sturdy little man, quick of gesture, and with a face framed in sidewhiskers, who established himself firmly in the life and society of Montreal; he was a Catholic who secured a prominent place, along with

he had received the degree of doctor of divinity from that institution. A man of broad vision, Wood made a tour of the Indian missions of the Canada

which he was sensitive. Chief Factor James Douglas, his superior in the HBC, a big man, took a quiet delight in

(Man.). Young’s appointment marked the beginnings of an important shift in Methodist missionary operations in the west, from an emphasis on Indian

 JAMES ALBERT MANNING, lawyer, politician, and lieutenant governor; b. 10 Dec. 1851 in Toronto Gore Township

about the young man’s exploit is that he was the first European to shoot the Sault-Saint-Louis (the Lachine rapids, near Montreal) in a canoe. When later on Champlain, in his turn, ventured down these

throughout the company’s Columbia district, between northern California and the Columbia basin. In March 1827 he left with the HBC’s annual brigade to York Factory (Man.), where he was to take ship for England

defenders has described him as “a man of great personal magnetism combined with courage, integrity, energy, and independence.” Perhaps the most common view comes from the most respected chronicler of 18th

Gawron AO, F 67. Man., Legislative Library (Winnipeg), Biog. scrapbooks. NA, MG 26, A; RG 31, C1, 1871, Perth

of man.” His deepest conviction, and the one integrating his thought, was that it was precisely the great doctrines concerning the incarnation, the atonement, and the work of the Holy Spirit which met

and Jolliet left in mid-May 1673 for the great voyage. A month later they entered the Mississippi, and, at a spot somewhere on the Iowa shore, were greeted at a Peoria village by an aged man who

were widely published. A tall, lean, and somewhat frail man with slightly wavy, reddish hair, he was sensitive, almost delicate, capable, and

NOLIN, CHARLES, Métis farmer, fur trader, and politician; b. 1837 in St Boniface (Man.), son of Augustin Nolin and Hélène

MacNutt*, he “spent a quarter of a century in sustaining the larger part of the business of government and finished his life as a poor man.” No doubt it was the state of Jonathan’s purse that kept

accept a compromise. “It is unjust . . . to strike a man when he is down,” it noted. “It is not in keeping with the free air of the Northwest. It savours of the east, where usurious Shylocks are

Church in New York City, Johnson commented, “I sincerely wish he may turn out to be a Man of Zeal and Attention proportionable to his Size, as you observe

except that his origins were humble and that he received no formal education. In 1760, at age 20, he signed on as a labourer with the HBC. For the next seven years he was stationed at York Factory (Man

, two children, and two unnamed servants. The servants were probably Wise and a Black man named Joe: subsequent court records indicate that these two men were labouring for Burns shortly after he arrived

in politics, and his youthful ideas foreshadowed the prairie radicalism that would mark his life later. He decried the mounting cost of a university education that excluded “the poor man’s son

young colleague, James Albert Manning Aikins*, who was already established in Winnipeg, arranged for Campbell to take up a