to the local clergy,
247-248; his journey round the world, 249; his narrative, 249; its
authorship, 249; leaves London, March 3, 1841, 250; at Montreal, and
ascends the Ottawa, crosses Georgian Bay, and Lake Superior to Fort
William, 250-251; at Fort Garry, 251; crosses the plains to Edmonton
House, 252; at Fort Vancouver, 253; voyage to Sitka and return, 253;
visits California, the Sandwich Islands, and Sitka again, 255-256;
crosses Siberia, 257-259; reaches London, 260; his letters to James
Hargrave, 261; his marriage, 262; life at Red River, 263-266; opposition
to liquor traffic among the Indians, 267; dislike for John Tod, 268-269;
method of appointment of high officers, 269; gives evidence before
parliamentary committee, 272; his views on agriculture, 273-277; defends
Hudson's Bay Company, 272-278; his death, 1860, at Lachine, 279; John
McLean's opinion of, 279-280; his management of Hudson's Bay Company's
affairs, 280, =D= Expedition on behalf of Hudson's Bay Company, 51;
visits New Caledonia in 1828, 109; received by James Douglas at Fort St.
James, 109; at Fort Vancouver, 110. =Bib.=: _Narrative of a Journey
Round the World_. For biog., _see_ Morgan, _Cel. Can._; Bryce,
_Manitoba_ and _Hudson's Bay Company_; McLeod, _Peace River_.

=Simpson, John= (1807-1878). Born in Helmsley, Yorkshire, England.
Elected to the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada, 1858, for the town
of Niagara, and sat for the same constituency until 1864. Member of the
Executive Council and provincial secretary, 1864; assistant
auditor-general, 1864-1878. =Index=: =B= Retires from ministry with
Foley and Buchanan, to make room for George Brown, Mowat, and
Macdougall, 159. =Bib.=: Dent, _Last Forty Years_.

=Simpson, Miss Mary.= =Hd= Nelson's admiration for, 244.

=Simpson, Thomas= (1808-1840). Born in Dingwall, Scotland. Educated at
University of Aberdeen. In 1829 appointed secretary to his cousin, Sir
George Simpson, resident governor of the Hudson's Bay Company. With
Peter Warren Dease, commanded an expedition to connect the discoveries
on the Arctic coast of Sir John Ross and Sir George Back, and in July,
1837, arrived at Foggy Island Bay, the farthest point reached by Sir
John Franklin. Surveyed the Arctic coast of North America, from the
mouth of the Mackenzie to Point Barrow, and from the Coppermine River to
the Gulf of Bothnia, and solved the problem of the existence of a
passage by water between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. =In