Braithwaite, subsequently a famous hunter, trapper, and the first non-native guide in the province, and Lieutenant William Smythe Maynard Wolfe, who painted water-colours of hunting trips with Gabe and other
London, England, son of William Wood and Anne Aston Key; d. unmarried 26 Sept. 1909 in Montreal.
Edmund Wood was educated at Turrell’s School
and the grain-elevator owners [see William Watson Ogilvie*]. Within little more than a year the organization had disappeared
ruling Conservatives with a majority of 777 over his Liberal opponent, Charles Leduc, but his political career would be short. Running as an independent in 1875, he lost his seat to Conservative Louis
work. Finally, in the pages of this thinker, perhaps more so than in the work of Charles Darwin or Herbert Spencer, Bucke found a useful theory of human evolution. In recognition of these contributions
doctors Charles Smallwood*, William Hales Hingston
Chicago and then to Texas. In 1868, under the name of Charles Carter, he joined the Texas Rangers where he learned the rudiments of military life. On his return to Montreal in 1872, Chartrand enlisted in
Lampman*, William Bliss Carman*, Charles George Douglas
John William Dawson*, and his friend the Protestant convert Charles Chiniquy
the Métis élite, including men such as Charles Nolin. Following the capture of Upper Fort Garry by Riel on 2
treacherous Allegheny River, an outcome that delighted his supporters, who had bet upwards of $300,000. In 1879 he captured the English championship, beating William Elliott by 11 lengths over a three-and
Elwyn*, and Andrew Charles Elliott*.
O’Reilly left Ireland on 5 Feb
Breton. Bourinot received his early education under the Reverend William Young Porter, who was amazed by his pupil’s “quickness of perception, and the intellectual grasp which he exhibited.” Encouraged by
. From Winnipeg he moved in 1880 to Rat Portage (Kenora, Ont.), where he was briefly in partnership with William L. Baker, a local merchant, to supply goods for CPR contracts. McLennan himself
, and office holder; b. 24 Jan. 1840 in Côte-des-Neiges (Montreal), son of William Buie, a banker of Scottish descent, and Marie-Antoinette-Léocadie d’Estimauville; d. 26 Jan
, when it overruled them, he, Brown, and William McDougall joined the government on 30 June 1864, Mowat
by the Liberal press, notably William Elder*’s Daily Telegraph in Saint John, John Valentine
3 October in the Saint-Charles cemetery.
Augustin Côté came from a family of modest means and it is thought that he did not go to school
John Christian Schultz* and Charles Mair*, who had misled the Canadian
with the English. Dumont and Charles Nolin would take the document to Ottawa after consulting Riel on the way and