The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History
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The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History
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133; his connection with reciprocity negotiations in 1865, 193-196; his
connection with negotiations with George Brown as to Confederation, 152,
154-155, 160; goes to England on Confederation mission, 186. =C= Goes to
England with Cartier and Rose in connection with Confederation, 56-57;
refuses decoration of C. B., 126-127. =Bib.=: Works: _Canada from 1849
to 1859_; _Union of the British North American Provinces_. For biog.,
_see_ Taylor, _Brit. Am._: Dent, _Can. Por._ and _Last Forty Years_;
Pope, _Memoirs of Sir John A. Macdonald_; Egerton and Grant, _Canadian
Constitutional Development_.
=Galt, John= (1779-1839). Came to Canada, 1824; returned to England;
came out again in 1826, remaining until 1829. Associated, in the Canada
Company, with William Dunlop, Thomas Talbot, and Samuel Strickland.
Founded towns of Guelph and Goderich. Town of Galt named after him.
_See_ Canada Company; Dunlop; Talbot; Strickland. =Bib.=: Works:
_Ayrshire Legatees_; _Annals of the Parish_; _Sir Andrew Wylie_; _The
Entail_; _Bogle Corbet_; _Stanley Buxton_; _Eken Erskine_; _The Lost
Child_; _The Member_; _The Radical_; _Laurie Todd_; _Life of Byron_;
_Lives of the Players_; _Autobiography_; _Literary Life and
Miscellanies_. For biog., _see_ Morgan, _Cel. Can._; _Dict. Nat. Biog._;
Lizars, _Days of the Canada Company_.
=Galt.= A town in Ontario founded by the Canada Company, about 1827.
Named after John Galt. Situated on the Grand River. =Bib.=: Lizars,
_Days of the Canada Company_.
=Gamache, René de Rohault, Marquis de.= =Ch= Endows Jesuit College at
Quebec, 228.
=Gannentaha.= =L= Mission at, miraculously escapes massacre, 65. =Bib.=:
Parkman, _Jesuits in North America_.
=Garakontié.= =L= Iroquois chief, conversion of, 65; edifying death of,
73.
=Garfield, James Abram= (1831-1881). Twentieth president of the United
States. =Index=: =B= Favourable to proposed Reciprocity Treaty of 1864,
230-231. =Bib.=: Hinsdale, _Works of Garfield_; Gilmore, _Life of
Garfield_; _Cyc. Am. Biog._
=Garneau, François-Xavier= (1809-1866). Studied law and practised as a
notary; afterwards clerk of the Legislative Assembly and city clerk of
Quebec; member of the Council of Public Instruction; president of the
_Institut Canadien_. =Index=: =P= Condemns Papineau's conduct in
rejecting Lord Goderich's offer, 77. =E= Attacks Hincks for suggesting
amendment to Union Act, 123; Hincks's denial, 123. =Hd= On the evils of
English law, 59; on Murray, 60; on Haldimand, 291, 292. =Bib.=:
_Histoire du Canada_, trans. by Andrew Bell. For biog., _see_ Casgrain,
_F.-X. Garneau_; Morgan, _Cel. Can._ and _Bib. Can._
=Garnier, Charles.= Accompanied Jogues and Chatelain to the Huron
mission, 1636; and, with the former, to the Tobacco Nation, near
Nottawassaga Bay, 1639-1640. Returned to the Huron mission, where, in
1649, died a martyr to his faith, slain by an Iroquois hatchet. =Index=:
=L= Death of, 5. =Bib.=: Parkman, _Jesuits in North America_; Lalemant,
_Relation des Hurons_, 1640.
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