132; opposed to coalition,
160; his speech against Confederation, 175-178, 207; his motion for
adjournment defeated, 185; opposed to Brown entering coalition ministry,
199. =Bib.=: Taylor, _Brit. Am._; Dent, _Can. Por._ and _Last Forty
Years_; Willison, _Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Liberal Party_.
=Dorion, Jean Baptiste Eric= (1826-1866). Brother of preceding. One of
founders of _L'Avenir_, 1848. Sat in the Legislature, 1854-1857, and
again in 1861. =Index=: =E= Member of _Parti Rouge_, 108. =C= A Liberal
leader in Lower Canada, 25; nicknamed _L'enfant terrible_, 25. =Bib.=:
Morgan, _Bib. Can._
=Dorland, Philip.= =S= Quaker, elected to Assembly, but, unable to take
oath, resigns, 81.
=Dosquet, Pierre-Herman= (1691-1777). Native of Lille, France; came to
Canada, 1721; on his return to France, 1725, consecrated bishop of Samos
and appointed coadjutor to Bishop Mornay. Later made bishop of Quebec.
While in Canada lived in the style of a seignior, much in contrast to
the simple life of Laval and of St. Vallier. Died in Paris. =Index:= =L=
Succeeds Mornay as bishop of Quebec, 12. =Bib.=: Tetu, _Eveques de
Quebec_; Casgrain, _L'Habitation de Samos_ (R. S. C., 1906).
=Double Majority.= =Md= Meaning of the term--attitude of public men
towards, 78-79; leading plank in platform of the Macdonald-Sicotte
government, 89. =B= Origin and meaning of the principle, 82; advocated
by John Sandfield Macdonald, 142; opposed by George Brown, 143; Duke of
Newcastle on, 143; and separate school question, 145. =BL= Beginnings of
the system, 258; Hincks's views on, 259; Baldwin opposed to, 352;
Turcotte and Hincks on, 352. =Bib.=: Dent, _Last Forty Years_; Pope,
_Memoirs of Sir John A. Macdonald_; Mackenzie, _George Brown_.
=Double Ministries.= Brown-Dorion; Hincks-Morin; La Fontaine-Baldwin;
Macdonald-Cartier; Macdonald-Dorion; Macdonald-Sicotte; MacNab-Morin;
MacNab-Tache; Sherwood-Daly; Tache-Macdonald. _See under_ names of
individual ministers.
"=Double Shuffle=," 1858. =B= History of, 107-108. =Md= An ingenious
device resorted to by Macdonald, Cartier, and their colleagues, to avoid
the necessity of re-election, 85-87. =Bib.=: Pope, _Memoirs of Sir John
A. Macdonald_; Dent, _Last Forty Years_; Mackenzie, _George Brown_;
Biggar, _Sir Oliver Mowat_.
=Doucett, Joseph.= Lieutenant-governor of the Fort of Annapolis,
1717-1726. Member of the governor's Council.
=Dougall, John= (1808-1886). Born in Paisley, Scotland. Came to Cana
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