The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History
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The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History
Canada -- Biography; Canada -- History
=Castillon, Jacques de.= =Ch= Assisted in forming Company of New France,
168; presents pictures to church of Notre Dame de la Recouvrance, 240.
=Castle Frank.= =S= Country chalet built for Simcoe near York, 215.
=Castle of St. Louis.= _See_ Château St. Louis.
=Catalogne, Gédéon de.= Employed for some years on military and other
engineering works in Canada. In 1701 commenced a canal from Lachine to
the Little River, with the object of providing a boat channel around the
rapids. The work was abandoned, and resumed in 1717, but was again
abandoned, owing to the cost of the rock cutting. Accompanied Denonville
on his expedition against the Iroquois, in 1687.
=Cataraqui.= A fort, built by the engineer Raudin in 1673, under
Frontenac's orders, the site having been selected by La Salle. The fort
stood at the mouth of the Cataraqui, on the site of the present city of
Kingston. Here Frontenac held a great Council with representatives of
the five Iroquois nations, 1673. On Frontenac's recommendation,
Cataraqui was granted to La Salle as a seigniory, upon his repaying the
amount the fort had cost the king. Fort Frontenac, as La Salle named it,
became the base of his ambitious scheme of western explorations.
=Index=: =F= Expedition of Courcelles to, 59; of Frontenac, 76-84; fort,
afterwards known as Fort Frontenac, erected at, 83. =Hd= Lands allotted
to Loyalists in neighbourhood of, 236, 255; settlers at, 258, 265. =S=
Barracks of, on site of old Fort Frontenac, 51; Loyalist settlements in
surrounding country, 58; detail of, 59. _See also_ Kingston; Fort
Frontenac; La Salle. =Bib.=: Machar, _Old Kingston_; Sulte, _Le Fort de
Frontenac_ (R. S. C., 1901); Girouard, _L'Expédition du Marquis de
Denonville_ (R. S. C., 1899).
=Cathcart, Charles Murray, Earl= (1783-1859). Served in Holland, 1799;
saw service through Peninsular War; fought at Waterloo; assumed title,
1843; succeeded General Jackson as commander-in-chief of the forces in
British North America, 1845; administrator the same year, on the
departure of Sir Charles Metcalfe; governor-general, 1846; succeeded by
Lord Elgin, 1847. =Index=: =Md= Succeeds Metcalfe as governor-general,
25; correspondence with Draper over Macdonald's appointment to Cabinet,
26. =BL= Becomes administrator, and afterwards governor-general,
265-266; his character and attitude towards political questions in
Canada, 266. =E= Succeeds Metcalfe as governor-general, more interested
in problems of defence than in politics, 38; replaced by Elgin, 40; his
instructions to Rebellion Losses Commission, 65. =B= His appointment and
character, 28; warns British government of disaffection in Canada, 31.
=Bib.=: Dent, _Can. Por._ and _Last Forty Years_; Morgan, _Cel. Can._
=Catherine.= =Ch= Champlain sails for France in (1626), 155.
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