Man., Legislative Library (Winnipeg), Biog. scrapbooks. PAM, MG 14, B33

accept a compromise. “It is unjust . . . to strike a man when he is down,” it noted. “It is not in keeping with the free air of the Northwest. It savours of the east, where usurious Shylocks are

Anderson*. Following a winter at St Andrew’s parish (Man.), Corbett founded a new mission, named Headingley, midway between the Red River settlement and Portage la

 15 in the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, where the young man studied from 1839 to 1841. Kirkwood developed a special interest in linguistics and returned to the institution in 1844–45 to study

Canadian ancestry. In 1834–35, while his father was in England on furlough, Allan lived with his mother and siblings in the Red River settlement (Man.). There, on 2 Nov. 1834, the children as well as

father. He fished as a boy for cod in local waters and as a young man of 22 in the days of sail commanded schooners at the seal fishery. His

where Methodist schools had been established, and tactful in his relations with his fellow superintendents, Milligan proved himself an exceptionally able and far-seeing man. The annual reports which he

the Glengarry militia during the rebellion of 1837–38. Roderick went to school in Glen Donald. He and his brothers, all big and agile, showed prowess in the strong-man events and foot-races at farmers

. 1837 in St Boniface (Man.), son of Augustin Nolin and Hélène-Anne Cameron; m

marrying Susan Augusta True, an American, in Coaticook, Que., he set out with her for the Red River settlement (Man.). When the couple arrived in Red

, and let no man rob me of my boasting.” Despite this unfortunate conclusion to his long and invaluable service, Sutherland left an important legacy

). Charles was “a man of fine artistic taste,” according to historians Ethelbert Olaf Stuart Scholefield and Frederic William Howay, and apparently he executed many sketches of the “fur trading life of the

of the city, the Evening Telegram said that “Robert Gerrie was more probably than any other man of his day – the father of the Winnipeg Boom

 yards of bullet-swept ground to reach a wounded soldier. On finding that the man had died, he walked back to his lines in defiance of the enemy fire

lectured in many fields but his favoured subject was political economy. He had reservations about the traditional academic curriculum and stressed the importance of “the study of man and especially the study

and in 1894 told J. W. Carmichael that “as a stumper he is our best man.” The following year Fraser toured western Canada with him. The

acquired the sobriquet Dokis, by which he was usually called, from his tendency as a child to pronounce the plural of “duck” as “duckies.” An enterprising young man, he established a trading post on the

introduction obtained from American and Canadian literary friends, Stewart met most of the literary lions of the day and added to his name at home as a man of letters. In 1885 he became the first English

temperance organizations, such as the Sons of Temperance. Webster was vigorous in advocating equal rights for women. In Woman man’s equal

of England four years earlier. After a brief period as a tutor in Rome and on the Isle of Man, Machray returned to his studies at the University of Cambridge, eventually earning an