to do so. Evidently impressed by the young man’s capabilities, in 1813 Astor offered Crooks a one-third interest in a venture in the Michilimackinac

and the commandant of Île Royale, communicated this demand to Maurepas, the minister of Marine, praising Descouts, whom they described as “a man who has carried out his duties to the satisfaction of his

sensible and diligent young man.” But according to the historian H.-R. Casgrain*, Prévost’s testimony is more compromising than

Annie Fontaine (having lived together as man and wife from the mid 1860s, they had their union solemnized on 23 Jan. 1883 in the Barkerville district, B.C.), and they had three sons; m

in ordinary to the navy at the port and arsenal of Rochefort. Frontenac regretted losing this official since, according to him, it was difficult to find a man “who was as zealous in the King’s service

stations, Prince of Wales’s Fort, also known as Churchill (Man.). Among the more interesting of his duties was service on three of the summer slooping expeditions which traded with the Inuit living in the

(Churchill, Man.) that spring. In 1739 the chief factor there, Richard Norton*, described him as a “very Sober Deserving Young Man,” and he was

mirrored the events of his day. As a young man during the Fenian raid of 1866, he had been a member of the volunteer militia, and he would attain the rank of lieutenant-colonel. By the mid 1870s he had been

Walter Edward Hart* and Chester Daniel his ambitions gained momentum. With little talent for delegation but highly regarded as an “implements man,” he would become increasingly involved in the

immediately won the respect of Vicar General Joseph-Mathurin Bourg*, who wrote that Jones was “a very good priest, a learned man full of piety

championship at the Frontier Days rodeo in Cheyenne, Wyo. Two years later he competed in the Ride of Champions, a special four-man event in Reno, Nev., against elite riders Earl Thode, Gene Ross, and Frank

of Willow Crees, b. c. 1815 probably in or near the valley of the Saskatchewan River; d. 25 April 1886 at St Boniface, Man

probably in Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Que., son of Jean-Baptiste Lagimonière, a farmer, and Marie-Joseph (Josephte) Jarret, dit Beauregard; d. 7 Sept. 1855 in St Boniface (Man

-Rivières as a young man and there married Marguerite Pepin of Champlain on 10 Nov. 1704. Leclerc lived in the lower town and worked as a joiner, barn-builder, and house-framer. He took care of his

Isham to winter among Indians on the south branch of the Saskatchewan. Regarded by Humphrey Marten*, chief at York Factory (Man.), as

Man., Legislative Library (Winnipeg), Biog. scrapbooks. PAM, MG 14, B33. Northwest Review (Winnipeg), 13 April 1929. Telegram (Winnipeg), 21, 25 May 1907. Winnipeg

September 1780 Ross and Mackay were trading at a post on the Assiniboine River above Portage la Prairie (Man.). From that post Mackay took four companions on an overland expedition to the Hidatsa

surgeon. Strange had originally planned to leave a garrison of soldiers at Nootka Sound but decided on the spot against such an establishment because of its potential cost. Instead he left one man, John

.) (1892–95), Neepawa, Man. (1896–1900), and Carman, Man. (1901–2). During those years he wrote a series of religious tracts. In 1902 he moved to Halifax, where he was editor of the

son in January 1731 and twin boys in May 1732. Then she fell in love with a white man, Claude Thibault, and decided to flee with him to New England, since she had reason to believe that