=Barkley, Charles William= (1759-1832). Served in the East India Company; sailed on a trading voyage for sea-otter skins to the North-West Coast, 1787. Brought his bride with him, the first white woman on the North-West Coast. Discovered and named Juan de Fuca Strait the same year, and carried his cargo of furs to China. In 1792 made another voyage to the North-West Coast, again accompanied by his wife, who kept interesting journals of both voyages. Died at North Crescent, Hartford. Barkley Sound, Vancouver Island, discovered and named by him. =Index=: =D= His two voyages to North-West Coast, 23; his wife first woman to visit North-West Coast, 23. =Bib.=: Walbran, _British Columbia Coast Names_. =Barnsfare, Captain.= =Dr= Commands battery at Près de Ville, 127. =Baronets of Nova Scotia.= An order created by James I, in 1625, for the purpose of "advancing the plantation of Nova Scotia." The scheme, which King James had deeply at heart, was designed to assist Sir William Alexander in his ambitious plans of colonization in the New World, by offering a special inducement to men of position in Scotland to take tracts of land in Nova Scotia, and to bring out numbers of colonists to settle upon them. _See also_ Stirling. =Bib.=: Duncan, _Royal Province of New Scotland and her Baronets_; Bourinot, _Builders of Nova Scotia_; Patterson, _Sir William Alexander_ (R. S. C., 1892); Mackenzie, _Baronets of Nova Scotia_ (R. S. C., 1901); _Royal Letters, Charters, and Tracts Relating to the Colonisation of Nova Scotia and the Institution of the Order of Knights Baronet of Nova Scotia_; Kirke, _The First English Conquest of Canada_. =Barré, Isaac= (1726-1802). Born in Ireland. Served under Wolfe against Rochefort in 1757, and at Quebec in 1759, being at Wolfe's side when he fell. Entered Parliament, 1761, and a member until 1790. In 1763-1764 adjutant-general and governor of Stirling; in 1764-1768, vice-treasurer of Ireland and a privy councillor; in 1782, treasurer of the navy. =Index=: =Dr= On Quebec Act, 67. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._ =Barren Grounds.= The region of northern Canada, lying between the Mackenzie River and Hudson Bay, and from the northern timber-line to the Arctic. First visited by Samuel Hearne in 1770-1772. Late explorers who traversed portions of the country are Franklin, in 1821; Back, in 1833; Dease and Simpson, in 1839; Richardson in 1848; and Anderson in 1855. Within more recent years, Warburton Pike, J. B. Tyrrell, J. W. Tyrrell, D. T. Hanbury and Caspar Whitney have explored parts of the Barren Grounds. =Bib.=: Hearne, _Journey to the Northern Ocean_; Franklin, _Narrative_; Back, _Arctic Land Expedition_; Simpson, _North Coasts of America_; Richardson, _Arctic Searching Expedition_; Anderson, _Descent of Great Fish River_, in _Royal Geog. Soc. Journal_, 1856 and 1857; Pike, _Barren Grounds_; Tyrrell, _Across the Sub-Arctics_; Hanbury, _Northland of Canada_; Whitney, _On Snowshoes to the Barren Grounds_.