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uncil_; Roy, _Seigneurie de Lauzon_; Sellar, _History of Huntingdon_; Jodoin et Vincent, _Histoire de Longueuil_. =Seigniors, Canadian.= =Bk= Remained faithful to British rule, 47. =Dr= Murray's relations with, 10; comparatively small emigration of, to France, 10; Carleton sends home a list of, 45, 47; pleads cause of, 46, 48; they ask for military service, 49; their satisfaction with the new regime, 162; their objection to sale of land in freehold, 239; their loss of influence, 255. =WM= Their relation to the _censitaires_, 23. =Bib.=: Bradley, _The Making of Canada_. =Select Committee on Grievances.= =Mc= Seventh report of, 26; Mackenzie obtains committee, 263; matters referred to, 269; committee's report, 270-277; reply of Lord Glenelg, 280; Head's instructions, 280; subjects dealt with, 281-286. =BL= On political situation in Upper Canada, 11; report of, studied by Sir F.B. Head, 37. _See also_ William Lyon Mackenzie. =Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, Earl of= (1771-1820). =MS= Influenced by Mackenzie's _Voyages_, 7, 94; gains controlling interest in Hudson's Bay Company, 7; organizes colony, 7, 8, 100; dies, 1820, 8; Canadian places named after, 115; his lineage, 115, 116; birth, June, 1771, 116; educated at University of Edinburgh, 117; influenced by French Revolution, 117-118; becomes Baron Daer and Shortcleugh, 1797, on death of his brother, and Earl of Selkirk, on death of his father, 1799, 118-119; philanthropic interest in the Highlands and emigration policy, 119-120; his scheme for national defence, 120-121; made Fellow of Royal Society, 122; his _Sketch of the British Fur Trade in 1806_, 122; earlier pamphlets on the North American Indians, attributed to him, 122; his pamphlet on _Parliamentary Reform_, 123, 124; character sketch, 125; his memorial of 1802, on the proposed colony in Rupert's Land, 127-128; his Prince Edward Island colony, 129-132; visits United States and Canada, 132-133; the Baldoon Settlement in Upper Canada, 133; the Moulton Settlement, 134; visits Montreal, 1803, 137; entertained by the partners of the North West Company, at the Beaver Club, 139-140; takes advantage of his opportunities to obtain knowledge of the fur trade, 140; genesis of the Red River project, 141-142; obtains legal opinion on the Hudson's Bay Company, 143-145; purchases controlling interest in the Hudson's Bay Company, 145-146; buys Red River property from the Company, 146; opposition of Mackenzie, Inglis, and Ellice,
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