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Upper Canada Gazette
(William Lyon Mackenzie era) Official organ of the house, 38, 109-110.
Upper Canada College Toronto
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Uniacke Richard John 1753-1830 Born At Castletown County Cork
Ireland. Emigrated to the West Indies, 1773; went from there to Philadelphia the following year; and induced by Moses Delesdernier, who was interested in the settlement of certain lands near Fort Cumberland, to come to Nova Scotia. In 1776 arrested as...
Union Of 1841
(Joseph Howe era) Act did not concede full measure of responsible government, 53. (Baldwin / La Fontaine / Hincks era) Planned by Sydenham, 60-61; bitterly opposed in Lower Canada, 61; protested against by La Fontaine, 61, 70; attitude of Upper Canada...
United States
(General Brock era) Purchase of Louisiana by, 42; consequent change of attitude towards Great Britain, 43; growing hostility of, to England, 73; British armed vessels ordered to leave United States forts, 83; lays embargo on its own vessels, 85; their...
Universities
See Acadia; Dalhousie; King's; Knox; Laval; McGill; Ottawa; Queen's; Toronto; Trinity; Victoria; McMaster; Manitoba; Saskatchewan; Alberta; Western; St. Francis Xavier; Mount Allison; New Brunswick. ...
University Endowment
(Sir John A Macdonald era) Scheme opposed by Strachan, 28-29. ...
University Provincial
(William Lyon Mackenzie era) Mackenzie's views on, 95. ...
Unrestricted Reciprocity
(Sir John A Macdonald era) Adopted by Liberal party, 262; campaign in favour of, 292; Goldwin Smith supports, 292; favoured by interprovincial conference, 297; movement arouses suspicion, 300; Farrer's pamphlet, 312-314. See also Reciprocity; Commerci...
Upper Canada
The name originally applied by General Murray to the Montreal district, in 1760. Under the terms of the Constitutional Act of 1791, the country was divided into two provinces, and the name Upper Canada applied to the western province. The population a...
Upper Canada
Ontario. Plan of the new settlement from Point a Bodet to Niagara, comprehending the carrying places, the rivers, and lakes to Lake Huron. W. Chewett, D. P. S., 1789. MS. Plans accompanying Lieutenant-Governor Simcoe's report of his tour, 1793. MS. Pl...
Upper Canada Academy
(Egerton Ryerson era) Established by Methodists, June, 1836, 135; Ryerson on, 137-138; difficulty of raising funds, 138-139; Ryerson sent to England to obtain funds and secure royal charter, 139-141; his success, 142; Rev. Matthew Richey first princip...
Upper Canada College Toronto
Originally established in 1807 as the Home District Grammar School of York, the first principal of which was Dr. G. O. Stuart, who was succeeded by Dr. Strachan in 1813. In 1816 a new building was erected, popularly known as the "Old Blue School." Up...
Upper Canada Gazette
(William Lyon Mackenzie era) Official organ of the house, 38, 109-110. ...
Upper Canada Gazette Or American Oracle
(John Graves Simcoe era) First paper published in Upper Canada, 172, 173; removed to York, 174. (General Brock era) First published at Newark (Niagara), 57. ...
Urfe Abbe D'
(Count Frontenac era) Haughtily treated by Frontenac, 110. (Bishop Laval era) Sulpician, arrival of, 105. ...
Ursulines
A religious order of women, in the Roman Catholic Church, founded in 1535 at Brescia, by Angela Merici. The order was established in France in 1584, and spread to Germany and other European countries. In 1639 four members of the order, Madame de la Pe...
Usury Laws
(Lord Sydenham era) Their repeal advocated by Sydenham, 18. ...
Utrecht Treaty Of
Between France and Great Britain, signed in 1713. Provided for the restoration and full surrender of all claims to the Hudson Bay Territory, to Acadia, and to Newfoundland by France; for compensation to the Hudson's Bay Company; for certain rights to ...
Vaccination
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Subject discussed in Quebec Gazette, 228-231. See also Smallpox. ...
Vail Edwin Arnold 1817-1885 Born In Sussex New Brunswick Studied
medicine at Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities. Elected to the New Brunswick Assembly, 1857; Speaker, 1865, and again in 1870; a member of the government, 1883. A strong opponent of Confederation. ...
Vaillant
(Count Frontenac era) Jesuit father, sent as negotiator to Albany, 218. ...
Valdes Cayetano
Accompanied Maurelle and Galiano to North-West Coast, 1792. =Index=: (Sir James Douglas era) Explores North-West Coast, 35; meets Vancouver, 35; his journal published at Madrid, 1802, 36. =Bib.=: Bancroft, History of the North-West Coast. ...
Valiniere
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Sulpician priest, banished for disloyalty, 128. ...