Read the story of a subject who died or was born on this day.
d. 12 Aug. 1762 in Halifax, Nova Scotia
b. 6 Aug. 1845 in London, England
Of the many fine biographies in Volume XV of the DCB, Ramsay Cook always considered this one of the best.
Ramsay Cook called this biography “an especially fine piece of historical recreation.”
Ramsay Cook found this entry part of “a set of particularly brilliant biographies” that reveal the “destruction of the native culture on the prairies.”
In an office discussion of this briefest of biographies, Ramsay Cook called it “a gem.”