=Grand Pré.= A village on the shores of the Basin of Minas. Stands upon or near the site of the old village of the same name, one of the principal settlements of the Acadians. The scene of many conflicts between the French and English; and of the final expulsion of the Acadians. _See_ Acadians. =Bib.=: Parkman, _Half Century of Conflict_ and _Montcalm and Wolfe_. =Grand Trunk Railway.= =C= Entrusts Cartier with its legal business, 22; Carrier's deep interest in its development, 48; line extended from Quebec to Rivière du Loup, 49, 114. =BL= Construction of, up to 1848, 301. =B= Owners of said by Dorion to be the real authors of Confederation, 176; Taché-Macdonald government condemned for subsidizing, 176. =E= Early history of, 99, 100, 101, 115-116; Hincks's connection with, 100, 115. =H= Hincks makes arrangements in England for construction of, 143; terms and conditions not altogether satisfactory, 143. =Md= Early history, 45; financial difficulties, 90. =Bib.=: Brown, _History of Grand Trunk Railway_; Lanning, _Historical Sketch of the Grand Trunk Railway_ in _Canada: An Ency._, vol. 2. =Grant, Alexander= (1734-1813). Administered the government of Upper Canada as senior member of the Executive Council, on death of General Hunter, 1805. =Index=: =Bk= Administers government of Upper Canada, 69. =S= Member of Legislative Council, 49, 79; member of the Executive Council, 80. =Bib.=: Read, _Lieutenant-Governors of Upper Canada_. =Grant, Cuthbert.= One of the leading traders of the North West Company in the West, in the early days. With Peter Pond on the Athabaska, and sent by him, 1786, to establish a post near mouth of Slave River; at Fort Chipewyan, 1789; at Fort Qu'Appelle, 1793; with David Thompson on the Assiniboine, 1797. Died, 1798 or 1799. =Index=: =MS= Partner of the North West Company, 58; in charge of the Centre (Red River and Assiniboine) country, 58. =Bib.=: _Henry-Thompson Journals_, ed. by Coues; Bryce, _Hudson's Bay Company_. =Grant, Cuthbert.= Son of foregoing. Scottish half-breed, in western fur trade. Educated at Montreal, and entered service of North West Company. Led the half-breeds in the Seven Oaks affair. Some years later settled near White Horse Plains, on the Assiniboine, and appointed Warden of the Plains by the Council of Assiniboia. Became himself a member of the Council. =Index=: =MS= Leader of the half-breeds at Red River--serves notice on the colonists to leave the district, 174; brings a party of _bois-brûlés_ down from Qu'Appelle to drive out the settlers, 180; and the Seven Oaks affair, 180-182. =Bib.=: Bryce, _Manitoba_ and _Hudson's Bay Company_; Laut, _Conquest of the Great North-West_.