, he was too independently minded to be a good party man, and certain autocratic tendencies had been strengthened by his long tenure on the bench. Although he was an unparalleled source of information on

joined the HBC as an apprentice clerk and, recommended by various company officials in London, he sailed for York Factory (Man.) in June 1843. After a winter learning the trade at Upper Fort Garry

* and George; d. 10 May 1902 in Kingston, Ont. George Monro Grant’s father, though a man of diverse talents and an amiable

. Historians, though they have not ignored frontiersmen in Graves’s age group, have tended to focus attention on younger settlers. Graves typifies the middle-aged man who gained success as an agricultural

trade. Early self-interest and his later experience in the west would make him a convinced anti-tariff man. Greenway was not an active member of the

meaning of the superstitions and festivals of civilized man could be gleaned by looking at the similar customs of the “unchanged savage.” Haliburton’s ultimate motive in attempting to prove the unity of

. John Smythe Hall was a descendant of families engaged in selling and processing lumber. As a young man, he attended Bishop’s College in Lennoxville, Que., and went on to study law at McGill College

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

well. Harvey was a man of unusually rich attainments. He gained recognition as a preacher, drawing many to hear his “carefully prepared

Irvine*. Speaking before the local bar in 1897 he laughingly said that no man in the country had obtained as many public offices as he, refused as many, and been dismissed as often

Westminster, 1881–83. R. E. Cail, Land, man and the law: the disposal of crown lands in British Columbia, 1871–1913 (Vancouver, 1974). Fraser port

other associates of Brown, had acquired a contract to carry mail between Canada and Red River (Man.), but in July 1859 the Macdonald-Cartier ministry revoked the contract and gave it to a

. “Tall, well built, . . . extremely intelligent,” Charles-Polycarpe, a man “circumspect in his words,” lived only for his business; political life held little attraction for him. However, 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

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

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

contest in the history of the Halifax constituency. Facing certain defeat, leading Conservatives did not nominate candidates of their own but allegedly entered into a conspiracy with working man’s candidate

on 2 March 1869. A man of broad intelligence, highly organized, with a powerful will and a commanding public presence, he rapidly became a leader in the administration, increasingly setting its

in Port Arthur and Rainy River in 1902. A principled man, he earned the reputation of being “clean, fearless and honest.” King’s career illustrates

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