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
=Argenson, Pierre de Voyer, Vicomte d'= (1626-1710). Succeeded Jean de
Lauson as governor of New France, 1658. His governorship marked by
personal quarrels with Laval, and a series of humiliating raids
throughout the colony by the Iroquois. Recalled in 1661. =Index=: =F=
Arrives as governor, 43; on Laval, 45. =L= His opinion of Laval, 29;
hostility to Maisonneuve, 176. =Bib.=: Parkman, _Old Régime_; Douglas,
_Old France in the New World_.
=Argyll, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, ninth Duke of= (1845- ).
Married H. R. H. Princess Louise, 1871; succeeded to dukedom, 1900.
Represented Argyllshire in Parliament, 1868-1878. Governor-general of
Canada (as Marquis of Lorne), 1878-1883. Founded Royal Society of
Canada, 1881. =Index=: =Md= Refers Letellier difficulty to Imperial
government, 249-250. =Bib.=: Works: _Memories of Canada and Scotland_;
_Imperial Federation_; _Canadian Pictures_; _Passages from the Past_.
For biog., _see_ Dent, _Can. Por._; _Who's Who_; Collins, _Canada under
the Administration of Lord Lorne_.
=Arkansas River.= =L= Reached by Jolliet and Marquette, 146.
=Armistice.= In War of 1812. =Index=: =Bk= Effects of, 261-263, 269,
272; termination of, 270; position of enemy strengthened during its
continuance, 272.
=Armour, John Douglas= (1830-1903). Educated at Upper Canada College and
the University of Toronto; studied law and called to the bar, 1853; made
Q.C., 1867; Bencher of the Law Society, 1871. Appointed a puisne judge
of the Court of Queen's Bench of Ontario, 1877; raised to the
chief-justiceship, 1887. Chief-justice of Ontario and president of the
Court of Appeal, 1890. Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada, 1902; in
the same year represented Canada on the Alaska Boundary Commission.
=Bib.=: Morgan, _Can. Men_; Dent, _Can. Por._
=Armstrong, Lawrence.= Came to Nova Scotia as lieutenant-colonel of
General Philipps's regiment. Appointed to the governor's Council, 1720.
Appointed lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia, 1724; held office until
1739. Served in America for more than thirty years. Committed suicide,
1739. =Bib.=: Campbell, _History of Nova Scotia_; _Selections from the
Public Documents of Nova Scotia_, ed. by Akins.
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