Ellen Hamilton in Palestine (Gladstone), Man., and they had two sons and three daughters; d. 14 Nov. 1903 in Neepawa, Man. John

lectured in many fields but his favoured subject was political economy. He had reservations about the traditional academic curriculum and stressed the importance of “the study of man and especially the study

a lower point soon after when the policeman threw the chief bodily out of the fort. Crozier prepared his 50-man detachment for an attack from the hundreds of Sioux nearby, but none came. Crozier could

, Chelsea (London), being sent to the Red River settlement (Man.) in 1848 under the command of Major William Bletterman Caldwell

Anderson*. Following a winter at St Andrew’s parish (Man.), Corbett founded a new mission, named Headingley, midway between the Red River settlement and Portage la

man governed by his passionate nature. Given leave in the summer of 1894 to come to Canada, he decided to stay on. He sent for his wife and two children and, full of optimism and enthusiasm, plunged

man convicted of sexual intercourse with a girl under 16 be sentenced to three years in prison. Although the act would lead to relatively

). Charles was “a man of fine artistic taste,” according to historians Ethelbert Olaf Stuart Scholefield and Frederic William Howay, and apparently he executed many sketches of the “fur trading life of the

their command. Indeed, the regular force of 750 was allocated the same amount as the 20,000-man militia. In 1883 Caron repeated his assurances to parliament that the schools did not herald a huge

epitaph, “His whole career has been one of fruitful and useful labour.” In a sense it is an appropriate tribute to a man not noted for eloquence. However, it does not indicate his role in the Irish

, Canniff helped organize Ontario’s opposition to the murder of Thomas Scott* at Red River (Man.) and became president of the North West

). Joseph Schull, Edward Blake, the man of the other way (1833–1881) (Toronto, 1975). D. C. Thomson, Alexander Mackenzie, Clear Grit (Toronto, 1960). Willison

Wolseley* was organizing an expedition to the Red River settlement (Man.) in the aftermath of the resistance led by Louis Riel*. Butler had

American group, played Toronto and needed a comic end-man on short notice. Cool was recommended and hired at $50 a week. Throughout the 1860s and 1870s he led and toured with a succession of leading American

meet Whitman and proclaimed him “an average man magnified to the dimensions of a God”; exposure to him “altered the attitude of my moral nature to everything,” Bucke recorded. He had earlier written to

commerce with the Red River settlement (Man.), first as a purveyor of vegetables through his firm, the International Vegitable House, and later as a fur trader in association with John Christian

, but as a young man he was associated with the Methodist church to which his wife belonged. His Scottish and non-conformist background, and early success in making his way in the world, led him to be

. Lord Dufferin arrived in Canada on 25 June 1872, succeeding Baron Lisgar [Young*] as governor general. How did a man with

prices to be charged for the poor man’s bread. Once again he thought the voters’ decision incomprehensible. After 1884 Blackadar lavished praise upon Nova Scotia’s Liberal premier, William Stevens

, especially for a man of Bertram’s stature. In return for the backing of the Herald he was appointed a federal inspector of fisheries in 1883, and remained one until his death. As a respected local