=Canning, Charles John, Viscount= (1812-1862). Postmaster-general, under Aberdeen and Palmerston. Governor-general of India, 1855, and through the period of the Indian Mutiny. =Index=: =E= His record in India, 217. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._ =Canning, George= (1770-1827). Entered British Parliament, 1793; foreign secretary, 1807; ambassador to Portugal, 1814; president of Board of Control, 1816; succeeded Londonderry as foreign secretary, 1822; prime minister, 1827. A consistent advocate of constitutional principles. =Index=: =Sy= Foreign secretary and afterwards prime minister, 16; death of, 16. =Bk= Secretary of war, 81; deals with matter of _Leopard_ and _Chesapeake_, 83, 85; disapproves of Walcheren expedition, 118; foreign secretary, 120. =Bib.=: Canning, _Speeches_; Stapleton, _Political Life of George Canning_; Stapleton, _George Canning and His Times_; _Dict. Nat. Biog._ =Cannon, Captain.= =WM= Repulses landing of English, 107. =Canterbury, John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton, Viscount= (1814-1877). Born in England. Entered Parliament, 1841; home secretary from 1841 to 1846 in Peel's ministry. From 1854 to 1861, lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick; in 1864-1866 governor of Trinidad; and in 1866-1873 governor of Victoria. =Index=: =T= Dissolves New Brunswick Assembly, 38-39. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._; Hannay, _History of New Brunswick_. "=Canvas House.=" =S= Purchased by Simcoe from Captain Cook, and used as winter residence at York, 204. =Cap de la Victoire.= On St. Lawrence, near mouth of Richelieu. =Index=: =Ch= Fur trade carried on at, 119, 139. =Cap du Ciel.= =Ch= French vessel seized by English, 222. =Cap Rouge.= On the St. Lawrence, above Quebec. =Index=: =WM= Vaudreuil orders posting of two hundred men at, 162; Bougainville's headquarters at, 163; difficulty of crossing the river, 248. =Cape Breton.= An island at the eastern extremity of Nova Scotia, now forming part of that province. Discovered by John Cabot in 1497. First settlement made by the French in 1712. Town of Louisbourg built and strongly fortified. It was captured by Pepperrell and Warren in 1745; restored to France by the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1748; again captured by the British, under Amherst and Boscawen, 1758. Cape Breton was a separate colony of Great Britain, 1784-1820, with Sydney (founded 1785) as its capital. In 1820 it was incorporated with Nova Scotia. =Index=: =Ch= Named St. Lawrence Island by Champlain, 236; Jesuit mission at, for benefit of Micmacs, 236; maintained until 1659, 237. _See also_ Louisbourg; Sydney; Nova Scotia. =Bib.=: Brown, _History of Cape Breton_; Bourinot, _Cape Breton and its Memorials_; Grant, _Cape Breton, Past and Present_. =Cape Diamond, Quebec.= =Ch= Fortified, 157. =Cape St. Vincent.= =Bk= British naval victory of, 10. =Car Brigade.= =Bk= Formed, 196. =Carden, Major.= =Dr= Killed in dispersing Ethan Allen's force, 99. =Cardinal Joseph.= =P= At meeting of Constitutional Committee, 1834, 88.