Sir John Packington, 143; arranges for construction of Grand Trunk Railway, 143; represents British North America at railway celebration, Boston, 1851, 250. =R= Forms opposition party with Baldwin, La Fontaine, and others, 122; his University Bill, 159-161; his opinion of the Roman Catholic School Bill, 222; and separate schools, 224. =C= Urges Cartier to enter Cabinet, 22. =Mc= On Welland canal, 265; befriends Mackenzie, 481; publishes _Examiner_, 483; his _Reminiscences,_ 483; his estimate of Mackenzie, 484; becomes prime minister, 487. =Md= Forms ministry with Morin, 1851, 47; finance minister--succeeds Rose, 136; his political attitude, 136; defeated in election, 1872, 197; serves on Ontario Boundary Commission, 255. =T= Goes to England on Intercolonial mission, 26, 54; becomes minister of finance, 1869, 130; resigns, 133. =Bib.=: Works: _Canada and its Financial Resources_; _Political History of Canada_; _Reminiscences of his Public Life_. For biog., _see_ Davin, _The Irishman in Canada_; Dent, _Can. Por._ and _Last Forty Years_; Taylor, _Brit. Am._; Rose, _Cyc. Can. Biog._; _Dict. Nat. Biog._; Pope, _Memoirs of Sir John A. Macdonald_. =Hind, Henry Youle.= Born in Nottingham, England, 1823. Travelled in Mexico, 1846. Came to Canada, 1847, and appointed lecturer in chemistry and natural philosophy at the Toronto Normal School, Toronto. Five years later became professor of chemistry and geology in Trinity College. Geologist to the Red River exploring expedition, 1857; and had charge of the expedition of 1858 to explore the country between Red River and the Saskatchewan. In 1860 carried out an exploration of a portion of Labrador peninsula. In 1854 resigned his chair at Trinity, and undertook a preliminary geological survey of New Brunswick; and in subsequent years carried out similar work for the government of Nova Scotia. In 1876 engaged by the Newfoundland government to report on northern cod banks, but abandoned this work to assist the Canadian government in preparing their case for the Halifax Fisheries Commission. =Index=: =R= On staff of Toronto Normal School, 174. =Bib.=: Works: _Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857, and the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Expedition of 1858_; _Sketch of the Overland Route to British Columbia_; _Explorations in the Interior of the Labrador Peninsula_; _Eighty Years' Progress of British North America_ (by Hind and others). For biog., _see_ Morgan, _Cel. Can._ and _Can. Men_; Rose, _Cyc. Can. Biog._