Area 351,873 square miles. Formed the principal part of Canada, as ceded to Britain in 1763. Under the Quebec Act, 1774, its boundaries extended west to the Ohio and Mississippi. I...
and Oxford; elected a fellow of University College, London, 1846; regius professor of modern history at Oxford, 1858-1866; honorary professor of English and constitutional history...
Colonial Secretary's Despatches to Governors of Vancouver Island, 1846-1867, Serie G, Volumes No. 342-346. Governor of Vancouver to Colonial Secretary, Letter Book, 1858-1864, Seri...
(Count Frontenac era) Destroyed, 1669, rebuilt, 1692, 328; taken by Iberville, 331.
(Sir Georges E. Cartier era) One of the leaders of the Quebec Liberals, 24.
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) On British right, 189.
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Grand-niece of Haldimand, 343.
(Mackenzie / Selkirk / Simpson era) Brings Selkirk settlers back to Red River, 165, 177; captures Fort Gibraltar, 178; takes Duncan Cameron to York Factory, 178; tried at Montreal,...
The county seat of Schenectady County, New York. Settled in 1662 by Arendt Van Corlaer on the site of Schonowe, the capital of the Five Nations. It was chartered as a borough in 17...
A town on the south-west coast of the province of Nova Scotia; founded by United Empire Loyalists in 1783; first known as Port Roseway. For a few years after its foundation the tow...
with his parents at age of six. Educated at local schools and at the Toronto Normal School. Taught school for a time; entered the ministry of the Methodist Church, 1851; editor of...
(Lord Dorchester era) Position taken by, 9; find French laws irksome, 12; Murray's description of, 14, 24, 26; send delegate to England, 16; petition for Murray's recall, 17; descr...
Fur trading firm, of Montreal. =Index=: (General Brock era) Send Prevost news of declaration of war, 203.
(Samuel de Champlain era) Interpreter, 144.
Private secretary to Sir Charles Metcalfe.
afterwards known as Fort Frontenac, erected at, 83. (Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Lands allotted to Loyalists in neighbourhood of, 236, 255; settlers at, 258, 265. (John Graves Sim...
to the government, 92; represents Westmoreland, 115. =Bib.=: Rose, Cyc. Can. Biog.
(Samuel de Champlain era) Company's clerk at Quebec, 139.
(Lord Dorchester era) Loyalists, commanded by Chalmers, 202.
(Wilmot era) Attorney-general, New Brunswick, 50.
(Bishop Laval era) Breaks out on the St. Andre, 31.
(Lord Dorchester era) A disaffected Montrealer, 122, 123.
(Baldwin / La Fontaine / Hincks era) Government makes provision for, in 1841, 98-99; winter roads at Quebec, 146-147. See also Yonge Street; Dundas Street; Baldoon Road.
(General Brock era) Private secretary to Lieutenant-Governor Milnes, 47; unfriendly to French-Canadians and Roman Catholics, 48, 86; his violent language, 92; his mission to London...
See Rosslyn.
(Samuel de Champlain era) Surgeon, early settler, 145.
(Baldwin / La Fontaine / Hincks era) Imperial Parliament repeals clause of Union Act making English the sole official language, 287; Elgin reads speech from the throne in French as...
Joseph Frobisher, Alexander Henry, and Peter Pond, in the North-West, 1775. In that year, explored the Churchill River as far as Isle a la Crosse Lake. =Index=: (Mackenzie / Selkir...
(Bishop Laval era) Archbishop of Rouen, desires ecclesiastical jurisdiction over Canada, 133; called to the see of Paris, 134; desires to bring diocese of Quebec under his jurisdic...