., son of William Brown; m. first 21 Feb. 1874 Emma Davidson of Palestine (Gladstone), Man.; m. secondly 1885 Jennie Davidson, his first wife’s younger sister; he had six children; d

 June 1836 in Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada, son of Édouard Bélanger and Marie-Sophie Casgrain; m. 27 Aug. 1861 Rosalie Marion in St Boniface (Man.), and they had 11 children; d. 1

the Indian Settlement (Dynevor, Man.); m. first 13 Oct. 1859 Mary Gowler, and they had two children; m. secondly 23 June 1863 Elizabeth Jane Budd; d. 22 May 1898 at

. Marie-Joseph-Eugène-Alphonse Gasté graduated from the lycée at Laval, France, in 1851 and entered the Grand Séminaire du Mans. He taught at the Collège de Château-Gonthier in 1854–55 and was

HARGRAVE, JOSEPH JAMES, fur trader, journalist, historian, and businessman; b. 1 April 1841 in York Factory (Man.), eldest

, Young Man Chief, by the enemy Blackfoot. According to a Methodist missionary, Egerton Ryerson Young*, Maskepetoon “was a magnificent

River expeditionary force under Colonel Garnet Joseph Wolseley* and on 14 May left for the Red River settlement (Man.) with No

. 21 Aug. 1887 in Winnipeg, Man. Alexander McArthur was educated in Nairn, where he became the secretary of the Nairn Literary Institute. He

Lewis Scottson; m. 8 June 1898 Clara Beckwith of Baltimore, Md; d. 4 Nov. 1907 in Brandon, Man. Stanley William McInnis received his

, which he represented until his death. McLelan was a useful man in the assembly. Unschooled and rough, but capable, he was leaned on by men in his party

, Man. James Scallion immigrated to Upper Canada around 1850 with his family. The Scallions first settled near Ancaster, but were living in

argued, on biblical grounds, that man consists of body, soul, and spirit, and that death constitutes the birth of man’s spiritual body in which his personality is preserved without physical defects and

being the first person in the northwest to construct a flour-mill, located at his headquarters at Bas-de-la-Rivière (Fort Alexander, Man.). During the conflict with the Hudson’s Bay Company in the Red

was disbanded Clark began his Halifax practice as a temporary replacement for the absent surgeon to the naval dockyard. He received a salary of 4d. per month per man in the yard, which amounted

Corry and helped in the establishment of his post at Cedar Lake (Man.). Cole deserted the next year and, seeking employment with the Hudson’s Bay Company, arrived at York Factory (Man.) on 11 July in

circles for many years, Ralph Horner was described as “Winnipeg’s grand old man of music, and one of her best known citizens,” a reputation he well deserved

PIGAROUICH, baptized Étienne, Algonkin medicine-man and Christian apostate; fl. 1639–43

were such that in 1765 he made his way to the Hudson’s Bay Company post of York Factory (Man.). Ferdinand Jacobs

Saint-Boniface, Man. Alfred Henry Scott was a resident of the Red River Settlement in Winnipeg from 1869 to 1872. He worked as a barkeeper in the saloon

White sailed for York Fort (York Factory, Man.) in 1719 as a foremast hand for the Hudson’s Bay Company. It is not always easy to substantiate the details of his service, since Richard White was also in