as follows: married men,
64; married women (three born in Canada), 64; widower, 1; widows, 4;
unmarried men, 35; boys (30 born in Canada), 58; girls (24 born in
Canada), 48; nuns, 6; Jesuits, 29; others, 66. Benjamin Sulte finds the
population in 1650 to have been 705; and in 1663 about 2500. The census
of 1665 gives the total population as 3251. The first census of the
Dominion was taken in 1871, when the population was 3,635,024; the
census of 1881 gave a total of 4,324,810; of 1891, 4,833,239; of 1901,
5,371,315. _See also_ Acadians. =Index=: =E= Provided for by La
Fontaine-Baldwin government, 86; placed under Department of Agriculture
by Hincks-Morin government, 117. =F= Of 1666, 55. =Bib.=: _Census of
Canada_, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901. _See also_ Johnson, _First
Things in Canada_; and General Index, _Trans._ R. S. C., under _Census_.

=Centurion.= =WM= Admiral Saunders's ship, in action off Beauport shore,
136.

=Chabanel, Noel.= Jesuit missionary in the Huron country, 1643. Had been
a professor of rhetoric in France, before coming to Canada. When the
Hurons were driven from their country by the Iroquois, in 1649, he and
Garnier led their demoralized flock to the Island of St. Joseph, in
Matchadash Bay, an inlet of Georgian Bay. Even here the Iroquois
followed them, and attacked the mission of St. Jean, Dec. 7, 1649.
Chabanel had left the place a short time before, and so escaped the
general massacre. He, however, fell a victim to one of his own Hurons,
who confessed that he had murdered the missionary and thrown his body
into a river. =Index=: =L= Died a martyr, 62. =Bib.=: Parkman, _Jesuits
in North America_.

=Chabot, J.= (1807-1860). Born at St. Charles, Bellechasse, Lower
Canada. Studied law and practised in Quebec. Sat in the Assembly for
Quebec, 1843-1850; for Bellechasse, 1851-1854; and for Quebec,
1854-1856. Became chief commissioner of public works, 1849, and again in
1852; government director of the Grand Trunk, 1854; and Seigniorial
Tenure commissioner the same year. Appointed judge of the Superior Court
of Lower Canada, 1856. =Index=: =E= Commissioner of public works, 1853,
126; and again in coalition ministry, 1854, 141; votes against
secularization of the Clergy Reserves, 164; commissioner under
Seigniorial Tenure law, 186. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Cel. Can._; Dent, _Last
Forty Years_.

=Chalmers, Thomas.= =R= Offered, but declines, charge of educational
policy in Upper Canada, 37.

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