=Colbert, Jean Baptiste= (1619-1683). First minister to Louis XIV. =Index=: =F= Creates West India Company, 49; disapproves Frontenac's action in summoning "three estates," 67; anti-clerical tendencies, 73; Madame Maintenon's opinion of, 74; advice to Courcelles in relation to ecclesiastical power, 115; asks for particulars as regards effect of liquor traffic, 118; speaks of bishop as aiming at too much power, 119; overthrow of his commercial policy, 151. =L= Minister of marine and colonies, not favourable to emigration, 80; enjoins Frontenac to act with more moderation, 165; prejudiced against clergy, 170; his despatch on subject of liquor traffic, 170. =Bib.=: Colby, _Canadian Types of the Old Régime_; Chambers, _Biog. Dict._ =Colebrooke, Sir William Macbean George= (1787-1870). After serving in the army, and as political agent in the East, became lieutenant-governor of the Bahamas, 1834-1837; governor of the Leeward Islands, 1837; and in 1841 succeeded Sir John Harvey as lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick. Afterwards governor of Barbados and the Windward Islands, 1848-1856. =Index=: =W= Appoints son-in-law as provincial secretary, New Brunswick, 76; action resented by members of government, 76-80; his unpopularity, 100-101. =Bib.=: Hannay, _History of New Brunswick_; Rattray, _The Scot in British North America_; _Dict. Nat. Biog._ =Coles, George= (1810-1875). =T= Delegate to Quebec Conference, 77. =Collins, Francis.= =Mc= Reports legislative debates, 106; publishes _Canadian Freeman_ in 1825, 111; convicted of libel, 134; fined and imprisoned, 134. =Bib.=: Dent, _Upper Canadian Rebellion_. =Collver, Jabez.= =S= Presbyterian minister, the first to come to Upper Canada, 165. =Colonial Advocate.= Newspaper, published by William Lyon Mackenzie. =Index=: =Mc= Newspaper, published at Queenston, May 18, 1824, 85; reviews condition of provinces, 86, 87; topics discussed in, 94-97; reports debates, 102, 103; granted a subsidy for printing, 103; moved to York, January, 1825, 106; House refuses publication of reports in, 108; destruction of, 113; W.J. Rattray on, 116; defendants made to pay £625 damages, 129; criminal prosecution of, 130; second destruction of, 221; last issue, November, 1834, 259. =BL= Its extravagant language, 12; established by Mackenzie, 13; aids in consolidating Reform party, 13; its office attacked by Tories, 14-15. =R= Edited by W. L. Mackenzie, 64, 66; attacks Egerton Ryerson, 98. =Colonial Conference, 1894.= Opened at Ottawa, June 28, with Mackenzie Bowell in the chair. Delegates present from the Imperial government, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Cape Colony, and Canada. Resolutions were passed in favour of an Imperial Customs Union and a Pacific Cable. Conference adjourned, July 11. _See also_ Imperial Conference. =Bib.=: _Proceedings of the Colonial Conference_, 1894; Ewart, _Kingdom of Canada_.