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
=Examiner.= Newspaper published at New York. =Index=: =Mc= Published by
William Lyon Mackenzie, 470.
=Examiner.= Newspaper published at Toronto. =Index=: =Sy= Advocates
responsible government, 107; supports union of provinces as leading
thereto, 212; on Clergy Reserves question, 247. =E= Chief organ of the
Clear Grits,--owned by James Lesslie, 110. =BL= Established by Hincks,
July 3, 1838, 58; in the interests of responsible government, 58;
excites interest in Oxford County, 69; Hincks explains his political
position in, 104; on Hincks, 179-180; Macdougall contributes to, 341.
=Mc= Of Toronto, newspaper, published by Sir Francis Hincks, 483; on the
riots, 483; its estimate of Mackenzie, 484, 485.
=Executive Council.= =Mc= In Upper Canada; created under Constitutional
Act, 53; irritating relations with Assembly, 55, 58; Durham on, 61; real
advisers of the governor, 63; responsibility of, demanded by Upper
Canada Reformers, 64, 69; Durham's view of effect of irresponsibility
of, 65, 66; Sir John Colborne's view of, 279; Lord Glenelg's view of,
286. =Dr= In Lower Canada, how composed, 269. =Sy= Its powers and
influence, 74-76, 78; practically controlled the governor, 175;
necessity for change in, 177; its defects described by Sydenham, 220,
221; changes made in, 334, 335; salaries of, 334. =W= In New Brunswick,
its irresponsibility, 5, 6.
=Executive Office.= =Sy= Tenure of, in Canada, 175; Lord John Russell's
despatch on, 180-182; press comments on new regulations respecting, 183,
184.
=Exhibitions.= The first industrial exhibition held in Canada, and
probably the first in the world, was that of 1737, promoted by the
Intendant Hocquart. It included fruits and grains, woods and furs, and
the products of the mines and the fisheries. The exhibition was
afterwards sent to France. A provincial exhibition was held in Toronto
in 1846; Ottawa had an exhibition in 1878; Montreal in 1880; Halifax in
1881; and St. John in 1883. Since then many other cities and towns have
used this means of illustrating the industrial resources of the locality
and the country. =Bib.=: Johnson, _First Things in Canada_.
=Expulsion of Acadians.= _See_ Acadians, Expulsion of the.
=Extradition with United States.= =Sy= Sydenham takes part in
negotiations for, 336.
=Eyre, Eustache R.= =S= Fort major, 47.
=Faillon, Abbé Michel Étienne= (1799-1870). Historian. =Index=: =F=
Quoted, 4, 9; his description of conduct of Perrot, governor of
Montreal, 96, 97. =Ch= Error in history of, 207. =Bib.=: Works: _Vie de
Mme. d'Youville_; _Vie de Mlle. Mance_; _Vie de Mlle. Le Ber_; _Histoire
de la Colonie Française en Canada_. For biog., _see_ Desmazures, _L'Abbé
Faillon: Sa Vie et ses [OE]uvres_.
=Fairchild, Mrs.= =Hd= Haldimand's housekeeper, 314, 328, 329.
=Fairfield, John= (1797-1847). Sat in Congress, 1835-1839; governor of
Maine, 1839-1840, and 1842. Member of the United States Senate,
1843-1847. =Index=: =W= His connection with the Aroostook War, 135.
=Bib.=: _Cyc. Am. Biog._
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