for deserted soldiers or in case the records of an illegal organization were seized. It is also possible that he acquired the name because he had made several voyages to Scotland as a young man. There

. He graduated in 1697 and the following year accepted the chaplaincy of York in northeastern Massachusetts (now Maine). Only a man inured to the prospect of hardship and possessed of exceptional courage

John McDonald* of Garth were at times in the same areas beyond Lake Winnipeg (Man.) and are mentioned without distinction in the sources. In

; m. c. 1791 Mary Favell, daughter of John Favell and his Indian wife Titameg; d. 5 July 1810 at Brandon House (Man.) and was buried there beside his wife

merits of settling in western Canada. These urgings induced McKellar to leave education and go west. He homesteaded near Clearwater, Man., but he also travelled widely to become familiar with the soils

NE-CAN-NETE (Ne-kah-nea, Ne-kah-new, known as Foremost Man, Front Man), Plains Cree chief; d

men. Passionately dedicated and adept at camouflage, he had enormous patience and perseverance: using a rifle specially fitted with a telescopic lens, he would wait for days in no man’s land to catch

in England; he easily regained the seat in the contest of 1826. A man from a prominent family, a successful lawyer and politician, Ogden early

 1764 at the Credit River (Ont.); d. 30 Sept. 1828 at the Credit Mission (Mississauga), Upper Canada. As a young man Wageezhegome

POTTS, JOHN, HBC surgeon and post factor; d. 28 June 1764 at Prince of Wales Fort (Churchill, Man

their home in West Prussia on 8 June 1893 and arrived in the Canadian west, at Gretna, Man., on 1 July. Leaving his family with new friends, who were Bergthaler Mennonites, Peter toured the

-Baptiste Riel, dit L’Irlande, a voyageur, and Marguerite Boucher, a Franco-Chipewyan Métisse; d. 21 Jan. 1864 at Saint-Boniface (Man

George Rogers, a merchant, and Dora Moor; m. 13 June 1888 Aurelia Regina Widmeyer (d. 1934) in Clearwater, Man., and they had one son; d. 21 July 1936 in Guelph, Ont

Grand Séminaire du Mans. Ordained priest on 9 June 1838, he served two years in parish ministry before seeking admission to the Congregation of Holy Cross. He took his vows on 15 Aug. 1842 and

vacant post, Saunders fell heir in 1845 to the office of provincial secretary. He was the last man to hold this position before it became subject to political tenure with the advent of responsible

. Born of Irish parents, Joseph Shepard chose to come to Upper Canada as a young man. Although the year of his arrival is unknown, he may have been the Joseph Shepard who applied for and received, but did

*, remembered him as “naturally irascible” but “a man of warm affections.” He formed a connection with Margaret McLennan, and in 1821 they had a son, baptized Horatio Nelson, the sole beneficiary named in his

, Canada East, and from 1862 to 1865 he taught agriculture at the new Collège de Rimouski. James Smith was always a deeply religious man. As the father of

. As a young man Sotai-na was known as Makoyiksiksinum (White Wolf), a name he received after a battle in which he killed a Crow Indian of that name. In this fight, Rainy Chief deliberately exposed

man in the Canadian West is more generally known throughout the prairie provinces.” Stevenson was a careful horticulturist. In 1890, for example, he