=Essex.= =Bk= United States frigate, captures British transport, 225. =Estaing, Charles Hector Theodat, Count d'= (1729-1794). =Hd= His proclamation to French-Canadians, 123. =Bib.=: _Cyc. Am. Biog._ =Esten, James C. Palmer= (1806-1864). Born in Bermuda. Educated at the Charter House, London; called to the English bar. Came to Canada, 1836, and called to the bar of Upper Canada, 1838. Served as a volunteer during Rebellion of 1837. Practised his profession at Toronto. Appointed vice-chancellor, 1849. =Bib.=: Read, _Lives of the Judges_. =Etoline, Adolphus Karlovich.= Director of the Russian-American colonies, 1841-1845. =Index=: =D= Succeeds Kuprianoff as governor of Russian America, 1840, 45; splendour of his establishment, 45; visited by James Douglas, 45. =European and North American Railway.= =W= Wilmot's attitude towards, 127. =T= Peto, Brassy, and Betts propose to construct, 26; subsidies offered by province, 26; progress of, 44. =Eustache, Sir J. R.= Born 1795. Educated at St. Peter's College, Cambridge. Entered the army; served in Upper Canada in command of the 19th Light Dragoons; present at the battle of Lundy's Lane and at the storming of Fort Erie; knighted for distinguished services. Took part in the suppression of the Rebellion of 1837-1838 in Lower Canada; high-sheriff of Kildare, 1848; lieutenant-general, 1859. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Cel. Can._ =Eustis, William= (1753-1825). =Bk= United States secretary of war, his confident prediction of conquest of Canada, 215. =Bib.=: _Cyc. Am. Biog._ =Evans, Lieutenant.= =Dr= Case against, in connection with Walker affair, dismissed by grand jury, 38. =Evans, James= (1801-1846). Born in Kingston-upon-Hull, England. Emigrated to Canada; opened a school near L'Original, and about 1828 moved to Rice Lake, where he entered the Methodist ministry, and began his life-long Work among the Indians. In 1840 given charge of missionary work in the North-West, with headquarters at Norway House. Had already devoted much time to the study of the native languages, and while at Norway House invented the Cree syllabic characters, a simple, phonetic system, by means of which the Indian was taught to read with surprising facility. At first cast his own type, built his own press, and printed on birchbark. Later obtained more effective materials, and set up catechisms, hymn-books, and portions of the Bible in syllabic. =Bib.=: Young, _The Apostle of the North_; McLean, _James Evans, Inventor of the Syllabic System_; Carroll, _James Evans_ in the _Methodist Magazine_, October, 1882; Pilling, _Bibliography of the Algonquian Languages_. =Ewan, John Alexander= (1854-1910). Born in Aberdeen, Scotland. Educated in Scotland and in Canada. Assistant editor of the Toronto _Globe_ for many years; war correspondent for that paper during Boer War, 1899-1902. =Index=: =B= Witnesses shooting of George Brown by Bennett, 255-256; seizes Bennett, 256.