speaks of Dr Emerson’s extensive practice, noting that he was “for many years the best known man in Fredericton.” He belonged to the provincial faculty of physicians and surgeons and in 1832 was one of a

negotiate with the French. In May 1628, he came to Quebec with a man whom Chomina, a Montagnais Indian friendly to the

, Man. Pierre Falcon was named after his father, an employee of the North West Company. His mother was an Indian woman said by early historians to have

for £918. Judging by the law-books in his library, Faribault was undoubtedly a learned man. He probably passed on to his sons a liking for the notarial profession, since three of them followed in

numerous articles dealing primarily with art, literature, and religion. In January 1856 he was attacked by a journalist of the Montreal paper Le Pays, who claimed that “this man [who is

. Mary Kinnear Events 173/3 (N9905); P 192. AO, RG 80-2-0-209, no.1778. Man., Dept. of Finance, Consumer and Corporate Affairs

Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh, Pa.). This same assignment had lured a 2,500-man army under veteran Major-General Edward Braddock to disaster three years earlier

. A man of many talents, in 1825 he started New Brunswick’s first iron foundry at Saint John (which he sold in 1835), and in 1826 he was commissioned by the provincial government to survey the Saint

“though a man of safe judgement in matters of business and of industrious habits,” Gage “was by no means a bustling man of the world.” Carroll regretted above all that the church had lost a true and

, Man.), on the Assiniboine River, and there he was forced to stay until the spring of 1741. Accompanied by two Frenchmen, he then continued south “as far as two Spanish forts,” probably in present-day

difficult to assess. In 1755 André Doreil*, the commissary of wars, described him as an honest man, but weak and astonishingly naive. Although

Scott; b. 1836 at Saint-Boniface, Red River Settlement, son of Alexis Goulet and Josephte Siveright; drowned 13 Sept. 1870 in the Red River at Winnipeg, Man

Mowat* succeeded Blake as premier. Conservatives complained that “poor Peter Gow,” the “only honest man in the late Ministry,” had been cast aside “like an old glove.” They later suggested that his

. Historians, though they have not ignored frontiersmen in Graves’s age group, have tended to focus attention on younger settlers. Graves typifies the middle-aged man who gained success as an agricultural

[Boschenry], was a fine, loyal officer quite unsuited to commanding a colony under siege; Franquet was a sick man; Jean

. In the Mackenzie River region the HBC agents did not look favourably on Catholics, but they were usually courteous and hospitable. However, Grollier, a man of great energy, severe on himself, and

(Petit Pigeon), fur trader and interpreter; b. c. 1785 in Rupert’s Land; d. before 13 Oct. 1859 in the vicinity of the Red River settlement (Man

son of William Gunn, a tenant farmer in the strath of Braeholme; d. at St Andrews, Man., 30 Nov. 1878. Donald Gunn was educated in

. Nancy, and they had one son and one daughter; d. 21 Nov. 1884 in Hamilton, Ont. When Edward Gurney was a young man his family moved to Utica

retired on 10 June 1876 with the rank of quartermaster and a certificate of good conduct, and he settled on the family farm near Hantsport. When interviewed in 1900 the ageing man thought little