st Toronto, 1861-1863; represented South
Leeds in the House of Commons, 1867-1873; lieutenant-governor of
Ontario, 1873-1875. Died at Government House, Toronto. =Index=: =B=
Defeats George Brown in East Toronto, 1861, 141. =Bib.=: Read,
_Lieutenant-Governors of Upper Canada_.

=Crawford, Colonel.= =Hd= Leader in attack on Moravian Indians, 171.

=Crawley, Edmund Albern= (1799-1880). Graduated from King's College,
Windsor; studied law under James W. Johnstone, and called to the bar,
1882. One of the leaders of the Baptist Church in Nova Scotia; entered
the ministry; and became the principal founder of Acadia College.
=Index=: =H= Halifax lawyer--becomes a Baptist and enters ministry, 77;
Dalhousie College refuses to appoint him to professorship, 81. =Bib.=:
Dent, _Can. Por._; Hill, _Forty Years with the Baptist Ministers and
Churches of the Maritime Provinces of Canada_.

=Credit River.= Rises in Caledon Mountains, and enters Lake Ontario,
fourteen miles west of Toronto. =Index=: =Bk= Tract of land on,
purchased by Lieutenant-Governor Hunter from Indians, 65. _See also_
Ryerson.

=Cree Indians.= An important Algonquian tribe, formerly ranging
throughout what are now the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and
north-eastwards to Hudson Bay. First mentioned in Jesuit _Relations_,
1640, 1661, and 1667, and in the early journals of the Hudson's Bay
Company. They formed an alliance with the Assiniboines, formerly of
Siouan stock, and carried their raids against hostile tribes westwards
to the Rocky Mountains, and north to the Mackenzie River. In 1776 they
numbered about 15,000, but were reduced by smallpox in 1786, and again
in 1838. By the end of the nineteenth century they had again regained
their former numbers. =Bib.=: Hodge, _Handbook of American Indians_;
Harmon, _Journal_; Mackenzie, _Voyages_.

=Creek Indians.= A confederacy of the Muskhogean family. Known to the
English as occupying what are now the states of Alabama and Florida.
First visited by the Spaniards, under De Soto, in 1540. As a result of
the Creek War, in 1813-1814, they were removed by the American
government to Indian Territory, between 1835 and 1840. =Index=: =Hd= War
with, 69; character of, 70; their raids in Georgia, 91; Gage's opinion
of, 98. =Bib.=: Hodge, _Handbook of American Indians_.

=Creighton, John= (1794-1878). Born in Nova Scotia. Called to the bar,
1816, and created Q. C. by royal warrant, 1845. Sat in the Legislative
Assembly