he remained for six weeks. Following his release the minister informed Frontenac and Bochart de Champigny that de Lino was a man to be watched closely, but the latter was able to regain the confidence

.” On the Grand Banks they met various ships, not one of which would “take in a man of us,” until a Falmouth bark agreed to accept the whole crew on board. “With her,” says May, “we tooke a French ship

brought with them two Iroquois prisoners, one of whom was slaughtered despite Brother Mohier’s protests. A few days later, an Algonkin medicine man, Napagabiscou, fell ill; having been moved for some time

described as being by nature a serious-minded, determined-looking man, “even on the Sabbath he could not disguise a friendly twinkle in his eye.” When Alexander retired from the company in 1868, Duncan

or otherwise utter one word to wound the feelings of any man, no matter to what creed or party he belonged.” E. J

, including a long posting at Fort Ellice (Man.), which he headed from 1858 to 1870. Isaac Cowie, who worked there under him, wrote of his superior reputation, observing that “he was just and kind to the

sympathy for the HBC and the beleaguered Red River settlement (Man.) under the governorship of Miles Macdonell*, but he cast his lot with the

probably in the parish of Assynt, Scotland; d. 2 Jan. 1859 at the Red River settlement (Man.). It is likely that Roderick McKenzie, one of

with the fledgling Red River colony (Man.) founded by Lord Selkirk [Douglas*]. He helped to recruit men in the Hebrides before sailing in

Governor George Simpson* of the Hudson’s Bay Company at Grand Rapids (Man.) in June 1821 with news of their companies’ coalition. Joining the

Columbia districts, was sent to the Red River settlement (Man.) for her education in the 1830s. Chief Factor John Stuart* acted as her

mainland of Charlotte County. In 1795 he was elected a member of the House of Assembly. A scholarly man, he kept a journal and was the author of a number of manuscripts. Little of what he wrote ever appeared

separate, decided to establish a mission in the Hudson’s Bay Company territories, a decision endorsed by the company. The principal mission station was founded at Rossville near Norway House (Man.) in

forts be erected. These maps, which are of great historical interest, reveal a man of talent. Émery Leblanc

 December to go and spend the winter among the Montagnais. On the way, having been unable to prevent the Indian guide, whom he had befriended, from committing a murder at the instigation of the medicine-man

to American Fur Company trader Alexander Harvey by Namo-pisi prior to her rejoining her tribe. A violent, vindictive man, Harvey neglected and mistreated Potts before deserting him in 1845. AFC trader

served the Cree, Assiniboin, Saulteaux, and occasionally the Sioux in the Touchwood Hills until 1880, when the Church Missionary Society transferred him to Devon mission at The Pas (Man.), where the native

that time few members of his Kutcha-Kutchin band (Yukon Flats Kutchins) had seen a white man. Nevertheless, long before the arrival of outside traders in his region, a complex trade network had been

, Alta), son of James Sanderson and Elizabeth Anderson; m. 16 Sept. 1872 Maria McKay of the Red River settlement, Man., and they had two sons and a daughter; d. 8 Dec. 1902 in Medicine

. 19 June 1816 at the Red River settlement (Winnipeg, Man.). Robert Semple’s parents espoused the loyalist cause and during or after the American