siliboilles, and Stone Indian River;
finally settling in present form. =Bib.=: Bryce, _Assiniboine River and
its Forts_ (R. S. C., 1892); Dawson, _Canada and Newfoundland_; Burpee,
_Search for the Western Sea_; Hind, _Canadian Red River and Assiniboine
and Saskatchewan Expeditions_.

=Association of Canadian Refugees.= =Mc= Formed in 1839, 448; object of,
independence of Canada, 449; ended further expeditions against Canada,
449.

=Astor, John Jacob= (1763-1848). Founder of Astor Fur Company. =Index=:
=Bk= Sends news of declaration of war in 1812, 204. =Bib.=: Bryce,
_Hudson's Bay Company_; _Cyc. Am. Biog._

=Astor Fur Company.= =Index=: =D= Founds Astoria, 64. _See also_ Pacific
Fur Company.

=Astoria.= Established by Pacific Fur Company, 1811. Turned over to the
North West Company, 1813, and renamed Fort George. The scene of
Washington Irving's delightful narrative _Astoria_. The fort stood on
the banks of the Columbia River, near its mouth. =Index=: =D= Acquired
by North West Company, 71, 149; in possession of United States after War
of 1812, 133-134; claimed by United States, 150; American flag raised
over, 150. =Bib.=: Franchere, _Voyage to the North-West Coast of
America_; Cox, _Adventures on the Columbia River_; Ross, _Adventures of
First Settlers on Columbia River_; _Henry-Thompson Journals_, ed. by
Coues; Bryce, _Hudson's Bay Company_; Bradbury, _Travels in the Interior
of America in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811_.

=Astorians.= Name applied to members of the two expeditions fitted out
by John Jacob Astor, to found trading establishment at the mouth of the
Columbia. One party sailed around the Horn in the _Tonquin_; the other
went overland by way of the Missouri and the Columbia. =Index=: =D=
Their influence upon development of Pacific coast, 4; their first
vessel, the _Tonquin_, captured by natives and the crew murdered, 1811,
37; the overland expedition, 71. _See also_ Pacific Fur Company;
_Tonquin_.

=Atahualpa.= =D= Vessel, attacked by Milbank Sound savages, 1805, 37.

=Atalanta.= =Hd= Vessel in which Haldimand embarked for England, 309.

=Atalante.= =WM= French frigate, loads stores at Sorel, 243.

=Athabaska.= One of the provisional districts formed out of the
North-West Territories in 1882; area about 122,000 square miles. Now
divided between the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta, forming the
northern half of each.

=Athabaska Lake.= First discovered by Peter Pond, about 1778. Ten years