as “a man of learning, of noble and sweeping ideas, with an imagination that soared above mean motives, a very kind man, moreover, very zealous, very spiritual

of 1849 and later became a political partisan of Luther Hamilton Holton*, a Liberal and the man he felt would serve the “best

Alline* and into the mainstream of evangelical Protestantism. His paternal grandparents were Allinite converts of Edward Manning* but, in

. Regrettably, Heck’s letters have not survived. If he wrote his sermons, which is unlikely, they too have disappeared. He was evidently a kindly, humble, and unpretentious man who was greatly respected and

a Canadian dependency. Either threat, he thought, would rapidly reduce opposition to confederation. That Hill could make such suggestions illustrates not only the impatience of the military man with

. Born into a stern, disciplined naval family, George Hills was educated first at King William’s College, Isle of Man. At the University of Durham, from which he graduated ba

tedium of wintering in the Arctic. On the return journey Hoppner sketched an Inuk encountered in Baffin Bay. Parry recorded of the man: “It required . . . some shew of authority, as well as some

volunteered for service in western Canada and was appointed to Dominion City, Man. By 1884 Hunter was convinced that he was called to evangelism rather

Washington Gladden and Walter Rauschenbusch. His own sermon notes constantly emphasize the dignity of human labour and reflect a concern for the poor and the exploitation of the working man. At the opening in

man of the ancien régime, first concentrated on the maintenance and embellishment of the church, which he saw as visible signs of religious vitality in the parish. In 1793 he had the building

came from a prominent military and seigneurial family. His father, a seigneur, soldier, and man of letters who was favoured with colonial and imperial patronage, had established good connections with the

local waters and as a young man of 22 in the days of sail commanded schooners at the seal fishery. His particularly successful command of the Fanny Bloomer established him as a sealing

whole trade is Carried on.” Like Hutchins and Humphrey Marten, his predecessors at Albany, he encouraged the hiring of Canadians to man these posts, although by 1791 both he and the London committee had

had two sons and three daughters. Jarvis is usually thought of as the sheriff of the Family Compact, the man who resisted Mackenzie’s forces and who

. As a young man William Jenkins intended to enter the ministry of the Associate Synod of the Secession Church in Scotland, and he attended the University of Edinburgh, though without graduating. He

, Jacques Vieau, at the mouth of the Milwaukee River on Lake Michigan. Juneau was a big man, standing over six feet two inches tall, and was well adapted by temperament to life as a fur trader. His neighbours

Condition of the Poor. But when he collapsed on the prison farm in 1900, he was described as a sick man unable “to wield the white wash brush and man the plough.” Such occasional employments as acting as the

domestic chaplain to Horatio Powys, bishop of Sodor and Man, a position he held until 1864. In addition, from 1860 he served as registrar of the diocese and vicar of Kirkmichael, Isle of Man

would rise against the white man’s domination of Indian territory. It would have included tribes as far apart as the Abenakis in Acadia, the Sioux at the headwaters of the Mississippi, and the Chickasaws

from the second degree of affinity. By his second marriage he had one daughter. In his Histoire de la seigneurie de Saint-Ours, Azarie Couillard-Després describes Kierzkowski as a handsome man