The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History
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The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History
Canada -- Biography; Canada -- History
the Upper Canada Assembly, 97-100; also in report of committee of
Legislative Council, 100-103; quoted against his own Report, 162. =B= On
causes of Rebellion in Lower Canada, 11, 53; his remedy for political
discontent, 12, 13; estimates numerical strength of Church of England in
Upper Canada, 52-53; his Report quoted, on land grants, 53-54; on
representation, 82-83; and Confederation, 129; his plan of legislative
union, 263. =BL= On political situation in Upper Canada, 17; and Lower
Canada, 17; in period of reconstruction, 50; sent to Canada, 53;
previous career, 53; his arbitrary methods in Canada, 54; attacked in
House of Lords, and his ordinance granting amnesty disallowed, 55; his
proclamation, 55; his recall, 55; his Report, 55-58; Imperial government
acts upon his advice, 59; his recommendations, 66; recommends
responsible government, 137, 273; John Stuart Mill on, 149; on the
duties of the governor, 161, 163; his Report quoted by Baldwin, 222; and
Elgin, 274; eulogized by Draper, 277. =E= His characteristics as a
statesman, 2; his daughter marries Lord Elgin, 14; sound principles laid
down in his Report indicated by Lord Elgin, 15; compared with Elgin, 15;
sums up nature of conflict in Lower Canada, 18; advocates ultimate
domination of English element, 23, 55; his views on representative
government, 25-26; on land grants to United Empire Loyalists, 144-145;
on Clergy Reserves, 148, 154-155; on American misconstruction of
conditions in Canada, 190-191; on economic conditions in Canada in
1838-1839, 191; suggests remedies, 192-193, 194, 195. =Bib.=: _Report on
the Affairs of British North America_; Haliburton, _Reply to the Report
of the Earl of Durham_; Bradshaw, _Self-Government in Canada_; Egerton
and Grant, _Canadian Constitutional Development_; Garnett, _The
Authorship of Lord Durham's Report_; Christie, _History of Lower Canada;
Dict. Nat. Biog.; Dict. Eng. Hist._; Morgan, _Cel. Can._; Dent, _Can.
Por._; Reid, _Life and Letters of Lord Durham_.
=Dutch Colonists.= =Ch= Their relations with the Iroquois, 52. =Dr=
Admixture of, among United Empire Loyalists, 240. =Bk= Emigration of,
from Pennsylvania to Upper Canada, 49.
=Duval, Jean.= =F= Executed for conspiracy against Champlain, 8. =Ch=
Locksmith, accompanies Champlain to Quebec, 41; leads conspiracy to
assassinate him, 42; executed, 43. =Bib.=: Parkman, _Pioneers of
France_.
=Duval, Jean François Joseph= (1801-1881). Born in Quebec. Studied law
and called to the bar of Lower Canada, 1823. Represented Quebec in the
Assembly, 1830-1834. Appointed to the bench, 1839; judge of the Superior
Court, 1852; judge of the Queen's Bench, 1855; chief justice of the
Queen's Bench, 1864; retired, 1874. Died in Quebec. =Index=: =E= Member
of Seigniorial Court, 187. =Bib.=: Dent, _Last Forty Years_.
=Du Verger, Father.= =Ch= Promotes Récollet mission to Canada, 83.
=Du Vernet.= =Ch= Interpreter, 144.
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