09. In the days of
the early French colonists, a centre of the seal fisheries and the fur
trade. =Index=: =Ch= Champlain arrives at, May 24, 1603, 10; derivation
of name, 10; early date at which fishing vessels resorted thither, 59;
seat of the fur trade, 119; Recollet mission at, 167.

=Tait, Sir Melbourne McTaggart= (1834- ). Born at Melbourne, Quebec.
Educated at St. Francis College, Richmond. Studied law in Montreal, and
graduated B. C. L. at McGill University, 1862; called to the bar, 1863;
practised at Melbourne and afterwards at Montreal. In 1882 created Q.
C.; in 1886 became a fellow-in-law in McGill University; in 1887
appointed judge of the Superior Court of Quebec; in 1894 acting
chief-justice; and in 1906 chief-justice. On the completion of the
sixtieth year of Queen Victoria's reign in 1897, knighted. =Bib.=:
Morgan, _Can. Men_; _Canadian Who's Who_.

=Talbot, Thomas= (1771-1853). Rose to the rank of colonel in the British
army, and for a time attached to the staff of Governor Simcoe. Resigning
his commission, obtained in 1801 a grant of 5000 acres on the north
shore of Lake Erie for the purposes of a settlement, and devoted himself
to its development. Brought out a band of colonists from England, and
others followed. Port Talbot became the centre of an ever-widening
region of cultivated land, until before his death twenty-eight townships
had been settled as the result of his efforts. =Index=: =S= Aide-de-camp
to Simcoe, 177; returns to Ireland, later returns to Canada, and forms a
settlement in western Ontario, 178. =Bib.=: _Six Years in the Canadas_.
For biog., _see_ _Dict. Nat. Biog._; Dent, _Can. Por._; Taylor, _Brit.
Am._ _See also_ Coyne, _The Talbot Papers_ (R. S. C., 1907).

=Talbot Settlement.= _See_ Talbot, Thomas.

=Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles Maurice, Prince de= (1754-1838). French
statesman. =Index=: =Bk= Foreign secretary under Napoleon, 81. =Bib.=:
For biog., _see_ works of Taine, Mignet, Bastive, Lamartine, and Guizot.

=Tallon, Major.= =Bk= In command of 3d Brigade, 247.

=Talon, Jean-Baptiste= (1625-1691). Born in Picardy, France. Held
offices in the intendancies of Bordeaux and Lyons, and intendant of
Hainant from 1661 to 1663. In 1663 intendant of New France. During his
administration in Canada, was the first to build ships in the colony;
opened up trade between Canada and the West Indies; established the
first brewery in North America; and developed cod fisheries along the
St. La