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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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