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
=Aneda=. =Ch= An Indian chief, 29.
=Aneda=. An evergreen, used by Jacques Cartier and his men as a remedy
against scurvy. Parkman suggests that it was a spruce, or, more
probably, an arbor-vitæ. Douglas believes it to have been balsam.
Cartier spells the name _ameda_, and Lescarbot, _annedda_. =Index=: =Ch=
Remedy for scurvy, 29; the Iroquois word for spruce tree, 30.
=Ange Gardien=. A village on the St. Lawrence, north shore, below
Quebec. Index: =WM= Wolfe seriously ill at, 154.
[Illustration: Old Fort, near Annapolis Royal
From the John Ross Robertson collection]
=Angers, Auguste Rèal= (1838- ). Born in Quebec. Studied law, and
called to the bar; made Q.C. 1880, and the same year appointed a
puisne judge of the Superior Court of Quebec. Lieutenant-governor of
Quebec, 1887; resigned and called to the Senate, 1892. Minister of
agriculture, 1892-1895; president of the Council, 1896. =Bib.=: Morgan,
_Can. Men_; Chapais, _Angers_ (Men of the Day).
=Anglican Church.= _See_ Church of England.
=Anglin, Timothy Warren= (1822-1886). Born in Ireland. Came to St. John,
New Brunswick, 1849. Established _Weekly Freeman_ that year. Elected to
New Brunswick Legislature for St. John, 1860. Opposed Confederation.
Elected to the House of Commons, 1867, for Gloucester. Elected Speaker,
1874, and again in 1878. =Index=: =C= Demands disallowance of New
Brunswick Act abolishing separate schools, 73. =T= Elected for St. John
to New Brunswick Assembly on Anti-Confederate ticket, 85; member of
Smith government, 91; his influence, 93; differences with colleagues in
railway matter, 94; resigns his seat, 1865, 95; defeated for county of
St. John, 1866, 109. =Bib.=: Dent, _Can. Por._
=Angus, Richard Bladworth= (1831- ). Born at Bathgate, near Edinburgh.
Came to Canada, 1857, and joined the staff of the Bank of Montreal. Rose
steadily in the service of the bank, and in 1869 became general manager.
President of the Bank of Montreal, 1910; and director of the Canadian
Pacific Railway. =Index=: =Md= Director of Canadian Pacific Railway
syndicate, 236. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Can. Men_; _Canadian Who's Who_.
=Anian, Strait of.= Dr. Ruge says that the name arose through a
misunderstanding of Marco Polo's book (bk. 3, ch. 5). His Ania "is no
doubt the present Anam, but the Dutch cartographers thought that this
land was in north-east Asia, and called the strait that was said to
separate the continents the Strait of Anian." The name appears for the
first time on Gerh. Mercator's famous maritime chart of 1569. =Index=:
=D= History of search for, 2; De Fuca's voyage to, 9; Carver's River of
Oregon, 20. =Bib.=: Soph. Ruge, _Fretum Aniam_; Dawson, _Canada_.
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