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ter member of the Royal Society of Canada; elected president of that body in 1889. =Index=: =L= His pen-portrait of Mme. de la Peltrie, 153-154. =Ch= On the question of Champlain's tomb, 261-262. =Bib.=: Among his principal works are: _Histoire de la Mere Marie de l'Incarnation_; _Biographies Canadiennes_; _Un Pelerinage au Pays d'Evangeline_; _Montcalm et Levis_. For bib., _see_ R. S. C., 1894, 21. For biog., _see_ Routhier, _Eloge historique de H. R. Casgrain_ (R. S. C., 1904); Morgan, _Can. Men_. =Cass, Lewis= (1782-1866). Served under General Hull in War of 1812. Drew up Hull's flamboyant proclamation to the people of Canada. Opposed surrender of Detroit. Governor of territory of Michigan. =Index=: =Bk= On surrender of Detroit, 257. =Bib.=: Contributed to _Historical Sketches of Michigan_, 1834. For biog., _see_ McLaughlin, _Lewis Cass_; _Cyc. Am. Biog._ =Castillon, Jacques de.= =Ch= Assisted in forming Company of New France, 168; presents pictures to church of Notre Dame de la Recouvrance, 240. =Castle Frank.= =S= Country chalet built for Simcoe near York, 215. =Castle of St. Louis.= _See_ Chateau St. Louis. =Catalogne, Gedeon de.= Employed for some years on military and other engineering works in Canada. In 1701 commenced a canal from Lachine to the Little River, with the object of providing a boat channel around the rapids. The work was abandoned, and resumed in 1717, but was again abandoned, owing to the cost of the rock cutting. Accompanied Denonville on his expedition against the Iroquois, in 1687. =Cataraqui.= A fort, built by the engineer Raudin in 1673, under Frontenac's orders, the site having been selected by La Salle. The fort stood at the mouth of the Cataraqui, on the site of the present city of Kingston. Here Frontenac held a great Council with representatives of the five Iroquois nations, 1673. On Frontenac's recommendation, Cataraqui was granted to La Salle as a seigniory, upon his repaying the amount the fort had cost the king. Fort Frontenac, as La Salle named it, became the base of his ambitious scheme of western explorations. =Index=: =F= Expedition of Courcelles to, 59; of Frontenac, 76-84; fort, afterwards known as Fort Frontenac, erected at, 83. =Hd= Lands allotted to Loyalists in neighbourhood of, 236, 255; settlers at, 258, 265. =S= Barracks of, on site of old Fort Frontenac, 51; Loyalist settlements in surrounding country, 58; detail of, 59. _See also_ Kingston; Fort Frontenac;
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