ople, 58, 59; overgoverned, 131; trade, 148; affected by all the
vicissitudes of mother country, 150, 151; "farmers" of revenue appointed
for, 154; Bishop St. Vallier's first description of country and
inhabitants, 192; Governor Denonville's description, 192; St. Vallier's
revised opinion, 193; real character of the people, 193-195; state of
depression throughout the country, 219, 240; drinking habits of people,
223; described by Laval as the country of miracles, 301; exhaustion of,
after departure of New England fleet, 305, 317. _See also_ New France;
Cartier, Jacques; Cabot, John; Champlain; Quebec Act; Constitutional
Act; Union Act; Upper Canada; Lower Canada; Confederation.

=Canada Act.= _See_ Constitutional Act.

=Canada Company.= Founded in London, 1824, by John Gait, as a colonizing
scheme. A large tract of land was purchased in what is now western
Ontario. Dunlop, Talbot, Strickland, and other pioneers of Upper Canada
were associated with Gait in the enterprise. The company is still in
existence. =Index=: =E= An agency in settlement of Upper Canada, 145;
its unpopularity, 145. =R= Offers to buy Clergy Reserves, 50. =B=
Recommends whiskey to intending immigrants, 75. _See also_ Galt, John;
Dunlop, William; Talbot, Thomas. =Bib.=: Lizars, _In the Days of the
Canada Company_; Strickland, _Twenty-seven Years in Canada West_; Galt,
_Autobiography_; Jameson, _Winter Sketches_; Talbot, _Six Years in the
Canadas_; McTaggart, _Three Years in Upper Canada_; Dunlop, _The
Backwoodsman_.

=Canada Corn Act=, 1843. =C= Builds up flour industry in Canada, 43.

=Canada First Association.= =B= Platform, 235; criticized by the
_Globe_, 236; suspected of aiming at national independence, 237; Goldwin
Smith, leader of party, attacked by _Globe_, 237; his reply, 238; spirit
of the movement, 239; its effect, 240-241; Liberal party injured by
hostility to movement, 240-242. =Md= Formed in Toronto, 1870, 226; its
policy, 226. =Bib.=: Dent, _Last Forty Years_; _Canada First: A Memorial
of the Late William A. Foster_; Denison, _The Struggle for Imperial
Unity_.

=Canada Trade Act.= Passed by Imperial Parliament in 1822, with the
object of correcting the injustice to Upper Canada in the apportionment
of duties collected. The Quebec Legislature had refused to re-enact the
old Acts apportioning a share of duties to Upper Canada, and these Acts
were now made permanent. Lower Canada was debarred from imposing new
duties on imports by sea