June 1824 by her influential pastor, Edward Manning, and was accepted as a member of the First Cornwallis Baptist

Recorder described him as a self-serving man who knew nothing of finance but owed his position to “heredity right” and the “Freemasonry of Politics.” In physical appearance he was “a little, important

Churchill in 1715–16. Accordingly Davis was dismissed from the company’s service. So he disappears from Canadian history, a man more important for what he failed to do than for anything he did

tradition. Along with many of the other New Light leaders, such as Edward Manning* and Harris

was laid primarily on Governor Nixon but Draper shared the blame as an “evil counsellor.” In fact, the Company now considered him “so ill a man that we shall never think worth our imployment any more

nothing is known of this man. Icelandic annals s.a. 1113 record “Voyage of Bishop Eric” and s.a. 1121 “Bishop Eric from Greenland went to look for Vinland

wound to the leg. Further investigation by the police revealed that Favel, who had been furnishing whisky to the camp at Lebret and may have wished to hide this fact, had helped bandage the bleeding man

cultivation methods. In 1860 he returned to Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan, married, and opened a general store. An enterprising man, Foucher took advantage of

Altbergthal, near Altona, Man. Johann Funk was baptized in 1857 and married that same year. In 1874 Bishop Gerhard

womenkind,” is a fair sample: Now they’ll marry a man, it’s if they can,And keeping house they’ll go;Till all at once they’ll shove

Pipestone, Man. H’damani was a sub-chief of a Wahpeton Santee village on the upper Minnesota River below Lac qui Parle (Minn.). Wiyan, his first wife, was a

. A man of many interests, Jones edited and published his own newspaper, the Indian, for one year in the mid 1880s. He collected native artefacts, had a fine library on North America’s native

was a child, a boy’s maternal uncle was probably the person most important to him because of their clan ties. Similarly, every Tagish man was responsible for the welfare of his sisters because they were

is a young man of very noble birth, 22 years old, whom God has inspired to serve Him in this country, for the salvation of the Indians. . . . This young man . . . has held a command

finally forced him to retire in 1880. A man who came to Canada ostensibly as a rural clergyman and was felt to be a failure in this role became “a willing

. 1845 in what is now southern Alberta, son of Natos-api (Sun Old Man); m. Paynot-sinimatsaki (Coup in Sight), Sakoy-inamuhka (Took the Gun Last), Stamiksitsaki (Bull Gut Woman), and Nitohksini (One

Sarcel de Prévert’s men claimed to have discovered, with the guidance of Indians. Champlain and Messamouet set sail in a pinnace of five or six tons, manned by nine sailors. Between Île Sainte

country. After the union of the NWC and the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1821, McTavish was appointed chief factor in charge of York Factory (Man.) and during the 1820s his wife shared his social prominence as

accompany HBC governor George Simpson on his trip from York Factory (Man.) to the Columbia. Simpson quickly came to

his parents died. Despondent, he wandered off into the sand hills. There he had a vision in which a rattlesnake came to him in the form of a man and offered to adopt him, saying that all snakes would be