s the
Home District Grammar School of York, the first principal of which was
Dr. G. O. Stuart, who was succeeded by Dr. Strachan in 1813. In 1816 a
new building was erected, popularly known as the "Old Blue School."
Upper Canada College proper dates from 1829, when provision was made by
the government for its establishment. In 1891 the college was moved to
the present building in Deer Park. =Index=: =BL= Land grant for, in
1831, 191-192. =Bib.=: Adam and Dickson, _Upper Canada College_;
_Canada: An Ency._, vol. 4.

=Upper Canada Gazette.= =Mc= Official organ of the house, 38, 109-110.

=Upper Canada Gazette or American Oracle.= =S= First paper published in
Upper Canada, 172, 173; removed to York, 174. =Bk= First published at
Newark (Niagara), 57.

=Urfe, Abbe d'.= =F= Haughtily treated by Frontenac, 110. =L= Sulpician,
arrival of, 105.

=Ursulines.= A religious order of women, in the Roman Catholic Church,
founded in 1535 at Brescia, by Angela Merici. The order was established
in France in 1584, and spread to Germany and other European countries.
In 1639 four members of the order, Madame de la Peltrie, Marie de
l'Incarnation, Marie de St. Bernard, and another not named, sailed from
Dieppe for Quebec, where they were lodged at first in wooden huts, in
what is now the Lower Town. Three years later, they took possession of
the massive stone convent still occupied by the order. =Index=: =L=
Establishment of convent, 8; Laval lodges with, for a time, 33; their
educational work, 125; its great influence for good, 155; convent
destroyed by fire, 210. =F= Foundation of convent, 28, 30; Marguerite
Bourgeoys urged to join, 39. =WM= Take refuge in general hospital, 115;
and render assistance there, 153; return to their convent, 237. =Bib.=:
_Les Ursulines de Quebec_.

=Usury Laws.= =Sy= Their repeal advocated by Sydenham, 18.

=Utrecht, Treaty of.= Between France and Great Britain, signed in 1713.
Provided for the restoration and full surrender of all claims to the
Hudson Bay Territory, to Acadia, and to Newfoundland by France; for
compensation to the Hudson's Bay Company; for certain rights to fishing
on the north-east coast of Newfoundland; and the possession of Cape
Breton by France. =Index=: =Ch= Determines boundaries of Acadia, 18.
=Bib.=: Hertslet, _Treaties and Conventions_.

=Vaccination.= =Hd= Subject discussed in Quebec _Gazette_, 228-231. _See
also_ Smallpox.

=Vail, Edwin Arnold= (1817-1885). Born in Sussex