meaning of the superstitions and festivals of civilized man could be gleaned by looking at the similar customs of the “unchanged savage.” Haliburton’s ultimate motive in attempting to prove the unity of

trade. Early self-interest and his later experience in the west would make him a convinced anti-tariff man. Greenway was not an active member of the

. Historians, though they have not ignored frontiersmen in Graves’s age group, have tended to focus attention on younger settlers. Graves typifies the middle-aged man who gained success as an agricultural

* and George; d. 10 May 1902 in Kingston, Ont. George Monro Grant’s father, though a man of diverse talents and an amiable

joined the HBC as an apprentice clerk and, recommended by various company officials in London, he sailed for York Factory (Man.) in June 1843. After a winter learning the trade at Upper Fort Garry

, he was too independently minded to be a good party man, and certain autocratic tendencies had been strengthened by his long tenure on the bench. Although he was an unparalleled source of information on

of the city, the Evening Telegram said that “Robert Gerrie was more probably than any other man of his day – the father of the Winnipeg Boom

. In January 1858 he was described by its agents as “a single man, about 30 years of age [he was 24] . . . highly respectable

correspondent for an American newspaper or two, the man who had chosen exile returned to Quebec late in February 1871. A provincial general election was

and in 1894 told J. W. Carmichael that “as a stumper he is our best man.” The following year Fraser toured western Canada with him. The

young man to be “an ornament to society and the name of Randolph.” That, Archibald Drummond Fitz Randolph most certainly was

. In many ways Ferguson was Sullivan’s right-hand man. When the province, frustrated by Ottawa’s failure to provide efficient communication with the mainland, appealed in 1886 to the British government

 Sept. 1910 at Chesnay, near Paris, and was buried in the cemetery of Boulogne-sur-Seine beside his son. A cultivated man of action Hector Fabre

. The development of the Pacific salmon-canning industry: a grown man’s game, ed. Dianne Newell (Montreal and Kingston, Ont., 1989). R. E. Gosnell, A history o[f

poisoned relations between him and his staff. The commissioners were particularly concerned that a feud between DeWolf, whom one witness described as “a man difficult to get along with,” and the assistant

. December 1837 in the Red River settlement (Man.), second son of Isidore Dumont, known as Ekapow, and Louise Laframboise; m. 7 Sept. 1857

active, if untrained, intellect had shown itself as early as his Craigflower Farm days when he had lectured his fellows on the nobility of man, the phases of the moon, and the Anglo-Saxon race. His later

passage. Within a year, an emigrant transport service had been established under the auspices of public works, and settlers for the prairies were moving over the road named for the man who had selected it

marrying Susan Augusta True, an American, in Coaticook, Que., he set out with her for the Red River settlement (Man.). When the couple arrived in Red

. Stephen regarded the subsidy as a good investment for the party and the railway. “Davin is all right and can do us all good service,” he agreed. “He is a good man for the West & ought to be secured in