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vessel on Fraser River, 116; arrives at Victoria from Fort Vancouver, 180; leaves for the Columbia, 180; built 1824, destroyed 1862, 180. =Cadet, Joseph Michel.= Began life as a butcher; won the confidence of the intendant Bigot, and as commissary-general seconded him in his infamous schemes for plundering the colony. =Index=: =WM= Commissary of stores, 88; makes his headquarters at Beauport, 88; feeds his poultry with grain, while the people starve, 88. _See_ Bigot. =Cadieux.= A French _coureur de bois_, whose tragic death forms the subject of one of the popular _chansons_ of Quebec. His reputed grave is at the foot of Grand Calumet Island, on the Ottawa. =Bib.=: Le Moine, _Legends of the St. Lawrence_; Bourinot, _The Ottawa Valley_ in the _Canadian Monthly_, January, 1875; Gagnon, _Chansons Populaires_. =Cadillac, Antoine de la Motte.= Came to Canada as an officer of the Carignan Regiment. In 1694 appointed to the command of the post at Michilimackinac. In 1701 built a fort at Detroit, and remained in command there until 1710. From 1712-1717 governor of Louisiana. Subsequently appointed governor of Castel Sarassin, in Gascony, his native province. Died there Oct. 16, 1730. =Bib.=: Parkman, _Old Regime_; _Cadillac Papers_ (Michigan Pion. & Hist. _Coll._, vol. 33). =Cadot, Jean-Baptiste.= Pioneer fur trader in the West. When the French abandoned their fort at Sault Ste. Marie, Cadot remained behind with his native wife and family. Alexander Henry found him there in 1762; in charge of the fort when Carver visited the place five years later. Is said to have been still alive in 1812. =Bib.=: Henry, _Travels and Adventures in Canada_; Carver, _Travels through the Interior Parts of North America_; Morice, _Dict._ =Caen, Emery de.= =Ch= Nephew of Guillaume, 137; left in command of colony, 141; prohibits psalm-singing by Huguenots on his ships, 156; his character, 182; actively defends colony, 183; captured by Thomas Kirke; returns to France, 185; his ship the _Helene_ restored to him, 221. =F= Takes over Quebec from the English, 23. =Bib.=: Douglas, _Quebec in Seventeenth Century_; Biggar, _Early Trading Companies of New France_; Kirke, _The First English Conquest of Canada_. =Caen, Ezechiel de.= =Ch= Brother of Guillaume, 137. =Caen, Guillaume de.= =Ch= Head of Company formed by Montmorency, 131, 132; difficulties with the old Company, 133 _et seq._; returns to France, 136; comes out to Canada, and returns to F
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