Robert Phair Robert Phair was born in County Tyrone, Ireland in 1837. He trained for two years at the Church Missionary Society College in Islington, London, and was ordained as a Deacon in 1864. That same year he left the United Kingdom for New York, and from there made his way to the Red …
Heathen
Heathen In Du Vernet’s diary, the word heathen operates as an important marker of difference by distinguishing the Christian Ojibwe from other Ojibwe. Though he thought these people’s “souls needed saving,” the diary also provides evidence that Ojibwe ceremony, including the Midewiwin society, …
Mary Johnston
Mary Johnston Mary Johnston was born Mary McLeod in Claudeboie, Manitoba, not far from where Jeremiah lived at St. Peter’s. Her father was Scottish and her mother may have been either Cree or Ojibwe. She married Jeremiah Johnston in 1880. By 1898, Mary had given birth to ten children, only four …