med to fight against domination of
priesthood, 45, 46; members of, in Legislature in 1854, 51; defeated in
1857, 84; George Brown's rupture with, 102. =Bib.=: Dent, _Last Forty
Years_; Willison, _Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Liberal Party_.

=Party Government.= =B= Origin of the double ministries, 81. =Sy=
Absence of necessary conditions for, 185, 186, 303; Robert Baldwin's
premature demand for, 187, 294; party names in Canada without
significance, 303. _See also_ Representative government; Responsible
government.

=Paterson, General.= =Hd= His report on state of affairs at Boston, 95.

=Patriot.= Newspaper published at Toronto. =Index=: =Mc= Publishes
proceedings of House, 174. =BL= Attacks Bagot, 142, 153; on the election
law, 145-146; its abuse of Bagot, 153; on Rebellion Losses Bill, 319.

=Patriotes.= =P= Name assumed by popular party in Lower
Canada--particularly the followers of Papineau, 40, 68; Neilson checks
the more violent among them, 46; vacillation of Quebec wing of party,
68; their press publish violent articles, 86; prepare Ninety-Two
Resolutions, 85-97; Gugy belittles their cause, 103; influenced by
American Revolution, 121; advocate smuggling, 122; boycott English
goods, 122; the St. Charles meeting, 125; under Nelson and Brown at St.
Denis and St. Charles, 128; they kill Lieutenant Weir, 134; crushed at
St. Eustache, 137; in the Montreal election, 1834, 144. =Bib.=:
Christie, _History of Lower Canada_.

=Patriotic Fund.= =Bk= Raised in Canada during war with Napoleon, 46.

=Patterson, James Colebrooke= (1839- ). Born in Ireland. Came to Canada,
1857; entered civil service at Ottawa; studied law and called to the
Ontario bar, 1876. Represented North Essex in the Ontario Assembly,
1874-1878; and the county of Essex in the House of Commons, 1882-1891.
Defeated at the general election of 1891, but elected for West Huron,
1892. Secretory of State, 1892; minister of militia, 1892-1895;
lieutenant-governor of Manitoba, 1895-1900. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Can. Men_;
_Canadian Who's Who_.

=Patterson, Walter.= Born in Ireland. Entered the army; came to Prince
Edward Island in 1770 as first governor of the colony. It was then known
as the Island of St. John. Patterson, who was one the largest landed
proprietors in the Island, had an Act passed by the Assembly in 1780
changing the name to New Ireland, but the Act was disallowed by the
Imperial government. The present name was given in 1798, in honor of the
Duke o