States. =Index=: (General Brock era) United States general, his Tippecanoe exploit, 174-176. =Bib.=: Cyc. Am. Biog.
Settlement made at, 32; new settlers arrive under Poutrincourt, 36. (Bishop Laval era) Captured by English, 229. =Bib.=: Champlain, Voyages; Lescarbot, History of New France; Parkm...
Seigneur de Vaubougon, in Normandy; married early in life, and while still young was left a widow with a large fortune. Filled with religious zeal, devoted herself and her fortune...
(Bishop Laval era) French officer, put to death by Iroquois, 227.
A Huguenot gentleman; came to Port Royal in 1610 with Poutrincourt; in 1614 had a trading-post on the Penobscot. Sailed for France in 1627, and on his return the following year, wi...
(Sir John A Macdonald era) Strongly favoured by Macdonald; opposed by Maritime Provinces and Lower Canada, 107-109, 245.
division of the Atlantic, during which period prevented the Fenians from making Eastport, Maine, the base of operations against New Brunswick.
engaged in business in Montreal. Served during the War of 1812. In 1831 appointed to the Legislative Council of Lower Canada, being leader of the British party in that house and a...
(Bishop Laval era) On Laval University, 99.
Private secretary to Sir John A. Macdonald, 1882-1891; under-secretary of state, 1896-1908; under-secretary for external affairs, 1908.
Egypt, and Italy. Commanded a brigade under Wellington, 1810-1814, and led the 52d Light Infantry in their victorious movement at Waterloo. Sent to Upper Canada as lieutenant-gover...
The name originally applied by General Murray to the Montreal district, in 1760. Under the terms of the Constitutional Act of 1791, the country was divided into two provinces, and...
army halts at, 218; Levis's army lands at, 246.
army, 1754, and in 1757 stationed at Halifax, Nova Scotia; served under Wolfe at the siege of Louisbourg, and in 1759 in command of the force that captured the French forts on Lake...
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Haldimand born in, 3.
A tribe of the Iroquois confederacy. Their villages stood between those of the Mohawks on the east and the Onondagas on the west. In the American Revolution, they alone with some o...
L'Amiralle Bockoune, le 26 Jullet, 1758. Dimensions, 72 x 19-1/2 inches. A rare old map copied from one in the Library of Congress, a coloured manuscript showing the positions of t...
(Lord Sydenham era) Expenditure on, in Lower and Upper Canada, respectively, 317, 318; home government advances money for completion of, 320.
Studied law and called to the bar of Upper Canada, 1837. Elected a member of the Upper Canada Assembly, 1848; appointed to the Executive Council, 1851; Q.C., 1850; puisne judge of...
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Afterwards 60th Foot, Haldimand lieutenant-colonel in, 1, 9, 11; recruiting for, 12; Washington suggests change of uniform for, 16; Haldimand exchange...
appointed secretary of state by Lincoln, 1860. =Index=: =N= Suggests Canadian agent at Washington to confer on Reciprocity Treaty, 192; tells Galt that treaty could not be renewed,...
Christ College, Cambridge. Headmaster of Hellmuth College, London, Ontario, 1865-1872; rector of Grace Church, Brantford, 1872-1876; archdeacon of Brant, 1876-1879. Succeeded Dr. B...
Born in London, England, 1817; son of Sir Edward Thornton, minister to Portugal. Graduated at Cambridge in 1840. Entered the diplomatic service, and in 1842 stationed at Turin. In...
legal profession. Practised in Montreal for some years; and in 1808 elected to the Legislative Assembly. Took an active part in the discussion of the grievances of the French Canad...
Lieutenant-colonel in the army, 1755; commanded an expedition against Fort Cumberland, 1756. Appointed lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia, 1763; governor, 1764. Died, 1766. =Bib.=:...
settlements in, attacked, 46. (Bishop Laval era) French successful in, 232. (Sir John A Macdonald era) Withdraws from Confederation negotiations, 117; further negotiations unsucces...
its defeat, 289. =Bib.=: Morgan, Can. Men.
there, 5; elected alderman of, 10; asked to be Conservative candidate for, 11; elected for, 12; constituency represented by Macdonald, with one short break, throughout his whole pu...
University, Kingston. Paymaster for the Dominion government at Fort Garry, 1868; captured by the rebels in Riel's first rising, 1869; condemned to death, but escaped. In the second...
Educated at the Seminary of Quebec, and called to the bar of Lower Canada, 1828. Elected to the Assembly, 1830; commissioner of crown lands in the La Fontaine-Baldwin administratio...