=Blanshard, Richard=. Appointed governor of Vancouver Island by Earl Grey; left England, 1849, and reached Victoria in March of the following year by way of Panama. Resigned office in 1850, and in 1851 returned to England. =Index=: =D= First governor of Vancouver Island, 1849, 203; relations with the Hudson's Bay Company, 203-204; nominates provincial government and leaves for England, 204. =Bib.=: Begg, _History of British Columbia_. =Bleury.= =P= Joins Papineau party, 78. =Bliss, Daniel= (1740-1806). Born in Concord, Mass. Educated at Harvard University, Cambridge, graduating in 1774. In 1778 proscribed as a Loyalist, and served with the British army as commissary. At the end of the war, moved to New Brunswick; appointed a member of the provincial Council, and later chief-justice of the Court of Common Pleas. =Index=: =W= Becomes member of New Brunswick Council, 4. =Bib.=: Hannay, _History of New Brunswick_. =Bliss, John Murray= (1771-1834). Born in Massachusetts. Came to New Brunswick in 1786; called to the bar; and elected to the House of Assembly for the county of York. Appointed to the bench in 1816; became a member of the king's Council; and in 1824 administrator of the province for one year. Subsequently a judge of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick. =Index=: =W= Judge of New Brunswick Supreme Court, 4. =Bib.=: _Cyc. Am. Biog._ =Bliss, Jonathan= (1742-1822). Born in Springfield, Mass. Educated at Harvard University, Cambridge. Emigrated to New Brunswick in 1783. In 1785 elected a member of the provincial Legislature and appointed attorney-general. From 1809 to 1822 chief-justice. =Bib.=: _Cyc. Am. Biog._ =Blue, Archibald= (1840- ). Born in Orford, Ontario. From 1867 to 1881 engaged in journalism. In 1882 appointed secretary of the Ontario Bureau of Industries, which he organized. Deputy minister of agriculture, 1884, and director of the Bureau of Mines, 1891. Appointed Dominion census commissioner, 1900. =Index=: =B= Witnesses shooting of George Brown by Bennett, 255-256. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Can. Men_; _Canadian Who's Who_. =Bodega Bay.= On the coast of California, lat. 38° 18' 20" N., long. 123° 2' 28". =Index=: =D= Russian colony there in 1812, 45. =Boileau, Maître.= =Ch= Lawyer, employed to contest Champlain's will, 265. =Bolduc, Father.= =D= Jesuit missionary--supposed to be first priest on Vancouver Island, 178; at Whidby Island, 179. =Bolton, Colonel.= =Hd= Commander at Niagara, lost in foundering of _Ontario_, 163.