in Canadian territory, of
which we have any record. It affected chiefly the valley of the St.
Lawrence from Montreal to the gulf, a region more susceptible to seismic
disturbance than any other in Eastern Canada. Kingsford cites
contemporary reports of similar phenomena in 1638 and 1766. =Index=: =F=
Described by Avaugour, 46-47. =L= Lalemant's account of, 42-45; Marie de
l'Incarnation on, 45; conversions resulting from, 45-46. =Bib.=:
Charlevoix, _Histoire de la Nouvelle France_; Lalemant, _Relation,
1663_; Ragueneau, _Vie de Catherine de St. Augustin_; Marie de
l'Incarnation, _Lettres_; Parkman, _Old Regime_; Kingsford, _History of
Canada_.

=Eastern Townships.= =Hd= Proposition to settle with disbanded
Loyalists, 264. =Dr= Settled by British Americans, 289; mixed population
of, 288. =Bib.=: Day, _Pioneers of the Eastern Townships_; Day, _History
of the Eastern Townships;_ Thomas, _History of the Eastern Townships_.

=Easton, James.= =Dr= American officer, demands surrender of Carleton at
Sorel, 113. =Bib.=: _Cyc. Am. Biog._

=Eau, Chevalier d'.= =F= Goes on embassy to Iroquois, 262.

=Echemin Indians.= A tribe closely resembling the Micmacs of Nova
Scotia, and inhabiting in the seventeenth century what is now eastern
Maine and New Brunswick. They lived by hunting and fishing. =Index=:
=WM= Enemies of the English, 16.

=Edgar, Sir James David= (1841-1899). Studied law, and called to the bar
of Upper Canada, 1864. Elected to House of Commons, 1872. Sent on
political mission to British Columbia, in connection with Canadian
Pacific Railway. Returned to Parliament, 1884; elected Speaker of the
House of Commons, 1896. =Index=: =Md= Sent to British Columbia by
Mackenzie government, 234. =D= Sent to Victoria, 1874, as special agent
of Dominion government, in connection with Canadian Pacific Railway,
320. =Bib.=: Works: _This Canada of Ours and Other Poems_; _The White
Stone Canoe_; _Canada and its Capital_. For biog., _see_ Morgan, _Can.
Men_.

=Edmonton.= Capital of province of Alberta. Situated on the North
Saskatchewan. Occupies site of Edmonton House, of the Hudson's Bay
Company, and, at a still earlier date, Fort Augustus, of the North West
Company. Later was built by Hughes, and known at one time as Fort des
Prairies. =Bib.=: Cameron, _The City on the Saskatchewan_.

=Edmonton House.= =MS= Built by Hudson's Bay Company, 6.

=Education.= =Md= University endowment in Upper Canada, 28-30;
Macdonald's connection