Educated at St. Cuthbert's College, Ushaw, near Durham, and the English College in Rome. Took a leading part in the Oxford movement. Created arch-archbishop of Westminster, and car...
An Iroquoian town situated, in 1535, on Montreal Island. The site is now covered by the city of Montreal. Cartier visited the town in the year mentioned, and describes it as encirc...
(Count Frontenac era) Issue of, sanctioned, 125; number to be issued annually limited, 128; issue of, becomes a form of patronage, 129.
11; an obstacle to the transfer of land, 256; notaries favourable to, 257. (Lord Elgin era) Failure of La Fontaine-Baldwin ministry to settle question, 101-102; measure passed by A...
Walbran, British Columbia Coast Names.
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Rescues French soldiers from floating ice, 251.
Victoria College, Cobourg; admitted as a solicitor in 1847, and as barrister, 1862. Engaged in journalism; founded the Canada Farmer in 1848, and the North American in 1850. A memb...
(Wilmot era) Sent to frontier with troops in 1839, 135.
Educated at Sandhurst, and entered the army, 1842. Served in India during the mutiny, 1857-1858. In 1868 stationed in Canada; and in 1884 general in command of the militia of Canad...
Includes that part of the province known as northern and north-western Ontario, lying west of the Upper Ottawa River and its tributary lakes north of Lake Huron and Lake Superior,...
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Placed in command of French left (Beauport to Montmorency), 158, 174, 175; protests against idea of capitulation, 209; in battle of Ste. Foy, 262.
Frederick V, and Elizabeth, daughter of James I of England. Served in the army during the Thirty Years' War; commanded the royal cavalry in the Civil War in England. Returned to En...
(John Graves Simcoe era) Commands 5th Regiment, his residence at Niagara, 179.
views on Canadian laws, 62.
See Mornay.
instructed to check English encroachments in, 205; expedition under De Troyes captures English forts, 205; Iberville's exploits in, 342-350; English possessions in, restored by pea...
(George Brown Era) Growth of, 209; overthrows Sir John A. Macdonald's government, and Ontario coalition government, 209-210. See Reform Party.
Gaure, in the diocese of Nantes. Entered the army, and obtained a lieutenancy in the regiment of Chambelle, afterwards being promoted to the rank of captain in the regiment of Cari...
(John Graves Simcoe era) Indian name of Lake Simcoe, 93. See also Lake Simcoe.
(William Lyon Mackenzie era) Dismissed by Head, 306.
(Bishop Laval era) Aid in defence of Quebec, 12.
1816, and created Q. C. by royal warrant, 1845. Sat in the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, 1830-1850. Called to the Legislative Council, 1859, and elected Speaker, 1875.
Sorel College and Laval University, Montreal; studied law and called to the bar of Quebec, 1884. Elected to the Assembly for the St. James division of Montreal, 1897; minister of p...
Lieutenant-governor of Quebec, 1785-1789. =Index=: (Lord Dorchester era) Lieutenant-governor and administrator, receives Carleton on his arrival at Quebec, 222; death of, 249. =Bib...
Act of incorporation, 1840, 146; royal charter, 1841, 147; legislative grant, 148; Dr. Liddell principal, 150; advocates university scheme, 150. (Lord Elgin era) Proposal to make i...
(Tilley era) Returned for St. John, 25.
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Chief engineer, accompanies Wolfe in reconnaissance of Island of Orleans, 93.
(Bishop Laval era) Great distinction of, 16; motto of, 18. See also Laval.
Organized by John Jacob Astor in 1810. Sometimes known as the Astor Fur Company. Astor had made a fortune in the fur trade, and formed the plan of extending his operations to the P...
(Count Frontenac era) Establishes college for boys at Quebec, 28.