Hudson's Bay Company post. =Index=: (Mackenzie / Selkirk / Simpson era) Built by Samuel Hearne, on Pine Island Lake, or Sturgeon Lake, in 1774, 4; rival establishment of Montreal t...
Papal Nuncio. =Index=: (Samuel de Champlain era) Authorizes establishment of church in Canada, 84.
An order created by James I, in 1625, for the purpose of "advancing the plantation of Nova Scotia." The scheme, which King James had deeply at heart, was designed to assist Sir Wil...
(Samuel de Champlain era) Famous French seaman, joins Champlain at Gaspe, 141; the Turks capture his ship, the Ste. Madeleine, on the coast of Bretagne, and put him to death, 141.
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Vessel in which Haldimand embarked for England, 309.
(William Lyon Mackenzie era) Plans attack on Windsor, 446; lands at Windsor, 447; retreats, 447.
(Joseph Howe era) On his death, 1839, Joseph Howe offered his seat in Executive Council, Nova Scotia, but refuses, 72.
In War of 1812. =Index=: (General Brock era) Effects of, 261-263, 269, 272; termination of, 270; position of enemy strengthened during its continuance, 272.
In War of 1812. FitzGibbon commanded a detachment of the 49th Regiment, with several hundred Indians. Boerstler, with a party of 600 men, advanced from Fort George by way of Queens...
(Wilmot era) Represents Charlotte County in New Brunswick Assembly, brings in bill for teachers' training school, 88. (Tilley era) Surveyor-general in Fisher ministry, 32, 33, 43....
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Lieutenant-general of police and mayor of Quebec. Signs petition to De Ramezay for capitulation, 224.
One of the provisional districts formed out of the North-West Territories in 1882; area about 122,000 square miles. Now divided between the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta, f...
Canada, 1655. Chief clerk of the Compagnie des Indes Occidentales, 1665. Engaged in the fur-trade at Cataraqui, 1674. In 1677 obtained a grant of Ile Dupas. In 1679 made a visit to...
For some years a member of the Assembly of Lower Canada. Moved the celebrated Ninety-Two Resolutions, 1837. Puisne judge of the Court of Queen's Bench, 1837; suspended, but afterwa...
Massachusetts. Educated at Harvard University, Cambridge, and in England; called to the English bar. Appointed chief-justice of Nova Scotia, 1754. President of the Council of Nova...
(Lord Dorchester era) Montreal merchant, treasonable proceedings of, 84.
(Joseph Howe era) Contributes to The Club in Howe's Nova Scotian, 10.
(General Brock era) Made by Napoleon; sequestered all American vessels arriving in France as British property or under British protection, 122.
1858; deputy-minister of justice, 1867; resigned, 1876. In 1872, created I. C.; and the same year made C. M. G. In 1878 appointed assistant commissioner to France and Spain to nego...
Educated at Newburgh High School and at the University of Toronto; studied law and called to the bar of Ontario, 1878; practised his profession in Toronto; appointed one of the Bri...
Organized by William de Caen and his nephew Emery, merchants of Rouen. Monopoly granted the company on usual terms as to settlement, missionaries, etc., 1621. Absorbed Champlain's...
Born in Walthamstow, England. A type of the founders of British colonial dominion. Sent, May, 1609, with a small vessel to the new settlement at Jamestown, Va., to trade and fish....
(Samuel de Champlain era) English vessel seized by French, 221.
(Tilley era) Proposes construction of European and North American Railway, 26, 27.
(Samuel de Champlain era) Interpreter, 144; arrives from France in 1613, 144.
(Lord Dorchester era) Accused in connection with Walker affair, 36; tried and acquitted, 38.
Settled in Quebec, 1761, and became prominent in maintaining the rights of the civil authority as opposed to the military. January, 1766, appointed deputy secretary, clerk of the C...
Hurons, 1649; Colby, Canadian Types of the Old Regime.