this expedition, he gave his fullest support to the man chosen, Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka

Chronicle called him “the stupidest man, today, in public life” – or his supposed supporters; as Bishop Cameron queried Thompson, “How can he bear to lead men to whom he knows himself to be so

. Richard A. Willie AO, F 24, MU 510; RG 80-5-0-52, no.8685. Arch. of Western Canadian Legal Hist., Univ. of Man

. The ship Discovery was manned with a larger and more miscellaneous crew than had sailed with Hudson on his previous English-based voyages. He carried Juet with him as mate. It is a sign of

Douglass Smith may have been educated at the Saint John Grammar School. He began to emerge as a literary man in the period from November 1840 to May 1841, when he used the pseudonym Eugene in sending

. Robert Ironside’s parents were both Presbyterian immigrants from Scotland who settled in London. He was educated in local common schools, and in 1883 he went to Manitou, Man., as an agent for John Elliott

staff at head office he exhibited an “unfailing, dominating note of optimism and good cheer.” A man of “patriarchal appearance, with a wide, full beard” in later years, he regularly called at the office

Vancouver seeking investment opportunities. An easygoing, cheerful, and tactful man, Douglas would be described a few months later by the Vancouver Daily World as “an able and progressive business

Canada, son of George Kittson and Nancy Tucker; m. Élise Marion, a Métis of St Boniface (Man.); d. 10 May 1888 en route to St Paul, Minn

Garnier*. The religious and civil authorities were in agreement in recognizing in him an exceptional man, gifted with numerous and “admirable” talents. His new functions allowed him to play a more

Bourget*, Lagorce actually started a class for deaf mute boys on 27 Nov. 1848 in the hospice of Saint-Jérôme-Émilien, in the Québec faubourg of Montreal, assisted by a man named

daughter of Lieutenant Governor Charles Douglass Smith. His father-in-law was a man of autocratic temperament engaged in a struggle to free himself from dependence on the House of Assembly. Lane

. Although Genevieve Lipsett was born in the United States, she spent her early childhood in Toronto and also lived for some time on a wheat farm near Napinka, Man. She returned with her family to the country

recruited him to return to the States early in the 1880s. He was then living at Bear River. As a so-called medicine man with Healy and Bigelow, he was given the name “Dr. Lone Cloud.” He performed as a

. 1864 Margaret Drever, sister of Jean Anne*, in Red River (Man.), and they had five daughters and one son; d. 26 Nov. 1923 in

. Humphrey Marten was first engaged by the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1750 as a writer at York Factory (Man.) on a five-year indenture at £15 per annum. He must have been satisfactory to his superiors at

close instructions from his father, undoubtedly saw Lawson’s efforts to compromise as those of a desperate man finally confronted with someone on the spot to call him to account, and he suspected that

. William Moor was a County Durham man who served on Hudson’s Bay Company ships on their annual voyages to the bay from about 1730 to 1741. Under the guidance of his cousin, Christopher Middleton, he advanced

case, he quickly won the sobriquet of “Rolling Billows.” A plain-spoken man, he would not let himself be humbugged by anyone. As a junior member he told the Conservative premier, James William

different approaches to the discussions and tended to be more conciliatory. He stressed the need for peace between Indian and white man, a stance that may in part be attributed to the caution of age and his