general secretary and office holder; b. 18 Jan. 1883 in Portage la Prairie, Man., daughter of Samuel Reid Marlatt, a civil servant, and Elisabeth Whimster; d. unmarried 16 May

and politician; b. c. 1845 in Etobicoke Township, Upper Canada, the sixth of eight children of William Mather, a farmer, and Margaret ––; d. unmarried 31 Jan. 1892 in Winnipeg, Man

Mackenzie*. A much liked and a prosperous man who had a successful farm and the proceeds from the sale of his father’s land in Sidney, Matthews was a logical choice to lead the men from Pickering and

ambitious and the common man alike, Medcalf was nicknamed “Old Square-toes,” pointing up his utilitarian boots, and he gloried in the name as a mark of his incorruptible ordinariness. The only matters which

son of John Miller, a lawyer; m. 8 June 1865 Henrietta Ranney of St Catharines, Canada West; d. 1 Nov. 1886 in Winnipeg, Man

exceptionally able and far-seeing man. The annual reports which he and his colleagues were required to submit repeatedly define, as the historian of education in Newfoundland, Frederick W. Rowe, observes

myth of the mid-Victorian self-made man. By hard work and righteous living, he rose from humble origins to become a successful businessman who left an estate of about $200,000. The Reverend Hugh Johnston

Seventh Avenue and later on Nose Creek north of the Bow River was a favourite visiting place for Indians, who called him Leather Man. Yet perhaps Murdoch’s most enduring legacy lies in the diary and notes

 April 1874 at his home near Lower Fort Garry, Man. No fur-trader ranged farther over North America than Alexander Hunter Murray. According to

as he pleased, leading the Pictou Colonial Standard (Conservative) to observe he was “a Government man to-day, an opposition man to-morrow, an Ishmaelite the day after, and the wandering Jew

fifth of eight children of Alexander McBeath and Christian Gunn; m. 19 Jan. 1832 Mary McLean, and they had 11 children; d. 20 Aug. 1886 at Kildonan (now part of Winnipeg), Man

McDermid devoted his professional life to the education of the deaf and was a strong family and church man, he also found time to participate in community endeavours. He was part of the Winnipeg social élite

Charity of Bytown; b. 9 Feb. 1833 or 1835 in St Andrews, Upper Canada, daughter of Angus McDonell and Margaret McDonald; d. 4 Nov. 1917 in St Boniface, Man

a “very hardy rough active persevering Man” who was “exceedingly useful” in the HBC’s vigorous competition with petty or free traders on the Ottawa River. Between 1836 and 1840 his account was with

Mann* on the Ontario and Rainy River Railway. Details of McGillivray’s life are few. He was a large man, over six feet in height. After his

Alline’s disciples, including Edward Manning* and Joseph Dimock

agent. He then returned to Montreal. For a young man intent on making his fortune in the transportation business, Montreal was the place to be in the 1850s. Starting in the late 1830s the city had

with John Macdonell* (Greenfield). A man of solidly conservative political views, he continued to serve in the house until 1824 when he lost

. In 1911 McRae resigned as chief. With an annual pension of $2,485 the Winnipeg Telegram regarded him as being “comparatively a poor man.” Largely uneducated, McRae had worked hard to improve

should occupy a central position in education at all levels. In his convocation address at Bishop’s in 1860, he said, “Let it be the University’s privilege to demonstrate that – while man discovers