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

, his son-in-law Solomon Barish, and the Barishes’ three children. Klenman had substantial experience in agriculture, having farmed rented land as a young man and overseen an estate for an absentee

were not forgotten. His colleagues remembered him as “a man of great kindness of heart, upright in all his dealings . . . , and one who from first to last upheld and practised honourably

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

a see-house and matters of stipend in the 1890s. Arrangements for a settlement with the old man were not completed until just months before his death in

old man of Canadian journalism – a sure sign of irrelevance. Lindsey was best known in his last years as an author rather than a journalist

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

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

, who remembered the bishop as a “Good” and “esteemed” man of their Glengarry Scottish community. Mark McGowan

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

excited young man”; he in turn placed them in the “ice age” of the church. He was ordained on 19 Sept. 1871 and left Toronto one month later, “like Abraham, not knowing whither he went.” His

MANNING, ALEXANDER HENDERSON, contractor, businessman, and politician; b

, Masson was “the man who could most easily contribute to unity and harmony,” and events proved him right. On 3 Sept. 1867 Masson was elected to the House of Commons by acclamation. Thus began a 33

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

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

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

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

the Board of Directors of Penitentiaries; the following year Moylan became its secretary director. This three-man board, with responsibility for Kingston Penitentiary and smaller prisons in Saint John

River expeditionary force under Colonel Garnet Joseph Wolseley* and on 14 May left for the Red River settlement (Man.) with No