project to the Hurons. Nothing more is known of Kinousaki until, as an “aged man,” he represented one of the two bands of Detroit Ottawas at a conference

Batiscan. His duties as a man of law did not cause him to neglect his trade as a carpenter, so that his services were much sought after for the building of mills, barns, and houses. Some of his plans and

. Property sales and seizures after his death and the commercial-marital links forged during his lifetime indicate that he was a man of some substance. He died in Montreal on 13 July 1715 at the age

. Du Lescöat’s record after his death: “He was a great man and a saint. All his life he carried out his duties zealously and successfully.” Popular veneration made his tomb a place of pilgrimage

a reputation as a “free liver” and “a man of debauched habits.” It has been suggested that Tobias Smollett, who may have heard of Lee while serving in the navy in the early 1740s, used him as the

to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in London as a vigorous 26-year-old “unmarried man, . . . possessed of some private fortunes, . . . a good scholar, and apparently

as a rival. In 1755 Johnson complained of Governor William Shirley’s use of the trader as his military agent to the Six Nations. Lÿdius was, he wrote, “a Man extreamly obnoxious to the public in

children; d. 5 Oct. 1933 in Rockwood, Man. John Machray spent his childhood in Haddington, where his father was the governor of the local

Lisieux, Normandy; d. 1627. Little is known about the early life of Pierre Magnan, except that he had clubbed a man to death in France, whereupon he

widespread, and at Naufrage in June 1834 a group of more than 100 armed tenants warned the sheriff and his deputies that they would “die to a man” before permitting the arrest of five persons charged with

Thoreau’s Walden, allowed him to relish and describe the natural world and rural activity, and to interpret them in a philosophical spirit. His persistent focus on the common man emerged easily from

“none were concerned but Irish Catholics.” One man died of wounds suffered in the mayhem. Charged with wilful murder were John Rooney, a local innkeeper, and James Owen McCarthy

Alberta), son of the furtrader James McKay; d. at St James, Man., 2 Dec. 1879. James McKay was educated at Red River. In the employ

seven-man force. One Bellevillian would eulogize him for “herculean strength and plenty of grit” and his fearlessness of gangs. On 8 Oct. 1886 McKinnon was appointed chief constable in Hamilton

Dervaig, Isle of Mull (Strathclyde), Scotland; m. first in 1837 Margaret Charles at Norway House (Man.), and they had one child; m. secondly in 1845 Clarissa, daughter of the Reverend James

have been the first man to explore the northern coast of Labrador in search of new cod fishing grounds. Norman was the first justice of the peace for

“diligent man, assiduous in his work” caused him to be chosen on 16 Aug. 1742 by the intendant, Hocquart*, to replace his friend François

Brébeuf and then went to stay with the Montagnais, but although he was a keenly intelligent man, he was unable either to learn the languages of the indigenous people or to become accustomed to

France to become intendant of Dunkirk. Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain, minister of Marine, wrote of him in 1694: “I have observed that he is a completely honest man, good tempered and agreeable. He

. His correspondence demonstrates, however, that he was a well-educated man with a gift for clear analysis. He probably studied law in England but does not seem to have been admitted to the bar there