Rupert’s Land as early as 1858. An entry in the journal of daily occurrences at Fort Ellice (Man.) mentions that on 9 July 1858 “Mr. Boyd arrived here from Red River.” A later note by trader Isaac
Burrows attended public schools in Ottawa and arrived in Winnipeg in 1875. He worked briefly for his uncle William Ogilvie at the Dominion Lands Survey. A restless young man, Burrows tried and abandoned
, son of John Cook and Elizabeth ; d. 23 Feb. 1846 in the Red River settlement (Man.).
William Hemmings Cook came from London to Rupert’s
, and they had a son and a daughter; d. 4 Oct. 1913 in Virden, Man.
Eleanor Cripps was born into an upper-class family and received a
. 3 May 1841 in Chandolas, France, son of Joseph Decorby, a vineyard owner, and Marie-Madeleine Serre; d. 16 Oct. 1916 in St Charles, Man
principled man of great self-respect. When in 1861, with an election looming, the Liberal party enquired of potential candidates whether they would support it “in all quests of purely party character,” Gillmor
mixed-blood woman probably surnamed Burns; m. a Cardinal relative, and they had three sons and seven daughters; d. 10 April 1906 on Keeseekoowenin Reserve near Elphinstone, Man
Cripps*, and they had one son and one daughter; d. 25 Jan. 1890 at St Andrews, Man.
William Kennedy was sent to school in his father’s
. 1841 in St Boniface (Man.), son of Louis (Louison) Letendre, dit Batoche, and Marie Hallet; m. 19 May 1863 Marguerite Parenteau in St Norbert (Man.), and they had 13
custom of the country, and formally 6 March 1824 in Montreal, Mary McKay, a Métis, and they had one son and three daughters; d. 6 March 1855 in the Red River settlement (Man
Gaboury*; m. 11 Jan. 1850 Anastasie Landry, and they had 14 children; d. 17 Dec. 1924 in St Vital, Man.
Although André
need was for ministers who would be effective on the frontier. The successful minister, he summarized, “must commend himself to [the people] as a man and a Christian. With them the office and
under the influence of the Reverend Edward Manning*, the Baptist minister at Cornwallis. Following a period of great doubt and uncertainty
April 1868 Donald McEwen, and they had four children; d. 1 June 1920 in Brandon, Man.
After graduating from college, Jessie Turnbull
Kayakatopicicikec, and they had eight sons and five daughters; d. 30 Sept. 1907 at Norway House (Man.).
Zhauwuno-geezhigo-gaubow belonged to the
hurt to find that people dismissed as ridiculous the idea that “the black man is sprung from the same stock as the white.” All his life Wilson remained true to the cardinal doctrine of the philosophers
Peking Man. Black played a central role in the creation of the Cenozoic Research Laboratory, which was established through the cooperation of the GSC and the PUMC and with the Rockefeller Foundation’s
SETTEE, JAMES, Church of England missionary and author; b. between 1809 and 1816 near Split Lake (Man.) of
as the strongest man of his time. He never met his match in Canada, the United States, or England, countries in which he gave more than 2,500
Bracken* presented Bedford, a close friend whom he referred to as “the grand old man of prairie horticulture,” with an honorary life membership in the Manitoba Horticultural Association. Bedford died