Prescott*, as “a Scholar and a perfect Gentleman.” He had published in London The exile of Idria: a German tale (1833) and The picture, and the prosperous man (1835), as well as a

 François Xavier, Man. Pascal Breland probably spent his early years along the fur-trade routes of the Saskatchewan River valley, where his father

young man of exemplary conduct.” A gifted translator of Ojibwa, Chase at the age of 14 became interpreter for the Reverend John Clark, the

Saskatchewan. Holding a senior HBC position, Clarke regarded himself as the most important man in the Saskatchewan District, with responsibilities extending

Coldwell and Mary Robson, both originally from Yorkshire, England; m. Annie Anderson of Brampton, Ont.; d. 24 Jan. 1924 in Brandon, Man

northwestern Prince Edward Island with his father in 1835. He took up farming, and as a comparatively educated man he often acted as an intermediary between his French-speaking Acadian neighbours and the land

(Winnipeg, 1972). Man., Legislative Assembly, Journals, 1884; “Sessional papers,” 1886, no.1. Manitoba Reports (Winnipeg), 1887–95. Pioneers of Man. (Morley et al.). E

, Chelsea (London), being sent to the Red River settlement (Man.) in 1848 under the command of Major William Bletterman Caldwell

Manning*, Charles Tupper, and Nutting, he spearheaded the drive to provide educational facilities for the Nova

age of 16 Hubert Darrell immigrated to Birtle, Man., to help on the farm of his elder brother Charles. In the summer of 1897 he joined the Klondike gold-rush, hoping to make his fortune and pay off the

man he was sent to Washington, D.C., to work in a mercantile house. Educated at Hightstown Classical Academy in Hightstown, N.J., he went on to receive an ma in 1872 from

. Edward Ermatinger’s mother, an Italian, died when he and his younger brother Francis were infants. Their father – “indeed a good-hearted man – but what a strange Father” – apparently took

. As a young man of 13, Charles Henry Fairweather moved to Saint John and became a clerk in the wholesale firm of Stephen Wiggins and Son. In 1854, with Stephen Sneden Hall, he founded the wholesale

trade goods and arrived at the Red River settlement (Man.) in the spring of 1860. He established a dry-goods store there in a building belonging to William Inkster, and in a short time disposed of all his

accounts of his behaviour, Garnier was an idiosyncratic and eccentric man with a reputation for violent language. He had a vigorous and rough sense of humour which he exhibited to patients, acquaintances

quiet man, he could be righteously indignant with individuals or practices which he considered unfair. He gave unstintingly of his time and talents to numerous community activities

much to the Honor of the Town to allow a man of His Character & principles to preach in a publick Meeting House.” At the first general meeting of

 Oct. 1889 at Winnipeg, Man. Richard Charles Hardisty’s father, a Hudson’s Bay Company chief trader, was a native of London, England, and his

the general unworthiness of man. His longest work, “The Cross,” written after the death of his wife, is a religious epic, his version of paradise lost and found, written in Spenserian stanzas; it often

man and his three sons with whom he had quarrelled. He offered to shake hands with the head of the family saying he was glad their differences had apparently been resolved. The man refused, replying