=Couillard, Guillaume.= =Ch= Early settler, 145. =Couillard, Henry.= =Ch= Captain of the _Don de Dieu_, 39. =Couillard, Jacques.= =Ch= An interpreter, 144. =Council.= _See_ Legislative Council; Executive Council; Sovereign Council. =Council of Assiniboia.= Appointed by the Hudson's Bay Company, for the government of the colonists in their territory. The first meeting was held Feb. 12, 1835, with Sir George Simpson as president. Bishop Taché, Alexander Christie, Alexander Ross, Cuthbert Ross, and ten others formed the Council. The Council, among other useful work, organized a volunteer corps for defensive and police purposes; divided the settlements into four districts with a magistrate for each; and made provision for a public building. =Index=: =MS= Established by Hudson's Bay Company, 223; its character, 223; Simpson head of, 244. =Bib.=: Begg, _History of the North-West_; Bryce, _Manitoba_; Hargrave, _Red River_; Ross, _Red River Settlement_. =County Courts.= =Sy= Act passed establishing, 339. =Courcelles, Daniel de Rémy, Sieur de.= Governor of Canada, 1665-1672. His tenure of office marked by an unsuccessful expedition against the Iroquois, and a long and acrimonious dispute with Laval and the Jesuits. The Marquis de Tracy was viceroy over all the French possessions in America during a portion of the governorship of De Courcelles; and Talon was twice intendant of New France during the same period. =Index=: =F= Governor of Canada, 50; arrives at Quebec, 51; moves against Iroquois, 52; character, 54; expedition to Cataraqui, 59; recalled, 60. =L= Appointed governor, 51; stands godfather to converted Iroquois chief, 65; arrival of, 79; his high character, 81; executes justice on certain murderers, 82, 83; leads expedition as far as Cataraqui, 83; plans erection of a fort at that point, 84; returns to France, 143. =Bib.=: Douglas, _Old France in the New World_; Parkman, _Old Régime_; Sulte, _Régiment de Carignan_ (R. S. C., 1902). =Coureurs de bois.= =WM= Described, 17, 18; furnished recruits to militia, 31; summoned to defend the hornwork, 206. =Hd= Stir up Indians against British, 55. =F= Created by policy of trading companies, 37; two classes of, 88; Frontenac instructed to repress, 89; twelve captured, 99; one hanged, 100; king's decision respecting, 125; difficulty in enforcing the law, 127; amnesty granted on certain conditions, 127; punishments prescribed for offenders, 128. =L= Mentioned, 158; decree against, 159. =D= Their character, 52. =Bib.=: _See_ General Index, R. S. C.; Bancroft, _History of the North-West Coast_; Parkman, _Old Régime_. =Courier.= Newspaper published at Brantford. Established, 1834. =Index=: =Mc= Newspaper, Mackenzie's obituary in, 515. =Courier, Upper Canada.= =Mc= Publishes doggerel abuse of Assembly, 165. =Courtemanche, De.= =F= Sent to Michilimackinac, 310. =WM= Goes to island of Orleans to prepare ambuscade, 90; slight success of, 92.