Born in England, 1758. Accompanied Captain Cook on his last voyage on the Discovery; and afterwards entered the Russian navy. Commanded an expedition to the north-west boundaries o...
(Samuel de Champlain era) Champlain's father-in-law, secretary of the king's chamber, 66; pays his daughter's inheritance to Champlain, 67.
(Samuel de Champlain era) Jesuit, 152; returns to France, 208.
1832, and sent to the Mackenzie River district, 1834. For the next eighteen years, engaged in exploring the upper waters of the Liard and Yukon Rivers, and establishing the fur tra...
See Schenectady. =Index=: (Count Frontenac era) Indian name for governors of New York, 253.
Educated at Magdalen College, Cambridge, England, and called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1807. Member of the British House of Commons, 1811-1835. Appointed lord of the treasury, 1...
State, 1625; a commissioner of the treasury, 1635-1636. =Index=: (Samuel de Champlain era) English Commissioner in matter of Canada, 214. =Bib.=: Dict. Nat. Biog.
Came to Nova Scotia with Governor Cornwallis, 1749. Appointed secretary of the province, 1759, and continued to hold office under thirteen successive governors, until 1793. Member...
(Samuel de Champlain era) His work on French navigation, 15.
(Samuel de Champlain era) Champlain consults with, 133.
One of the leading traders of the North West Company in the West, in the early days. With Peter Pond on the Athabaska, and sent by him, 1786, to establish a post near mouth of Slav...
Son of foregoing. Scottish half-breed, in western fur trade. Educated at Montreal, and entered service of North West Company. Led the half-breeds in the Seven Oaks affair. Some yea...
(Lord Dorchester era) Conducts Carleton safely to Three Rivers, 113.
Son of preceding. Engineer; made a legislative councillor, in 1774.
(General Brock era) Near Fort Niagara, massacre of British troops at, 55.
intendant of New France in 1702 and held the position until 1705. In 1707 granted the barony of Beauville. Appointed intendant de l'armee navale, 1706; intendant of marines, 1710;...
(General Brock era) Early name of Hamilton, 52. See also Hamilton.
(Lord Dorchester era) Sailing-master on Carleton's ship, 154.
(Samuel de Champlain era) Brings out stores for De Caen, 136.
government, 172-173, 174, 175, 176.
Stephen Decatur and Commodore James Barron.
Champlain; Smith, Our Struggle for the Fourteenth Colony; Reid, Lake George and Lake Champlain; Palmer, History of Lake Champlain. See bib. note in Crockett.
Bradley, Fight with France.
(Count Frontenac era) Grandfather of Frontenac, 61.
(Lord Dorchester era) Killed in dispersing Ethan Allen's force, 99.
North-West of the Ohio.