander Davison, a prosperous farmer, and
administrator; b. 16 June 1783 near Inverness, Scotland, son of Alexander and Catherine Mackenzie; d. 20 Jan. 1851 in Mayville, N.Y
under Alexander Neil Bethune*, when he broke permanently with orthodox Christian theology and returned to farming, beginning his own
had settled there. In a letter of 28 Nov. 1808 Alexander McDonell* (Collachie), who was in the process of buying a portion of
McTAVISH, DONALD, fur trader; b. 1771 or 1772 in Strath Errick, Scotland, son of Alexander McTavish; drowned 22 May 1814 at
Alexander Becher, rn, and Frances Scott; m. first 27 Oct. 1841 Sarah Evanson Leonard (d. 1864), and they had eight children; m. secondly in 1874 Caroline
. Duncan was also associated in a business way with a fellow Scot, Alexander Brymer, deputy paymaster of the forces. Brymer is reputed to have made £250,000 from his position. There is very little evidence
officers of all arms would be trained together. Fletcher’s report was important in influencing Alexander Mackenzie* to establish the Royal
posts to share holiday festivities. As the HBC men were leaving, Fubbister, feeling poorly, asked Alexander Henry
([1854]), 24–48. Alexander Henry, Travels and adventures in Canada and the Indian territories between the years 1760 and 1776, ed. James Bain (Boston, 1901; repr. Edmonton, 1969), 78–79. JR
, agrarian community in British North America, influenced perhaps by Owen’s purchase two years earlier of the New Harmony community in Indiana. In the fall of 1827 Jones set off with his valet, Alexander
Alexander Gale of Hamilton, joined the staff in 1846. Late in 1851 Esson applied for the newly constituted chair of
Alexander Tilloch Galt*]. He was appointed in 1868 to a parish which included the villages of Richmond and Melbourne; it would become his
tour of inspection of the east side of Lake Winnipeg during the winter. At Sandy River he buried the corpses of the HBC officer and two Indians, and he vaccinated the people at Fort Alexander on the
.
Étienne Campion first went into the pays d’en haut in 1753. By 1761 he was well acquainted with the region and was recommended as a guide and assistant to Alexander
given to him by Wayne to the British Indian agent Alexander McKee
per cent of the claim, as well as lawyer David Alexander Dunlap, who became the fifth member of “La Rose quintette,” as the Toronto Globe would later call them. (La Rose himself
William Henry (Sorel), Lower Canada, and they had three children; m. secondly 23 Aug. 1826 in Lanoraie, Lower Canada, Elizabeth Cairns, daughter of Alexander Cairns, the agent of the Berthier
