In the book titled The Danger Tree by author David Macfarlane he writes about the major events of Newfoundland’s twentieth century, and a hundred years’ worth of stories about his great grandparents Josiah and Louisa Goodyear and their seven children: Josiah (Joe—David Macfarlane’s grandfather), Roland, Hedley, Stanley, Kenneth, Raymond, and Daisy (Kate). Macfarlane begins his book visiting his Grandmother in a nursing home, she is older and in failing health, her memory is wandering and the author uses the situation to introduce his connection to the Goodyear family. His grandmother Miss Carnell from Carmanville was a schoolteacher. She married Macfarlane’s grandfather Joe Goodyear and the author is recollecting his grandparent’s trip home after a winter spent in the woods. They attempt a treacherous river crossing with Macfarlane’s mother Beth, just a baby at the time wrapped up in blankets in a box tied to the front of a sled.
Calhoun was born on March 18th 1782 in Abbeville South Carolina. He received his Education at Yale Collage. He started off in the Political Field and began as a nationalists, modernizer and proponent of a strong national government. Then after 1835 he switched to states rights, limited government, nullification, and free trade. He was best known for his defense of slavery and pointing south toward succession.
After the American Revolutionary War, he joined a band of Shawnee to stop the invasion of white settlers’ flatboats that crossed down the Ohio River from Pennsylvania. “Tecumseh grew up to be a distinguished warrior in the Shawnee tribe.”(tecumsehbio.htm.) As Tecumseh early life, his family had to move about third time because of the attack by colonials and later American armies, as the Shawnee had allied with the British during the American Revolutionary War. His family finally settled near modern Bellefontaine, Ohio. When His tribe was pushed farther west by white settlers, Tecumseh became angry and took many raids to against whites on the frontier.
Shortly after his son Paul died my great grandfather, Matti Norppa, came to Canada on an Ocean Liner to Montreal and took a train to Kirkland Lake Ontario to become a gold miner. He would leave his wife (my great grandmother), his daughters Sirkka, Liana, Gert and his son Eric two years prior in Finland until he had enough money to get a house to bring them over to live with him. My great grandmother in the mean time sold all their assets in Finland and converted it to US dollars. Before she and the children came to Canada in 1938 she sewed pockets in a girdle to bring the $10,000 cash with her and smuggled the cash into Canada on an Ocean Liner also. When they arrived in
He got married in 1881 to Marguerite Monet dit Bellehumeur. They had three children Jean-Louis, Marie-Angelique, and a boy who was born and died less than one month before Riel was hanged. Gabriel Dumount, Morse Ouelette, James Isbister, and Michael Dumas went to get Louis Riel’s help for the problems that were arising back in Canada. Louis Riel returned to Canada in June 1884 to lead the North-West Rebellion. This resistance escalated into military confrontation.
John A. McCrae John McCrae was a Canadian poet John McCrae. He served in the Canadian forces as a medical officer in both the Boer War and World War I. A year after the beginning of World War One, he published a poem in the famous “Punch Magazine”, the only work, by which he would become famous. McCrae was born in McCrae House in Ontario, the grandson of Scottish immigrants. He attended to the well-known Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute and soon became a member of the Guelph militia regiment.
Thomas Paine Citizen of the United States February 9, 1737 - June 8, 1809 Objective: To gain entrance into the Founding Fathers Hall of Fame. Education & Training: Thetford Grammar School Education at home and the rest on my own. Occupation #1 - Excise Officer [1762-72] I published The Case of the Officers of Excise in 1772, disagreeing about the pay raise for officers. By 1774, I met Benjamin Franklin and helped I abroad to Philadelphia. Occupation #2 - Journalism [1774-76] I issued Common Sense in 1776, which was about a strong defense of American Independence.
A major portion of her life was spent in the belief that her family fled for political reasons, but it was only until 1997 that she came to know the truth that her family was Jewish and that three of her grandparents were victims of the holocaust. In 1948, her family moved to United States when she was only eleven. (Nolan, 2) America proved to be fortunate for the moving family as immediately after their settlement, School of International Studies at the University of Denver selected her father as Dean. Mainly, her schooling was done at Kent Denver School in Denver. In 1959, she graduated from Wesley College with a B.A.
On February 23, 1893, The Call Newspaper in San Francisco reported "Princess Kaiulani is tall and slender, with a more thoughtful and deliberate air than might be expected in a schoolgirl." There were also newspaper reports that an uncle, John Cleghorn of San Francisco was also quickly on his way to Washington to plead the case for his niece. According to several US newspapers on Feb. 3, 1893, including the New York Times and the Salt Lake Herald, John Cleghorn stated, "If the United States will not see the justice and right of the claims I will lay before it, I shall go to England and appeal to Great Britain. Princess Kaiulani is strong brained woman capable of ruling Hawaii. She is receiving the best of education with the expectation of someday sitting on the Hawaii throne."
Frye, Chandler The Truth About the First Thanksgiving Have you ever found yourself wondering just how much we really know about the history of the United States? What if there were numerous amounts of facts and stories that our schools’ textbooks left out, or just simply lied about? That is exactly what James W. Loewen had set out to discuss in his article, The Truth about the First Thanksgiving, which can be found in the collection Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. James W. Loewen made several interesting key points that need to be considered when one thinks about the true story of the first Thanksgiving. Who were the first known settlers of what we now know as the United States?