JOSEPH, air force officer and bush pilot; b. 2 Dec. 1896 in Parry
of the promise of the Canadian northwest encouraged Stephen to attach his name in 1871 and 1873 to two proposals to build lines to Fort Garry (Winnipeg). Although these projects never materialized, his
plan to support the building of the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway northeast from Edmonton to Fort McMurray. On the basis of this policy the Liberal government was re-elected by a large majority in
August) that took him from Little Whale River to Fort Chimo (Kuujjuaq), where he embarked for England on
. . . , a text based on The soldier’s pocket-book for field service (London, 1869) by Garnet Joseph Wolseley
November he and his brother Benjamin forced McDougall’s representatives, Captain Donald Roderick Cameron and Joseph-Alfred-Norbert
veterinary courses were taught by French-speaking graduates of the college, including Orphir Bruneau and Joseph-Alphonse
Catharines fell ill, Mair went instead to visit her. At the point of leaving in October, McDougall appointed him paymaster for the construction of a road from Lake of the Woods to Upper Fort Garry (Winnipeg
of the Presbyterian College. In addition, he was one of the founders in 1871 of Fort Massey Presbyterian Church, where he served as elder, clerk of session, chairman of the managing committee, trustee
the twelve children of William McKay and Mary Bunn, who were both of mixed blood; brother of Joseph William McKay*; m. 4 Aug
, to Joseph Chevaudier, dit Lépine, and Marie-Anne Pellerin. His mother, the daughter of an English fur trader and an Indian woman, was a native of Ste
*, a fellow barrister and judge, would candidly observe, Longley’s heart “was not in the profession.” Politics was his forte and obsessive love; law was but the stepping stone to preferment
, colonizer, preacher, and author; b. 9 March 1845 in Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan (Saint-Jacques), Lower Canada, son of Joseph Cassé, a farmer, and
served as a stretcher–bearer during the Franco-German war of 1870–71. He returned to Canada but by the spring of 1872 he had left his business in the care of an employee, Joseph Emm
to novices who were completing their theological studies prior to ordination. Three years later he was appointed the first resident priest in Fort Edmonton (Edmonton) and curate of St
office of Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau*. Called to the bar in 1871, he continued to work with Chapleau, whom he accompanied to Winnipeg in
DOUCET, STANISLAS-JOSEPH, priest, Acadian patriot, homeopath, inventor, and author; b. 8
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