, lecturer, and herbal doctor; b. 1818 in Upper Canada near the mouth of the Trent River, the son of John Copway, a Mississauga chief and medicine man; d. 27 June 1869 in Ypsilanti, Mich

. and E. Kenny, which throughout its history was to be dominated by the younger man. Within five years the Kennys had expanded to the point where their annual imports from Britain amounted to £15,000

KEZHEGOWINNINNE (Geezhigo-w-ininih, Kezigkoenene, Kishigowininy, literally skyman, man of the sky, or one who is exalted; also known as

A free Black man who was kidnapped into slavery as a child in the United States, John Washington Lindsay (d. 1876) eventually fled

Carleton* that a man of Livius’ abilities deserved a place on the Council and a seigneury. Livius arrived in Quebec City on 4 Nov. 1775, just in time to experience the siege by the Americans

, Charles Justin McCarty*, Losee carried a questionable recommendation – namely that he was formerly “a Man of very bad moral Character

.” Both Lugger and his wife were complimented on their efforts to protect the Indians from the worst effects of the white man’s world and to bring to them not only the Word of God, but medicines and

Revolution and the hustle and bustle of the Universal and International Exposition in Montreal (or Expo 67), life was anything but routine. The man who had openly supported the movement for

commissioners to Casco Bay, where the treaty and terms of submission were read to 30 chiefs, in the presence of 400 other Abenakis, on 18 July. “Young Mogg” was described as “a man about 50 years, a

 Jan. 1839, condemned him to hang. Morin’s father having been similarly sentenced, and neither man having been recommended for mercy, they endured

Valley Railway from Winnipeg to Emerson, Man. This railway had been chartered by the Manitoba government of John Norquay* the previous year and was

as his private secretary, and for the next 15 years he would divide his time between Baddeck and Washington. Both Bell and Mabel developed a special bond with the young man. Enthusiastic and

he later recalled being in the interior that year. There is also evidence which suggests that in 1814 McDonell was considering retiring in the Red River settlement (Man.), where the Earl of Selkirk

-educated young man, he apparently spent his first years clerking at the company’s headquarters in Montreal, although he did attend the summer rendezvous at Grand Portage (near Grand Portage, Minn.) in 1802

. It is significant that so many of Jones’s slaves ran away from him; he may well have been a hard-driving man who overworked his human property. That spring Ben escaped but was recaptured. In March

him in the following terms: “He is a well-built man, 38 to 40 years old. His features have a martial cast. His actions and his manners reveal that he has the sentiments inspired by a noble

) (Mark), Cree performer and recitalist; b. c. July 1898, probably in Split Lake (Man.), daughter of Jack or Thomas Beardy and Betsy Necoway (Nickawa); m. 29 Jan

. Apprenticed to the HBC for seven years, Richard Norton arrived at York Fort (Fort Bourbon; now York Factory, Man.) in September 1714 and must have witnessed its restoration to the English by the French

fellow New Jerseyman and local office holder, Nathaniel Pettit, he obtained a grant of 200 acres in Saltfleet Township. An older man, he appears to have been unmarried upon his arrival in the colony

, Wash.). Pierre-Chrysologue Pambrun first chose a military career, “the most honourable state in which a virtuous and courageous young man can acquire