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
=Jameson, Anna Brownell= (1794-1860). Author. Married Robert Jameson,
afterwards vice-chancellor of the Court of Equity of Upper Canada.
=Index=: =E= On Upper Canadian schoolmasters, 87; compares conditions on
both sides of boundary, to the detriment of Canada, 191-192. =Bib.=:
Works: _Diary of an Ennuyée_; _Characteristics of Women_; _Visits and
Sketches_; _Essays_; _Sacred and Legendary Art_; _Legends of the
Madonna_; _History of Our Lord_; _Early Italian Painters_; _Sketches in
Canada_; _Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada_. For biog., _see_
Dent, _Can. Por._; _Dict. Nat. Biog._; Read, _Lives of the Judges_.
=Jameson, Robert Simpson.= A member of the English bar. Reporter in Lord
Eldon's Court, 1824. Married Anna Brownell Murphy, 1826. Judge in the
Island of Dominica, 1829; retired, 1833, and returned to England.
Appointed attorney-general of Upper Canada by the Imperial government,
1833, and took up his residence at York. Called to the bar of Upper
Canada, 1833. Member of the Assembly, 1835-1837. Appointed
vice-chancellor of the Court of Equity. Died in Toronto, 1854. =Bib.=:
Read, _Lives of the Judges_.
=Jamet, Father Denis.= =Ch= Récollet missionary and commissary of the
order in Canada, 85; returns to France, where he remains, 111, 112.
=Jarvis, F. S.= =Sy= Gentleman usher of black rod, 334.
=Jarvis, William.= =S= Recommended by Simcoe as clerk of Council, 46;
provincial secretary, 79, 178.
=Jarvis, W. B.= =Mc= Loyalists retreat under, 373.
=Jay, John= (1745-1829). American statesman and jurist. =Index=: =Dr=
Negotiates treaty with Great Britain, 283, 286. =Bib.=: _Cyc. Am. Biog._
=Jay's Treaty.= Between Great Britain and the United States; negotiated
Nov. 19, 1794. Provided for the evacuation by Great Britain of the
western posts; the settlement by commission of pecuniary claims between
the two countries; the appointment of a joint commission to determine
the identity of the St. Croix River; and closer commercial relations.
Negotiated by John Jay on behalf of the United States, and Lord
Grenville representing Great Britain. =Index=: =S= Between Britain and
the United States, 142. =Dr= Copies of, circulated in Canada, 290;
ratified, 291. =Bib.=: Hertslet, _Treaties and Conventions_.
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