, neither the king, Louis XIV, nor the admiral of France confirmed this appointment, so that in 1702 a report stressed that “a port captain would be very necessary,” and that one could hardly find “a man

Chapleau*. He was remembered in the council as a man of few words who possessed an eminently practical mind. George Couture ranked as one of the most

harvested by men using rifles or spears from small boats or canoes; in 1894, for example, Cox had with him 17 canoes manned by 34 native hunters. Two thousand pelts a season was considered a good catch

simply: “Amasa was in arms against the fort at Cumberland.” Their father, according to the report, “was a rebel committee man.” J. Edward Coy had

. At his death Cronan left an estate of about $720,000, an amount sufficient to establish him as “the wealthiest man in Halifax.” Some 40 per cent of his assets were made up of business and household

northwest. Existing records indicate that he was more an enterprising and practical man than an accomplished bookkeeper, but it is clear that by 1820 his total operation was well in place and, on the evidence

. David’s conduct during the rebellion gave him a place in history as a distinguished officer. His notoriety as the usurper of another man’s wife and his involvement in a fraud twice put him beyond the pale

mother and family to Prince Edward Island in 1843. As a young man, Dawson began work as a clerk in the Charlottetown dry-goods firm of John Thomas Thomas

* spoke well of him: a “prudent man, who likes his duty and who is able to bring honour to the service.” The following year Hocquart defended him against a charge of private trading, pointing out that it

Demeule’s childhood, except that he was the son of a working man and lived in Saint-Saveur ward in Quebec. He learned to operate a shoemaking machine at the age of ten and immediately found a job in one of

deeply religious young man, felt a call to preach to the Indians and in Nazareth he heard David Zeisberger* tell about the Delaware mission at

man who carried out his functions well, but it seems, according to Hocquart, that Charles-Paul Denys de Saint-Simon was not sufficiently acquainted with “customary law and procedure” to be able to

 Dec. 1706 at Quebec. Nothing is known of his family background; however, in 1668 Jean Deshayes was already a man of recognized ability. In

, manned Fort Cumberland. Also in June the Nova Scotia Council replaced rebel sympathizers with loyal supporters in county government, appointing Dixon a justice of the peace and a judge of the Inferior

inhabitants of Champlain and highly regarded by the colonial authorities, he was acknowledged to be “an honourable man,” an “upright man, with whose conduct one can find no fault,” at the 1725 inquiry which

Scott Donkin, md, and Mary Moor; d. 3 Jan. 1890 at Alnwick, England. As a young man John George Donkin

Harris*, who accompanied him on the journey; The measure of a man (1911), a novel inspired by the work of the Reverend Francis Higgins among the lumberjacks of northern Minnesota; and another

other nine children were born. It is probable that he had been able to bring at least part of his wealth with him, since by the 1790s he was certainly a well-to-do man

. He accepted the appointment “from extreme necessity.” A man with a large family, he had found the period on half pay financially ruinous and had been obliged to sell land acquired in Newfoundland. He

. When all debts were paid Elwyn’s estate amounted to less than $100. His friends mourned him as a man “ever courteous, considerate and generous,” “of boundless sympathy and charity,” “noble all through