(Samuel de Champlain era) Undertakes Panama Canal, 6. =Bib.=: Chambers, Biog. Dict.
Born in Glengarry; son of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Macdonell, of the 1st Glengarry militia. Present at the capture of Detroit and mentioned in despatches. In 1812 aide-de-camp...
Born in Scotland. Came to Canada, and entered the service of the North West Company. In 1786-1787 had charge of the North West Company post at Lac des Serpents, in opposition to Ro...
(Lord Dorchester era) Presided over department of Loyalist claims, 202.
(Sir James Douglas era) Succeeds Pacific Fur Company, 134; Astor at head of, 134. See also Astor; Pacific Fur Company.
(Sir Georges E. Cartier era) Issued by Le Parti Catholique, 82; its terms, 82; disapproved of by Archbishop Taschereau, 82-83.
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Frigate in which Levis embarked at Brest, 12.
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Troops disembark at, 165; re-embarkation, 172.
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Subject discussed in Quebec Gazette, 228-231. See also Smallpox.
Educated at Harvard. Going to England, served in the parliamentary army there and in Scotland. Took part in the march of General Monk's army to London. In 1663 returned to New Engl...
Academy and at Brown University, Rhode Island. Subsequently professor of classics at Acadia College and at Dalhousie College. =Bib.=: Works: Elements of Rhetoric; Helena's Househol...
accompanied Arnold's expedition to Canada. Secretary of war, 1801-1809; appointed major-general, 1812, and assigned to command of northern department in War of 1812; captured York,...
of Upper Canada, 1864. Elected to House of Commons, 1872. Sent on political mission to British Columbia, in connection with Canadian Pacific Railway. Returned to Parliament, 1884;...
colonial secretary union of Upper and Lower Canada, 47; his design revealed, 49; meets Papineau, 53. (Mackenzie / Selkirk / Simpson era) Opposes sale of Red River land to Selkirk b...
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Protection afforded by to Bourlamaque's army, 167.
Grammar Schools at Hamilton and York and at Chambly Theological Seminary. Ordained priest, 1835; laboured in various parts of Canada; archdeacon of Niagara, 1869; bishop of Niagara...
statesman, noted particularly for his connection with the first Reform Bill. (Lord Sydenham era) Becomes prime minister, 25; resigns, 45. (William Lyon Mackenzie era) W.L. Mackenzi...
service in Holland, France, at the Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, India, and Egypt. In 1812 deputy adjutant-general of the army in Canada, and defeated the American generals Chandler a...
Advocated by Thomas Pownall, governor of Massachusetts Bay, in 1764. He proposed a scheme by which "Great Britain may be no more considered as the Kingdom of this Isle alone, with...
327-329; idea partially adopted by Sir F. Hincks, as finance minister of Dominion, 330. (William Lyon Mackenzie era) Report of House on system of, 161. =Bib.=: Johnson, First Thing...
(William Lyon Mackenzie era) Mackenzie's brother-in-law, 482; house attacked by mob, 482.
(Lord Dorchester era) Attorney-general, his account of state of feeling among French Canadians, 278.
(Lord Dorchester era) One of protesting members of Council under Carleton, 34.
Served in the army for some years; appointed governor of Nova Scotia, 1782; lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia, 1786-1791. The last governor of the province previous to the separat...
(Mackenzie / Selkirk / Simpson era) Sent to Red River district by X Y Company, 14.
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Amherst loses a large number of men in, 37.
(Samuel de Champlain era) Name given by Champlain to the Upper Riviere du Loup, 52.
(Lord Sydenham era) Their repeal advocated by Sydenham, 18.
(General Brock era) Question of land grant for, 138; letters to Brock, 153, 154, 157.