=Canada Company.= Founded in London, 1824, by John Gait, as a colonizing scheme. A large tract of land was purchased in what is now western Ontario. Dunlop, Talbot, Strickland, and other pioneers of Upper Canada were associated with Gait in the enterprise. The company is still in existence. =Index=: =E= An agency in settlement of Upper Canada, 145; its unpopularity, 145. =R= Offers to buy Clergy Reserves, 50. =B= Recommends whiskey to intending immigrants, 75. _See also_ Galt, John; Dunlop, William; Talbot, Thomas. =Bib.=: Lizars, _In the Days of the Canada Company_; Strickland, _Twenty-seven Years in Canada West_; Galt, _Autobiography_; Jameson, _Winter Sketches_; Talbot, _Six Years in the Canadas_; McTaggart, _Three Years in Upper Canada_; Dunlop, _The Backwoodsman_. =Canada Corn Act=, 1843. =C= Builds up flour industry in Canada, 43. =Canada First Association.= =B= Platform, 235; criticized by the _Globe_, 236; suspected of aiming at national independence, 237; Goldwin Smith, leader of party, attacked by _Globe_, 237; his reply, 238; spirit of the movement, 239; its effect, 240-241; Liberal party injured by hostility to movement, 240-242. =Md= Formed in Toronto, 1870, 226; its policy, 226. =Bib.=: Dent, _Last Forty Years_; _Canada First: A Memorial of the Late William A. Foster_; Denison, _The Struggle for Imperial Unity_. =Canada Trade Act.= Passed by Imperial Parliament in 1822, with the object of correcting the injustice to Upper Canada in the apportionment of duties collected. The Quebec Legislature had refused to re-enact the old Acts apportioning a share of duties to Upper Canada, and these Acts were now made permanent. Lower Canada was debarred from imposing new duties on imports by sea without the consent of Upper Canada and the approval of the Imperial Parliament. =Bib.=: Kingsford, _History of Canada_. =Canadian Alliance Society.= =Mc= Founded, December, 1834, 258; its objects, 258. =BL= Founded at York, 16; its political programme, 16.