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_; Moor, _The Gladwin Manuscripts_; _Cyc. Am. Biog._ =Glandelet, Abbe Charles.= =L= Accompanies Laval to Canada, 141; theologist of chapter of Quebec, 197. =F= Preaches against theatre, 336. =Glassion, de.= =Dr= Superior of Jesuits, sends petition to the king, through Carleton, 35. =Glegg, Captain J. B.= Aide-de-camp to General Brock. =Index=: =Bk= Carries summons for surrender of Detroit, 251, 255; carries despatches to Quebec, announcing victory, 259. =Bib.=: Richardson, _War of 1812_, ed. by Casselman; Lucas, _Canadian War of 1812_. =Glen, John Sanders.= =F= Magistrate of Schenectady, life spared, 247. =Glenelg, Charles Grant, Baron= (1778-1866). Born in Kidderpore, India. Educated at Magdalen College, Cambridge, England, and called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1807. Member of the British House of Commons, 1811-1835. Appointed lord of the treasury, 1813; chief secretary for Ireland and a member of the Privy Council, 1819; vice-president of the Board of Trade and treasurer of the navy, 1823; president of the Board of Control, 1830-1834, and colonial secretary, 1835. Created Baron Glenelg, 1835. Resigned the secretaryship, 1839, and made land tax commissioner. Died in Cannes. =Index=: =W= His incompetence and procrastination, 42; on casual and territorial revenues of New Brunswick, 61-62. =Sy= President of Board of Trade, 16; resigns, 16; unequal to duties of colonial office, 57. =BL= Appointment of Head as governor, 36; Head's letter to, 41. =H= Instructs Sir Colin Campbell to grant a measure of responsible government to Nova Scotia, 44-45; Joseph Howe's letter to, on ocean steamship service, 232. =Mc= Opposes responsible government, 20; on colonial self-government, 73; refers report of the Committee on Grievances to the king, 263; his reply to report, 280; on Executive Councils, 302; schooled by Head, 304; Head disobeys his orders, 307; on non-elective Legislative Council, 324. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._ =Glengarry.= A county in Ontario, on the St. Lawrence. Named after the famous glen in Inverness, Scotland. Many Scottish Highlanders left their native country after the battle of Culloden in 1746, and emigrated to America. They were all intensely loyal, and when the Revolution broke out many moved north into Canada, settling on the Niagara frontier, the bay of Quinte, and the banks of the St. Lawrence. From the latter settlement sprang the present Glengarry County. In 1804-1805 Bishop McDonell obtained se
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