A tribe of the Siouan family; first mentioned in the Jesuit Relation of 1640. They separated from the parent stock early in the seventeenth century, and moved north and north-west...
(Lord Dorchester era) Not defined by Constitutional Act, 260.
navy, 1774, and served on the American station until 1778. In 1790 explored and surveyed the Columbia River; and in 1794 surveyed the north-west coast of America. Served in Lord Ga...
founders of L'Avenir, 1848. Sat in the Legislature, 1854-1857, and again in 1861. =Index=: (Lord Elgin era) Member of Parti Rouge, 108. (Sir Georges E. Cartier era) A Liberal leade...
names. Captain H. M. Lewis, June 26, 1799. Original MS.
1846-1848; represented Cornwall in Legislative Assembly, 1846-1847 and 1848-1851; Toronto, 1854; Peel, 1861-1866. Represented Peel in first Dominion Parliament, 1867-1872; Cornwall...
A community of Iroquois, chiefly drawn from the Oneida and Mohawk, and speaking a modification of the Mohawk tongue. Having been converted by the Jesuit missionaries, they were ind...
The first census in Canada seems to have been taken in 1640, when the inhabitants numbered 375, distributed as follows: married men, 64; married women (three born in Canada), 64; w...
Eleventh governor of New France. Colonel of Dragoons in French army; spent thirty years in military service before coming to Canada, in 1685, as successor to La Barre. Although a c...
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Nephew of Sir Frederick Haldimand, settled in England, 72, 88, 105; goes bail for his uncle, 311; very successful in business. 311; his intimate relat...
Edinburgh Academy and at Exeter College, Oxford. Vice-principal of St. Bees College, Cumberland, 1841-1847, and incumbent of All Saints', Derby, 1848-1849. Came to the Red River Se...
Appointed bishop of Quebec, Aug. 16, 1739. Arrived at Quebec, Aug. 12, 1740, and died of fever on the 20th of the same month. =Index=: (Bishop Laval era) Bishop of Quebec, 12.
in Scotland and in Canada. Assistant editor of the Toronto Globe for many years; war correspondent for that paper during Boer War, 1899-1902.
Particulars respecting his early life scanty, 61; enters army under Prince of Orange at age of fifteen, 62; promoted to rank of marechal de camp, 62; peace of Westphalia, 1648, rel...
(John Graves Simcoe era) Agent for government of Upper Canada, 178.
and emigrated to Massachusetts, where he became assistant judge of the Court in 1630. In 1631 one of the founders of Cambridge, Mass.; from 1630 to 1679 assistant governor of Massa...
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Sympathy with rebels expressed in, 190. See also Newspapers.
The first link in this transcontinental railway dates back to 1896, when construction was commenced on the line from Gladstone towards Lake Winnipegosis. Since then the system has...
relating to the Province of Nova Scotia, ed. by Akins.
Entered the convent of the Congregation of Notre Dame at the age of twenty, and while there decided to devote her life to the colony of New France. Arrived in Quebec in September,...
(Mackenzie / Selkirk / Simpson era) Chief factor, Hudson's Bay Company, 1825, 224; his family, 224. (Sir James Douglas era) Succeeds Stuart in New Caledonia, 1824, 99; his native w...
(Count Frontenac era) Cayuga chief, brought back from France by Frontenac, 237; services rendered by, 315, 339.
America. Had been manager of a glass factory at Irkutsk, Siberia; grew tired of the monotonous though profitable business, and engaged in the fur trade of eastern Siberia. Appointe...
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Ancient French custom, 122; used in transporting provisions to upper posts, 140; complaint against Haldimand's use of, 182, 291; MacLean asks for decr...
statesman, 3-4; his success in Canada, 4; his lineage, 5-6; his personal character, 6-8; education, 6; his contemporaries at college, 7; enters Parliament, 8; accepts governorship...
(General Brock era) Flag of Fort Niagara transferred to, 56; its situation, 56; planned by Lieutenant-Governor Simcoe, 58; mutiny at, 61; silences Fort Niagara, 309. (Sir Frederick...
On Fraser River. =Index=: (Sir James Douglas era) Simon Fraser sets out from, to descend Fraser River, 61; returns to, 61; built on Fraser River, by the North West Company, 98; mas...
Said to have been named by La Salle's men, in derision of his dream of a westward passage to China. The land was granted by the Sulpicians to La Salle as a seigniory in 1666; and f...
(Bishop Laval era) Director of Jesuit college of La Fleche, 20.