1903. A slight, bright-eyed man with bushy eyebrows and a black beard, Pearse valued the company of women. In 1900 he reflected that “the

jewels, and wore only a plain black dress; she went out wrapped in a long cloak, with a small black veil covering her face. As she set about her work, she lived in constant communication with God, to whom

Ottawa, together with John Black*, president of the General Quarterly Court of Assiniboia, and Alfred Henry

including Edward Black Greenshields*, he formed the Brompton Lake Asbestos Company to mine a deposit of asbestos in Brompton Township

 Mary Black-Rogers for her comments on this biography, and the subject’s grandson Chief Thomas Fiddler for details concerning the family