(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Haldimand's housekeeper, 314, 328, 329.
(John Graves Simcoe era) First session of Upper Canada Legislature held in, 83, 96; church services held in, 159.
(Tilley era) Member for Gloucester in New Brunswick Assembly, votes against Liberals, 18.
England. Educated at Montreal High School, Peterborough Collegiate Institute, and the University of Toronto. Called to the bar of Ontario, 1882; removed to the North-West Territori...
City of Ontario, founded by United Empire Loyalists, 1783.
(William Lyon Mackenzie era) Postage on, 93, 103, 106; their tributes to Mackenzie, 509-523. See also under names of individual newspapers.
the permanent staff of the colonial office, with which he was connected until 1872. In 1835 declined the offer of the governorship of Upper Canada. =Index=: (Wilmot era) His charac...
(Wilmot era) Of Halifax, establishes first Madras school in St. John, New Brunswick, in 1818, 87.
Story of My Life; Canadian Methodism; Loyalists of America. For biog., see Morgan, Cel. Can.; Dict. Nat. Biog.; Dent, Can. Por. and Last Forty Years; Rose, Cyc. Can. Biog.
(Lord Dorchester era) Established, 13; not satisfactory to Canadians, 41; reform of, 54.
Also known as the Governor's Road. Built by Governor Simcoe; connected London with the village of Dundas. Place and road were named after the then secretary for the colonies. =Inde...
On Columbia River. =Index=: (Sir James Douglas era) Established by Hudson's Bay Company, in 1824, 47; depot of western department, 72; described, 72, 110; built by John McLoughlin,...
An arm of Lake Huron. Discovered by Joseph Le Caron, a Franciscan, 1615. Champlain reached the shores of the bay the same year.
(William Lyon Mackenzie era) Organizes shooting matches, 342; rebels meet at his house, 360; opposes advance on Toronto, 362; his house burned, 375; objects to Mackenzie's plans, 3...
(Samuel de Champlain era) Wife of Guillaume Couillard, 146.
At the junction of the Ottawa and the St. Lawrence.
Indian village, known as Camosun, 175; McNeill's exploration, 1837, 176; Sir George Simpson's approval of the site, 176; Douglas examines locality, 1842, and reports favourably, 17...
(John Graves Simcoe era) A prevailing vice in Upper Canada, 71, 72. See Liquor question; Brandy question.
States. =Index=: (George Brown Era) Believed by George Brown to be favourable to renewal of Reciprocity Treaty, 192. =Bib.=: For biog. sketch, and bibliog. of lives, see Cyc. Am. B...
See Riel Rebellion.
Legislature, 1861-1866; elected to Dominion House of Commons, 1867; interested himself in questions of Roman Catholic schools of New Brunswick, and Irish home-rule. Minister of inl...
(Lord Dorchester era) Member of Council, sent by Murray on mission to England, 16; replaces Carleton during his absence from Canada, 59; declines to decide question of an Assembly,...
(Count Frontenac era) Killed at Laprairie, 313.
(Lord Sydenham era) Sydenham's views on, 321; grant by British government in aid of, 322.
Canada as senior member of the Executive Council, on death of General Hunter, 1805. =Index=: (General Brock era) Administers government of Upper Canada, 69. (John Graves Simcoe era...
medicine; entered the service of the East India Company, 1797; returned to England, 1808. Entered Parliament, 1812, but on account of his independent principles compelled to resign...
Clear Grits, 110-111. (William Lyon Mackenzie era) President of Canadian Alliance Society, 258; delivers rejoinder to governor, 300; refuses to sign "declaration of independence,"...
Papineau, 68; withdraws from Papineau's party, 117; denounced by La Minerve as a traitor, 123. =Bib.=: Christie, History of Lower Canada.
French-Canadians, 28; suppresses Le Canadien, and sends its contributors to jail, 28-29; advises that bishop of Quebec be deprived of appointment of parish priests, suspension of c...