headmaster of Westmoreland Grammar School, New Brunswick. Editor of the Presbyterian Banner, 1842. Principal Dalhousie College, 1863.
Capital of Alaska. Baranof built a fort there in 1799, which he named Archangel Gabriel. It was captured by the natives in 1802, and recaptured by the Russians two years later. The...
(Lord Dorchester era) Step-father of Carleton, 29.
(Count Frontenac era) Goods cheap in, 154; pay better price for furs, 154, 175, 201; political confusion prevailing in, after downfall of James II, 263. (Wolfe / Montcalm era) Colo...
(William Lyon Mackenzie era) Attacks Mackenzie in Upper Canada Gazette, 38; accuses Mackenzie of disloyalty, 99; moves to pay Mackenzie for report of debates, 102, 103; dismissed f...
Son of following. Commanded a trading expedition from Boston to Hudson Bay in 1683, and built a fort some miles up the Nelson River. Pierre Radisson captured the fort, and carried...
correspondence with, 278. =Bib.=: Memoires, etc., de Lafayette; La Bedolliere, Vie Politique du Lafayette; Cloquet, Souvenirs de la Vie Privee du Lafayette. See also Cyc. Am. Biog....
Rises in the Rocky Mountains, at the headwaters of Bow River, a branch of the South Saskatchewan. Length to Lake Winnipeg, 390 miles; to headwaters of the Bow, 1660 miles. The mout...
(Count Frontenac era) Town-major of Quebec, 257; strengthens defences, 284.
An inlet of Lake Ontario, on the north shore. The name is of Iroquois origin. A number of Cayugas settled here about the middle of the seventeenth century; and in 1668 two Sulpicia...
Son of Richard John Uniacke. Practised law in Nova Scotia. Entered the Legislature some time before 1837. Appointed to the Executive Council, 1840, and in 1848 formed an administra...
Ontario. Studied law and called to the bar, 1843; practised in Toronto; appointed Q.C., 1850. In May, 1856, president of the Executive Council, and minister of agriculture, in the...
Island, 1859-1869. Afterwards lieutenant-governor of St. Vincent, West India Islands, where he died.
both sides of boundary, to the detriment of Canada, 191-192. =Bib.=: Works: Diary of an Ennuyee; Characteristics of Women; Visits and Sketches; Essays; Sacred and Legendary Art; Le...
responsible government, 312; his reactionary policy, 313. (Sir Georges E. Cartier era) On the union of 1841, 14-15; his high-handedness, 17; his political schemes, 18; constitution...
(Sir John A Macdonald era) Eldest son of Sir John A. Macdonald--accidentally killed when quite young, 10.
(Samuel de Champlain era) Montagnais chief, 139, 163; found to have been guilty of murder, 165.
(Bishop Laval era) Revenues of, assigned to bishopric of Quebec, 131, 132, 136, 137.
See Royal North-West Mounted Police.
(General Brock era) Affair of, 173.
Order of Santiago. Made voyages of exploration to the North-West Coast in 1775 and 1779. Governor of Nootka, and met Vancouver there in 1792 for the purpose of arranging the restor...
In the Province of Quebec. =Index=: (Lord Dorchester era) Parishes in, show marked sympathy with Americans, 89.
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Brigadier, commands battalion of La Sarre Regiment, 12; commands regular troops, 105; mortally wounded, 199; carried on board British vessel, 222.
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Indian tribe trading at Three Rivers, 54.
Presented by Joseph Howe before the Assembly of Nova Scotia in 1837. They embody those principles of constitutional government for which he so long and strenuously contended. =Inde...
(Sir John A Macdonald era) Liberal, elected for Montreal in by-election in 1876, 224.
Held in London, 1887. Canada was represented by Sir Alexander Campbell and Sandford Fleming. Among the questions discussed were those of inter-Imperial defence and trade, the Pacif...
(Baldwin / La Fontaine / Hincks era) Quoted on Metcalfe, 156, 158; on La Fontaine and Baldwin, 169-171; on Metcalfe, 176, 186, 236, 237. (George Brown Era) Defends Metcalfe's attit...
Crossed the mountains to Fort Vancouver in 1844; had charge of various trading posts west of the mountains, and rose to the rank of chief trader; also made important explorations i...
(Samuel de Champlain era) Brings out settlers, 252.