revealed him as a man of exceptional genius.” In 1875, a few years before his death, one of the principal chroniclers of Montreal, the Reverend John Douglas Borthwick, devoted a highly laudatory biography to

events in the northwest; Selkirk’s establishment of the Red River colony (Man.) in 1812 across the Nor’Westers’ main trade routes had made a confrontation between the two companies unavoidable. When

Perry*, and particularly Robert Baldwin*, whom he described in 1861 as “that good and great man, the lamented and ever-to-be revered champion

then sent to teach theology in the Séminaire d’Angers, becoming its director in 1789. He was already known as a man “of great merit, respected and loved by all.” Two years later he refused to take the

. Kurt Korneski City of Winnipeg, Arch. and records control branch, Vert. files, John Queen. Man., Dept. of Tourism, Culture

to Ross “by Banns with mutual consent” in the Anglican Upper Church (later St John’s Church), Red River Settlement (Man.); they had at least 12 children; d. 26 Feb. 1884 in Winnipeg

of her attachment to a man who was then being hounded by his creditors. At that date Madeleine had been living for perhaps a little more than two years at the fort that belonged to La Salle. The

them to cross to France to account to the king for their insubordination. D’Auteuil, however, was a very sick man, suffering from a serious lung ailment, and Frontenac was persuaded to rescind his order

Royale. Sabatier was a hard-working second rank civil servant, a man who attempted to do his best but who never stepped on the toes of his superiors if he

-school education, and, being temperamentally unsuited to the farming life he had been born into, he left home as a young man for the greater excitement to be found in the lumber-woods of nearby Maine

by Salter Jehosaphat Mountain, minister at Quebec. Notwithstanding his lament in 1781 that he was the victim of “the greatest wrongs and injuries that ever innocent man suffered or that the annals of

to paint the Red Man white . . . many excellent traits of character are

the owner of a 1906 automobile – one of the first in the district – he drove like a man possessed, frequently crashing through farmers’ fences as he made his medical rounds; in his defence, he

, as a young man, taught school near Elizabethtown (Brockville). About 1804, he built and operated the first tavern in Brockville. When he became sheriff he “brought [his] mercantile affairs to an end

diocese. Mountain was not impressed by the letter, concluding that Short was a man who lacked both education and sense, qualities the bishop prized in clergymen. He decided to await references from England

her to enjoy the canoe trip from Lachine to York Factory (Man.) in May and June. The two wives were the first British women ever to travel this route, and the diary that Mrs Simpson kept of their

100 clerks. At Ingram’s death in January 1901, Smallman bought his interest. A man with a firm sense of family enterprise, he immediately

the end of his life, Smart wrote an autobiography in the third person but it was never published. He was a man of independent mind, courageous, compassionate, and visionary

sloop, a position he held at the bay until his return to England in the autumn of 1744. During these years he had made five trading voyages north from Churchill (Man.) in a series of relatively

Matthew Teefy of Richmond Hill reported that Smyth “never was an active, intelligent man; [but] was weak, and silly, – given to [poetry ?] and love making – and became a