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Within a year, however, Kineubenae was protesting against the settlers’ encroachments on the fisheries. In 1806 he complained about the white man who had taken over his cornfield at Bronte Creek and then
, probably near the site of Fort Ellice, Man., son of Le Sonnant; d. 1906 on the Kahkewistahaw Reserve, Sask.
Kā-kīwistāhāw was from a
having been a trouble-maker in this affair, Louis XIV withheld the promotion of a man whom he had always considered up to then “as a good officer.” But the authorities of the colony lost no time in
December 1752 and his share of the profits increased to one-half. It was thus a successful young man in the ascendant phase of his career who married into the prominent Foucault family in 1747, although
grist-mill. A year later, by which time he had accumulated 1,250 acres in Beverly, he sported the only “pleasure wagon” there.
Lamb was a man of some
his company, an unmarried man who considered him a son, Lanouguère purchased a tract of land along the Rivière Sainte-Anne; the tract had previously been granted to Michel
was a cultured man with a great interest in literature. While still a medical student, he became one of the founders of the Société Canadienne d’Études Littéraires et Scientifiques, established at
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A man of letters, Laviolette composed short dramatic works for schoolchildren and articles which included the occasional piece of literary criticism. He was particularly skilful at writing verse in a
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As a young man Leake saw much active service, and by 1689 was in command of the Dartmouth at the relief of the besieged city of Londonderry. Soon after the War of the Spanish Succession was
province of New Brunswick (Saint John, 1880). Understandably, then, Lee was known as “a man of good parts.”
He was not in easy circumstances, however
era fading, and the ranks of surviving early settlers thinning, Longworth came to be regarded as a grand old man of a bygone era. Patriarch of a large family, he watched his offspring take up important
Johnson*, “a Young Man who had shown Resolution, was a good Woods-man, known to & liked by many of the Indians.”
As an Indian agent with the rank
devastated. On Wednesday, 13 March 1901, the day of the funeral, two relays of six students (for he was a big man) bore his coffin to Camp Hill Cemetery, a few hundred yards from the college where he had
and other work. After three months the association had 325 members, an eight-man executive (of which Mackasey was president), and a twelve-man council. By 1883 Halifax’s first mass union had 518 members
and included quotations from leading medical authorities. Mackieson’s two manuscripts portray a man of inquiring mind, both studious and precise. His diary, which he kept for almost 35 years
Bay Company. Hawaiians of the period used a single name, and a man known as Mahoi was employed at Fort Victoria (Victoria) about the time of Maria’s birth to a local Indigenous woman. All her life Maria
1822 report noted that he was a “fine powerful active young man [and a] tolerable Clerk & Trader.” Manson, once described by John Tod* as a “ramping
George Freeston Mantle, a manufacturer of leather goods, and Sophia Isabella Dobson; m. 13 April 1904 Ethel R. Speer in Belmont, Man., and they had two sons and one daughter; d. 26
was not the sort of man to take things lying down.
On 19 January he presented a petition to the intendant
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One of the most daring figures of the early days of the colony, François Marguerie was called “the double man” by the Indians, because he had earned the reputation among them of being the white man who