(General Brock era) Captain of Leopard, fires on Chesapeake, 83.
(Bishop Laval era) Chapel dedicated to, in church at Quebec, 84; patron saint of Canada, 87. (Samuel de Champlain era) Jesuit mission in Huron country, 93; French colony placed und...
Founded May 17, 1642, by Chomedy de Maisonneuve. Champlain had selected the site thirty-one years before, as adapted to a settlement. With Maisonneuve, at the historic ceremony whi...
the fur trade, was sent out to Astoria by Astor, and, finding that Astoria had been transferred to the North West Company, entered their service. Led trading expeditions into the i...
Served in the Canadian Voltigeurs during the War of 1812. Entered the service of the Hudson's Bay Company, and sent to the Qu'Appelle district. Captured there by Cuthbert Grant, of...
(Lord Dorchester era) History of, 4; fomented by French traders, 5; conduct of the colonies in connection with, 5, 6. See also Pontiac.
(General Brock era) General Harrison's encounter with Indians at, 174-176.
Newspaper published at Montreal. =Index=: (Louis Joseph Papineau era) Edited by Dr. O'Callaghan, Papineau's lieutenant, 86; supports cause of the Patriotes, 122; the office sacked...
(Samuel de Champlain era) General of Jesuits, accepts donation of Marquis de Gamache, for a college at Quebec, 228.
(General Brock era) Resolution of Assembly excluding, 126.
A group of Tory leaders in Upper Canada, so nicknamed by their political opponents because they held power as a distinct group, allied by bonds of political, social, and religious...
Educated at University of Glasgow. Entered Presbyterian ministry in Nova Scotia. Accompanied Sandford Fleming overland to British Columbia, 1872. Principal of Queen's University, 1...
(Samuel de Champlain era) Recollet, 115.
(Lord Dorchester era) Hanging of, 198.
Quebec bombarded from, 115, 116; sailors landed at daily, for military exercises, 120; Wolfe assembles three army corps at, 159.
The Relations were published in Paris, by the provincial of the order, in small annual volumes. The original narratives were written in Canada, or in one or other of the remote mis...
(1818-1868). (Tilley era) Solicitor-general, New Brunswick, 32-33; member of Fisher ministry, postmaster-general, 43; attorney-general, delegate to Quebec Conference, 77; elected f...
(Sir Georges E. Cartier era) Chief-justice of Quebec, 119; his views on French-Canadian cooking, 119.
An academy opened at Windsor, Nova Scotia, 1788. The following year an Act passed for "the permanent establishment and effectual support of a college at Windsor," and L400 per annu...
(Samuel de Champlain era) Letter from in Champlain's first narrative, 14.
Educated at St. Joseph's College, Memramcook; studied law and called to the bar of New Brunswick, 1870. Member of the Assembly, 1878-1883; elected to the House of Commons, 1883; ap...
(Bishop Laval era) Life of Olier by, 135.
called to the bar, and practised in Halifax, 1849. In 1860 appointed solicitor-general; from 1847 to 1867 member of the Legislative Council; and served as chairman of the Board of...
Franklin, 192, 213. =Bib.=: Dict. Nat. Biog.
(Bishop Laval era) Questions of, 163.
(Baldwin / La Fontaine / Hincks era) Brother of Sir J. B. Robinson, appointed inspector-general, 1844, 247; elected in elections of 1844, 252.
At Montreal, over the St. Lawrence. Built by Robert Stephenson, for the Grand Trunk Railway, 1854-1859, at a total cost of $6,300,000. Opened by the Prince of Wales (afterwards Kin...
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Haldimand's difficulties with settlers near, 92, 93; occupied by governor of Detroit, 167; French inhabitants of, won over by Congress, 167; Hamilton...