5. Chief engineer of the Intercolonial Railway; and of the
Canadian Pacific Railway; chancellor of Queen's University since 1880;
president of the Royal Society of Canada, 1888-1889. To his initiation
and persistent enthusiasm are due the establishment of a system of
universal or cosmic time; the laying of the Pacific cable, as part of an
inter-imperial telegraph service; and the building of the memorial tower
at Halifax to commemorate the opening of the first colonial Legislature.
=Bib.=: Works: _The Intercolonial; England and Canada_; and numerous
historical and scientific papers. _See_ Bibliog. of Royal Society (R. S.
C., 1894). For biog., _see_ Morgan, _Can. Men_; Dent, _Can. Por._;
_Who's Who_; Grant, _Ocean to Ocean_.

=Flibot.= =Ch= Kirke's vessel before Quebec, 188, 196.

=Florida.= =Hd= Under British rule, 64-81; Haldimand comes north from,
83, 87; Haldimand's interest in, 90; suggests closing of ports of, 104;
his career there, 121; proposed disposition of, 124; Haldimand's
property in, 316.

=Florida, West.= =Bk= Occupation of, by United States, 139.

=Flour-milling.= =B= Stimulated by British preference of, 1843, 32;
advantage swept away by free trade measure of 1846, 32; in 1834, 54.

=Foley, M. H.= =B= In Tache ministry, 1864, 149; retires with Buchanan
and Simpson to make room for Brown, Mowat, and Macdougall, in Coalition
ministry, 159. =Bib.=: Pope, _Memoirs of Sir John A. Macdonald_; Dent,
_Last Forty Years_.

=Foligne, Captain de.= =WM= On rapid construction of Beauport defences,
86; his report of fighting at Levis, 103; on pitiable condition of
Quebec, 160; quoted as to rout of French army, 206; on distress
following capture of Quebec, 236.

=Fontbonne, Colonel.= =WM= His disposition of the Guienne Regiment, 192;
mortally wounded, 199.

=Fonte, Bartholomew de.= His fictitious voyage of 1640 to the North-West
Coast was described in a letter published in the _Monthly Miscellany_,
London, 1708. =Index=: =D= His reputed strait, 19; his voyage again
credited, 23. =Bib.=: Bancroft, _History of the North-West Coast_.

=Fontenay, Mareuil.= =Ch= French ambassador in London, instructions to,
214.

=Forget, Amedee Emmanuel= (1847- ). Born in Ste. Marie de Monnoir,
Quebec. Studied law and called to the bar of Quebec, 1871. Secretary to
the Manitoba Half-Breed Commission, 1875; clerk of the North-West
Council, 1876-1888; Indian commissioner, 1895-1898; lieutenant-governor
of the North-West Territories