long.
115 deg. 50', and flows into Pacific Ocean. Total length about 1150 miles.
Its mouth was discovered by Robert Gray, of Boston, May, 1792, and named
by him after his vessel. It was first reached overland by Lewis and Clark,
in 1805; and first explored throughout its entire length by David
Thompson, of the North West Company, 1807-1811. Its principal branch is
the Kootenay. =Index=: =D= Carver's "River of Oregon," 19; Russian
colony projected at, 44; named by Gray, 57; Fraser raised mistaken for,
59; Lewis and Clark on, 67.

=Comfort, Thomas.= =Mc= Aids Mackenzie's escape, 384.

=Commerce.= =Bk= In Upper Canada, 50. _See also_ Trade.

=Commercial Union.= Complete and entire free trade with the United
States, first proposed by Ira Gould, before Montreal Board of Trade,
February, 1852. (_See_ Montreal _Gazette_, Feb. 18-22, 1852.) The
question was repeatedly discussed in succeeding years, down to 1890, in
and out of Parliament, and for a time was adopted by the Liberal party
as a trade policy, but abandoned before they came into power in 1896.
=Index=: =Md= Brought forward by Liberals as an alternative to
protection, 261-262; history of the movement, 291-292; the Commercial
Union League, 293-298. _See also_ Unrestricted reciprocity; Reciprocity;
Zollvrein. =Bib.=: _Canadian Emancipation and Commercial Union_; Adam,
_Handbook of Commercial Union_; Willison, _Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the
Liberal Party_; Pope, _Memoirs of Sir John A. Macdonald_.

=Commissariat Department.= =S= Abuses in, 212.

=Company of Canada (Merchant Adventurers of Canada).= Organized by David
Kirke, and chartered by Charles I, to exploit the fur trade of the St.
Lawrence. The restoration of Canada to France in 1632 brought the
operations of Kirke, Sir William Alexander, and their associates to an
untimely end. =Index=: =Ch= Letters patent granted to, 176. =Bib.=:
Douglas, _Old France in the New World_; Kirke, _The First English
Conquest of Canada_.

=Company of De Caen.= Organized by William de Caen and his nephew Emery,
merchants of Rouen. Monopoly granted the company on usual terms as to
settlement, missionaries, etc., 1621. Absorbed Champlain's Company,
1622, and the united Companies carried on trade until 1633. =Index=:
=Ch= Organized, 130-132; rivalry with Company of Rouen, 133-137;
amalgamation of two companies, 136-137. =Bib.=: Biggar, _Early Trading
Companies of New France_; Parkman, _Pioneers of France_.

=Company of New France (Co