River (Man.), son of Mahquah (Maskwa, Bear) and Amo (Bee, Victoria); m. by 1862 Mary McKay (MacKaye), and they had at least eight children; d. 7 July 1916 in Berens River
Lake, Sask.), illegitimate son of Antoine Bruneau and a pure Cree or a Métis; d. 26 June 1865 at Saint-Boniface (Man.).
The father of
from a glacier” from the Tlingit word for “wasting away”; Gwai-Gu-unlthin, meaning “the man who rests his head on an island”; Captain
Company in 1791, after which nothing is known of his career until the first journal entry, made in the autumn of 1799 on the Whitemud River (Man.). He spent the winter of 1799–1800 at a post near Fort
reputation as a superb marksman and splendid hunter failed to sate Almighty Voice’s hunger for distinction or inure him to the ways of the white man. On 22 Oct. 1895 North-West Mounted Police
.
In the spring of 1864 some goods left at Bute Inlet were discovered to have been stolen. A white man questioned a group of Chilcotins regarding the theft. Receiving no satisfaction, he took down their
leaders of industry. Lennox designed, for example, the Manning Arcade (1884–85) for businessman Alexander Henderson Manning*; a
Peter Martin (fl. 1753–1802) was an enslaved Black man who gained his freedom after serving in the British army during the
whites. He made an impressive appearance at the bar of the house. Years later, he was reported to have said: “I see among [the members] but one face that I know, and that man is trying to take away from
1864 as an apprentice clerk successively at York Factory (Man.), Lower Fort Garry (Man.), and Fort Norman (N.W.T.). In 1864 he was transferred to Fort Liard (N.W.T.), where he became clerk-in-charge
1870 at Red River (Man.).
Almost nothing is known of the early life of Thomas Scott, whose death during the Red River disturbance of 1869–70
of the life of Jesus, The man who dared to be God (1929), and in four collections of sermons and meditations, The steep ascent (1928), His glorious body (1930
. Toronto Daily Mail, 28 Feb. 1887. W. P. Bull, From medicine man to medical man: a record of a century and a half of progress in health and sanitation as exemplified by
“a man of good counsel and an alert financier, sound and rarely at fault in his judgement, who quickly won the confidence of his fellow citizens and built up a fine clientele
BÉTOURNAY, LOUIS, lawyer and judge; b. Saint-Lambert, Chambly County, L.C., 13 Nov. 1825; d. Saint-Boniface, Man., 30
CARIGOUAN (Carigonan), renowned Montagnais medicine-man, hostile to the French; d. late 1634
contained 43 sail, including 1 man-of-war and 6 to 8 armed ships. Probably as an acknowledgement of his leadership in 1708, the commodore of the naval escort in 1709, Captain Joseph
CONILLEAU, CHARLES, priest, Jesuit; b. 4 Aug. 1811 at Martigné, diocese of Mans, France; d. 1 April 1879 at
“one of the neatest buildings in the city, and was much admired by the typical ‘Out-harbour-man,’ on his annual visit to the capital.” It may be that this admiration was occasioned only by the Purcell
, ROBINSON, Cree hunter from Great Whale River (Whapmagoostui, Que.); d. 9 Dec. 1755 at Richmond Fort.
The man who became known as