An evergreen, used by Jacques Cartier and his men as a remedy against scurvy. Parkman suggests that it was a spruce, or, more probably, an arbor-vitae. Douglas believes it to have...
(Samuel de Champlain era) An Indian chief, 29.
Entered the army, and obtained a captaincy in the 42nd or 1st Battalion of Royal Highlanders, 1756. Appointed aide-de-camp to Major-General Amherst, 1759, with whom he made the cam...
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) In battle of Ste. Foy, 259, 260.
University; studied law and called to the bar of Lower Canada, 1847. A candidate for the Legislative Assembly for Argenteuil, 1857, but defeated by Sydney Bellingham. Bellingham su...
(Samuel de Champlain era) Montagnais chief, makes long harangue to Champlain, 10; his relations with Champlain, 50-51.
baronet of Nova Scotia. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Succeeded to peerage, 1870. Appointed viceroy of Ireland, 1886. Appointed governor-general of Canada, 1893. Again appointed vic...
(John Graves Simcoe era) Opens school at Napanee, 167.
the Frontiers of New York and New England from the large Survey by Claude Joseph Gauthier, engraved by Faden, 1777. Print from Plate.
1806. Opposed measures against American commerce. President of board of trade and master of mint, 1834. Raised to peerage, 1835. Commissioner at Washington for settlement of bounda...
First steamboat on the St. Lawrence. Built by John Molson at Montreal. Arrived at Quebec from Montreal, Nov. 5, 1809, making the run in 36 hours. The vessel measured 85 feet over a...
Canada, 1818. Missionary of the Church of England. Wrote The Emigrant, containing information for farmers about Canada.
Created a province of the Dominion on Sept. 1, 1905. Includes the former district of Alberta, with the west half of Athabaska, and a strip of Assiniboia and Saskatchewan. Area, 253...
Discovered by La Verendrye in 1736. Fort Rouge was built at the mouth of the river in that year, as well as Fort La Reine, near the present city of Portage la Prairie. From the lat...
Quebec as surveyed agreeable to order and instructions of the Honourable James Murray, Esq., Governor of the said Province, by John Collins, Dept. Sur. Genl., 1765. MS.
(John Graves Simcoe era) First chaplain of Upper Canada Assembly, 85, 158; opens a school at Niagara, 167. (Egerton Ryerson era) Member of Board of Education, Upper Canada, 58.
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Force gathered by, and Ligneris, dispersed, 146.
(Samuel de Champlain era) Priest of De Monts's expedition, at Ste. Croix, 25.
(Lord Dorchester era) Settled in Canada, disloyalty of, 82, 85; disorderly retreat of, 146.
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) French frigate, loads stores at Sorel, 243.
Divided according to the last Treaty of Peace. Concluded at Paris, Feb. 10, 1763. Gov. Pownall, M.P., 1777. Print from Plate.
Arose out of differences of opinion as to the interpretation of the 1828 Convention between Russia and Great Britain, and particularly as to the boundary of the coast strip. The Un...
(Sir James Douglas era) First sea-going vessel on Fraser River, 116; arrives at Victoria from Fort Vancouver, 180; leaves for the Columbia, 180; built 1824, destroyed 1862, 180.
made thereof by Captain Cyprian Southack. As also the outlines of several of the Provinces and Colonies lying therein, according to the respective grants and charters.
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) King's surgeon, Montcalm carried into house of, 218.
Loyalists in America.
Passed by Imperial Parliament in 1822, with the object of correcting the injustice to Upper Canada in the apportionment of duties collected. The Quebec Legislature had refused to r...
(Wilmot era) Referred to in Wilmot's speech, 104. (Tilley era) Represents Restigouche in New Brunswick Assembly, 18.
(Bishop Laval era) Huron chief, joins Dollard at Long Sault, 69.
Born in Ireland. Came to Canada 1798, and finally settled in York, now known as Toronto. Represented Norfolk in the Legislature of Upper Canada. Died 1844. =Index=: (Baldwin / La F...