1633 became interested in the fisheries of Nova Scotia. A short time after made one of the lieutenants of Acadia under the Company of New France, and settled at Miscou. In 1647 his...
Accompanied Elisa to North-West Coast, 1790; founded a Spanish settlement in Fuca Strait, 1792, and removed the post the same year to Nootka. Still there in 1793 when Vancouver vis...
Explored by De Monts and Champlain in 1604. Probably visited a hundred years earlier by Basque and Breton fishermen, and possibly by the Northmen several centuries before. Known to...
(Lord Dorchester era) Large admixture of, among United Empire Loyalists, 240.
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) The domain of France, 18. See also under names of the individual lakes. =Bib.=: Curwood, The Great Lakes; Channing, Story of the Great Lakes.
(Sir James Douglas era) Voyage of 1785, 22; on enormous profits of sea-otter trade, 22.
Eldest daughter of Louis Hebert, Quebec; married to Stephen Jonquest in the autumn of 1617, Father Le Caron officiating. This was the first marriage in New France. =Index=: (Samuel...
An Algonquian tribe. The name means "Little prairie people." They were known to the French as Nation du feu. First mentioned by Champlain in 1616; Perrot visited their village, nea...
Founded at Montreal, 1784, in opposition to the North West Company. Two Montreal merchants, John Gregory and Alexander Norman McLeod, formed a partnership with Peter Pond and Peter...
(Samuel de Champlain era) Name given to young Algonquian taken as hostage for Nicolas Marsolet, 63.
the militia, 1685, and served in the colonial and Indian wars. In 1709 second in command of the expedition against Montreal. Became president of the Council, 1719; and acted as gov...
A city of Quebec, at the mouth of the Richelieu River. Named after Pierre de Sorel. A fort was built here by Montmagny in 1642, of which Senneterre was commandant in 1645. It was a...
Plan of the Seigneurie House at William Henry. Original MS. A plan of the Seigniory of Sorel in the Province of Quebec, the property of MM. Greenwood & Higginson, Merchants in Lond...
(Samuel de Champlain era) Father of Samuel Champlain, 1.
as chief-justice of Upper Canada, 1796, and again as chief-justice of Lower Canada, 1802. At the same time became a member of the Executive Council. In February, 1803, appointed pr...
Elected to Parliament for Newark, 22; defeated at Manchester, 48. (Lord Elgin era) His opinion of Lord Elgin, 7, 78; sympathy for Confederate States, 202. (George Brown Era) Defend...
(John Graves Simcoe era) Simcoe's desire to establish, 169. See Education.
(Tilley era) Returned for St. John, 25, 30, 43.
against position taken by Carleton, 34; dismissed from Council, 39.
(Lord Elgin era) Member of the Parti Rouge, 108.
(John Graves Simcoe era) First sergeant at arms of the Upper Canada Assembly, 85; a retired officer of the Queen's Rangers, 85.
Commanded Fort St. Frederic (Crown Point) in 1749, when the Swedish naturalist, Peter Kalm, visited the place; and remained there for several years. Served under Montcalm at the si...
One of the largest tributaries of the Mississippi, discovered by La Salle in 1669. Its short portages from Lake Erie to the navigable tributaries of the Ohio, and the continuous wa...
(Tilley era) Candidate in York, New Brunswick, 95; defeated, 96, 108.
(Lord Dorchester era) Feeling aroused among, in connection with Quebec Act, 69. (Samuel de Champlain era) Fanaticism of Huguenot agents, 86; had large share of trade, 110; proposed...
(Tilley era) Anti-Confederate candidate in St. John County, 109.
solicitation of Champlain, who was in desperate need of a powerful protector to shield the infant colony of New France from rival intrigues, the Comte de Soissons was appointed by...
(Wilmot era) A Loyalist of Poughkeepsie, New York, 3; a captain in Loyal American Regiment, came to New Brunswick after the war, 3.
At mouth of Columbia. =Index=: (Sir James Douglas era) Astoria renamed, 149.