Mammoth House,” as the business had become known, within a year. “A lean man with resolute features, deep-set eyes, a drift of side-whisker, and a high black stock,” Thompson developed a reputation for

Globe wrote: “No man could retire from business with a cleaner record in every respect.” His will, drawn up nine years later, indicated that he had amassed considerable wealth and achieved an

in Glasgow. In 1811 he joined the Hudson’s Bay Company and sailed with other apprentices from Stornoway to York Factory (Man.) in the chartered ship Edward and Ann. From 1811 to 1817 Tod was

him for another command: “you cannot have a soberer or a brisker man.” The following summer (1717) Vaughan commanded the Success which, with

canoe occupied by three Indians, he was slaughtered by them and thrown into the water; a young man called Ahuntsic, who was following in another canoe, witnessed the crime, and suffered the same fate. The

the man who rescued the trader Alexander Henry* during the Ojibwa uprising at Michilimackinac in 1763. According to Henry’s Travels

shaman who communicated with forest spirits. In 1786 he became embroiled with another shaman, Assup, a man “looked upon as a God,” when one of Assup’s sons cast off a daughter of Jecob. She was found “in

anonymous commentator in the Daily Tribune noted that Wood was “an estimible young man,” but implied that he was the “inside man” for the railway. Although the issue of the railway crossing had

NORQUAY, JOHN, politician; b. 8 May 1841 near St Andrews (Man.), the fifth of six children of John

appeal to Crowfoot for his surrender by Lieutenant Governor Edgar Dewdney*, a 100-man NWMP search of the reserve, and the offer of a $50

. Rosemary Malaher AM, P 2187-92. Man., Legislative Library (Winnipeg), Biog. scrapbooks; Hansard scrapbooks, Manitoba Free Press

people and the officials of the Indian Department. Jean-Baptiste’s close relations with whites were reflected in his decision to send his son, Francis, a young man of some promise, to Upper Canada College

BARNSTON, JAMES, physician, botanist, and professor; b. 3 July 1831 at Norway House (Man.), eldest child of

Man*. He also advanced the sect’s cause on the South Shore by participating in the construction of chapels at Shelburne, Barrington, and Sable River, and of one for blacks near Liverpool. In 1783

“to seize goods in a place where they are not – to arrest a man in a place where he never was and in fact, to do things readily which it is impossible he can perform.” In Perley’s opinion, Basquet

straites” (Hudson Strait). Frobisher consulted with his men, sending “his Pinnesse aboorde to heare each mans opinion, and specially of James Beare, mayster of the Anne Francis, who was knowen to be a

was nearly 80 when he made this act of renunciation. The energetic old man was no passive communicant: he was precise in religious observances, generous in aiding the church, and exerted himself “to

considered him an “officer of real merit” and an “honest man.” Louis-Antoine de Bougainville* even said that he was “the most upright

of at least some of his parishioners, whereas Black was a heavy-set man with Luther-like features who presented an intensely emotional, evangelical message from the pulpit. On Esson’s invitation Black

in America during his 40 years of playing. As a young man, slim and handsome, Blake played the gamut of leading male roles in genteel comedies