, 27. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Can.
Men_; _Who's Who_, 1910; Dent, _Can. Por._ and _Last Forty Years_; Ewan,
_Hon. Edward Blake_; Tache, _Men_.

=Blake, William Hume= (1809-1870). Born in Ireland. Educated at Trinity
College, Dublin, and emigrated to Canada in his youth. During the
Rebellion in 1837, paymaster of the Royal Foresters. Called to the bar
of Upper Canada, 1838. A member of the Legislative Assembly for East
York, 1847, and solicitor-general in the La Fontaine-Baldwin
administration, 1848-1849. In 1850 chancellor of Upper Canada, retiring
March, 1862. =Index=: =BL= Speaks before Reform Association, Toronto,
223; elected for York, 279; solicitor-general, 1848, 284; absent in
Europe, 284; on Rebellion Losses Bill, 314-315; quarrel with MacNab,
315; burnt in effigy in Toronto, 318; raised to the bench, 337. =E=
Returned in elections, 1847, 50; solicitor-general for Upper Canadian
first La Fontaine-Baldwin Cabinet, 53; father of Edward Blake; attacks
Family Compact; bitter conflict with Sir Allan MacNab, 69. =B= Speaks
before Toronto Reform Association, 1811, 21; burnt in effigy, 36; in the
fight for responsible government, 261. =Md= Challenged by John A.
Macdonald, 36. =Mc= Solicitor-general, debate on Rebellion Losses Bill,
489. =Bib.=: Dent, _Can. Por._, and _Last Forty Years_; Read, _Lives of
the Judges; Cyc. Am. Biog._

=Blanchard, Hiram.= =H= Supports Confederation, 186; member of Nova
Scotia government, 1867, 198; elected to Legislature, but unseated, 202.

=Blanchard, Jotham.= =H= Associated with Joseph Howe in _The Club_, 10;
in House of Assembly, 18.

=Blanchet, F.= =Bk= Arrested, 127; discharged, 128.

=Blanshard, Richard=. Appointed governor of Vancouver Island by Earl
Grey; left England, 1849, and reached Victoria in March of the following
year by way of Panama. Resigned office in 1850, and in 1851 returned to
England. =Index=: =D= First governor of Vancouver Island, 1849, 203;
relations with the Hudson's Bay Company, 203-204; nominates provincial
government and leaves for England, 204. =Bib.=: Begg, _History of
British Columbia_.

=Bleury.= =P= Joins Papineau party, 78.

=Bliss, Daniel= (1740-1806). Born in Concord, Mass. Educated at Harvard
University, Cambridge, graduating in 1774. In 1778 proscribed as a
Loyalist, and served with the British army as commissary. At the end of
the war, moved to New Brunswick; appointed a member of the provincial
Council, and later chief-justice of the Court of Comm