(Count Frontenac era) Killed in skirmish on Beauport flats, 294.
(Samuel de Champlain era) Director of Company of New France, 170.
On Columbia River. =Index=: (Sir James Douglas era) Established by Hudson's Bay Company, in 1824, 47; depot of western department, 72; described, 72, 110; built by John McLoughlin,...
An arm of Lake Huron. Discovered by Joseph Le Caron, a Franciscan, 1615. Champlain reached the shores of the bay the same year.
England. Educated at Montreal High School, Peterborough Collegiate Institute, and the University of Toronto. Called to the bar of Ontario, 1882; removed to the North-West Territori...
States. =Index=: (George Brown Era) Believed by George Brown to be favourable to renewal of Reciprocity Treaty, 192. =Bib.=: For biog. sketch, and bibliog. of lives, see Cyc. Am. B...
(Wilmot era) Of Halifax, establishes first Madras school in St. John, New Brunswick, in 1818, 87.
Story of My Life; Canadian Methodism; Loyalists of America. For biog., see Morgan, Cel. Can.; Dict. Nat. Biog.; Dent, Can. Por. and Last Forty Years; Rose, Cyc. Can. Biog.
Favourable to proposed Reciprocity Treaty of 1864, 230-231.
Legislature, 1861-1866; elected to Dominion House of Commons, 1867; interested himself in questions of Roman Catholic schools of New Brunswick, and Irish home-rule. Minister of inl...
(Lord Dorchester era) Established, 13; not satisfactory to Canadians, 41; reform of, 54.
Also known as the Governor's Road. Built by Governor Simcoe; connected London with the village of Dundas. Place and road were named after the then secretary for the colonies. =Inde...
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Haldimand's housekeeper, 314, 328, 329.
Canada as senior member of the Executive Council, on death of General Hunter, 1805. =Index=: (General Brock era) Administers government of Upper Canada, 69. (John Graves Simcoe era...
medicine; entered the service of the East India Company, 1797; returned to England, 1808. Entered Parliament, 1812, but on account of his independent principles compelled to resign...
At the junction of the Ottawa and the St. Lawrence.
Indian village, known as Camosun, 175; McNeill's exploration, 1837, 176; Sir George Simpson's approval of the site, 176; Douglas examines locality, 1842, and reports favourably, 17...
(John Graves Simcoe era) A prevailing vice in Upper Canada, 71, 72. See Liquor question; Brandy question.
Parliament in 1867, as member for Dorchester; subsequently represented, successively, Charlevoix, and Three Rivers. Appointed secretary of state, 1867; minister of public works, 18...
(Count Frontenac era) Killed at Laprairie, 313.
(Lord Sydenham era) Sydenham's views on, 321; grant by British government in aid of, 322.
(Samuel de Champlain era) Wife of Guillaume Couillard, 146.
Clear Grits, 110-111. (William Lyon Mackenzie era) President of Canadian Alliance Society, 258; delivers rejoinder to governor, 300; refuses to sign "declaration of independence,"...
Papineau, 68; withdraws from Papineau's party, 117; denounced by La Minerve as a traitor, 123. =Bib.=: Christie, History of Lower Canada.
French-Canadians, 28; suppresses Le Canadien, and sends its contributors to jail, 28-29; advises that bishop of Quebec be deprived of appointment of parish priests, suspension of c...
United Empire Loyalist stock. Built up great shipping industry at Halifax. Entered public life as an opponent of Confederation. Represented Halifax in Dominion House 1867-1872, 187...
City of Ontario, founded by United Empire Loyalists, 1783.
See Riel Rebellion.
(John Graves Simcoe era) Appointed member of Legislative Council, but did not come to Canada, 79.