=Blackfoot Indians.= A Western confederacy, of Siksika stock. First described in the journal of Anthony Hendry, 1754-1755, and again by Matthew Cocking, 1772-1773. They were then known to the Crees as the Archithinue. Cocking also gives the following for the five tribes in the confederacy: Powestic-Athinuewuck or Water-fall Indians; Mithco-Athinuwuck or Bloody Indians; Koskitow-Wathesitock or Black-footed Indians; Pegonow or Muddy-water Indians; and Sassewuck or Woody-country Indians. Their habitat was then, and until comparatively recent times, in the foot-hills of the Rocky Mountains, on the upper waters of the Saskatchewan. They are now for the most part on reservations in Alberta. =Bib.=: Petitot, _Traditions Indiennes du Canada Nord-Ouest_; Grinnell, _Blackfoot Lodge Tales_; _Hendry Journal_ (R. S. C., 1908); _Cocking Journal_ (R. S. C., 1909); Franklin, _Polar Sea_; Catlin, _North American Indians_. =Blair, Andrew George= (1844-1907). Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Educated there, and called to the bar, 1866. In 1878 member of the New Brunswick Assembly for York; in 1879 leader of the opposition; and in 1883 premier of the province. In 1896 resigned and became minister of railways and canals in the Dominion government, under Laurier, retiring in 1903. In February, 1904, chairman of the Railway Commission of Canada, resigning in October of the same year. =Index=: =T= Premier of New Brunswick during Tilley's governorship, 138. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Can. Men_; Rose, _Cyc. Can. Biog._; _Who's Who_, 1906. =Blair, Adam Johnston Fergusson= (1815-1867). Member of the Legislative Assembly of Canada, 1848-1857; appointed to the Legislative Council, 1860; receiver-general, 1863; member of Executive Council and provincial secretary, 1863-1864; president of the Executive Council, 1866. Appointed president of the Privy Council and a member of the first Dominion Cabinet, 1867. =Index=: =Md= President of Privy Council in first Dominion Cabinet, 134; agrees to support coalition, 137; his death, 138. =B= Called upon to form ministry, but fails, 149. =T= Member first Confederation ministry, 129. =Bib.=: Dent, _Last Forty Years_.