(Bishop Laval era) Consecrates the island of Montreal to the Virgin, 85; makes over its rights to the Seminary of St. Sulpice, in 1663, 108, 135; its debts discharged by De Belmont...
privileges granted under Act of 1791, 51-52; Durham's estimate of numerical strength, 52-53; recognition of its exclusive claims said by Durham to have been chief cause of Rebellio...
Chesapeake, on board which were some British deserters, 1807. On the refusal of Barron to give them up, the British frigate Leopard attacked and compelled his surrender. Court-mart...
Parkman, Half Century of Conflict.
(Tilley era) Offers to build European and North American Railway, 25, 27.
See Constitutional Act.
(Lord Dorchester era) Gains social popularity at Quebec, 162; lives to great age, 308; her extreme hauteur, 309.
(Samuel de Champlain era) Huron chief, 48; forms alliance with Champlain, 55; wounded in battle, 103.
(General Brock era) Sent to Moraviantown to oppose enemy, 219, 235; in command of 2d Brigade, 247.
Rises in La Loche Lake, lat. 56 deg. 10' N., long. 109 deg. 40' W., and after a course of 1000 miles, empties into Hudson Bay. The mouth of the river was discovered by Munk, a Dani...
(Bishop Laval era) Priest, comes to Canada, 41.
outbreak of hostilities with the mother country came with his parents to Upper Canada. For a time served as secretary to Colonel Butler of the Queen's Rangers, and later engaged in...
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Described, 17, 18; furnished recruits to militia, 31; summoned to defend the hornwork, 206. (Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Stir up Indians against British, 55...
(Samuel de Champlain era) Surgeon, with the expedition at Port Royal, autopsy performed by, 33.
Governor of La Guyane in 1665; and in 1682 arrived in Quebec as governor of Canada. His administration marked by hopeless incompetence; recalled, 1685. =Index=: (Bishop Laval era)...
(General Brock era) Brother of Sir Isaac, 102; an able pamphleteer, 132, 140; estrangement between, and his brother William in connection with latter's failure, 163; reconciliation...
Educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, and at Cambridge. Moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, and in 1900 elected to the British House of Commons...
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Admiral Saunders's ship, in action off Beauport shore, 136.
(General Brock era) American fort opposite Queenston, 300, 305.
Provided that United States vessels should have access to ports in the British West Indies, in return for a similar privilege granted to British vessels in the ports of the United...
A settlement near Lake St. Clair in Upper Canada, made by Lord Selkirk, 1803, and named after one of his own estates. =Index=: (Mackenzie / Selkirk / Simpson era) Highland colonist...
(Samuel de Champlain era) Early settler, 145.
(Samuel de Champlain era) Mason, accompanies Robert Giffard to Canada, 252.
(Bishop Laval era) Canadian priest, accompanies Laval to France, 199; death of, 219.
Established 1823 with a capital of $41,364, which had increased in 1859 to $3,126,250. Its headquarters were in Toronto. After a long, prosperous career the bank stopped payment in...
(Samuel de Champlain era) French vessel seized by English, 222.
Naval station, four miles from Victoria, Vancouver Island.