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Talbot. =Bib.=: _Statistical Sketches of Upper Canada_. For biog., _see_ Lizars, _Days of the Canada Company_ and _Humours of '37_; Dent, _Last Forty Years_; Rattray, _The Scot in British North America_; Morgan, _Bib. Can._ =Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of= (1732-1809). Royal governor of Virginia, appointed 1771. Returned to England after the Revolutionary War, and in 1786 appointed governor of the Bermudas. =Index=: =Hd= His letter to Haldimand, 92. =Bib.=: _Cyc. Am. Biog._ =Dunn, John Henry.= Came to Canada in 1820, from England. Receiver-general and member of Executive and Legislative Councils of Upper Canada. Died in London, 1854. =Index=: =BL= Receiver-general, appointed to Council by Head, 38-39; receiver-general, 1841, 76; a moderate Reformer, 78; Baldwin's confidence in, 78; retains office under La Fontaine-Baldwin government, 134; beaten in Toronto, 1844, 253. =Sy= Made receiver-general of united province, 283, 332. =Mc= Appointed executive councillor, 294; resigns, 294. =Bib.=: Dent, _Last Forty Years_. =Dunn, Oscar= (1844-1885). Journalist. =Index=: =C= His statements as to Cartier's quarrel with Macdonald over terms of British North America Act, 103. =Bib.=: _Cyc. Am. Biog._ =Dunn, Robert.= =S= Presbyterian clergyman, performed marriage services in contravention of the law, 164; second clergyman to settle in Niagara district, 165; drowned in wreck of the _Speedy_, 165. =Dunn, Thomas= (1731-1818). Engaged in mercantile life; came to Canada shortly after the conquest. In 1764 appointed a member of the first Legislative Council of Quebec. A member of the new Council formed under Quebec Act, and one of the five selected by Carleton for the Special Privy Council. On the passing of the Constitutional Act, appointed one of the first executive and legislative councillors of the Lower Province, and during five different periods acted as president of the Legislative Council. On departure of Sir Robert Milnes, in 1805, assumed the administration of the province and continued to act until the arrival of Sir James Craig in October, 1807. Again in 1811, during the interval between the departure of Sir James Craig and the arrival of Sir George Prevost, entrusted with the administration. =Index=: =Dr= Appointed judge, 183. =Bk= Becomes civil administrator with title of president on departure of Sir R.S. Milnes, 69, 73; differences with Brock, 77; confident of loyalty of French-Canadians, 86; calls out one-fifth of
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