Grace Hospital, Winnipeg, in 1938, he was a ruined man. Whether his difficulties were occasioned by the Great Depression or by what appears to have been the break-up of his marriage in 1935–36 is not

convenient mills, and, in deference to the man who had established them, the settlement initially took the name Jonathan Creek, and later Berry Mills, which it retains to this day. In 1870 the tracks of the

children, of whom at least three survived their father. When he died at his colleague Martinet’s home, 19 July 1676, he was a sick man, abandoned by his wife and separated from his children. He had been

born. Fearing that he would die before his daughter would be of an age to understand his last wishes, he composed a message for her, recommending that she seek the advice “of some worthy man” to “choose

, Bochart* de Champigny described him as “a very honest and experienced man.” After her husband’s death, Jean-François Bourdon’s widow came to Canada

genial personality made him popular among Torontonians. It was said that few had warmer personal friends. Of medium height and well built, he was a handsome man who enjoyed vigorous exercise. His

off to sea. Three years later he returned to the city a mature, hardened young man. Almost immediately he married a young Belgian divorcee, Emilie

in 1857 Burnham was one of the oldest residents of the district, a self-made man in a society of immigrants. During his 60 years in the province, an imposing wilderness had given way to a complex

construct a stone fort on Seneca land near Niagara, and stated that the Senecas had been to Niagara to protest the French action. There appears to be no reason to doubt that this man and Cagenquarichten were

governor of Prince Edward Island on 20 Oct. 1847. Following a brief stint in the cavalry as a young man and after succeeding his uncle in 1829 as 16th captain of Dunstaffnage, Campbell appears to have

Fort Albany (Ont.), son of Alexander Christie* and Ann Thomas; m. 1849 at York Factory (Man.) Mary Sinclair, daughter of William

troops, served with distinction in Canada 1685–93; b. 1647; d. 12 Oct. 1707. At the age of 14 Valrennes killed a man but

. The CCSS sent Corbett to Rupert’s Land in 1852 at the request of Bishop David Anderson*. Following a winter at St Andrew’s parish (Man

Médoctec (Eel) and Saint John rivers, had been a permanent fortified village, based on horticulture and hunting, since before the arrival of the white man. The French had missionaries posted there by the end

, thereby enabling patients to renew their prescriptions without having to memorize the scientific names. Nicknamed the “miracle man” by some of them, in the end he irritated the physicians who were slowly

sport. Born in Nova Scotia, he moved to Winnipeg as a young man. He may have been there as early as 1878, but city directories have no entry for him until 1882. At that time he was a bartender. Until he

Du Gua de Monts in France, “in order that more ample justice should be done to them.” Natel did not long survive the man he had informed against; he died of dysentery the following

. Thomas English’s paternal grandfather had come to London Township from County Armagh (Northern Ireland) about 1819. The sixth of nine children, Thomas left home while a young man; by the 1860s he was

EVISON (Everson, Eveson, Evinson), ROBERT, engineer at Fort Prince of Wales, Churchill (Man.); fl. 1746–49

authorities from searching his premises, he soon styled himself seigneur of the island, claiming he had bought it from a man named Hamel. But no evidence of this property transaction has been found, and it