=Fleet, British, before Quebec.= =WM= Placed under general command of Admiral Charles Saunders, 75; ascends the river, 78; anchors at Île-aux-Coudres, 83; anchors in Baie St. Paul, 90; at the entrance to the harbour, 111; a few of its vessels pass the town, 123; several vessels attempt the passage by Quebec, 152; sails for England, 238; reappears in the harbour, 267. =Bib.=: Wood, _Logs of Naval Conquest of Canada_ and _The Fight for Canada_; Doughty, _Siege of Quebec_; Bradley, _The Fight with France_. =Fleet, French, at Quebec.= =WM= Protection afforded by to Bourlamaque's army, 167. =Fleming, Sir Sandford= (1827- ). Born at Kirkaldy, Scotland. Came to Canada, 1845. Chief engineer of the Intercolonial Railway; and of the Canadian Pacific Railway; chancellor of Queen's University since 1880; president of the Royal Society of Canada, 1888-1889. To his initiation and persistent enthusiasm are due the establishment of a system of universal or cosmic time; the laying of the Pacific cable, as part of an inter-imperial telegraph service; and the building of the memorial tower at Halifax to commemorate the opening of the first colonial Legislature. =Bib.=: Works: _The Intercolonial; England and Canada_; and numerous historical and scientific papers. _See_ Bibliog. of Royal Society (R. S. C., 1894). For biog., _see_ Morgan, _Can. Men_; Dent, _Can. Por._; _Who's Who_; Grant, _Ocean to Ocean_. =Flibot.= =Ch= Kirke's vessel before Quebec, 188, 196. =Florida.= =Hd= Under British rule, 64-81; Haldimand comes north from, 83, 87; Haldimand's interest in, 90; suggests closing of ports of, 104; his career there, 121; proposed disposition of, 124; Haldimand's property in, 316. =Florida, West.= =Bk= Occupation of, by United States, 139. =Flour-milling.= =B= Stimulated by British preference of, 1843, 32; advantage swept away by free trade measure of 1846, 32; in 1834, 54. =Foley, M. H.= =B= In Taché ministry, 1864, 149; retires with Buchanan and Simpson to make room for Brown, Mowat, and Macdougall, in Coalition ministry, 159. =Bib.=: Pope, _Memoirs of Sir John A. Macdonald_; Dent, _Last Forty Years_. =Foligné, Captain de.= =WM= On rapid construction of Beauport defences, 86; his report of fighting at Lévis, 103; on pitiable condition of Quebec, 160; quoted as to rout of French army, 206; on distress following capture of Quebec, 236. =Fontbonne, Colonel.= =WM= His disposition of the Guienne Regiment, 192; mortally wounded, 199. =Fonte, Bartholomew de.= His fictitious voyage of 1640 to the North-West Coast was described in a letter published in the _Monthly Miscellany_, London, 1708. =Index=: =D= His reputed strait, 19; his voyage again credited, 23. =Bib.=: Bancroft, _History of the North-West Coast_. =Fontenay, Mareuil.= =Ch= French ambassador in London, instructions to, 214.