of
the North-West Coast_; Masson, _Bourgeois de la Compagnie du
Nord-Ouest_; Morice, _Northern Interior of British Columbia_; Bryce,
_Hudson's Bay Company_; Laut, _Conquest of the Great North-West_;
Burpee, _Search for the Western Sea_.

=Fraser River.= Rises in Rocky Mountains, and flows into Strait of
Georgia. Its upper waters discovered by Alexander Mackenzie, 1793; and
first explored down to its mouth by Simon Fraser, 1808. The total length
of the river is 695 miles. =Index=: =D= Mackenzie on, 54; supposed to be
the Oregon, 54; native name Tacouche Tesse, 54; mistaken for the
Columbia, 59; Simon Fraser on, 60-61; described, 60-61; route of
fur-brigades changed to, from the Columbia, 186. =MS= Mackenzie on,
77-79; Fraser on, 108-109. =Bib.=: Fraser _Journal_ in Masson,
_Bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest_.

=Fraser's Highlanders.= =WM= Captain of, replies to French sentries in
French, 180. =Bib.=: Kelly, _The Fighting Frasers of the Forty-Five and
Quebec_.

=Frechette, Louis= (1839-1908). Practised law, and then journalism.
Represented Levis in the House of Commons, 1874-1878. Chiefly known as a
poet. Two of his poems were crowned by the French Academy, 1880, and he
was granted the first Montyon prize. =Index=: =Hd= His poem on Du
Calvet, 292. =Bib.=: Works: _Mes Loisirs; La Voix d'un Exile_; _Pele
Mele_; _Les Fleurs Boreales_; _Legende d'un Peuple_; _Les Feuilles
Volantes_; _Lettres Basile_; _Originaux et Detra-ques_; _Lettres sur
l'Education_. For biog., _see_ Dent, _Can. Por._; Morgan, _Can. Men_;
Tache, _Men of the Day_; Chapman, _Le Laureat_; Sauvalle, _Le Laureat
Manque_.

=Fredericton.= Capital of New Brunswick. Situated on the west bank of
the St. John River. Founded by Sir Guy Carleton in 1785, and named by
him after the Duke of York. =Index=: =W= Popular demonstration at, 46;
education in, 85-86. =T= Abandonment of government house, 138-139.
=Bib.=: Hannay _History of New Brunswick_.

=Fredin, Jean.= =L= House of charity established by, 245.

=Free Trade.= =B= Its effect on Canadian invasion, 15, 31-32;
recommended by Reform convention of 1857, 217; advocated by George
Brown, 47, 233. =C= Peel's measure (1846) kills Canadian industries,
43-44; Cartier's views on, 115-116. =E= Protest from Canadian Assembly,
29; discussed in Legislature, 45; effects of, on Canada, 57-58. =T=
Unpopular in New Brunswick, 9.

=Freeman.= Newspaper published at St. John, New Brunswick. =Index=: =T=
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