_; 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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