=Double Majority.= =Md= Meaning of the term--attitude of public men towards, 78-79; leading plank in platform of the Macdonald-Sicotte government, 89. =B= Origin and meaning of the principle, 82; advocated by John Sandfield Macdonald, 142; opposed by George Brown, 143; Duke of Newcastle on, 143; and separate school question, 145. =BL= Beginnings of the system, 258; Hincks's views on, 259; Baldwin opposed to, 352; Turcotte and Hincks on, 352. =Bib.=: Dent, _Last Forty Years_; Pope, _Memoirs of Sir John A. Macdonald_; Mackenzie, _George Brown_. =Double Ministries.= Brown-Dorion; Hincks-Morin; La Fontaine-Baldwin; Macdonald-Cartier; Macdonald-Dorion; Macdonald-Sicotte; MacNab-Morin; MacNab-Taché; Sherwood-Daly; Taché-Macdonald. _See under_ names of individual ministers. "=Double Shuffle=," 1858. =B= History of, 107-108. =Md= An ingenious device resorted to by Macdonald, Cartier, and their colleagues, to avoid the necessity of re-election, 85-87. =Bib.=: Pope, _Memoirs of Sir John A. Macdonald_; Dent, _Last Forty Years_; Mackenzie, _George Brown_; Biggar, _Sir Oliver Mowat_. =Doucett, Joseph.= Lieutenant-governor of the Fort of Annapolis, 1717-1726. Member of the governor's Council. =Dougall, John= (1808-1886). Born in Paisley, Scotland. Came to Canada, 1826, and took up mercantile pursuits. For a time editor of the _Canada Temperance Advocate_; founded the _Montreal Witness_, 1826. Died in Flushing, New York. =Douglas, David= (1798-1834). Made extensive botanical collections on the Pacific coast of North America, for the Horticultural Society of London, 1824-1826. Crossed the continent from Fort Vancouver, on the Columbia, to Hudson Bay; met Sir John Franklin there and returned with him to England. Came out again to the Columbia River on a similar mission, 1829, and went from there to the Hawaiian Islands, where he was killed. The gigantic Douglas fir named after him. =Douglas, Sir Howard= (1776-1861). Entered the army, 1794; commanded a regiment at Quebec, 1797; served at Corunna and Flushing, 1809. After discharging various military missions, appointed governor of New Brunswick, 1823, holding the position until 1828. Lord high commissioner of the Ionian Islands, 1835-1840. =Index=: =W= His efforts on behalf of King's College, New Brunswick, 50-51. =T= His appearance described, 6. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._