8; committee
formed to inquire into causes, etc., 88-89; one of the grievances in the
Ninety-Two Resolutions, 89. _See also_ Epidemics.

=Chouageun.= _See_ Oswega.

=Chouart= _dit_ =des Groseilliers, Medard=. Born in France about 1621.
Came to Canada, 1642. After serving the Jesuits for some years as a
_donne_, or lay helper, engaged in the fur trade, and with his
brother-in-law Radisson (_q.v._) made extensive explorations in the West
and North, 1659-1663. With Radisson afterwards went to England and was
instrumental in establishing the Hudson's Bay Company, and laying the
foundations of its gigantic fur trading monopoly on the shores of Hudson
Bay. =Bib.=: Dionne, _Chouart et Radisson_ (R. S. C., 1893); Sulte,
_Radisson in the North-West_ (R. S. C., 1904); Sulte, _Decouverte du
Mississippi_ (R. S. C., 1903); Bryce, _Hudson's Bay Company_; Laut,
_Pathfinders of the West_ and _Conquest of the Great North-West_.

=Christian Doctrine, Brothers of the.= =L= Arrival of, in Canada, 125.

=Christian Guardian.= =R= Founded at York (Toronto), 1829, 82; Egerton
Ryerson, first editor, 82; exponent of Methodist views on religious,
educational, and political questions, 82-83; its policy, 94-95;
Ryerson's articles in, 96, 97, 98, 100, 109, 110, 134, 137.

=Christie, Alexander.= =MS= Chief factor, Hudson's Bay Company, and
later governor of Assiniboia, 222. =Bib.=: Ryerson, _Story of my Life_.

=Christie, David= (1818-1880). Born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Educated at
Edinburgh High School. Came to Canada, 1833, and devoted himself to
farming. Took a prominent part in politics as a leader of the Reformers.
Sat for Wentworth in the Legislative Assembly, 1851-1854, and for East
Brant, 1855-1858. Elected to the Legislative Council, 1858, and held his
seat until Confederation. Appointed to the Dominion Senate, 1867;
secretary of state, 1873; Speaker of the Senate, 1874-1878.
Administrator of Ontario during the illness of the lieutenant-governor,
1875. Died in Paris, Ontario. =Index=: =B= A leader of the Clear Grits,
39. =E= Well-known agriculturist, and a leader of the Clear Grits, 110.
=Bib.=: Dent, _Last Forty Years_.

=Christie, Robert= (1788-1856). Born in Nova Scotia. Repeatedly expelled
from the Assembly of Lower Canada; re-elected after the union, and held
his seat until 1854. Contributed to Quebec _Gazette_ and _Mercury_.
=Index=: =F= Papineau causes his expulsion on four occasions from
Assembly, 80; his reconciliation with P