(Sir James Douglas era) Methodist missionary--arrives, 1862, 270; opens school at Nanaimo, 1863, 270; removes to Port Simpson, 1876, 270.
Formed in Toronto, in 1889, to secure the disallowance of the Jesuits' Estates Act, and generally to oppose what was described as the "political encroachments of ultramontanism." A...
(Lord Dorchester era) Deputy postmaster-general, 243; expresses views of the English-speaking people of Quebec in letter to home government, 248. (Sir Frederick Haldimand era) On p...
On Kootenay River, built 1807. Otherwise known as Kootenay House. =Index=: (Sir James Douglas era) Built by David Thompson, 58. =Bib.=: Burpee, Search for the Western Sea.
(Sir James Douglas era) Hudson's Bay Company post, built on Upper Stikine River, 121.
Of Algonquian stock. First mentioned in the Jesuit Relation of 1660 as living south-west of Green Bay. They ranged throughout the country between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi,...
109; becomes attorney-general for Lower Canada in Hincks-Morin government, 113; retains same portfolio in reconstructed ministry, 126; and in MacNab-Morin ministry, 141; takes a le...
Photo copy. Original in the Depot de Fortifications des Colonies a Paris. Surveyed by Order of His Excellency General Haldimand, Governor Commander-in-Chief of the Province of Queb...
Royal Canadian Infantry, Canadian Mounted Rifles, Royal Canadian Artillery, and Strathcona's Horse. The first contingent, which sailed for South Africa from Quebec, Oct. 30, 1899,...
Commoner," who brought England "to a height of prosperity and glory unknown to any former age." He urged continually a conciliatory policy towards America, until it became apparent...
the army, and as political agent in the East, became lieutenant-governor of the Bahamas, 1834-1837; governor of the Leeward Islands, 1837; and in 1841 succeeded Sir John Harvey as...
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Bunker Hill, in American Revolutionary War. Appointed governor of Jersey, 1793; and governor of the Cape, 1795. Sent to India two years later; and in 1807 governor-general of Canad...
Born in England. Came to Halifax, 1752. Elected to the Assembly, 1759; appointed to the Council, 1762; lieutenant-governor, 1766. Organized the militia of the province, 1776-1777:...
(General Brock era) British sloop, her boats capture United States schooner Cayahoga, with stores of General Hull, 218.
Company having been transferred to Canada, a surveying party under Colonel Dennis was sent out to Red River in 1869, and the same year William Macdougall was appointed lieutenant-g...
University, Cambridge, graduating in 1774. In 1778 proscribed as a Loyalist, and served with the British army as commissary. At the end of the war, moved to New Brunswick; appointe...
secretary, 1807; ambassador to Portugal, 1814; president of Board of Control, 1816; succeeded Londonderry as foreign secretary, 1822; prime minister, 1827. A consistent advocate of...
(John Graves Simcoe era) Arrangement with Lower Canada respecting revenue of, 93. (Wilmot era) Maintained in New Brunswick by British government, 16; changes in system, 16-18.
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Uncle of Sir Frederick Haldimand, 2; a philanthropic fighting Calvinist, 2.
(John Graves Simcoe era) Surveyor-general, Upper Canada, 178.
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Revolution in places William of Orange at head of affairs, 7. (General Brock era) British expedition to, under Duke of York, 13-22.
Served in the Glengarry Fencibles during the War of 1812. In 1822 called to the bar and rose rapidly in his profession. A strong opponent of William Lyon Mackenzie, and in 1826 app...
The period of responsible government in Canada dates from the union of 1841; in Nova Scotia, from 1848; in New Brunswick, the same year; in Prince Edward Island, 1851. The agitatio...
(Samuel de Champlain era) An interpreter, 144.
(General Brock era) Mother of Sir Isaac Brock, 6.
(Louis Joseph Papineau era) Urges Papineau to accept mission to England to oppose union of the Canadas, 45.
(Samuel de Champlain era) Interpreter, 144.
(Lord Sydenham era) On appointment of Poulett Thomson (Sydenham), 132.