France, 120; his warlike messages to
Congress, 173, 185; places temporary embargo on United States ships,
192; informs Congress of Hull's advance into Canada, 213. =Bib.=: _Cyc.
Am. Biog._

=Madocawando.= =F= Abenaquis chief, 329.

=Madras Schools.= =W= Founded by Joseph Lancaster, 86; the system
described, 86-87; established in New Brunswick, 87. =T= At Gagetown, 5;
system popular, 5.

=Magdalen Islands.= In Gulf of St. Lawrence. Uncertain who first
discovered the group. They were known for many years as the Isles
Ramees, or Ramea. This name first appears in narratives of voyages to
the Gulf in 1590-1597, in Hakluyt. Champlain applied the present name to
what is now known as Amherst Island, in the 1632 ed. of his _Voyages_.
It was afterwards applied to the whole group. =Bib.=: Ganong,
_Cartography of Gulf of St. Lawrence_ (R. S. C., 1889).

=Magistrates.= =Dr= Poor character and scandalous methods of many of
them, 52; some of them most worthy men, 55.

=Magnan, Pierre.= =Ch= Goes on embassy to Iroquois, 163; is murdered,
164.

=Maguaga.= =Bk= Americans successful in skirmish at, 238-243.

=Mahicanaticouche.= =Ch= Montagnais chief, 139, 163; found to have been
guilty of murder, 165.

=Mail.= Newspaper published at Niagara. =Index=: =B= Ridicules _Globe's_
proposal for annexation of North-West Territories, 217-218.

=Maillard, Antoine Simon.= Missionary to the Indians and French of
Acadia and Cape Breton, 1734. Vicar-general at Louisbourg for several
years. Invited by the governor of Nova Scotia to settle at Halifax,
1759. At first opposed British supremacy, but afterwards a strong
supporter of the government. Died in Halifax, 1768. =Bib.=: _Selections
from the Public Documents of Nova Scotia_, ed. by Akins.

=Mair, Charles= (1840- ). Born in Lanark, Ontario. Educated at Queen's
University, Kingston. Paymaster for the Dominion government at Fort
Garry, 1868; captured by the rebels in Riel's first rising, 1869;
condemned to death, but escaped. In the second rising, 1885, served as
quartermaster of the Governor-General's Body Guard. In 1893, appointed
Canadian government immigration agent in charge of the Lethbridge
district, Southern Alberta. =Index=: =Md= Comes to Ottawa from Prince
Albert to impress on authorities the serious situation in the West, 241.
=Bib.=: Works: _Dreamland and other Poems_; _Tecumseh: a Drama_. For
biog., _see_ Morgan, _Can. Men_; MacMurchy, _Canadian Literature_.

=Maisonneuve, Pau