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Aneda
(Samuel de Champlain era) An Indian chief, 29.
Andros Sir Edmund 1637-1713 Appointed Governor Of New York 1674
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Amusements In Canada
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Contemporary accounts of, in 1781, 221-224. ...
An Accurate Map Of North America
Describing and distinguishing the British, Spanish, and French Dominions, according to the Definitive Treaty concluded in Paris, Feb. 10, 1763. Eman Bowen, Geog. His Majesty, and John Gibson, Engraver. Print from Plate. ...
Anadabijou
(Samuel de Champlain era) Montagnais chief, makes long harangue to Champlain, 10; his relations with Champlain, 50-51. ...
Anahotaha
(Bishop Laval era) Huron chief, joins Dollard at Long Sault, 69. ...
Andastes
A once-powerful tribe, who spoke a dialect of the Iroquois, but were at deadly enmity with the Five Nations, by whom, according to Parkman, they were nearly destroyed about the year 1672. =Index=: (Samuel de Champlain era) Indian tribe of Virginia, 90...
Andehoua
(Samuel de Champlain era) Indian youth baptized, 233. ...
Anderson A Caulfield
An officer of the Hudson's Bay Company, employed for many years in the New Caledonia district, under Dr. McLoughlin. =Index=: (Sir James Douglas era) In charge at Alexandria, on the Lower Fraser, 186; explores a road from Kamloops to the Lower Fraser,...
Anderson Anthony
(William Lyon Mackenzie era) Given command of the rebels, 360; moves on Toronto, 363; takes prisoners, 364; victim of Powell's treachery, 365. ...
Anderson Captain
(Lord Dorchester era) British officer killed at Sault au Matelot barrier, 130. ...
Anderson David 1814-1885 Born In London England Educated At
Edinburgh Academy and at Exeter College, Oxford. Vice-principal of St. Bees College, Cumberland, 1841-1847, and incumbent of All Saints', Derby, 1848-1849. Came to the Red River Settlement as bishop of Rupert's Land, 1849. Remained until 1864, when he...
Andros Sir Edmund 1637-1713 Appointed Governor Of New York 1674
governor of all the New England colonies, 1685. Recalled on account of his extreme unpopularity, 1688. Subsequently governor of Virginia, 1692-1698. =Index=: (Count Frontenac era) Governor of New England, 263; seized and imprisoned, 266. (Bishop Laval...
Aneda
(Samuel de Champlain era) An Indian chief, 29. ...
Aneda
An evergreen, used by Jacques Cartier and his men as a remedy against scurvy. Parkman suggests that it was a spruce, or, more probably, an arbor-vitae. Douglas believes it to have been balsam. Cartier spells the name ameda, and Lescarbot, annedda. =In...
Ange Gardien
A village on the St. Lawrence, north shore, below Quebec. Index: (Wolfe / Montcalm era) Wolfe seriously ill at, 154. From the John Ross Robertson collection] ...
Angers Auguste Real 1838- Born In Quebec Studied Law And
called to the bar; made Q.C. 1880, and the same year appointed a puisne judge of the Superior Court of Quebec. Lieutenant-governor of Quebec, 1887; resigned and called to the Senate, 1892. Minister of agriculture, 1892-1895; president of the Council, ...
Anglican Church
See Church of England. ...
Anglin Timothy Warren 1822-1886 Born In Ireland Came To St John
New Brunswick, 1849. Established Weekly Freeman that year. Elected to New Brunswick Legislature for St. John, 1860. Opposed Confederation. Elected to the House of Commons, 1867, for Gloucester. Elected Speaker, 1874, and again in 1878. =Index=: (Sir G...
Angus Richard Bladworth 1831- Born At Bathgate Near Edinburgh
Came to Canada, 1857, and joined the staff of the Bank of Montreal. Rose steadily in the service of the bank, and in 1869 became general manager. President of the Bank of Montreal, 1910; and director of the Canadian Pacific Railway. =Index=: (Sir John...
Anian Strait Of
Dr. Ruge says that the name arose through a misunderstanding of Marco Polo's book (bk. 3, ch. 5). His Ania "is no doubt the present Anam, but the Dutch cartographers thought that this land was in north-east Asia, and called the strait that was said to...
Annand William 1808-1892 Born In Halifax County Entered The Nova
Scotia Assembly as one of the members for Halifax, 1836; financial secretary in Howe's ministry, 1860-1863. An active opponent of Confederation. Formed the first Anti-Confederate or repeal government in Nova Scotia, 1867; retired in 1874 to accept the...
Annapolis Royal
When Nicholson, with his fleet and New England troops, captured Port Royal in 1710, he changed the name to Annapolis Royal, in honour of Queen Anne. It was besieged the following year by the Acadians with their Micmac and Penobscot allies, but the New...
Anne Saint
(Bishop Laval era) Chapel dedicated to, in the church at Quebec, 84; chapels erected to, at Beaupre, 101; relic of, 102. ...