National Policy Tariff, 414

Naval Treaty, 480

Necessity, Fort, 224

Neilson, John, Canadian journalist, 338, 339

Nelson, Wolfred, Canadian reformer, 330, 352, 356, 357, 368

Neutral Nation (Attiwandaronks), 117

Newark (Niagara), 306; burned by American troops, 330

New Brunswick, province of, 5, 6; separated from Nova Scotia, 302; enters Confederation, 373, 374, 412

Newspapers, 426

Niagara, falls of, 186

Niagara, Fort, 231, 247, 253, 426

Nicolet, Jean, 168, 169

Nipissing Lake, 81, 82; Indians of, ib., 115

Non-intervention, 460

Norse voyages to America, 19, 20

Northwest Company, 382-385

Northwest of Canada, 10, 11; history of, 381-401; resources and progress of, 11, 392; mounted police of, 401, 481; Indians of, rebellions in, 387-402; monuments to victims of, 400; government of, 428

Northwest Passage, 465

Norumbega, 28, 54; memorials of, ib.

Nova Scotia, 5, 6; named, 96; first assembly of, 302; enters Confederation, 373, 374, 413


Ocean steamships. See Royal William

Ohio, valley of the, contest for, 223, 229, 230, 242; Indian raids in (Pontiac's War), 273

Oil discoveries, 476

Oneidas, division of Iroquois Confederation, 118. See Iroquois

Onondagas, division of Iroquois Confederation, 118. See Iroquois

Onontio. See Montmagny

Ontario, province of, 10; name of, ib., 374; first known as Upper or Western Canada, 303; enters Confederation, 374; Hydro-Electric Commission, 476; Agricultural College, 482

Oregon boundary question, 375

Orleans, Island of, 36

Oswego (Choueguën), Fort, 222, 227

Ottawa River, 78

Otter, Colonel, 397

Ouigoudi (St. John's River, N.B.), 53


Papineau, Louis J., Canadian Reformer, 339; career of, 339, 351, 352, 357, 368; portrait of, 341

Paris, Treaty of, 264, 265

Parlby, Irene, 479

Parliament, House at Quebec, in 1792, 305; at Newark, 306, 307; burned at Montreal in 1849, 370; view of, at Ottawa, 427; constitution of Canadian, 428; at Ottawa burned, 468; rebuilt, 472

Peary, Admiral, 464

Peltrie, Madame de la, 131, 132

Pemaquid, Fort, 213

Pension Bill, 470

Pepperrell, General, 215, 216

Perrot, Nicholas, 176, 177

Phipps, Admiral, attacks Quebec, 199-201

Pitt (Chatham), 240, 241

Poets of French Canada, 450

Pontgravé, 43, 49

Pontiac, Ottawa chief, 270, 271; his war against English, 271-274; death of, 274

Population of Canada; (in 1757), 225; (1792), 303; (1812), 320; (1838), 358; (1861), 366; French population, 358, 425

Port Arthur, 478

Port Royal, founded, 52, 54; destroyed by Argall, 64; restored, 99; taken by Nicholson, 206; called Annapolis Royal, ib.; its present aspect, 52

Postage reform, 432

Pouchot, 247

Poundmaker, Indian chief, 395, 398

Poutrincourt, Baron de, founds Port Royal, 54; career of, in America, 53-61; death of, 66

Prescott Gate, 305, 307

Presqu'isle (Erie), 223, 247

Prevost, General, Canadian governor, military incapacity of, 325, 332

Prince of Wales, 472

Prince Edward Island (St. Jean), 5, 243, 244; separated from Nova Scotia, 302; enters Confederation, 403. See Charlottetown

Privy Council. See Judicial Committee

Proclamation of 1763, 274, 275

Procter, General, 324, 327

Progressive Party, 474

Prohibition, 458, 473

Protective policy, 458


Quebec Act of 1774, 276-279

Quebec Bridge, 470

Quebec, city of, 1-3; named, 70; founded, 70; taken by Kirk, 88; besieged by Phipps, 199-201; by Wolfe, 248-257; plan of siege of 1759, 251; surrender of, 258; besieged by Lévis, 262; by Arnold and Montgomery, 284-286; view of, in 1760, 270; in 1896, 434. See Château St. Louis

Quebec Conference of 1864, Confederation proposed, 372

Quebec, province of, 8, 9; enters Confederation, 374

Queylus, Abbé, 157, 158


Radisson, Sieur, 17

Railways in Canada, 366, 367

Rale, Sebastian, missionary in Acadia, 212

Ramesay, M. de, in Acadia, 219; surrenders Quebec, 258

Razilly, Isaac de, in Acadia, 97-99

Rebellion Losses, Riots of 1849, 369, 370

Rebellions in Canada; of 1837, in Lower Canada, 338-343, 351, 353-357; in Upper Canada, 344-351, 353-355; in the Northwest (1869), 387-392; (1885), 393-400

Reciprocity Treaty, 376

Recollets or Franciscans, 80, 81, 89

Red River settlement (Assiniboia), 384-387; insurrection at (1869-70), 387-392. See Riel

Republican ideas, 462

Responsible Government in Canada, 361-365; in Nova Scotia, 362-364; in New Brunswick, 364; in P. E. Island, ib.; in British Columbia, 405; famous advocates of, 364, 365

Revenue and Expenditure of Canada, 425

Revolution, American. See American Revolution

Richardson, Major, Canadian author, 271

Richelieu, Cardinal, 86

Richelieu River, 72, 73

Riel, Louis, rebels against Canada in 1869, 388; in 1885, 393-400; execution of, 379

Roberval, Jean François de la Roque, 45, 46

Robinson, Chief Justice, 344

Robinson, Christopher, 298

Roche, Marquis de la, 47

Rogers, Major Robert, 269

Rolph, Dr. John, Canadian Reformer, 353

Roman Catholics of Canada, freed from civil disabilities, 278

Root, Mr. Elihu, 430

Royal Mint, 468

Royal William, first steamship to cross Atlantic, 358

Rupert's Land, 381; history of, under fur traders, 381-386; part of Dominion, 387. See Northwest of Canada

Ryerson, Egerton, 350, 368

Ryswick, Treaty of, 204


St. Alban's Bank, raid on, 377

Saint-Castin, Baron de, in Acadia, 171, 172

St. Croix, Island of, in Acadia, 53, 54

St. Croix River, 36

St. Foy, Battle of, 262

St. Ignace, mission of, attacked by Iroquois, 142

St. John River, 53; La Tour's fort on, 99, 103

St. Joseph, mission of, attacked by Iroquois, 142

St. Lawrence River, discovery of, 34, 35; valley of, 8; mountains of, ib.

St. Lawrence, deepening of canals, 418, 419

St. Louis, Château. See Château St. Louis

Saint-Lusson, Sieur, in the West, 177

St. Pierre and Miquelon, Isles of, 266

St. Sacrément, Lac du (Lake George), 137

Ste. Anne de Beaupré, Canadian Lourdes, 439, 440; view of church at, 441

Ste. Marie, Jesuit mission, 141, 143, 145

Saguenay River, 35

Salaberry, Colonel de, at Chateaugay, 328; portrait of, 329

Salle, Sieur de la, in the West, 183-188; on the Mississippi, 188, 189; assassination of, 190; autograph and portrait of, 185

"Sam Slick." See Haliburton

San Juan difficulty, 375

Saskatchewan River, Riel's rebellion in district of, 393-400; monument on, 400

Sault-au-Matelot, 286

Sault Ste. Marie, 177, 223

Saunders, Dr. Chas. E., 463

Schools. See Education

Schultz, Dr., at Red River, 390

Scott, Thomas, murdered by Riel, 390, 391

Secord, Laura, her courage, 326

Seigniorial Tenure, 87, 165; abolition of, 367

Selkirk, Lord, on the Red River, 384; death of, 385

Selkirk Range, 16, 17

Senate of Canada, 428

Senecas, division of the Iroquois Confederation, 118. See Iroquois

Shipbuilding, 421

Shirley, General, 231

Sillery, 133

Simcoe, General, lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada, 306, 309-311; portrait of, 311

Six Nations. See Iroquois

Smith, Sir Donald, at Red River, 390

Smith, Mary E., 479

Souriquois. See Micmacs

South African War, 432-433

Stadacona (Quebec), 36

"Starved Rock" on the Illinois, 189

Stoney Creek, battle of, 325

Strachan, Bishop, 342, 347; portrait of, ib.

Strathcona, Lord, 465

Strange, Colonel, 397

Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 464

Sulpicians in Canada, 133, 136, 157, 158

Sulte, Benjamin, French Canadian author, 448

Sydenham, Lord. See Thomson, Poulett


Taché, Archbishop, 390, 391

Talbot, Thomas, 310

Talon, J. Baptiste, Canadian Intendant, 157, 168

Tariff, revision of, 415; war with Germany, 415; British preference, 415, 416; commercial treaty with France, 416

Tecumseh, Indian Chief, 322, 327

Temple, Sir Thomas, in Acadia, 108

Thayendanegea. See Brant, Joseph

Thompson, Sir John, Canadian premier, 324, 415, 458

Thomson, Poulett (Lord Sydenham), Canadian governor, 361, 362

Ticonderoga (Carillon), Fort, 222, 248, 434

Tilley, Sir Leonard, Canadian statesman a founder of confederation, 412

Titles, 462

Tobacco Nation (Tionotates), 117, 144

Touty, Henry de (of the copper hand), 186, 188, 208

Toronto (Fort Rouillé), 222, 247; first known as York, 309; University of, 347

Tracy, Marquis de, Canadian viceroy, 152, 155

Trapper, Canadian, 173

Trinity, Cape, 9

Trinity College at Toronto, founded, 347

Tupper, Sir Charles, Canadian statesman, 298, 368; a founder of confederation, 373, 412, 415, 464, 465

Turner, Mr. George, 430

Tuscaroras. See Iroquois.