=Alberta.= Created a province of the Dominion on Sept. 1, 1905. Includes the former district of Alberta, with the west half of Athabaska, and a strip of Assiniboia and Saskatchewan. Area, 253,540 square miles. The former district or territory of Alberta was named in honour of the Princess Louise. Seat of government, Edmonton. _See also_ North-West Territories. =Alberta, University of.= Created by Act of the Legislature of Alberta passed at the first session after provincial autonomy had been granted. First president appointed, 1908. Seat of university at Strathcona, across the Saskatchewan River from Edmonton, the capital of the province. =Albion.= Newspaper published at New York. =Index=: =B= Peter Brown contributes to, 2; a weekly newspaper, published at New York for British residents of United States, 2. =BL= On Draper's pronouncement as to responsible government, 94; on Bagot's reception at Montreal, 118; on Hincks's appointment as inspector-general, 120; on the seat of government, 182; on the Metcalfe crisis, 199. =Alexander VII, Pope= (1599-1667). Born Fabio Chigi. Elected pope, 1655. =Index=: =L= Appoints Laval his vicar apostolic, 7. =Alexander of Rhodes, Father. L= Recommends Laval for mission work in India, 23. =Alexander, Sir William.= _See_ Stirling, Earl of. =Algonquian Indians.= The name is now applied to what is probably the most widely-distributed linguistic stock of North America. In the days of French Canada, it was given to a comparatively small and unimportant tribe, whose home was on the banks of the Ottawa. =Index=: =L= Two camps of, destroyed, 9; missions destroyed by drunkenness, 175. =Bib.=: Parkman, _Conspiracy of Pontiac_; Brinton, _The Lenape and Their Legends_; Pilling, _Bibliography of the Algonquian Languages_. =Aliens.= =Dr= Dorchester has Act passed in 1794 by Assembly, 288; designed to guard against danger of anti-British sentiment, 288. =Mc= Act passed in Upper Canada, 1804, 88; designed to guard against sedition, 88-89; terms of British Act of 1790, 140-141; hardships of, 141; Act of 1826, 141-143. =Alix, Marguerite. Ch= Mother of Helen Bouillé, 66. =Alix, Simon. Ch= Director of Company of New France, 170. =Allan, George William= (1822-1901). Born in York, Upper Canada. Educated at Upper Canada College; studied law and called to the bar, 1846. Served in the volunteers during the Rebellion of 1837. Mayor of Toronto, 1855; elected member of the Legislative Council, 1858; appointed to the Senate, 1867; Speaker of the Senate, 1888-1891. From 1877 until his death, chancellor of Trinity University. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Can. Men._