. Though there is some uncertainty about this, Cherououny appears to be the man who instigated the 1616 murders. He frequented the French post at Quebec and that summer he had been insulted and beaten by the

furs. In 1910 the company embarked on a thorough inspection of the retail business and afterwards decided to divide it into departments by “placing at the head of each a man especially conversant with

. 28 Dec. 1845 in Cornwallis, N.S. William Allen Chipman was the son of a Rhode Island cabinet-maker, a devout man of “strong character

. He settled in Selkirk, Man., and soon became superintendent of the telegraph line from Selkirk to Edmonton, personally sending in May 1875 the first message from Selkirk to be carried over the

Hudson’s Bay Company for five years at £20 per annum. He was to assist Humphrey Marten*, chief at York Factory (Man.), and to oversee the

separate church. After failing to find a suitable minister either in Europe or in the colonies to the south, they chose from among themselves Bruin Romkes Comingo, a man lacking the liberal education and

), England, son of Robert and Mary Cowley; m. 26 Dec. 1840 Arabella Sainsbury of Marlborough, England, and they had three sons and a daughter; d. 11 Sept. 1887 at Selkirk, Man

the young men and M. de Gand accepted responsibility for the girls. The exemplary life led by this charitable man did not preclude his

. Desbrisay found a berth on a man-of-war, which he served as chaplain for two years. In 1777 he was assured a stipend and he took up residence ashore. When the parish of Charlotte was created in 1781

at the temporary headquarters of the NWMP at Dufferin, Man. For the next six years he moved with the headquarters from Dufferin to Swan River Barracks (Livingstone, Sask.) and Fort Macleod (Alta), and

a bargain for the man’s daughter, all because he had allowed a blacksmith to act as his go-between. “Prince Edward Isle, adieu” portrays the evils generally supposed to have been brought to the Island

‘compact’ side of the House,” prompting the liberal James Hannay* to see in him “a man of no principle, who took the side of those in authority

as a young man in Manchester, but in 1854, in order to give his children a “pure Welsh” upbringing, he moved to Tremadoc, where he had interests in several small quarries. In 1863 he emigrated to

until the end of his life. The Indians with whom he dealt considered him a “good man,” and one of them was prompted to say: “With Father Eynard one speaks less, but one prays with more fervour.” His

died in August 1922. He was eulogized as a civic-minded and public-spirited man of sterling character, and the Spectator joined in: “A shrewd business man, yet ever

Munro*, another Pictou County man and a New York publisher. Munro came to Halifax on a long visit in 1879 and learned from Forrest of Dalhousie’s poor overall state, including its desperate need for a

shortly after opened a private boarding-house in St Boniface, Man. He was officially discharged from the militia on 1 May 1871 and received a land grant in Manitoba

“Ten years in Manitoba.” He stayed there for six months, visiting his old haunts as well as London and Reading. An outgoing, sociable man and a

Charles Gaboury (Gabourie) and Marie-Anne Tessier (Thésié); d. 14 Dec. 1875 at Saint-Boniface, Man. Following the death of her father on 7

come to New France to be a servant of Jean-François Hazeur, Sieur de Petit-Marais, a Montreal merchant, but as the latter had died before Gaillard arrived, in 1685, the young man went to Quebec. On 22