(Bishop Laval era) At junction of Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, 150.
Reserves among various denominations, 163. (George Brown Era) Galt takes his place in government, 107. =Bib.=: Finances and Trade of Canada. For biog., see Dent, Last Forty Years.
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Killed in battle of Ste. Foy, 264.
biog., see Morgan, Can. Men; MacMurchy, Canadian Literature.
Located at Halifax. Founded by George Ramsay, ninth Earl of Dalhousie, 1818. Original endowment derived from funds collected at the port of Castine, Maine, during its occupation, 1...
Brown-Dorion; Hincks-Morin; La Fontaine-Baldwin; Macdonald-Cartier; Macdonald-Dorion; Macdonald-Sicotte; MacNab-Morin; MacNab-Tache; Sherwood-Daly; Tache-Macdonald. See under names...
(Sir James Douglas era) With Meares on North-West Coast, 1788, 27; at Cook River, 27; arrives at Nootka from Cook River with cargo of sea-otter, 28; sails for Sandwich Islands, 28;...
A village on the shores of the Basin of Minas. Stands upon or near the site of the old village of the same name, one of the principal settlements of the Acadians. The scene of many...
(William Lyon Mackenzie era) Wife of William Lyon Mackenzie, granted $4000 by Parliament, 240; at Navy Island, 424; death of, 508.
(Bishop Laval era) Birthplace of Laval, 17.
Hudson's Bay Company, 1814; employed east of the mountains until 1822, when transferred to the Columbia; in charge of Fort Simpson, 1835-1849; appointed chief factor, 1846; removed...
Canada in 1705, as an instructor in the Jesuits' College at Quebec. Returned to France in 1709. It was at this time that he gathered the material for his Histoire et Description Ge...
Born in Scotland. Engaged for some years in the China trade. Entered service of Hudson's Bay Company; chief factor at Fort Victoria, Vancouver Island; succeeded Sir George Simpson...
(John Graves Simcoe era) Shot for desertion, 73.
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Brother of Sir Frederick Haldimand, 2, 312, 343.
(General Brock era) Commander of Iphigenie, and subsequently of Java, 123; his death, 123.
Parliament in 1867, as member for Dorchester; subsequently represented, successively, Charlevoix, and Three Rivers. Appointed secretary of state, 1867; minister of public works, 18...
(Samuel de Champlain era) Daughter of Abraham Martin, 146.
A tribe of the Algonquian family. First mentioned in Champlain's narrative, 1615. The explorer met a party of these Indians on French River. They were called the Cheveux Releves, b...
Established at Kingston, Ontario. Founded in 1839, and incorporated by royal charter in 1841. The first principal was Rev. Thomas Liddell; succeeded by Dr. John Machar, Dr. John Co...
Established in Montreal, in 1865. This important French-Canadian magazine contains an immense amount of valuable material bearing on the history and literature of Quebec. Its contr...
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Conveys Wolfe's remains to England, 238.
(Lord Dorchester era) Her action in the Nootka matter, 250. (Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Her rule in Louisiana, 64-81; war imminent with, 81; recovers Florida, 81; Hamilton's opin...
Educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen; studied law at the University of Edinburgh, and admitted a writer to the signet, 1859. Came to Toronto, 1859; called to the bar of Ontario,...
His confident prediction of conquest of Canada, 215. =Bib.=: Works, ed. by Colton, 1857; new ed., 1898; Schurz, Life of Henry Clay; Cyc. Am. Biog.
(Count Frontenac era) Killed in skirmish on Beauport flats, 294.
Favourable to proposed Reciprocity Treaty of 1864, 230-231.
(Samuel de Champlain era) Director of Company of New France, 170.
(John Graves Simcoe era) Presbyterian clergyman, performed marriage services in contravention of the law, 164; second clergyman to settle in Niagara district, 165; drowned in wreck...