See Ripon.
Voyage to North-West Coast in 1787, 23; at Nootka, 1788-1789, 24; second voyage--enters mouth of Columbia River, May 11, 1792, 24; names the river, 24. =Bib.=: Bancroft, History of...
Name applied by the French to a confederacy of four Iroquoian tribes. When French missionaries and explorers first went among them, they occupied the country about Lake Simcoe and...
138, 145; his opinion of the Lower Canada Assembly, 145; notifies Brock that he may have service in Spain, 180; letter to Brock in immediate expectation of war, 205; letter on decl...
Cartwright, Sixteen Years on the Coast of Labrador; Hind, Explorations in Interior of Labrador; Packard, The Labrador Coast; Stearns, Labrador; Dawson, Canada and Newfoundland; Gre...
See Morel de la Durantaye.
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Repulses landing of English, 107.
Entered the service of the North West Company some time before 1790. In charge of Fort Dauphin, 1799, and Swan River, 1800. Three years later moved to the Athabaska department, and...
See Nipissing.
(Wilmot era) Father of W. F. Odell, 8; provincial secretary, New Brunswick, 8, 34, 57.
(Bishop Laval era) Proposed appointment of, as bishop in Asia, 23.
On Hudson Bay, captured by Troyes, 206.
Educated for the army. Promoted captain of the 15th Foot, 1755; served in the expeditions against Rochefort, 1757, and Louisbourg, 1758. Aide-de-camp to Amherst, 1759; afterwards s...
Efforts were made from time to time by Canada, between the years 1847 and 1854, to secure the free admission of goods between Canada and the United States, but without success unti...
See Blachford.
An Indian town, which stood near the mouth of the St. Charles River, in what is now the city of Quebec. It was occupied by a tribe of the Huron-Iroquois race, of which Donnacona wa...
(Count Frontenac era) Jesuit father, sent as negotiator to Albany, 218.
(Wilmot era) Methodist clergyman in Fredericton, 133; his influence over L. A. Wilmot, 133.
Entered political life as member for King's County, New Brunswick, in the Dominion House of Commons, 1882; minister of marine and fisheries, 1885; minister of finance, 1888-1896. E...
(Count Frontenac era) Condition of, in 1675-1676, 150, 151. (Lord Dorchester era) Declares war against Britain, 271; anger in, on conclusion of Jay Treaty, 287; refugees from, perm...
(Lord Dorchester era) Of Royal Emigrants, 112, 124; with Laws on rear attack on Arnold, 130; in charge at Three Rivers, 144; repulses Thompson's attack, 145. (Sir James Douglas era...
notary; afterwards clerk of the Legislative Assembly and city clerk of Quebec; member of the Council of Public Instruction; president of the Institut Canadien. =Index=: (Louis Jose...
In Upper Canada; named after Governor Gore. =Index=: (Lord Sydenham era) Resolutions in favour of responsible government adopted at meeting of inhabitants, 125, 126.
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Sister of Sir Frederick Haldimand, 3; death of, 338.
Droitwich in British Parliament, 1837-1874; secretary for war and colonies, 1852; first lord of Admiralty, 1858 and 1866; secretary for war, 1867-1868. =Index=: (Lord Elgin era) Op...
(John Graves Simcoe era) In Upper Canada, independent of the governor, 126-127.
On the international boundary, west of Lake Superior. Probably discovered by Jacques De Noyon, about the year 1688. Fort St. Charles was built by La Verendrye, on the western shore...
(Lord Dorchester era) Of Montreal, his disaffection, 79; commands rebel Canadians at Quebec, 132.
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Receives note from Bougainville, 162; his letter to Bougainville, 178.
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) With Canadians, guards fords of Montmorency, 112; drives British force back to their camp, 129; ordered with his reserve, with Indians, to the city, 161; com...