George Bannerman, born ca 1791, son of Alexander Bannerman of Ulbstal,(1) was a passenger on the Prince of Wales in 1813.(2) Due to an outbreak of typhoid, the ship disembarked the settlers at Churchill Fort instead of York Factory. The winter was spent at a camp near Churchill and in the spring, George was among those who made the trek on snowshoes to York Factory.(3) They arrived at Red River in early summer 1814.
Simon Dazio was born in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, in the late 1700s. He came to Canada as a soldier with the de Meuron regiment in the British army.(1) After the regiment was disbanded in 1816, Dazio was one of the ex-soldiers recruited by Lord Selkirk to accompany him to Red River. Any men who wished to join the colony were promised grants of land. They arrived at the settlement in 1817 and Simon Dazio was listed as a Meuron Settler on an 1818 list, single man.(2)
Jacob Truthwaite was born about 1786 in the Albany District. His parents were Matthew Truthwaite, from England, and Pocathea, a First Nations woman from the Albany area. Matthew was employed as a carpenter at Albany.
Nahoway [i] was born in the Hudson Bay area. Estimates of her birth vary from the early 1770s to 1780. Her parentage is not documented, although her father was probably an HBC employee from Britain and her mother of Cree/European ancestry.[ii] About 1792, she became the ‘country wife’ of William Sinclair, a young Orkney man in the employ of the Hudson’s Bay Company at York Factory.
Nahoway [i] was born in the Hudson Bay area. Estimates of her birth vary from the early 1770s to 1780. Her parentage is not documented, although her father was probably an HBC employee from Britain and her mother of Cree/European ancestry.[ii] About 1792, she became...