SECCOMBE, JOHN (while in Nova Scotia he used this spelling, although as a young man he had omitted the final “e

, attentive to business . . . correct in conduct and private character,” and of great potential utility to the company. As a lively young man, however, he frequently clashed with James

. Alexander Somerville recounts his early life as a schoolboy, ploughman, sawyer, labourer, drainer, and quarryman in his memorable Autobiography of a working man (London, 1848). In 1832, while serving

. 1928 in The Pas, Man. When Frederick Joseph Stevenson was a young child his father, a superintendent of railway bridge construction, was

 – the Selkirk connection made him, as he was described in 1810, the “first employed man of business on the Island.” When Attorney General Peter

Factory (Ont.), believed this man to be from the vicinity of Basquia (The Pas, Man.), and Hutchins in early 1778 expressed hope that, if he were, his guidance would enable Sutherland “to determine the

young man. In the council of the Six Nations Confederacy the chief who bore it served as the titular head of the Mohawks, the first in rank of that tribe’s nine sachems. Since the Mohawks headed the roll

fewer burdens. The man of letters in the editorial group, Thibault also took up the cudgels for the teaching profession, in order that a true “teaching class” might develop, for teachers had both

 (Man.). Thomas Thomas joined the Hudson’s Bay Company as a surgeon on 25 March 1789. He was described then as from the parish of St Andrew

, and his loyalty to friends and neighbours, as well as his willingness to take novice cowhands under his guidance. Ware is presented as a man of action and few words. All of these attributes are shared

in the province of British Columbia in June, he acknowledged his growing unpopularity: “I don’t suppose any other man in this town had more abuse simply because I wanted the men to act the man and live

. unmarried 7 Oct. 1918 near Cambrai, France. Rankin Wheary was a young black man who served with the Canadian infantry in World War I

the 13 children of David Winkler and Barbara Juliana Lang; m. 31 March 1886 Josephine Rombough in Morden, Man., and they had two sons and three daughters; d. there 7 June 1920

Canadian Patriotic Fund. Following a series of pogroms in eastern Europe, the most infamous of which occurred at Kishinev (Chisinau, Moldova) in May 1903, Zimmerman became a member of the five-man

[Monbeton*] described Agrain in 1718 as “a very good officer,” he emerges as a rather reckless man whose ambitious schemes lacked the forethought necessary to bring them to a successful conclusion

. Champlain, on one occasion held discourse with Anadabijou on the subject of religion, discussing the nature of God, the origin of man, and prayer. Later the

man grave, valorous and feared, who in the twinkling of an eye will gather together a thousand Indians.” He, in a statesmanlike manner, demanded that

 Boische, governor of New France, in 1729, La Vérendrye calls Auchagah “the man most capable of guiding a party and with whom there would be no fear of our being abandoned on the way.” Auchagah agreed

apprentice clerk in 1820. He was taken into the Hudson’s Bay Company following the union of the two companies in 1821, and served as a clerk at York Factory (Man.); he was described as having an excellent

bay at an annual salary of £40. He reached Prince of Wales Fort (Churchill Man.) at a time when interest in the possibility of finding a northwest passage along the west coast of the bay had