him the
office of intendant of New France, 1748. Sailed for Quebec and arrived
the same year. There elaborated a system of peculation, by which every
branch of the public service was laid under tribute to enrich himself
and his creatures, helping thereby to bring about the final loss of the
colony. Returned to France after the conquest of Canada; thrown into the
Bastille, and released only to be banished from France. =Index=: =WM=
Intendant, appearance and character, 32; made profit of famine, 53;
gambling habits, 54; reprimanded by minister, 88; hostility to
Bougainville, 88; makes his headquarters at Beauport, 88; letter to
Bougainville, 165. =Hd= Disliked, 52. =Bib.=: Roy, _Intendants de la
Nouvelle-France_ (R. S. C., 1903); Parkman, _Montcalm and Wolfe_.

=Billings, Elkanah= (1820-1876). Born in township of Gloucester,
Ontario. Studied law, called to the bar, 1845, and practised in Ottawa.
Appointed paleontologist of the Geological Survey of Canada, 1856, and
in the same year established the _Canadian Naturalist_. =Bib.=: Morgan,
_Cel. Can._; _Cyc. Am. Biog._; Ami, _Brief Biographical Sketch of
Elkanah Billings_.

=Billings, Joseph.= Born in England, 1758. Accompanied Captain Cook on
his last voyage on the _Discovery_; and afterwards entered the Russian
navy. Commanded an expedition to the north-west boundaries of Asia in
1785, and in 1786-1794 explored the coasts of Siberia and Alaska.
=Index=: =D= Visits Unalaska, Nodiak, and Prince William Sound, 1790,
26. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._

=Bindon.= =Dr= Montreal merchant, treasonable proceedings of, 84.

=Bizard.= =F= Officer of Frontenac, arrested by Perrot, 91.

=Blachford, Frederic Rogers, Baron= (1811-1889). Born in England.
Educated at Eton and Oxford. In 1844 registrar of joint-stock companies
and commissioner of lands and emigration; from 1860 to 1871 permanent
undersecretary of state for the colonies; and in 1871 made a privy
councillor. =Index=: =Md= On Macdonald's part in Westminster Conference,
126-127. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._

=Black, John= (1817-1879). Born in Scotland. Went to the Red River
Settlement as legal adviser to Adam Thom, recorder of Rupert's Land,
1839. Subsequently entered the service of the Hudson's Bay Company and
rose to the position of chief trader. Went back to Scotland, 1852. Spent
some time in Australia, and returned to the Red River Settlement as
recorder of Rupert's Land, 1862. Appointed a delegate to Ottawa to
present the