The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History
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The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History
Canada -- Biography; Canada -- History
=Carleton, Thomas= (1736-1817). Served with Wolfe in 1755;
quartermaster-general of the army in Canada, 1775; wounded in the naval
battle on Lake Champlain, 1776. Appointed first lieutenant-governor of
New Brunswick, 1784. Returned to England in 1803; the colony was
governed by administrators until 1817, when General Smyth was appointed
governor. =Index=: =Dr= Nephew of Lord Dorchester, 249;
lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick, 249. =W= First governor of New
Brunswick, 5; his Council, 5; opposes reforms in government, 13; grants
charter to Fredericton Academy, 86. =Hd= Devastates country bordering on
Lake Champlain, 149; his expedient for obtaining rebel letters, 194; his
connection with the Du Calvet case, 280, 281. =Bib.=: _Cyc. Am. Biog._;
Bradley, _The Making of Canada_.
=Carleton Island.= =Hd= Indians of, 148; projects of Americans against,
150; reinforcements sent to, 153; depot for stores established at, great
cost of transporting provisions to, 184.
=Carling, Sir John= (1828- ). Represented town of London in Legislative
Assembly, 1857-1867; and continued to sit for the same constituency in
the Dominion Parliament. Appointed receiver-general in Cartier-Macdonald
ministry, 1862; and commissioner of agriculture and public works in
Ontario government, 1867. Entered federal government as
postmaster-general, 1882; minister of agriculture, 1885-1892. Called to
the Senate, 1891; resigned, 1892; again called, 1896. =Bib.=: Morgan,
_Can. Men_; Dent, _Can. Por._
=Carlton House.= Two forts of this name were founded by the Hudson's Bay
Company. One stood on the banks of the Saskatchewan, above the forks;
the other on the upper waters of the Assiniboine. Both were established
about the end of the eighteenth century. =Index=: =MS= Built by Hudson's
Bay Company, 6.
=Carnarvon, Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, fourth Earl of= (1831-1890).
Colonial secretary, 1866-1867, and as such introduced the British North
America Act; colonial secretary again, 1874-1878; chairman of Colonial
Defence Commission, 1879-1882. Joined Imperial Federation League, 1884.
=Index=: =Md= President of Westminster Conference in London, 126;
effect of his resignation on Confederation, 128; Macdonald's letter to,
on the franchise, 259. =T= Conference with, on Confederation scheme,
122. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._
=Caroline.= =Mc= Steamboat, goes over Niagara Falls, 419; cutting out
of, 420; merits of act, 421; international complications, 423. =Bib.=:
Drew and Wood, _The Burning of the Caroline_; Dent, _Upper Canadian
Rebellion_.
=Caroline Almanac.= =Mc= Mackenzie publishes, 459.
=Caron, Sir Joseph Philippe Réné Adolphe= (1843-1908). Born in Quebec.
Studied law; entered public life in 1873 as member of Dominion House for
Quebec County; elected for Rimouski, 1891. Minister of militia and
defence, 1880-1892; postmaster-general, 1892. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Can.
Men_; Dent, _Can. Por._
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