Haldane. In 1815, when he was at Portage la Prairie (Man.), the Hudson’s Bay Company considered him party to the NWC conspiracy to destroy the Red River settlement (Man.). He was with Duncan

Kachenooting; m. 5 Aug. 1846 Mamenawatum (Seeseeb, Jessie Joyful) at Norway House (Man.), and they had five daughters and five sons (a great-grandson, Ralph Garvin

meanings of ill health and disability, and he would later write extensively on what he called “the philosophy of the sick man.” He was similarly reflective about the obligations of the physician, and one of

the British in 1784, he offered himself a hostage as security for the conditions of the truce. A bright and ambitious young man, eager to see what he

. Recognizing Walker’s ability to handle both men and horses, French enlisted his aid in recruitment, and placed him in charge of transporting over 200 horses from Toronto to Dufferin, Man. Walker’s service was

supporter of imperial federation and strongly anti-American. In favour of compulsory voting, he was nevertheless opposed to the ballot on the ground that “every man had a right to know how his neighbour voted

William Wallbridge and Mary Everett; d. unmarried 20 Oct. 1887 at Winnipeg, Man. Lewis Wallbridge’s paternal great-uncle and grandfather

relinquished the chieftainship to Gros Blanc, “a man of unbounded ambition and ferocity” according to McGillivray. Old Swan died in January 1795 and by the turn of the century his son, the Feathers, had

told of seeing the inner walls of the family home move, the barn shake on its foundations, and the dishes fly out of the cupboards. The legend of Jaquette-à-Simon, a man possessed by the Devil, was

criminal hanged. By October 1774 Balfour was complaining, “Believe me! these are Uncouth Regions here indeed, for a Man to spend his short Life in.” That year the SPG acceded to his request to be

Red River settlement (Man.), and they had eight children; d. 7 Dec. 1856 in Edinburgh. John Ballenden is representative of the class of

that hardy Bluenose breed who may be said to have been exceptional in their own communities. A man of some foresight and no small ability, he belonged to that significant class of Nova Scotians upon whom

BEAUPRÉ, ÉDOUARD, known as Beaupré the giant, a strong man and

Born in Gibraltar, Benjamin Belcher (1743–1802) came to Nova Scotia as a youth. A man of enterprise and ability, he achieved

his mother married Walter Carroll Manning of Halifax three years later. Thus Clement was probably brought to the city as a small child and received all his education there

, especially for a man of Bertram’s stature. In return for the backing of the Herald he was appointed a federal inspector of fisheries in 1883, and remained one until his death. As a respected local

golfer. As a young man he excelled in soccer. The sport in which he achieved a national reputation, however, was hockey and his career illustrates both the problems confronted and the possibilities enjoyed

headquarters in Toronto. Between 1854 and 1859 Brooking and his equally committed wife worked among the Indians at Oxford House (Man.) and Norway House (Man

. During this year he also founded the firm of Henderson and Burnaby, commission merchants, in partnership with Edward Henderson, an old school friend from Christ’s Hospital and a man of means, who managed

Manners-Sutton, replied that honours would not produce the political result intended and that public opinion would be hostile. He would name but one man, Carter, as worthy of knighthood. Nothing