(Samuel de Champlain era) Director of Company of New France, 170; agent of Company of New France, 244.
(Samuel de Champlain era) Clerk, goes to France, 121; returns with letters, 135.
See Riel Rebellion, 1885.
Harry Vane, and the following year elected a freeman of Boston. In 1638 helped to found the settlement of Rhode Island. Served in the Indian wars, 1675. =Index=: (Count Frontenac e...
statesman. =Index=: (General Brock era) Foreign secretary under Napoleon, 81. =Bib.=: For biog., see works of Taine, Mignet, Bastive, Lamartine, and Guizot.
(Bishop Laval era) Commander of Fort Frontenac, 223; repels attack of Schuyler, 232. (Count Frontenac era) Commandant at Fort Frontenac, 233; tries to cut off retreat of Peter Schu...
Accompanied Governor Cornwallis to Halifax. Acted as Secretary of Nova Scotia for several years. Afterwards practised the profession of law at Halifax. Attorney-general for twenty-...
(Lord Sydenham era) Statistician of Board of Trade, 54.
at Albert College, Belleville. Removed to Manitoba and settled at Carman, 1880. Elected to the Manitoba Assembly for Dufferin, 1888; premier, 1900; also holds offices of minister o...
1804, and sat almost continuously to 1834; chancellor of the exchequer and leader of the House of Commons, 1830-1834. =Index=: (Lord Sydenham era) Chancellor of the exchequer, 25;...
(Tilley era) Elected in York, New Brunswick, 108.
(Tilley era) Sir Leonard Tilley's great-grandfather, 1; a Loyalist farmer on Long Island, 2; arrives at Parrtown (St. John), 1783, 3; dies there, 1815, 3; his wife dies, 1835, 3.
(Count Frontenac era) Issued by governor, 115; objected to by bishop as involving carrying of liquor to the Indians, 116; prohibited by king, 116; permitted under limitations, 128....
expedition against the French and their Indian allies in Canada, 1689. In 1690 sailed under Sir William Phipps to Quebec, but the siege was a failure. Published an account of the e...
Entered the army at an early age; severely wounded at Waterloo; presented with freedom of Liverpool for gallant conduct during the French war. Came to Canada, 1834; served during t...
(Bishop Laval era) Zeal of the missionaries compared with that of the Apostles, 61; among the Iroquois, 64-67; wide extension of, 103; to the Algonquians, destroyed by drunkenness,...
(Count Frontenac era) Becomes wife of Frontenac, 63.
(Samuel de Champlain era) Accompanies Champlain to Quebec, 41.
IV, in 1610. =Index=: (Count Frontenac era) Close relations of Frontenac family with, 62. (Samuel de Champlain era) Demands restitution of Acadia, 212; plot against, 215. (Bishop L...
Canada. For some years engaged in the western fur trade; and in partnership with his brother, Andrew McGill, acquired a large fortune. Sat in Lower Canada Parliament for several ye...
(Wilmot era) Massachusetts Loyalist, 4.
(Sir James Douglas era) With Dixon, sails from England, 1785, 22; discovers that Queen Charlotte Islands are not part of mainland, 22.
Had its beginnings early in the eighteenth century in Nova Scotia. In 1776 the Presbytery of Truro, Nova Scotia, was organized; that of Montreal in 1793; and in 1818 the Presbytery...
Mary's College, Montreal. Entered into newspaper work; established L'Ordre, Le Nouveau Monde, and assisted in founding La Revue Canadien. Called to the bar of Lower Canada, 1864. R...
(Bishop Laval era) Crown prosecutor, 167; temporarily banished from Quebec, 168. (Count Frontenac era) Attorney-general, 106; death of, 138.
(Tilley era) Confederation candidate in St. John County, New Brunswick, 85.
(Mackenzie / Selkirk / Simpson era) Conflict between Hudson's Bay Company men and North West Company men, June 19, 1816, 180; Governor Semple shot, 181; Alexander Ross on, 184; Jos...
(William Lyon Mackenzie era) Defeated by Baldwin, 159; opposes Mackenzie, 214.
1745; called to the New York bar, and practised in that city. In 1763 appointed chief-justice of the colony; and sat in the Council, 1767-1782. In 1786 appointed chief-justice of C...