See Niagara.
Founded at St. Louis, in 1822, by William H. Ashley. The field of its operations was the Upper Missouri country. After an adventurous career of twelve years, in which Ashley, Andre...
City and seaport of New Brunswick, situated at the mouth of the St. John River. It was incorporated as the city of St. John in 1785, during the administration of Thomas Carleton, h...
Signed April 24, 1629. Under its terms peace was declared between France and England; the former French possessions in America to revert to France. The conditions were not fulfille...
(Sir John A Macdonald era) Scheme opposed by Strachan, 28-29.
(Lord Elgin era) Commissioner under Seigniorial Tenure law, 187.
(Tilley era) Deserts Liberal party in New Brunswick, 18; elected for Northumberland, 107.
and empires, 123. =Bib.=: For biog. and bib. of his works, see Larousse, Dict. Univ.
Fort de Frontenac ou Katarakouy, 13 Novembre 1685. Photo copy of plan in the Depot des Cartes et Journaux de la Marine, Paris. MS. Plan du Fort Frontenac. fait a quebec ce 11 Octob...
(Bishop Laval era) Recommends Saint-Vallier to succeed Laval, 199.
member of the Council under the royal government; quarrelled with the governor and went to England to lay his complaints before the crown. Complaints dismissed, but appointed chief...
bar, 1863; judge of the Court of Queen's Bench for Manitoba, 1880-1882; attorney-general of Manitoba, 1882-1885; prepared, along with Oliver Mowat, the special case on the boundari...
A Massachusetts officer, sent by Governor Shirley in 1746 to oppose Ramesay in Acadia. Occupied Grand Pre without opposition, Ramesay having retreated to Chignecto. In February of...
Newspaper published at Toronto. =Index.=: (George Brown Era) The organ of the Clear Grits, edited by Macdougall, 40; absorbed by the Globe, 74; publishes personal attack on George...
(Samuel de Champlain era) Frenchman, murdered by Montagnais Indians, 161.
(Count Frontenac era) Cousin of La Salle, comes from France in connection with financial matters, 177.
Sir William Phipps, having captured Port Royal in May of this year, appeared before Quebec in October, with thirty-two ships and a force of over two thousand men. He immediately su...
(Sir James Douglas era) Stimulated by fur trade, 38; America reached by way of Siberia, 38; Vitus Bering's expeditions, 39-40; explorations between 1764 and 1769, 42; discoveries a...
Were situated on the river St. Maurice, about nine miles above Three Rivers, Quebec. Iron ore was discovered on the banks of the St. Maurice in 1667, but the mines were not systema...
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Correspondent of Haldimand's, 315.
the army. In 1740 captain of a company that served in the expedition to Cuba; in 1752 sent to Fort St. George, Maine, as a commissioner to settle land disputes with the Indians. In...
Born in England, 1832. Studied medicine and admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, 1848. Appointed surgeon at Vancouver Island by Hudson's Bay Company; first m...
(Count Frontenac era) Former name of Beauport flats, 293. (Wolfe / Montcalm era) French position on Beauport shore, 94, 105, 134.
of Rene Gaultier, Sieur de Varennes, governor of Three Rivers. Served in the New England campaign of 1704, and the following year in Newfoundland. In 1707 with the army in Flanders...
(Samuel de Champlain era) Purchases supplies for De Monts's second expedition to Quebec, 56.
(Lord Dorchester era) Discharged soldier, offers testimony in Walker case, 35; tried for perjury and sent to prison, 38.
(Mackenzie / Selkirk / Simpson era) His account of the voyage of the third party of Red River settlers in 1813, 162-163; in charge at Red River, 173; colonists demand that he hand...
(Tilley era) Deserts Liberals in New Brunswick, 18; postmaster-general in Gray ministry, 41.
(Bishop Laval era) Title borne by Laval in his youth, 7, 19.