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
=Forget, Amédée Emmanuel= (1847- ). Born in Ste. Marie de Monnoir,
Quebec. Studied law and called to the bar of Quebec, 1871. Secretary to
the Manitoba Half-Breed Commission, 1875; clerk of the North-West
Council, 1876-1888; Indian commissioner, 1895-1898; lieutenant-governor
of the North-West Territories, 1898-1905; first lieutenant-governor of
Saskatchewan, 1905. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Can. Men_; _Canadian Who's Who_.
=Fornel, Abbé.= =L= His funeral sermon on Bishop Saint-Vallier quoted,
238.
=Forsythe, J.= =Sy= Member of Constitutional Association, 112.
=Forsyth, Richardson and Co.= Fur trading firm, of Montreal. =Index=:
=Bk= Send Prévost news of declaration of war, 203.
=Fort Albany.= Hudson's Bay Company post at mouth of Albany River, west
coast of James Bay. Established about 1683; captured by Iberville, 1686,
and held by the French for seven years. Finally restored to the Company.
=Index=: =F= Captured by Troyes, 206; captured alternately by French and
English, 343, 345. =Bib.=: Dawson, _The Saint Lawrence Basin_; Laut,
_Conquest of the Great North-West_ and _Pathfinders of the West_.
=Fort Albert.= _See_ Victoria.
=Fort Alexandria.= =D= Hudson's Bay Company post, built on Fraser River
in 1821, 98.
=Fort Anne.= =Hd= Captured by Major Carleton, 149.
=Fort Babine.= In Northern British Columbia. =Index=: =D= Hudson's Bay
Company post, on Babine Lake, built in 1822, 98-99.
=Fort Bourbon.= On Hudson Bay. =Index=: =L= Captured by Iberville, 233.
_See_ Fort Nelson.
=Fort Camosun.= =D= Hudson's Bay Company post, afterwards city of
Victoria, 178.
=Fort Chilcotin.= =D= Built by Hudson's Bay Company, outpost of Fort
Alexandria, 99.
=Fort Chipewyan.= Built by North West Company, 1788, on southern shore
of Lake Athabaska, near mouth of Athabaska River. Removed, 1820, by
Hudson's Bay Company to north shore, where it still stands. =Index=:
=MS= Built by Roderick Mackenzie, on Lake Athabaska, 24; its situation,
25; its famous library, 26; route to, from Grand Portage, 27; life at
the fort, 28; Mackenzie sets forth from, on his journey to Arctic, 32;
returns to, 50; McLeod builds new house, 50; Mackenzie winters there,
53; Turner winters there, and determines astronomical position, 57;
Governor Simpson at, 1828, 236; William McGillivray in charge of, 236.
=D= Mackenzie at, 53; his point of departure for Arctic journey, 53; and
Pacific expedition, 53. =Bib.=: Mackenzie, _History of Fur Trade_ in his
_Voyages_; Masson, _Bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest_; Burpee,
_Search for the Western Sea_; Bryce, _Hudson's Bay Company_; Willson,
_The Great Company_; Laut, _Conquest of the Great North-West_.
=Fort Chippawa.= =Bk= On Niagara River, a mile and a half above the
falls, 58; end of carrying-place, and a transport post, 58-59; had a
blockhouse enclosed with palisades, 59. =Bib.=: Lucas, _Canadian War of
1812_.
=Fort Churchill.= _See_ Prince of Wales Fort.
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