province, and £2,000 in corporate securities, including 20 shares in the Bank of Nova Scotia. As befitted a man of property, Forrester enjoyed a position of influence in St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church

dissolute habits; afterwards he worked on the House of Assembly journals. A young man of respectable, if humble, parents, his only brush with notoriety occurred when he witnessed, while in Mackenzie’s employ

Isham), fur trader; b. 1754 or 1755 probably at York Factory (Man.), son of HBC chief factor James Isham* and an Indian woman; d. 1814

Björnsson) and Margrét Sigriður Bjarnadóttir; m. 21 June 1898, in Winnipeg, Aurora Frederickson of Glenboro, Man., and they had one daughter and two sons; d. 20 May 1927 in Winnipeg

furlough, Allan lived with his mother and siblings in the Red River settlement (Man.). There, on 2 Nov. 1834, the children as well as their mother were baptized by a Church of England clergyman, the

labour. Outspoken, he did not hesitate to suggest in his report that “a man could do as much good work in an eight-hour as a ten-hour day.” Magill’s

. 12 Oct. 1881 at Winnipeg, Man. Andrew McDermot was educated at home by the “hedge-schoolmasters” who taught Roman Catholic children in

 year. It was easy to allege that Howe and McLelan had been bought off, but probably not true. McLelan certainly was a man of principle, and, so far as the evidence allows, of probity; he now believed

, petitions seeking royal mercy. The petitions reveal a shrewd mind. Here was a man who knew how to make a case for himself. He drew on the commonplace

party. He was in fact Papineau’s right-hand man. After the death of Louis Bourdages* on 20 Jan. 1835, O’Callaghan replaced him as chairman

was just an ordinary Indian, [an] ordinary man as other Indians.” Poundmaker’s life changed, however, after Crowfoot [Isapo

Plessis* decided to admit Quertier only after he had had two years for reflection; during this period the young man directed the parish school of Saint-Antoine at Rivière-du-Loup (Louiseville). Finally

intensely spiritual man who wished to raise the Indian through faith from the degradation caused by the white man. Motivated by guilt and pity, Rand believed that the Micmacs needed religion before

; b. 25 Dec. 1825 in L’Assomption, Lower Canada, son of Joseph-Isaïe Ritchot, a farmer, and Marie Riopelle (Riopel); d. 16 March 1905 in St Norbert, Man

SAUNDERS, EDWARD MANNING, Baptist clergyman and author; b. 20 Dec. 1829 in Aylesford, N.S., third of the five sons of David

man, he had limited opportunities, and after receiving a basic education he eagerly embraced a career in the military. In 1836 he enlisted in the 93rd Foot, like many young men in his native county. By

. He was the grandson of the prominent Stoney leader Man Who Walks against the Wind, who had been given the English name John Wesley by a Methodist missionary, possibly Rundle or his convert Benjamin

his family, including five-year-old Thomas, from Osnaburgh House to Middlechurch (Man.) in 1840. Thomas attended the parish school and then graduated

subject was a seafaring man; in the 1820s Captain John Franklin called him an “expert sailor.” Williams was engaged

St Marys River east of Sault Ste Marie. Shingwauk’s native name, Menissino, means “man of the island”; some Ojibwa speakers claim that it also denotes “great warrior” since a man with this