of Upper Canada, 1827. Practised at Niagara, St. Catharines, and Hamilton. Appointed judge of the Niagara District, 1836; judge of the Home District, 1844; judge of the Court of Qu...
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Birthplace of Montcalm, 3; position of, still remains, 5.
Born in Ireland. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Came to Canada, 1832, with William Hume Blake. Settled on a farm near Lake Simcoe. Called to the bar of Upper Canada, 1842. Sa...
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Introduction of, by the royal proclamation, 59. (Lord Dorchester era) Sometimes inconsistently invoked by those who in general objected thereto, 40.
Negotiated between Great Britain and the United States, 1842, Lord Ashburton acting for the former and Daniel Webster on behalf of the latter. Provided for the settlement of the in...
A pre-Aryan race, occupying the border-land between France and Spain. Assertions have repeatedly been made that they made voyages to America, and discovered the Gulf of St. Lawrenc...
A French coureur de bois, whose tragic death forms the subject of one of the popular chansons of Quebec. His reputed grave is at the foot of Grand Calumet Island, on the Ottawa. =B...
upon the Suppression of the Rebellion in the North-West; Denison, Soldiering in Canada.
An open cut across a sand-bar at the entrance of Burlington Bay, designed to enable vessels to reach the city of Hamilton from the lake. It was authorized by the Legislature, 1823,...
(Samuel de Champlain era) Montagnais chief, sent on embassy to Iroquois, 163.
(Count Frontenac era) Grand-vicar to bishop of Quebec, 111; sent to France by bishop in connection with liquor question, 118; advice to bishop, 171. (Bishop Laval era) Director of...
Served as an officer of militia during the War of 1812-1814, attaining the rank of colonel. Called to the bar of Upper Canada, 1815. Elected to the Assembly for Leeds and Grenville...
Company; sailed on a trading voyage for sea-otter skins to the North-West Coast, 1787. Brought his bride with him, the first white woman on the North-West Coast. Discovered and nam...
(Bishop Laval era) On the guidance of Providence, 35-36.
see Morgan, Can. Men.
Sketch of part of the River Chateauguay, George Williams, R.M.S.D., Aug. 9, 1814. Accompanying Lieutenant-Colonel Hughes's letter to Lt.-General Mann, Aug. 16, 1814. Shows the posi...
Battle in War of 1812, Oct. 26, 1813. The stream from which the battle took its name, rises in Franklin County, New York, and falls into the St. Lawrence a few miles above Caughnaw...
(Tilley era) Rector of Gagetown, 5.
(Samuel de Champlain era) Mass celebrated in her house on restoration of Quebec, 225.
On the coast of California, lat. 38 deg. 18' 20" N., long. 123 deg. 2' 28". =Index=: (Sir James Douglas era) Russian colony there in 1812, 45.
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Canal at, 185.
Plan de la Ville de Quebec, capitale de la Nouvelle France. Photo of Plan in British Museum. Plan of part of the Basse-Ville de Quebek. MS Coppie du plan de la censive de l'Eglise...
Founded by Champlain (q.v.), in 1608. Seventy-three years earlier, Jacques Cartier had sailed up the great river, and landed near the same spot, wintering in a creek not far from t...
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Commands battalion of Royal Roussillon Regiment, 12; second in command of the town (Quebec), 86.
Studied law, and called to the bar of Nova Scotia, and of New Brunswick, 1834. Sat in Legislative Council, Nova Scotia, 1858-1867. Appointed to the Senate, 1867. Took an active par...
(Joseph Howe era) A "bitter Tory," 86; called to Executive and Legislative Councils of Nova Scotia, 1843, 86; his appointment leads to resignation of Howe, 87; challenges Howe to a...
John Howe, a United Empire Loyalist, 1, 2; his Southampton speech, 1851, 1, 2; his character, 3; his education, 3; a voracious reader, 3; tributes to his father, 2, 4; learns trade...
Victoria Bridge; Canadian Waterways. See also in Bourinot's bibliography (R. S. C., 1894). For biog., see Morgan, Can. Men; Dent, Can. Por.