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f trade and commerce. =Index=: =Md= Favours commercial union, 297; introduces unrestricted reciprocity resolution, 1888, 298-299; his modified resolution of 1889, 299. =B= His account of pre-confederation scenes in the house, 153-154. =C= Discussion with Cartier in 1872, on the militia, 110. =Bib.=: Works: _Remarks on the Militia of Canada_; _Memories of Confederation_. For biog., _see_ Dent, _Can. Por._ and _Last Forty Years_; Morgan, _Can. Men_; _Canadian Who's Who_. =Carver, Jonathan= (1732-1780). Born at Stillwater, New York. Joined the company of rangers raised by John Burk of Northfield, 1756-1757. After the treaty of Paris, 1763, conceived the idea of exploring the Western territory acquired by England. Between 1766 and 1768, travelled from Michilimackinac to the Mississippi, ascended the Minnesota River, and returned by way of Grand Portage, Lake Superior. Went to England, 1769, to secure government support for his plans of Western exploration, but failed. Died there, Jan. 31, 1780. =Index=: =D= His River of Oregon, 19; reference to Oregon, 56-57. =Bib.=: _Travels through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768_. The best edition is the third, published at London, 1781. For a bib. of the various editions, and translations, _see_ Lee, _Bibliography of Carver's Travels_ (Wisconsin State Hist. Soc. _Proc._, 1909). _See also_ Durrie, _Jonathan Carver and "Carver's Grant"_ (Wisconsin Hist. Soc. _Coll._, vol. 6); Gregory, _Jonathan Carver: His Travels in the North-West_ (Parkman Club _Pub._, No. 5); Bourne, _Travels of Jonathan Carver_ in _Amer. Hist. Review_, 1906; Parkman, _Conspiracy of Pontiac_. =Cas Reserve.= =L= In connection with sale of liquor to Indians, 171, 174. =Cascades.= On the St. Lawrence River. =Hd= Improvements in navigation at, 185. =Case, William.= =R= Visits England, 1831, 90; his connection with split in Methodist body, 105. =Casgrain, Henri Raymond= (1831-1904). After studying medicine, decided to enter the church, and ordained a priest in 1856. In 1872, owing to an affection of the eyes, compelled to abandon the ministry, and thereafter devoted himself entirely to literature. His first work, _Legendes Canadiennes_, appeared in 1861; and this was followed by many other publications, in history, biography, and belles-lettres. One of the principal contributors to the _Soirees Canadiennes_, the _Foyer Canadien_, and other French-Canadian periodicals. A char
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