=Beaver Club.= Founded in Montreal in 1775 by the partners of the North West Company. It opened with nineteen members, and at one time the registry showed ninety-three members, with eleven honorary members. Among them were such famous fur traders and explorers as Alexander Mackenzie and his cousin Roderick, the three Frobishers, Alexander Henry and his nephew of the same name, Simon McTavish, James Finlay, Simon Fraser, John Stuart, and David Thompson. The motto of the club was "Fortitude in Difficulties." No one was admitted who had not made a journey to the North-West and wintered there. The club entertained many distinguished guests, including Sir John Franklin, Lord Selkirk, Washington Irving, and the Earl of Dalhousie. The club was disbanded in 1824 after the union of the North West and Hudson's Bay Companies. An effort to revive it in 1827 proved unsuccessful. =Index=: =MS= Founded by the partners of the North West Company, 139; lavish hospitality and boisterous banquets, 139. =Bk= Famous social club at Montreal, 99. =Bib.=: Hetherington, _Canada's First Social Club_, in _Univ. Mag._, April, 1910. =Beaver Dam, Battle of.= In War of 1812. FitzGibbon commanded a detachment of the 49th Regiment, with several hundred Indians. Boerstler, with a party of 600 men, advanced from Fort George by way of Queenston to surprise him, but was ambushed by a body of Indians. FitzGibbon, who had been warned of the approach of Boerstler by Laura Secord, advanced with his men of the 49th and demanded the surrender of the Americans, who, believing themselves surrounded by a superior force, capitulated. The engagement took place June 24, 1813. _See also_ War of 1812. =Bib.=: Lucas, _Canadian War of 1812_; Hannay, _War of 1812_: FitzGibbon, _A Veteran of 1812_; Curzon, _Laura Secord, the Heroine of 1812_: Cruikshank, _The Fight in the Beechwoods_; Thompson, _Jubilee History of Thorold_. =Beckwith, John A.= =T= Confederate candidate in York, 108. =Becquet, Romain.= =L= Clerk of Ecclesiastical Court, arrested, 163. =Bédard, Elzéar.= For some years a member of the Assembly of Lower Canada. Moved the celebrated Ninety-Two Resolutions, 1837. Puisne judge of the Court of Queen's Bench, 1837; suspended, but afterwards reinstated. Died, 1849. =Index=: =P= Moves the Ninety-Two Resolutions, 117; deserts Papineau, 117; appointed judge by Gosford, 117. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Cel. Can._; Christie, _History of Lower Canada_.