man governed by his passionate nature. Given leave in the summer of 1894 to come to Canada, he decided to stay on. He sent for his wife and two children and, full of optimism and enthusiasm, plunged

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

, Chelsea (London), being sent to the Red River settlement (Man.) in 1848 under the command of Major William Bletterman Caldwell

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

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

Ellen Hamilton in Palestine (Gladstone), Man., and they had two sons and three daughters; d. 14 Nov. 1903 in Neepawa, Man. John

. Stephen regarded the subsidy as a good investment for the party and the railway. “Davin is all right and can do us all good service,” he agreed. “He is a good man for the West & ought to be secured in

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

passage. Within a year, an emigrant transport service had been established under the auspices of public works, and settlers for the prairies were moving over the road named for the man who had selected it

active, if untrained, intellect had shown itself as early as his Craigflower Farm days when he had lectured his fellows on the nobility of man, the phases of the moon, and the Anglo-Saxon race. His later

. December 1837 in the Red River settlement (Man.), second son of Isidore Dumont, known as Ekapow, and Louise Laframboise; m. 7 Sept. 1857

poisoned relations between him and his staff. The commissioners were particularly concerned that a feud between DeWolf, whom one witness described as “a man difficult to get along with,” and the assistant

. The development of the Pacific salmon-canning industry: a grown man’s game, ed. Dianne Newell (Montreal and Kingston, Ont., 1989). R. E. Gosnell, A history o[f

 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

. In many ways Ferguson was Sullivan’s right-hand man. When the province, frustrated by Ottawa’s failure to provide efficient communication with the mainland, appealed in 1886 to the British government

young man to be “an ornament to society and the name of Randolph.” That, Archibald Drummond Fitz Randolph most certainly was

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

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

. In January 1858 he was described by its agents as “a single man, about 30 years of age [he was 24] . . . highly respectable

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