(Samuel de Champlain era) Clerk in De Caen's company, 138.
Also known as Portage La Loche. Named after the methye or loche (Lota maculosa), which has always been abundant in neighbouring waters. This portage was an important point in the p...
Sometimes called Red River of the North, to distinguish it from the Red River of Texas. The name is supposed to have been derived from the colour of its waters, heavily impregnated...
(Samuel de Champlain era) His papers on Champlain's astrolabe, 76.
Took place on June 5, 1813, when the American troops, under Generals Chandler and Minder, were defeated by the British forces under Colonel (afterwards General) Harvey. The defeat...
made a failure of his business as a bookseller in Quebec, went to France, and died there in poverty. One of the founders of the Institut Canadien of Quebec; and contributed for som...
264. =Bib.=: Cyc. Am. Biog.
governor, 235. (Count Frontenac era) Acts as chief of staff to Governor Denonville, 209; acting governor of Montreal, 225; surprises and destroys band of Indians at Repentigny, 308...
26. =Bib.=: Dict. Nat. Biog.
Negotiates treaty with Great Britain, 283, 286. =Bib.=: Cyc. Am. Biog.
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Town mayor of Quebec, strikes insubordinate officers, 230; protests against order to propose capitulation, 230, 231; goes to British camp with articles of ca...
(John Graves Simcoe era) White settler among Grand River Indians, murdered by Isaac Brant, 191.
In England. =Index=: (Lord Sydenham era) Poulett Thomson elected for, 31; his free trade views find support in, 36; great dinner to Thomson in, 37.
1773. Espoused the royal cause in the Revolution; in 1777 a lieutenant in the Loyal Virginians, and in 1782 a captain in the Queen's Rangers. In 1783 came to St. John, New Brunswic...
(Sir John A Macdonald era) Or Half-breeds, view with alarm the prospect of annexation of territories to Canada, 157; their complaints as to division of lands, 240; their sympathy w...
A tribe of Algonquian stock. Occupied the Saguenay country in 1608, when Champlain visited Tadoussac, and acted as intermediaries between the French and the tribes of the far north...
See Oswegatchie.
(Count Frontenac era) Subjection of, to royal power, 152.
(Samuel de Champlain era) Jesuit mission at, 234.
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) At Sillery, directs artillery fire on enemy on opposite shore, 161.
(Count Frontenac era) Fort built at falls of, 329.
Took place in November, 1861, when Captain C. Wilkes of the United States navy intercepted the British mail steamer Trent sailing from Havana, and arrested two commissioners from t...
Quoted, 4, 9; his description of conduct of Perrot, governor of Montreal, 96, 97. (Samuel de Champlain era) Error in history of, 207. =Bib.=: Works: Vie de Mme. d'Youville; Vie de...
service of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1813. Left the service, 1823, but continued to reside in the Red River Settlement. Appointed one of the judges of the Court of Petty Sessions,...
(Joseph Howe era) Member of first Nova Scotia government after Confederation, 198.
letter to, 166. =Bib.=: Dict. Nat. Biog.
(Lord Dorchester era) Commanded by Beverley Robinson, 202. (Wilmot era) Commanded by Beverley Robinson, 3; Lemuel Wilmot a captain in, 3.
(Sir John A Macdonald era) Macdonald studies law in his office, 4; death of, 9.
(Bishop Laval era) Comes to Canada, 41; director of the Seminary, 55; transfers his personal income to Seminary, 56; made archdeacon of chapter of Quebec, 197; administers diocese,...
Recollet province of St. Anthony. In 1675 came to Canada; in 1679 a member of La Salle's expedition to the West; and in 1682 accompanied La Salle on his voyage down the Mississippi...