ecollets,
151.

=Couillard, Guillaume.= =Ch= Early settler, 145.

=Couillard, Henry.= =Ch= Captain of the _Don de Dieu_, 39.

=Couillard, Jacques.= =Ch= An interpreter, 144.

=Council.= _See_ Legislative Council; Executive Council; Sovereign
Council.

=Council of Assiniboia.= Appointed by the Hudson's Bay Company, for the
government of the colonists in their territory. The first meeting was
held Feb. 12, 1835, with Sir George Simpson as president. Bishop Tache,
Alexander Christie, Alexander Ross, Cuthbert Ross, and ten others formed
the Council. The Council, among other useful work, organized a volunteer
corps for defensive and police purposes; divided the settlements into
four districts with a magistrate for each; and made provision for a
public building. =Index=: =MS= Established by Hudson's Bay Company, 223;
its character, 223; Simpson head of, 244. =Bib.=: Begg, _History of the
North-West_; Bryce, _Manitoba_; Hargrave, _Red River_; Ross, _Red River
Settlement_.

=County Courts.= =Sy= Act passed establishing, 339.

=Courcelles, Daniel de Remy, Sieur de.= Governor of Canada, 1665-1672.
His tenure of office marked by an unsuccessful expedition against the
Iroquois, and a long and acrimonious dispute with Laval and the Jesuits.
The Marquis de Tracy was viceroy over all the French possessions in
America during a portion of the governorship of De Courcelles; and Talon
was twice intendant of New France during the same period. =Index=: =F=
Governor of Canada, 50; arrives at Quebec, 51; moves against Iroquois,
52; character, 54; expedition to Cataraqui, 59; recalled, 60. =L=
Appointed governor, 51; stands godfather to converted Iroquois chief,
65; arrival of, 79; his high character, 81; executes justice on certain
murderers, 82, 83; leads expedition as far as Cataraqui, 83; plans
erection of a fort at that point, 84; returns to France, 143. =Bib.=:
Douglas, _Old France in the New World_; Parkman, _Old Regime_; Sulte,
_Regiment de Carignan_ (R. S. C., 1902).

=Coureurs de bois.= =WM= Described, 17, 18; furnished recruits to
militia, 31; summoned to defend the hornwork, 206. =Hd= Stir up Indians
against British, 55. =F= Created by policy of trading companies, 37; two
classes of, 88; Frontenac instructed to repress, 89; twelve captured,
99; one hanged, 100; king's decision respecting, 125; difficulty in
enforcing the law, 127; amnesty granted on certain conditions, 127;
punishments prescribed for offenders, 128. =L= M