College. Father Wood, as he had been known for years, was a man who combined, unusually, a lack of prominence in the public eye with the appearance

, but as a young man he was associated with the Methodist church to which his wife belonged. His Scottish and non-conformist background, and early success in making his way in the world, led him to be

and Jane Austen, were little more than a reworking of secondary sources usually spiced up with a dose of his principles and prejudices. He was a man of letters, not a research scholar, and he also

a lower point soon after when the policeman threw the chief bodily out of the fort. Crozier prepared his 50-man detachment for an attack from the hundreds of Sioux nearby, but none came. Crozier could

correspondent for an American newspaper or two, the man who had chosen exile returned to Quebec late in February 1871. A provincial general election was

church building but he would never enter it as a member. “A quiet, shy man, although capable of decided opinions,” he left his church shortly after the 1878 election, evidently as a result of an argument

Henri-Gustave Joly’s father to travel widely during the 1820s, especially in Sweden, Poland, Germany, Austria, and England; around 1827 he was in Montreal. A man of impressive stature and aristocratic

experience of others, referred to Strong’s “preeminent intellectual qualities,” but described him as a man of “violent and bullying temperament” and sometimes given to truculency. Borden’s assessment is apt

scenes and in parliament to advantage. Mills was a “Blake man” and was apparently one of the leaders of the movement in 1880 to oust Mackenzie from the party leadership. When Edward

Foster*] preceded him to the Red River settlement (Man.), where like-minded easterners, such as John Christian

epitaph, “His whole career has been one of fruitful and useful labour.” In a sense it is an appropriate tribute to a man not noted for eloquence. However, it does not indicate his role in the Irish

he should establish a paper in the Red River settlement (Man.). Having journeyed as far as Windsor, Laurie learned that the Nor’Wester

former Coburg Road Church, renamed in 1904), where personal tributes were given by two of his lifelong friends, Forrest and the Reverend Edward Manning

 Sept. 1910 at Chesnay, near Paris, and was buried in the cemetery of Boulogne-sur-Seine beside his son. A cultivated man of action Hector Fabre

Niagara, where he had worshipped for many years. He had been, as the subtitle of his biography by Pierce makes clear, a “tory loyalist” who held fundamentally conservative views about the nature of man and

Manning, whose connection to the Tory party and especially to the Toronto Daily Mail

career. He soon concluded otherwise. “Every man must take a side,” he told Alexander Campbell in 1858. “Then he helps to mould the future policy of that side. His motions have the support of his party. He

man convicted of sexual intercourse with a girl under 16 be sentenced to three years in prison. Although the act would lead to relatively

his doorstep. In 1871, when he was 16, Hanlan entered his first race, for three-man crews of “fishermen,” who were considered professionals because they were thought to have an occupational advantage

something of the character and luminous charm of Turner’s late Alpine water colours.” Jacobi, described by Watson as “a jovial ruddy-faced man, fond of