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
=Holland.= =Hd= Revolution in places William of Orange at head of
affairs, 7. =Bk= British expedition to, under Duke of York, 13-22.
=Holland House.= =Dr= Occupied by Montgomery, 123.
=Holmes, B. E.= One of leaders of the Liberal party in Lower Canada, 50.
=Index=: =BL= At farewell banquet to La Fontaine, 1851, 354.
=Holmes, Charles= (1711-1761). Third in command under Sir Charles
Saunders (_q.v._) before Quebec, 1759; commander-in-chief in West
Indies, 1760-1761. =Index=: =WM= In command of second British fleet, 75;
commands ships above Quebec, 152; movements of his fleet up and down the
river, 160, 163, 171. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._; Woods, _Logs of the
Conquest of Canada_ and _The Fight for Canada_; Parkman, _Montcalm and
Wolfe_.
=Holton, Luther Hamilton= (1817-1880). Entered public life, 1854, as one
of the members for Montreal; elected to Legislative Council, 1862;
resigned, 1863, and returned to the Assembly as member for Chateauguay,
which he represented to the time of his death; accepted portfolio of
commissioner of public works in the short-lived Brown-Dorion government,
1858; minister of finance in the Macdonald-Dorion administration,
1863-1864. =Index=: =E= Signs Annexation Manifesto, 81; associated with
_Parti Rouge_, 108; adopts less radical views, 134. =B= Enters George
Brown's ministry, 102; Brown's letter to, on Confederation, 131; on
English views of Canadian politics, 143; opposed to coalition, 160;
opposes Confederation scheme, 185; George Brown takes up question of
reciprocity with, 192; Brown urges that he be sent to Washington on
reciprocity mission, 192; opposed to Brown entering coalition ministry,
199, 200-203; George Brown writes of his determination to leave public
life, 245-246. =C= Countenances annexation movement in 1849, 44-45.
=Bib.=: Dent, _Can. Por._ and _Last Forty Years_; Mackenzie, _Hon.
George Brown_; Pope, _Memoirs of Sir John A. Macdonald_; Willison, _Sir
Wilfrid Laurier and the Liberal Party_; _Confederation Debates_.
=Holy Family.= =L= Devotion to, encouraged by Laval, 86; commended by
Leo XIII, 86.
=Holy Scapulary.= =L= Chapel dedicated to, in church at Quebec, 84.
=Home Rule in Ireland.= =Md= Resolutions on, in Canadian Parliament,
1882, 277.
=Hope, Henry.= Lieutenant-governor of Quebec, 1785-1789. =Index=: =Dr=
Lieutenant-governor and administrator, receives Carleton on his arrival
at Quebec, 222; death of, 249. =Bib.=: Shortt and Doughty,
_Constitutional Documents of Canada_.
=Hopkins, Caleb.= =B= A leader of the Clear Grits, 39. =E= One of the
leaders of the Clear Grits, 110.
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