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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