Quebec.
Engaged in business pursuits at Oshawa. Defeated for election to the
Assembly for South Ontario, 1854, but successful, 1865. Elected to
represent South Ontario in the House of Commons, 1867, the defeated
candidate being George Brown. Secretary of state and minister of inland
revenue in the government of Sir John A. Macdonald, 1873. Appointed to
the senate, 1880.

=Gibson, David.= =Mc= Organizes shooting matches, 342; rebels meet at
his house, 360; opposes advance on Toronto, 362; his house burned, 375;
objects to Mackenzie's plans, 376; escapes, 380. =Bib.=: Dent, _Upper
Canadian Rebellion_.

=Gibson, John Morrison= (1842- ). Educated at the University of Toronto;
studied law and called to the bar of Ontario, 1867. Elected to the
Ontario Assembly for Hamilton, 1879; provincial secretary, 1889;
commissioner of crown lands, 1896; attorney-general, 1889-1905;
lieutenant-governor of Ontario, 1908. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Can. Men_;
_Canadian Who's Who_.

=Giffard, Robert.= First seignior in New France. Mentioned at Quebec in
1627; returned to France, 1629; established at his Beauport seigneury,
1634; a member of the Council, 1646; syndic of Quebec, 1648; gave his
St. Gabriel property to the Jesuits, 1667. =Index=: =Ch= Landed with his
family by Kirke on St. Pierre Island, 174; comes to Canada with forty
colonists, 250; receives grant of land near Beauport, 251. =Bib.=:
Douglas, _Old France in the New World_.

=Gilbert, Thomas.= =W= Member for Queens, New Brunswick, an advocate of
old-time Toryism, 96. =T= Proposes to convert King's College into
agricultural school, 20, 21; his bill defeated, 91.

=Gillam, Benjamin.= Son of following. Commanded a trading expedition
from Boston to Hudson Bay in 1683, and built a fort some miles up the
Nelson River. Pierre Radisson captured the fort, and carried Gillam a
prisoner to Quebec, where he was promptly released by the governor.
Sailed for Boston, and arrested on behalf of the Hudson's Bay Company
for poaching in their territory. Seems to have turned pirate a year or
two later; captured at Boston, carried to England with Captain Kidd, who
had been arrested at the same time, and hanged with his fellow pirate.
=Bib.=: Laut, _Conquest of the Great North-West_.

=Gillam, Zachariah.= A New England skipper, sent out in 1668 by Prince
Rupert and his associates, to Hudson Bay, in command of the _Nonsuch_,
on a voyage of exploration and trade. Medard Chouart (_q.v._) sailed
with him,