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unkirk, before coming to Canada with his father in 1705. Acted as assistant to the intendant; recalled to France in 1710, and appointed intendant-general of seamen; also made a director of the Company of the Indies. Succeeded his father as councillor of marine. =Bib.=: Roy, _Intendants de la Nouvelle-France_ (R. S. C., 1903). =Raudot, Jacques= (1647-1728). Councillor to the Parliament of Metz in 1674; and to the Cour des Aides at Paris, 1678. Came to Canada as intendant, 1705, and devoted himself with rare disinterestedness to the welfare of the colony. Returned to France in 1711. =Bib.=: Roy, _Intendants de la Nouvelle-France_ (R. S. C., 1903). =Razilly, Chevalier de.= =Ch= One of the Hundred Associates, 170; ordered to assist Quebec, 200; instructions cancelled, 201; sent with expedition to take possession of Quebec, 213. =Re, Francois, Sieur de Gand.= =Ch= One of the Hundred Associates, 171. =Read, David Breakenridge= (1823- ). Born in Augusta, Ontario. Educated at Upper Canada College; studied law and called to the bar of Upper Canada, 1845; practised his profession in Toronto; appointed Q.C., 1858; mayor of Toronto, 1858. =Index=: =Mc= On Mackenzie, 1; Mackenzie as a reformer, 5; on responsible government, 12. =Bib.=: Works: _The Lives of the Judges of Upper Canada_; _The Life and Times of General John Graves Simcoe_; _The Life and Times of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock_; _The Rebellion of 1837_; _The Lives of the Lieutenant-Governors of Upper Canada and Ontario_. For biog., _see_ Morgan, _Can. Men_. =Reade, Alfred.= =W= Appointed by Governor Colebrooke as provincial secretary of New Brunswick, 76; causes resignation of ministers, 76-78; discussed in House, 79-80; appointment cancelled, 80. =Rebellion Losses Bill.= =Mc= Furious debate on, between MacNab and Blake, 489. =BL= Passed in 1847, 292; La Fontaine responsible for, 303; its history, 305-334, 335, 336. =E= History of, 63-84; commission appointed by Draper-Viger government, 64; report of commissioners, 65; La Fontaine's resolutions, 67-68; new commission appointed, 68; bitter opposition of Tories, 68-69; the debate, 69-70; public meetings held in opposition to bill, 70; bill passed by both houses by large majorities, 70; Elgin gives royal assent, 71; his reasons for doing so, 72-73; the Montreal riots, 73-77, 161, 203. =B= History of, 34-38. =C= John A. Macdonald characterizes it as a reward for treason, 32. =Md= Circumstances leading up to introd
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