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
ALEXANDER, CHARLES, confectioner, caterer, philanthropist, politician, and jp; b. 13 June 1816
ALMON, WILLIAM JOHNSTON, physician and politician; b
lay teachers, the École Doran. Founded in 1854 and named after its former principal William Doran, the school under Archambeault became the Catholic Commercial Academy of Montreal in 1860
Scobie*’s book and stationery shop in Toronto on the recommendation of William Darling*, a Montreal merchant originally from Edinburgh. In
within a year he was employed by the Canadian Pacific Railway as a clerk in the freight department at Winnipeg. Here he joined the 90th (Winnipeg) Battalion of Rifles, formed by William Nassau
.
When in 1884 Sir Charles Tupper*, mp for Cumberland, resigned to become Canadian high commissioner in
editor in 1867 and held the position until his death. When Hugh William became postmaster of Halifax in 1874, Henry assumed the proprietorship and with his younger brother Charles Coleman ran the paper
impartiality with a temperate defence of the Mackenzie government’s position, and so to some extent appeased British Colombian anger [see Andrew Charles
federal elections in June 1882, the “opposition party” was favoured by the Liberal press, notably William Elder*’s Daily Telegraph
second hand (first mate) under Captain Isaac Bartlett from Conception Bay, he participated in the rescue of members of the crew of the ill-fated Polaris expedition [see Charles
. 1822 in Penryn, England, son of Robert Blenkinsop, an excise officer, and Mary —; m. first July 1846 Helen McNeill, daughter of William
. 5 Feb. 1818 in Newburyport, Mass., third child of William Boardman, a merchant, and Esther W. Toppan; m
BOMPAS, WILLIAM CARPENTER, Church of England clergyman, bishop, and missionary; b
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 this assessment, in
BOWMAN, WILLIAM, mechanical engineer, businessman, and politician; b. 20 March 1820 in Liverpool, England
arrival of the railway. Initially, he and his brother William settled in Portage la Prairie; they then homesteaded in the Qu’Appelle valley in 1882. Charles moved to Winnipeg in 1883, working briefly as a
grocery business on Rue Saint-Paul. Opened in 1850, the store was small and in 1858 had a stock in trade valued at between £500 and £750. After the death of Charles in 1859, Robert and his brother William
BRODIE, WILLIAM, dentist and biologist; b. 1831 (baptized 9 July) in Peterhead, Scotland, son of George Brodie
