Canadian History Dictionary Lovett John
(General Brock era) Secretary to General Van Rensselaer, letter...
Breadalbane John Campbell Second Marquis Of 1796-1862 Represented
Okehampton in Parliament, 1820-1826, and Perthshire, 1832. =Ind...
Bib : Campbell History Of Nova Scotia
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Bib : Hetherington Canada's First Social Club In Univ Mag
April, 1910.
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Crow's Nest Pass
Discovered in the latter sixties by a trapper,
Michael Phillip...
Bouchard
(Bishop Laval era) Founder of the Montmorency family, 16.
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Theatre
(Count Frontenac era) At Quebec, 336. (Sir Frederick Haldimand ...
Papineau Denis B
(Lord Elgin era) Brother of Louis Joseph Papineau, 35; Metcalfe...
Goderich Viscount
See Ripon.
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Bib : Works: Dreamland And Other Poems Tecumseh: A Drama For
biog., see Morgan, Can. Men; MacMurchy, Canadian Literature.
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Tuscarora Indians
A tribe of the Iroquois family, dwelling chiefly in
North Caro...
Holland
(John Graves Simcoe era) Surveyor-general, Upper Canada, 178.
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St Pierre
An island on the southern coast of Newfoundland, which,
with t...
Aubry
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Force gathered by, and Ligneris, dispers...
Cabot John
Probably a native of Genoa. Became a citizen of Venice,
March ...
Allouez Father Claude
Came to Quebec, 1657. Left for the West, 1665.
Laboured for tw...
Company Of The West Indies Compagnie Des Indes Occidentales
Chartered by Louis XIV, 1664, following the cancellation of the...
Red River
Sometimes called Red River of the North, to distinguish it
fro...
Index : Egerton Ryerson Era His Separate School Bills 235-238 George Brown Era Introduces Separate
school legislation, 144. =Bib.=: Morgan, Can. Men; Canadian Who...
Fort Garry
At junction of Red and Assiniboine Rivers, where the city
of W...
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Fitzgibbon James 1780-1863 Born In Ireland Joined The Tarbert
Fencibles, 1798; served in Holland the following year, and in 1801
present at the battle of Copenhagen. The same year came to Canada with
the 49th Regiment, and served under Brock with distinction in the War of
1812. In command of the British at Beaver Dam. In 1822 appointed
assistant adjutant-general; and in 1827 clerk of the House of Assembly.
Commissioned as colonel of the second West York Regiment 1831, and took
an active part in the suppression of the Rebellion of 1837. Returned to
England, where in 1850 made a military knight of Windsor. =Index=: (General Brock era)
Describes gallant conduct of Savery Brock at Egmont-op-Zee, 18-20; his
reminiscences of Brock, 66-67. (Lord Sydenham era) Made clerk of Legislative Council,
334. (William Lyon Mackenzie era) Defeats rebels at Montgomery's farm, 379. =Bib.=: FitzGibbon,
A Veteran of 1812; Lucas, Canadian War of 1812; Dent, Upper
Canadian Rebellion; Read, Rebellion of 1837; Lizars, Humours of
'37; Morgan, Cel. Can.
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