quartermaster-general stationed at, 80; military importance of, 177, 236; garrison of, 202, 235. (Baldwin / La Fontaine / Hincks era) Early municipal government of, 298.
partnership with Macdonald, 10; his letter to Macdonald on the political situation, 31; postmaster-general in first Dominion Cabinet, 134; consults Imperial government as to propos...
effect of his resignation on Confederation, 128; Macdonald's letter to, on the franchise, 259. (Tilley era) Conference with, on Confederation scheme, 122. =Bib.=: Dict. Nat. Biog.
(William Lyon Mackenzie era) Crisis approaching in, 287; Imperial commissioners' report, 323; against responsible government, 325; events leading to Rebellion, 327; asks other prov...
(Samuel de Champlain era) On the settlement at Ste. Croix, 25. =Bib.=: Histoire de l'Acadie Francaise, 1598-1755.
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) French military engineer, 85, 90.
Established by Act of Parliament in 1874; opened 1875. =Bib.=: Mayne, The Royal Military College in Canada: An Ency., vol. 4.
English bar; removed to Boston, where he practised his profession. Governor of Massachusetts, 1741-1745; planned the successful expedition against Louisbourg. Resided in England, 1...
(Samuel de Champlain era) Spanish vessel, commanded by Champlain, 3.
(Count Frontenac era) Missionary to Abenaquis, 250.
to Canada with his mother, 1825. Educated at Nicolet College; studied law, and called to the bar, 1836. Elected to the Assembly for Montreal, 1843, but prevented from taking his se...
United States, 272; his intrigues in Canada, 273, 274. =Bib.=: Cyc. Am. Biog.
Canada with his parents, 1844. Educated at the public schools of Huron County, Ontario. Engaged in business for ten years at Centralia. Defeated on two occasions for election to th...
military service, 78; arms supplied to, 97; arrives at Quebec from the west, 132; Brock's high opinion of, 143; goes to England on leave, 159. (Lord Elgin era) Postpones seculariza...
Succeeds W. Erskine as British minister at Washington, 122. =Bib.=: Dict. Nat. Biog.
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Haldimand in command at, 1, 87, 90, 91, 96, 121; Amherst in command at, 41; Gage in command at, 53; influenced by outbreak of violence at Boston, 86;...
(Bishop Laval era) Jesuit, comes to Canada, 41.
(John Graves Simcoe era) Of deeds in Upper Canada, system introduced, 94, 102. (Lord Sydenham era) Of titles in Lower Canada, ordinance providing for, passed by Special Council, 27...
Born in Ireland, 1789. Entered the army as ensign, 1783; saw service in various parts of the world, including Spain, France, and North America; secretary to Lord Seaton in Canada,...
Constitutional Act, 7, 8; birth and family, 15; death of his father, 16; educated at Eton and Oxford, 17; obtains commission as ensign, 18; ordered to America, 18; obtains command...
Projected in 1797, and chartered, 1827, as King's College, mainly through the efforts of Bishop Strachan. The charter was amended in 1837, as the result of an agitation against its...
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Grandmother of Montcalm, 4.
proclamation, 444; annoyed at Mackenzie, 445; pardons Mackenzie, 458; his political death-blow, 472. =WT= Sends Winfield Scott to settle Aroostook War, 135. =Bib.=: Cyc. Am. Biog.
(Sir James Douglas era) Explores coast of Queen Charlotte Islands in 1791, 25; describes geography and natural history of the islands and language, manners, and customs of the nati...
Brebeuf at the mission of St. Ignace, among the Hurons, where he was killed by the Iroquois in 1649. A Parisian by birth, and his family belonged to the class of gens de robe. =Ind...
Now known as Wolfe's Cove. =Index=: (Wolfe / Montcalm era) Guard of 100 men at, 160; Wolfe carefully examines from the river, 168; learns that it is poorly guarded, 171; effects la...
Born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, 1827. Studied law and called to the bar, 1855; made a Q. C., 1872. In 1859 elected member for Inverness to the provincial Legislature. Member of a...
(Sir John A Macdonald era) Father of Sir John A. Macdonald, native of Sutherlandshire, removes to Glasgow, and in 1820 emigrates to Canada, 1; settles at Kingston, 2; moves to Hay...
A tribe of the Iroquois confederacy. Their villages stood in the valley of the Mohawk River. From their position as the easternmost of the Iroquois tribes, they came first in conta...