=Bigot, François.= Born at Bordeaux, Jan. 30, 1703; son of Louis-Amable Bigot. Through his influence at court, obtained several lucrative offices in New France, which he turned to his own personal advantage. Arrived at Louisbourg in 1739. After the capture of Louisbourg in 1745, returned to France, where serious charges of misappropriating public funds had been brought against him, but his influence at court was still powerful enough to extricate him from this scrape, and to secure him the office of intendant of New France, 1748. Sailed for Quebec and arrived the same year. There elaborated a system of peculation, by which every branch of the public service was laid under tribute to enrich himself and his creatures, helping thereby to bring about the final loss of the colony. Returned to France after the conquest of Canada; thrown into the Bastille, and released only to be banished from France. =Index=: =WM= Intendant, appearance and character, 32; made profit of famine, 53; gambling habits, 54; reprimanded by minister, 88; hostility to Bougainville, 88; makes his headquarters at Beauport, 88; letter to Bougainville, 165. =Hd= Disliked, 52. =Bib.=: Roy, _Intendants de la Nouvelle-France_ (R. S. C., 1903); Parkman, _Montcalm and Wolfe_. =Billings, Elkanah= (1820-1876). Born in township of Gloucester, Ontario. Studied law, called to the bar, 1845, and practised in Ottawa. Appointed paleontologist of the Geological Survey of Canada, 1856, and in the same year established the _Canadian Naturalist_. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Cel. Can._; _Cyc. Am. Biog._; Ami, _Brief Biographical Sketch of Elkanah Billings_. =Billings, Joseph.= Born in England, 1758. Accompanied Captain Cook on his last voyage on the _Discovery_; and afterwards entered the Russian navy. Commanded an expedition to the north-west boundaries of Asia in 1785, and in 1786-1794 explored the coasts of Siberia and Alaska. =Index=: =D= Visits Unalaska, Nodiak, and Prince William Sound, 1790, 26. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._ =Bindon.= =Dr= Montreal merchant, treasonable proceedings of, 84. =Bizard.= =F= Officer of Frontenac, arrested by Perrot, 91. =Blachford, Frederic Rogers, Baron= (1811-1889). Born in England. Educated at Eton and Oxford. In 1844 registrar of joint-stock companies and commissioner of lands and emigration; from 1860 to 1871 permanent undersecretary of state for the colonies; and in 1871 made a privy councillor. =Index=: =Md= On Macdonald's part in Westminster Conference, 126-127. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._