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towards United States during war with the South, 144; on Canadian defence, 147. =C= Advocates independence of Canada and other great colonies, 89-93; Cartier replies to, 92. =Md= Account in, of memorial service held in Westminster Abbey in honour of Macdonald, 322-324. =Tippecanoe.= =Bk= General Harrison's encounter with Indians at, 174-176. =Tipping, Captain.= =D= Voyage to the North-West Coast for sea-otter skins, 22. =Tithes.= =Dr= Attempts to create discontent on the subject of, 79. =L= Collection of, by Quebec Seminary, sanctioned by the French king, 10; fixed by Sovereign Council at one twenty-sixth, 10; Laval obtains authority to collect one-thirteenth as, 50; rate reduced to one twenty-sixth, 54; objected to by some of the colonists, 54; decree of 1679 respecting, 55; limitation of, 181. =Tobin, Michael.= =H= Member of Uniacke government, Nova Scotia, 110; resigns seat in government, as protest against Howe's attack on Irish Roman Catholics, 164. =H= Member of Uniacke administration, 1848, 110; resigns seat in government, 164. =Bib.=: Campbell, _History of Nova Scotia_. =Tod, John.= Born in Water Leven, Dumbartonshire, Scotland. Joined the Hudson's Bay Company, 1813, and employed for a time at York Factory as superintendent of the fur shed. Sent by Governor Simpson to New Caledonia, 1823; took an active part in the development of the Company's operations west of the mountains. A man of strong personality, and a notable correspondent; many of his letters to Hargrave, Ermatinger, and other contemporaries among the fur traders have been preserved. Stationed at Fort McLeod in 1824, and still there when Sir George Simpson visited the post on his overland journey in 1828. Chief trader in charge of Fort Kamloops, 1846. Bancroft describes some dramatic incidents of his reign at Kamloops. Retired from Company's service, 1851; appointed same year a member of the council of government; subsequently a member of the Legislative Council of Vancouver Island. Died at Oak Bay, near Victoria. =Index=: =MS= Governor Simpson's prejudice against, 268. =D= At McLeod Lake, 99; character, 100; account of Fort George massacre, 105-106. =Bib.=: Bancroft, _History of British Columbia_; Bryce, _Hudson's Bay Company_; Begg, _History of British Columbia_. =Todd, Alpheus= (1821-1884). Born in London, England. Removed to Canada in 1833. In 1836 appointed assistant librarian of the House of Assembly of Upper Canada, and upon the
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