Buckingham and Buckinghamshire in Parliament, 1734-1752; first lord of the Admiralty, 1756-1757; lord privy seal, 1757-1761. =Index=: (Wolfe / Montcalm era) Witnesses singular beha...
Scotia. Educated at Free Church Academy, Halifax. In 1859 a reporter in the House of Assembly. In 1865 called to the bar and practised in Halifax. In 1877 member for Antigonish, in...
(Sir James Douglas era) Hudson's Bay Company vessel, 183.
as ensign, and promoted lieutenant the same year. In 1786 captain; in 1795 major; in 1800 lieutenant-colonel; and in 1810 colonel. Served with distinction during the War of 1812-18...
(General Brock era) Failure of, 119.
115. =Bib.=: Bibaud, Dict. Hist. and Pan. Can.
the Iroquois at the Lake of the Two Mountains; and in 1690 led an expedition against Schenectady. Killed during an attack on Fort St. Anne, Hudson Bay. =Index=: (Count Frontenac er...
1604 groom of the King's privy chamber; in 1618 surveyor of the Court of Wards, and chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster; and in 1625 privy councillor; in 1629 one of the commissio...
(Wilmot era) Established as provincial university, 1859, 51; formerly King's College, previous history, 86; part of Madras school property handed over to, 88. (Tilley era) History...
(Samuel de Champlain era) Early settler, 145.
army. In 1764 sent to North Carolina, and on the death of Dobbs succeeded him as lieutenant-governor in 1765. Held the position until 1771, when appointed governor of New York. In...
Accompanied Jogues and Chatelain to the Huron mission, 1636; and, with the former, to the Tobacco Nation, near Nottawassaga Bay, 1639-1640. Returned to the Huron mission, where, in...
Qualified as a civil engineer in Montreal, and practised his profession for some years. The author of many pamphlets, in addition to his monumental history, the preparation of whic...
(Bishop Laval era) Ancestor of Bishop Laval, 17.
(Lord Dorchester era) Colonel of Quebec militia, 246.
1774. =Index=: (John Graves Simcoe era) Public mourning ordered in Upper Canada for death of, 193. =Bib.=: Larousse, Dictionnaire Universel.
mourning in Upper Canada for death of, 193.
Cambridge. Rector of St. Martin's, Ludgate, London, 1614-1626. Fell heir to a number of unpublished narratives left by Hakluyt, and edited them with many others, in his collections...
(Count Frontenac era) Origin of, 28. (Bishop Laval era) Laval lodges at, for a time, 33; nuns of, take charge of the general hospital, 236. =Bib.=: Doughty, Cradle of New France.
(Baldwin / La Fontaine / Hincks era) Comes to Kingston to solicit office of provincial aide-de-camp, 172; La Fontaine's opposition to appointment, 173.
Wife of preceding. =Index=: (John Graves Simcoe era) Centre of society at Niagara, 179; receives present of a horse, 181; spends winter of 1794-1795 at Quebec, 213.
1758 and 1759; severely wounded in the attack on Fort George; commended by Montcalm for conspicuous bravery in the battle of Carillon; and commanded the right wing of the French ar...
Entered the service of the Hudson's Bay Company about 1779, and carried out important surveys for the Company. Stationed at Cumberland House in 1789, and while there gave David Tho...
(Wilmot era) Born, 1679, son of William Wilmot, 3.
Situated in Grenville County, Ontario, and the scene of an engagement between filibusters from the United States under Colonel Von Schoultz (q.v.), and Canadian troops, in November...
Through the Rocky Mountains. Elevation, 3733 feet above sea level. The summit of the pass is eighteen miles in a straight line from the Athabaska River. Yellowhead Lake, a little w...
Lucas, Canadian War of 1812; Macdonell, Sketches Illustrating the Early Settlement and History of Glengarry in Canada. See also War of 1812.