the days
of French Canada, it was given to a comparatively small and unimportant
tribe, whose home was on the banks of the Ottawa. =Index=: =L= Two camps
of, destroyed, 9; missions destroyed by drunkenness, 175. =Bib.=:
Parkman, _Conspiracy of Pontiac_; Brinton, _The Lenape and Their
Legends_; Pilling, _Bibliography of the Algonquian Languages_.
=Aliens.= =Dr= Dorchester has Act passed in 1794 by Assembly, 288;
designed to guard against danger of anti-British sentiment, 288. =Mc=
Act passed in Upper Canada, 1804, 88; designed to guard against
sedition, 88-89; terms of British Act of 1790, 140-141; hardships of,
141; Act of 1826, 141-143.
=Alix, Marguerite. Ch= Mother of Helen Bouille, 66.
=Alix, Simon. Ch= Director of Company of New France, 170.
=Allan, George William= (1822-1901). Born in York, Upper Canada.
Educated at Upper Canada College; studied law and called to the bar,
1846. Served in the volunteers during the Rebellion of 1837. Mayor of
Toronto, 1855; elected member of the Legislative Council, 1858;
appointed to the Senate, 1867; Speaker of the Senate, 1888-1891. From
1877 until his death, chancellor of Trinity University. =Bib.=: Morgan,
_Can. Men._
=Allan, Sir Hugh= (1810-1882). Founder of the Allan line of steamships.
Came to Canada from Scotland, 1826, and in 1831 entered the shipbuilding
firm of James Millar & Co., Montreal, of which he became a partner in
1835. In 1853 his firm began building iron screw steamships, and their
first vessel, the _Canadian_, made its first voyage in 1855. The
following year, with a fleet of four vessels, a regular service was
opened between Canada and England, with fortnightly sailings. In 1859
the fleet was increased to eight steamers, and a weekly service opened.
From these small beginnings, the Allan Line has risen to a foremost
place in transatlantic transportation. =Index=: =Md= President of the
Canadian Pacific Railway Co.--his agreement with American capitalists,
201-202; corrupt bargains with government, 202; denies charges, 205;
Macdonald denies corrupt bargain, 207; Cartier's connection with, 207;
his Company compelled to abandon railway project, 233. =C= His Company
offers to build transcontinental railway, 53; asked to subscribe to
Conservative election fund, 53; his indiscreet letters, 53. =H=
President of Montreal Board of Trade, presides at public dinner to
Joseph Howe, 138. =D= His connection with transcontinental railway
project, 321. =E= His line
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