The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History
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The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History
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=Cayugas.= One of the tribes of the Iroquois confederacy. Parkman gives
four forms of the name: Cayugas, Caiyoquos, Goiogoens, Gweugwehonoh.
Their fighting strength is given in the _Relation_ of 1660 as 300. At
this time, however, they had been weakened by continual warfare. The
Cayuga villages stood on the shore of Cayuga Lake, and their territory
extended from that lake to the Owasco, both included. The tribe lay
between the Senecas on the west and the Onondagas on the east. By the
beginning of the nineteenth century they had been crowded off their
ancestral lands, and scattered abroad. Some seven hundred are now on the
Six Nation reserve, in the Niagara peninsula. The remainder are for the
most part in the western United States. =Index=: =Ch= Iroquois tribe,
50. _See also_ Iroquois; Senecas; Onondagas; Mohawks; Tuscaroras.
=Bib.=: Pilling, _Iroquoian Languages_. _See also_ Iroquois.
=Cazeau, François.= =Hd= Arrested on charge of treason, 279.
=Census.= The first census in Canada seems to have been taken in 1640,
when the inhabitants numbered 375, distributed as follows: married men,
64; married women (three born in Canada), 64; widower, 1; widows, 4;
unmarried men, 35; boys (30 born in Canada), 58; girls (24 born in
Canada), 48; nuns, 6; Jesuits, 29; others, 66. Benjamin Sulte finds the
population in 1650 to have been 705; and in 1663 about 2500. The census
of 1665 gives the total population as 3251. The first census of the
Dominion was taken in 1871, when the population was 3,635,024; the
census of 1881 gave a total of 4,324,810; of 1891, 4,833,239; of 1901,
5,371,315. _See also_ Acadians. =Index=: =E= Provided for by La
Fontaine-Baldwin government, 86; placed under Department of Agriculture
by Hincks-Morin government, 117. =F= Of 1666, 55. =Bib.=: _Census of
Canada_, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901. _See also_ Johnson, _First
Things in Canada_; and General Index, _Trans._ R. S. C., under _Census_.
=Centurion.= =WM= Admiral Saunders's ship, in action off Beauport shore,
136.
=Chabanel, Noél.= Jesuit missionary in the Huron country, 1643. Had been
a professor of rhetoric in France, before coming to Canada. When the
Hurons were driven from their country by the Iroquois, in 1649, he and
Garnier led their demoralized flock to the Island of St. Joseph, in
Matchadash Bay, an inlet of Georgian Bay. Even here the Iroquois
followed them, and attacked the mission of St. Jean, Dec. 7, 1649.
Chabanel had left the place a short time before, and so escaped the
general massacre. He, however, fell a victim to one of his own Hurons,
who confessed that he had murdered the missionary and thrown his body
into a river. =Index=: =L= Died a martyr, 62. =Bib.=: Parkman, _Jesuits
in North America_.
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