Paris, chez l'auteur et chez Pierre Mariette, rue S. Jacques a l'Esperance 1650. Avec privilege du Roy pour vingt ans. Print from Plate.
A Huguenot, born at Dieppe. Appointed captain of the garrison at Honfleur, 1589. Obtained trading monopoly for ten years in Canada. Made a trading voyage to Canada, 1600, bringing...
(George Brown Era) On agricultural possibilities of North-West Territories. 214.
A town on the North Saskatchewan, at the mouth of the Battle River. In the Rebellion of 1885, it was threatened by Poundmaker's warriors, and relieved by Otter's column. The battle...
(John Graves Simcoe era) Country chalet built for Simcoe near York, 215.
Village on the north side of the St. Lawrence, four miles above Quebec. It was originally founded by Noel Brulart de Sillery in 1637 as a settlement for Christian Indians. =Index=:...
(Lord Dorchester era) His account of American invasion, 89.
Publique; Dawson, Fifty Years' Work in Canada; Hodgins, Documentary History of Education in Upper Canada; Ryerson, Story of my Life; Meilleur, L'Education du Bas-Canada; Millar, Ed...
(Lord Sydenham era) Made deputy inspector-general, 333.
Discovered in the latter sixties by a trapper, Michael Phillips, formerly in the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company. The pass took its name from Crow's Nest Mountain, which is name...
Nouvelle France; Dawson, The St. Lawrence Basin; Dionne, Jean-Francois de la Roche, Seigneur de Roberval (R. S. C., 1899).
of inspector-general of marines, in France, 1707-1710. In the latter year appointed intendant of Canada, but did not arrive in Quebec until 1712. Returned to France, 1726, and for...
(Samuel de Champlain era) Brother of Guillaume, 137.
Birth and education, 1; sails to West Indies, Mexico, and Panama in command of Spanish vessel, 3, 4; suggests channel through isthmus, 5; captures English vessels and returns to Fr...
(Bishop Laval era) Jesuit, devotion of, 32; his death, 33.
(Wilmot era) Commissioner of crown lands for New Brunswick, 1824-1851, 21; his income exceeded that of the lieutenant-governor, 21; his enormous pension, 22; protests against reduc...
accompanied Franklin on his Arctic expeditions of 1818, 1819-1822, and 1824-1827. Promoted lieutenant, 1822, and commander, 1827. In 1833-1835, led an expedition through what is no...
(Bishop Laval era) Master mason of Montreal church, 88.
(Egerton Ryerson era) Election contests, 63.
On the St. Lawrence River. (Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Improvements in navigation at, 185.
(George Brown Era) Origin of the name, 78.
On the St. Lawrence, above Quebec. =Index=: (Wolfe / Montcalm era) Vaudreuil orders posting of two hundred men at, 162; Bougainville's headquarters at, 163; difficulty of crossing...
educated there. In 1852 a member of the Legislative Council, and in 1857-1862 Speaker. Mayor of Quebec, 1860, when King Edward VII, as Prince of Wales, visited Canada, and knighted...