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with Captain C. Bernier on a French yacht. At the end of April 1879 he passed his examinations and received a second-mate certificate. In

CANNON, JOHN, master mason, architect, businessman, militia officer, and politician; b. c. 1783 in St

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Tannery Company in partnership with James C. McGregor. Carmichael’s major involvement with industry, however, was with the Acadia Iron Foundry, founded by his brother-in-law Isaac Matheson in 1867. The

relevant sources are numerous but scattered. A large number of documents are in the following collections: AE, Mém. et doc., Amérique, 4, ff.119f. AN, Col., C11A, 2; F3, 3; E, 63, 86

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, question the historicity of Dekanahwideh himself. It has been suggested (see Anthony F. C. Wallace, “The Dekanawideh myth analyzed . . . ,” Ethnohistory, V (1958

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DESCHAMPS, ISAAC, merchant, office holder, judge, and politician; b. c. 1722; by his first

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was hired by the Montreal metal-importing firm of A. and C. J. Hope and Company [see Adam Hope*]. It was there, in the late

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