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Ignace Tonené (1840 or 1841 – 15 March 1916), also known as Nias or by his Ojibwe name Maiagizis ('right/correct sun'), was a Teme-Augama Anishnabai chief, fur trader, and gold prospector in Upper Canada. He was a prominent employee of the Hudson's Bay Company. Tonené was the elected deputy chief before being the lead chief and later the life chief of his community. In his role as deputy, he negotiated with the Canadian federal government and the Ontario provincial government, advocating for his community to receive annual financial support from both. His attempts to secure land reserves for his community were thwarted by the Ontario premier Oliver Mowat. Tonené's prospecting triggered a 1906 gold rush and the creation of Kerr Addison Mines Ltd., although one of his claims was stolen from him by white Canadian prospectors. This photograph shows Tonené in 1909.Photograph credit: William John Winter; restored by Adam Cuerden
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Congratulations!
I wanted to offer my congratulations for your landslide victory in the Board of Trustees election. I can think of no one better suited for the job. Good luck! blankfaze | •• 21:22, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Congrats from me too Angela, I'm sure you'll represent us well. Dori | Talk 21:36, Jun 13, 2004 (UTC)
I was hoping to be the first to congratulate you, Angela, but two others have beaten me to it! I am truly thrilled that you've won, and I know that you'll represent our interests better than anybody. {{{HUGS}}} David Cannon 22:31, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I too would like to offer my sincerest congratulations/most solemn condolences on your election to the board (I'll let you the most relavant one). I'm sure you'll do an outstanding job. →Raul654 04:19, Jun 14, 2004 (UTC)
Dear Angela, congraulations for being elected. I have had the opportunity to read your policy statement in full, and like to hear all the great things you're doing and will continue to do. Have a good weekend in Berlin too. from EuropracBHIT 04:34, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I would also like to offer my congratulations. Do you have a fan club yet? :-) --Phil | Talk 08:35, Jun 14, 2004 (UTC)
- Please tell me when and where its first meeting will be held? :) Gongrat's from \Mikez as well!
Congratulations, Angela. I haven't seen the official announcement yet, but I got the gist of it from the other comments above :). I may not be as effusive as the others, but I'll say that I liked your position and am glad you were elected. -- pne 14:50, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)
AngBot
May I offer a wee smile that an anti-deletionist has a deletion bot? A kind smile, of course : ). A suggestion - /ng/, as you have no need for me to tell you, is always hard, unless followed by e or i, and since your name has a handy 'e'... That way, /ang(er)/bot (or 'angst'bot, as if...) becomes /ange(la)/bot. I hope you come to love your little bot too. She is doing an important job, and it is better that bots do the vandal-erasing than humans. If you have done a good job in programming her, she will not disappoint you. Denni 02:27, 2004 Jun 14 (UTC)
- Ang is pronounced more like Anj (an'j maybe?). The 'g' is certainly not a hard 'g', so there shouldn't be a problem following it with a B. Angela. 02:16, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Congratulations, 축하합니다.
It's fine to hear that you are elected! -- 10:41, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC) 아흔(A-heun)
Elections and football
hope Angela, that your return trip was fine and that you are full of energy. We missed you on IRC yesterday evening.
Since you are british, let me tell you a little story that happened yesterday evening. When results were officially announced, Jimbo nicely came to on the french channel to tell us. The channel was rather quiet then, probably because it was in the middle of the football match. I was busy with the kids, so was not much around when he got there first.
While I was near the computer, I heard it bipping, and came around the screen. I saw the results were official. While I was answering to Jimbo and thanking people, my husband got a champaign bottle he had hidden in the fridge, called the kids so that we could all have a drink together. I must say that my husband is at the same time very proud and totally in despair. So, he said he was celebrating the position, and me leaving the family. My daughter took it for granted, and I had to spend a good while with her later on, as she was crying in her bed :-(
Anyway... just as he was putting the wine in the 4 glasses (yup, the kids had some too), there was a horrendous tremor in the whole appartment, and screams in the street. The people in the appartment above were making a pogo danse above our head. And some ceiling parts fell on our carpet, just next to the glasses. I thought "this is probably football good news for french team". I looked on the irc screen, and yes it was the penalty. We just had the time to pick up the glasses, while a second earth quake occurred (the long lasting consequences of the penalty), but fortunately with no damage this time :-)
There is a french/celtic saying, reported in belgian Astérix books "Nous n'avons peur que d'une chose, que le ciel nous tombe sur la tête" (we only fear that sky fall on our heads). Yesterday, litteraly, sky fell on my head :-)
I hesitate going to see the neighbours to tell them about the consequences of them jumping in their living room :-)
Congrats!
It is clear that your overwhelming success was imminent. Onward, Comrade! --Merovingian ↕ T@Lk 15:50, Jun 14, 2004 (UTC)
Yes, congrats - well deserved. Hope you're partying in Berlin! Warofdreams 17:51, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Congrats from me too... even if you did beat me. =P --Delirium 19:56, Jun 14, 2004 (UTC)
Nice User page
Can you help me out a bit on making my page look as nice? For example, why doesn't the formatting toolbar show up when I edit /my/ page? Thanks for any help. Ilyanep 20:32, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Miscellaneous comments and congrats
Well done and congratulations, ping 07:54, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Of course, before I say anything else, congratulations on your election: you've taken enough compliments from me in the past few months to imagine how pleased I am that you will be representing the masses on the Board. Good luck.
On a completely unrelated topic, I am wondering if you will offer me your thoughts concerning a trip I will soon be taking? I am honeymooning in Rutland in mid-July for a week (after which a few days in London), and my fiancee and I are not very familiar with that part of England. We will be without a car (can't swing it financially), and so will be wholly dependent on public transport and walking to get from place to place -- we don't know what sights would be best worth seeing, as guidebooks over here tend to be long on descriptions of the big cities and relatively short on the quiet rural areas. I asked advice from Finlay when I was at his talk page for other reasons, thinking for some reason he was English -- he informed me that, as a Scot, he really can't advise much at all, but suggested three Wikipedians who he thinks live closest to Rutland. I know you best of the three, and I've recently intervened in a dispute between the other two (I do think they both still like me, but it's always hard to say), so I've decided to ask you first. Certainly I don't want you to go to any trouble on my account, but if there is anything you can think of that might be good to see (or if you have any tips on using public buses in England), it would be more than welcome. A note here, on my talk page, or emailed to me, would be very fine, and if you don't have time (with your new responsibilities, etc.) please don't worry about leaving anything like an explanation -- we'll have a wonderful trip regardless, I am sure. Thanks for whatever help you can provide, and congratulations once again on your new position. Jwrosenzweig 22:17, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Formatting Toolbar
- I get it on some user pages (when I click edit), but not on mine and some others... Ilyanep 14:18, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Cleanup thanks and a question and...
Hello Angela -- thanks for cleaning up the RfM page! And I'm just curious about GrazingshipIV's leaving Wikipedia...is there a page or diff I could look at? And congrats again -- it's simply brilliant that you and ant are on the board! -- Peace, BCorr|Брайен 16:08, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
No problem, wee bot
AngBot wrote:
Ang is pronounced more like Anj (an'j maybe?). The 'g' is certainly not a hard 'g', so there shouldn't be a problem following it with a B. Maybe I should tell Angela to make this clear on my user page. AngBot 22:38, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Nothing about Wiki should be hard. Wiki is a soft place. an/j/bot works fine for this occasionally too bottic user. Denni 18:47, 2004 Jun 15 (UTC)