ct with Manitoba as to its monopoly of transportation,
284-285; its effect on Macdonald government, 301. =C= First charter
engineered by Cartier, 51; the railway the crowning work of
Confederation, 51; its eastern terminus, 52; the Allan Company and the
MacPherson Syndicate, 53; the Pacific Scandal, 53-54; bill in
Parliament, 131. =B= Its building approved by country as a measure of
national growth and expansion, 241. =D= Revolutionizes old conditions
of trade in British Columbia, 265; Imperial government asked to
guarantee its completion, 315; delays in building, 317, 323; movement
for a transcontinental railway, 317-318; negotiations, 318-320; Pacific
Scandal, 321; Carnarvon Terms, 320-322; building operations, 324-326;
completion, 1885, 326; terminus, 327. =Bib.=: Hopkins, _Canada: An
Ency._, vol. 2; Parkin, _The Great Dominion_; Begg, _History of the
North-West_; Fleming, _Reports on Canadian Pacific Railway_, 1874, 1877,
1878, 1879, 1880.

=Canadian Sharpshooters.= =WM= In battle of Ste. Foy, 259, 263.

=Canadien.= =Bk= Newspaper founded in 1806, appealed to race prejudices,
92; claimed unconstitutional power for Legislative Assembly, 92, 93; on
the rights of Parliament, 116; seized and temporarily suppressed by
Governor Craig, 127; seizure not approved by British authorities, 147.
=Bib.=: Dionne, _Pierre Bedard et Son Temps_ (R. S. C., 1898).

=Canals.= The earliest canal in Canada and in North America was that at
Lachine, which dates back to the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Between 1779 and 1783, lock canals were built by the Royal Engineers, at
the Coteau and the Cascades, on the St. Lawrence. In 1798 a boat canal
was built at Sault Ste. Marie by the North West Company. A canal to
connect the St. Lawrence and Lake Champlain was advocated as early as
1775, by Silas Deane of Connecticut, but was not actually undertaken
until 1831. The Welland Canal was commenced in 1824; and the Rideau
Canal two years later. These artificial waterways of Canada are
controlled by the Department of Railways and Canals, of the Dominion
government. =Index=: =Bk= First in American continent made in Canada,
48. =BL= Construction and improvement of, provided for by government in
1841, 98; completion of St. Lawrence canals, 286-287. =B= Improvement
of, advocated by George Brown, 61; extension of, approved by Quebec
Conference, 166; enlargement of, suggested by Fish, United States
secretary of state, in 1874, 227. =S= Four made a