=Commercial Union.= Complete and entire free trade with the United States, first proposed by Ira Gould, before Montreal Board of Trade, February, 1852. (_See_ Montreal _Gazette_, Feb. 18-22, 1852.) The question was repeatedly discussed in succeeding years, down to 1890, in and out of Parliament, and for a time was adopted by the Liberal party as a trade policy, but abandoned before they came into power in 1896. =Index=: =Md= Brought forward by Liberals as an alternative to protection, 261-262; history of the movement, 291-292; the Commercial Union League, 293-298. _See also_ Unrestricted reciprocity; Reciprocity; Zollvrein. =Bib.=: _Canadian Emancipation and Commercial Union_; Adam, _Handbook of Commercial Union_; Willison, _Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Liberal Party_; Pope, _Memoirs of Sir John A. Macdonald_. =Commissariat Department.= =S= Abuses in, 212. =Company of Canada (Merchant Adventurers of Canada).= Organized by David Kirke, and chartered by Charles I, to exploit the fur trade of the St. Lawrence. The restoration of Canada to France in 1632 brought the operations of Kirke, Sir William Alexander, and their associates to an untimely end. =Index=: =Ch= Letters patent granted to, 176. =Bib.=: Douglas, _Old France in the New World_; Kirke, _The First English Conquest of Canada_. =Company of De Caën.= Organized by William de Caën and his nephew Emery, merchants of Rouen. Monopoly granted the company on usual terms as to settlement, missionaries, etc., 1621. Absorbed Champlain's Company, 1622, and the united Companies carried on trade until 1633. =Index=: =Ch= Organized, 130-132; rivalry with Company of Rouen, 133-137; amalgamation of two companies, 136-137. =Bib.=: Biggar, _Early Trading Companies of New France_; Parkman, _Pioneers of France_.