on Pleas. =Index=:
=W= Becomes member of New Brunswick Council, 4. =Bib.=: Hannay, _History
of New Brunswick_.

=Bliss, John Murray= (1771-1834). Born in Massachusetts. Came to New
Brunswick in 1786; called to the bar; and elected to the House of
Assembly for the county of York. Appointed to the bench in 1816; became
a member of the king's Council; and in 1824 administrator of the
province for one year. Subsequently a judge of the Supreme Court of New
Brunswick. =Index=: =W= Judge of New Brunswick Supreme Court, 4. =Bib.=:
_Cyc. Am. Biog._

=Bliss, Jonathan= (1742-1822). Born in Springfield, Mass. Educated at
Harvard University, Cambridge. Emigrated to New Brunswick in 1783. In
1785 elected a member of the provincial Legislature and appointed
attorney-general. From 1809 to 1822 chief-justice. =Bib.=: _Cyc. Am.
Biog._

=Blue, Archibald= (1840- ). Born in Orford, Ontario. From 1867 to 1881
engaged in journalism. In 1882 appointed secretary of the Ontario Bureau
of Industries, which he organized. Deputy minister of agriculture, 1884,
and director of the Bureau of Mines, 1891. Appointed Dominion census
commissioner, 1900. =Index=: =B= Witnesses shooting of George Brown by
Bennett, 255-256. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Can. Men_; _Canadian Who's Who_.

=Bodega Bay.= On the coast of California, lat. 38 deg. 18' 20" N., long.
123 deg. 2' 28". =Index=: =D= Russian colony there in 1812, 45.

=Boileau, Maitre.= =Ch= Lawyer, employed to contest Champlain's will,
265.

=Bolduc, Father.= =D= Jesuit missionary--supposed to be first priest on
Vancouver Island, 178; at Whidby Island, 179.

=Bolton, Colonel.= =Hd= Commander at Niagara, lost in foundering of
_Ontario_, 163.

=Bompas, William Carpenter= (1853-1906). Born in London, England.
Ordained deacon, 1859; priest, 1865; came to Canada latter year and
assigned to the Mackenzie River district. In 1874 consecrated bishop of
Athabaska. In 1884 transferred to see of Mackenzie River, and in 1891 to
that of Selkirk. Author of a number of primers in the Athabaskan and
Algonquian languages, as well as in Eskimo. =Bib.=: _Diocese of
Mackenzie River_; Cody, _An Apostle of the North_; Machray, _Archbishop
Machray_; Mockridge, _Bishops of the Church of England in Canada and
Newfoundland_. For his native primers, _see_ Pilling, _Bibliography of
Athabaskan Languages_.

=Bond, William Bennett= (1815-1906). Born in Truro, England. At an early
age went to Newfoundland. Removed to Quebec, 1840; the s