=Crooks, Adam= (1827-1885). Son of James Crooks; born at West Flamboro, Ontario. Educated at Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto. Called to the bar of Upper Canada, 1851. Contested West Toronto for the Assembly, 1867, but defeated; elected, 1871; defeated in East Toronto, 1875, but shortly afterwards elected for South Oxford. Attorney-general, 1871-1872; provincial treasurer, 1872-1877, to which was added in 1876 the portfolio of education; minister of education, 1877-1883. Retired on account of ill-health. Died in Hartford, Conn. =Bib.=: Dent, _Can. Por._; Rose, _Cyc. Can. Biog._ =Crooks, James= (1778-1860). Born in Scotland. Came to Canada, 1794, and settled at Niagara. Engaged in mercantile life. Commanded a company of militia during the War of 1812-1814. Shortly after the close of the war removed to West Flamboro. Helped in the suppression of the Rebellion of 1837. For twenty-five years a member of the Legislative Councils of Upper Canada and Canada. Died in West Flamboro. =Bib.=: Dent, _Can. Por._ and _Last Forty Years_. =Crosby, Thomas=. =D= Methodist missionary--arrives, 1862, 270; opens school at Nanaimo, 1863, 270; removes to Port Simpson, 1876, 270. =Crown Point.= West side of Lake Champlain. Fort Frédéric was built here in 1731; rebuilt, 1734; and strengthened, 1742. It was blown up by Bourlamaque, 1759, to prevent its falling into the hands of the British; and the same year Amherst built a fort about two hundred yards west of the site of Fort Frédéric. This fort was captured, 1775, by Ethan Allen's men; recaptured by Carleton the following year. Under the terms of the treaty of Paris, 1783, Crown Point became American territory. _See_ Arnold; Allen; Abercrombie; Montgomery. =Index=: =Dr= Seized by Americans, 82; Arnold in his retreat burns houses at, 156. =Hd= Haldimand commands battalion of Abercrombie's expedition by way of, 17; fort built by Amherst at, 28; Haldimand asks that pay be allowed for, 90; vessels cruise up the lake to, 125; settlements near, to be destroyed, 137; St. Leger sent to occupy, 211. =Bib.=: Crockett, _History of Lake Champlain_; Smith, _Our Struggle for the Fourteenth Colony_; Parkman, _Montcalm and Wolfe_. =Crow's Nest Pass.= Discovered in the latter sixties by a trapper, Michael Phillips, formerly in the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company. The pass took its name from Crow's Nest Mountain, which is named Loge des Corbeaux on one of the maps accompanying Palliser's Report, 1859. The original Cree name, of which these are translations, is Kah-ka-ioo-wut-tshis-tun. =Bib.=: Dawson, _Crow's Nest Pass_ (Geol. Survey, 1885); McTavish, _The Climb of Crow's Nest Mountain_ in _Canadian Alpine Journal_, 1907. =Cudlip, John W.= =T= Anti-Confederate candidate in St. John County, 85; defeated in St. John County, 109. =Cumberland, Richard= (1732-1811). English dramatist. =Index=: =Hd= Asked to select books for the Quebec library, 191. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._