(General Brock era) Sister of Sir Isaac Brock, 71.
A fitful movement, never reaching serious proportions, and generally the result of temporary or local dissatisfaction with political conditions, or of commercial depression. Goldwi...
(Sir James Douglas era) In charge of New Caledonia for Hudson's Bay Company, 285. (Mackenzie / Selkirk / Simpson era) Succeeds William Connolly, 224; chief factor, 1828, 224; his e...
and Last Forty Years; Read, Lives of the Judges.
Eldest son of Sir James Caldwell, the third baronet. Succeeded his father, 1784. Appointed receiver-general of Lower Canada, and found to have misappropriated the public funds. Mad...
(General Brock era) British naval victory of, 10.
(John Graves Simcoe era) Teaches school at Fredericksburg and Matilda, 167.
Signed between Great Britain and France, April 18, 1748. Brought the War of the Austrian Succession to a close. The practical effect of the treaty was to renew the status quo. All...
Entered Parliament, 1793; president of the board of trade, 1807; foreign secretary, 1809; and secretary for war and the colonies, 1812. Directed Britain's colonial policy during th...
(Bishop Laval era) On the brandy question, 39; his account of escape of Gannentaha mission, 66.
(Bishop Laval era) Brings out a number of girls as colonists, 79. (Samuel de Champlain era) Industrious settler, 252, 253.
(General Brock era) Name at first given to king's battery in Quebec citadel, 94.
(Samuel de Champlain era) Jesuit missionary, his labours in Acadia, 236.
See Quinte, Bay of.
(Joseph Howe era) Associated with Joseph Howe in The Club, 10; in House of Assembly, 18.
(Bishop Laval era) Member of the Congregation de Notre Dame, 91.
Established 1595, and served with distinction in a number of European campaigns. Landed at Quebec, June, 1755, with the regiment of Guienne and a portion of the Languedoc battalion...
(Baldwin / La Fontaine / Hincks era) Proposed by Elgin, on behalf of Imperial government, as a measure of pardon for those implicated in the Rebellion of 1837-1838, 287; Act passed...
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Commander at Niagara, lost in foundering of Ontario, 163.
(Count Frontenac era) Interim governor after death of Champlain, 27.
(Egerton Ryerson era) Offered, but declines, charge of educational policy in Upper Canada, 37.
At Quebec. Commenced by Governor de Montmagny, 1647, and completed by his successor, D'Ailleboust. Demolished, 1694, and rebuilt with new wing. Enlarged, 1723; and in 1808 renovate...
(General Brock era) Affair of, 82-86.
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) At mouth of Niagara River, 22; taken by British, 62; capitulates, 146. (Sir Frederick Haldimand era) In command of Captain Pouchot, 25, 36; taken by British,...
(Lord Dorchester era) Hampshire residence of Lord Dorchester, 307.
A fort built by the French in 1750-1751, on Chignecto Bay, three miles from the British Fort Lawrence. A little tidal stream, the Missaguash, ran between--nominally marking the div...
Monypenny, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield; Dict. Nat. Biog.
(Joseph Howe era) Supports Confederation, 186; member of Nova Scotia government, 1867, 198; elected to Legislature, but unseated, 202.
Jesuit missionary. Accompanied La Verendrye on his Western explorations, 1741, but got no farther than Michilimackinac. His letter, quoted by Margry, throws an interesting light on...