April 1797 at Brandon House (Man.). James Sutherland was recruited, probably in the Orkneys, by the Hudson’s Bay Company in the summer of 1770 to

of the self-made man, whose determination and discipline had carried him to the top. However, he was regarded by others as an autocratic and inconsistent boss. Criticism of him began in earnest when he

. Physically, Davis was an impressive-looking man. The Reverend Alvin Torry remembered him as “tall, well-formed, and as straight as one of his own forest pines.” He was also a fine orator, a person with a

1768–69, when he spent a year at the Hudson’s Bay Company post of Prince of Wales’s Fort (Churchill, Man.) in order to observe the transit of the planet Venus. He was the first scientist to winter in

 Feb. 1918 in Selkirk, Man. Little is known about the background of David Wells. He was the son of English parents; his father had served in the

Dickson, a man ten years her senior, who by 1881 had ceased being a pattern maker and had become a conductor on the Intercolonial Railway. In July 1896 Emma Dickson moved to Halifax. Newspaper notices

, their tents in the background above the bay: all are mentioned in the accounts of the fight and illustrated in the drawing. Original drawings by White of an Eskimo man, and of a woman and her baby (which

Isaac Willoughby (fl. 1760–1834) was an enslaved Black man who bought his

was “no advocate of war . . . but if our country is threatened with invasion, it is the duty of every man and every Christian to turn out cheerfully and protect the Blessings and Privileges

became known as a man totally dedicated to his calling. To him, as to his Methodist brethren, nothing was more urgent than to awaken people to their spiritual desolation and to lead them toward conversion

Bannatyne*. A sociable man with a cheerful personality and a great deal of curiosity, he quickly became acquainted with the Red River settlers and spent much of his free time visiting their homes and

Louisa Emma Green in Portage la Prairie, Man.; m. thirdly 1886 Georgiana Green, and they had two daughters; d. 9 June 1910 in Chilliwack, B.C

Matthew Cocking before 1765, when the Hudson’s Bay Company “entertained” him as a writer at an annual rate of pay of £20 for five years at York Fort (York Factory, Man.). There he transcribed post journals

lieutenant on the famed privateer Charles Mary Wentworth. An ambitious young man, Enos Collins soon obtained part-ownership in a number of vessels trading out of Liverpool. During the Peninsular War

during Colquhoun’s Empire days, he was “the most immaculately dressed man in the newspaper fraternity, impeccably neat and a good though ever-courteous disciplinarian.… He was a type

and the enhancement of James’s frontier image as a fighter and man of adventure. He first came to Fort William (Thunder Bay) in 1872 to work at the sawmill of Adam

. William Connolly entered the North West Company as a clerk in 1801 and went west, where he would remain for 30 years. In 1802–3 he was at Nelson House (Man.) and the following winter a short distance away

, eldest son of Percy Criddle and Alice Nicol; d. unmarried 4 May 1933 in Brandon, Man. While in Germany to further his education, Norman

Charles Darveau, a tanner on Rue Saint-Vallier, and Marguerite-Marie Roi, dit Audi; d. 4 June 1844 at Baie-des-Canards (Duck Bay, Man

children; d. 7 Jan. 1914 in Los Angeles and was buried in St Boniface, Man. The eldest of 15 children, Joseph Dubuc attended