=Annexation to United States.= A fitful movement, never reaching serious proportions, and generally the result of temporary or local dissatisfaction with political conditions, or of commercial depression. Goldwin Smith was for many years its prophet. =Index=: =Md= Favoured by small wing of Reform party, 23; manifesto issued by business men of Montreal, its causes, 39, 40, 95; opposition to Confederation raises hopes of American party, 118; movement in Nova Scotia, 145; movement in British Columbia, 149; Goldwin Smith, the gloomy prophet of, 293; advocated by Edward Farrer, 312-313. =Mc= W. L. Mackenzie not in favour of, 10. =BL= Manifesto of 1849, 336; Sir John Abbott on, 336; advocated by many of the Radicals of Lower Canada, 343. =C= Advocated by Democratic party in Quebec, 26; said by Elgin to be popular among commercial classes in 1849, 44; countenanced by Sir John Abbott and L. H. Holton, 44-45; what it would mean for Quebec, 64. =B= Threatened by repeal of Corn Laws in 1846, 31, 32; the Montreal Manifesto, 36-37; sentiment for, charged against Clear Grits, 42; opposition charged with, in Confederation debate, 185; Brown holds that Reciprocity scheme designed to promote, 194; charge of, denied by Canada First party, 237. =E= Sentiment for, in 1847, 5; Elgin on, 58; Montreal Manifesto, 80-82; advocated by the _Parti Rouge_, 109; Elgin's efforts to counteract movement, 189-190; Durham on, 192-193; conditions favouring movement, 194-195; repeal of Reciprocity Treaty designed to promote, 202. =P= Threatened in Ninety-Two Resolutions, 92-93; advocated in 1848, and since Confederation, 96; advocated by Papineau, O'Callaghan, and their friends, 97. =Bib.=: Dent, _Last Forty Years_; Weir, _Sixty Years in Canada_; Kirby, _Counter Manifesto to the Annexationists of Montreal_; Denison, _The Struggle for Imperial Unity_. =Anse des Mères.= =WM= Frigates stationed at, 87; British vessels anchored at, 124. =Anstruther's Regiment.= =WM= In the attack on Quebec, 135; secures Sillery road, 183; detachment keeps Bougainville's corps in check, 189. =Antell.= =Dr= A disaffected Montrealer, 122. =Anticosti=. The first mention of the island is in Cartier's narrative of his first voyage, 1534. The following year he again visited the island, which he named Isle de l'Assomption. On the origin of the present Indian name, _see_ W. F. Ganong's note, Royal Society _Trans._, 1889, II, 51. Placed under jurisdiction of Newfoundland in 1763; transferred to Canada, 1774. =Bib.=: Huard, _Labrador et Anticosti_; Guay, _Lettres sur l'île Anticosti_; Schmitt, _Monographie de l'île d'Anticosti;_ Lewis, _Menier and his Island_. =Apprenticeship, System of.= =L= Adopted with new-comers, in New France, 78. =Archambault, Louis.= =C= Confirms statements as to Cartier's action in connection with alleged alterations in British North America Act, 103. =E= Member of Seigniorial Commission, 186.