m.
=Index=: =D= His two voyages to North-West Coast, 23; his wife first
woman to visit North-West Coast, 23. =Bib.=: Walbran, _British Columbia
Coast Names_.

=Barnsfare, Captain.= =Dr= Commands battery at Pres de Ville, 127.

=Baronets of Nova Scotia.= An order created by James I, in 1625, for the
purpose of "advancing the plantation of Nova Scotia." The scheme, which
King James had deeply at heart, was designed to assist Sir William
Alexander in his ambitious plans of colonization in the New World, by
offering a special inducement to men of position in Scotland to take
tracts of land in Nova Scotia, and to bring out numbers of colonists to
settle upon them. _See also_ Stirling. =Bib.=: Duncan, _Royal Province
of New Scotland and her Baronets_; Bourinot, _Builders of Nova Scotia_;
Patterson, _Sir William Alexander_ (R. S. C., 1892); Mackenzie,
_Baronets of Nova Scotia_ (R. S. C., 1901); _Royal Letters, Charters,
and Tracts Relating to the Colonisation of Nova Scotia and the
Institution of the Order of Knights Baronet of Nova Scotia_; Kirke, _The
First English Conquest of Canada_.

=Barre, Isaac= (1726-1802). Born in Ireland. Served under Wolfe against
Rochefort in 1757, and at Quebec in 1759, being at Wolfe's side when he
fell. Entered Parliament, 1761, and a member until 1790. In 1763-1764
adjutant-general and governor of Stirling; in 1764-1768, vice-treasurer
of Ireland and a privy councillor; in 1782, treasurer of the navy.
=Index=: =Dr= On Quebec Act, 67. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._

=Barren Grounds.= The region of northern Canada, lying between the
Mackenzie River and Hudson Bay, and from the northern timber-line to
the Arctic. First visited by Samuel Hearne in 1770-1772. Late explorers
who traversed portions of the country are Franklin, in 1821; Back, in
1833; Dease and Simpson, in 1839; Richardson in 1848; and Anderson in
1855. Within more recent years, Warburton Pike, J. B. Tyrrell, J. W.
Tyrrell, D. T. Hanbury and Caspar Whitney have explored parts of the
Barren Grounds. =Bib.=: Hearne, _Journey to the Northern Ocean_;
Franklin, _Narrative_; Back, _Arctic Land Expedition_; Simpson, _North
Coasts of America_; Richardson, _Arctic Searching Expedition_; Anderson,
_Descent of Great Fish River_, in _Royal Geog. Soc. Journal_, 1856 and
1857; Pike, _Barren Grounds_; Tyrrell, _Across the Sub-Arctics_;
Hanbury, _Northland of Canada_; Whitney, _On Snowshoes to the Barren
Grounds_.

=Barrington, William Wildman, sec