Part 12 (2/2)

=Cap Rouge.= On the St. Lawrence, above Quebec. =Index=: =WM= Vaudreuil orders posting of two hundred men at, 162; Bougainville's headquarters at, 163; difficulty of crossing the river, 248.

=Cape Breton.= An island at the eastern extremity of Nova Scotia, now forming part of that province. Discovered by John Cabot in 1497. First settlement made by the French in 1712. Town of Louisbourg built and strongly fortified. It was captured by Pepperrell and Warren in 1745; restored to France by the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1748; again captured by the British, under Amherst and Boscawen, 1758. Cape Breton was a separate colony of Great Britain, 1784-1820, with Sydney (founded 1785) as its capital. In 1820 it was incorporated with Nova Scotia.

=Index=: =Ch= Named St. Lawrence Island by Champlain, 236; Jesuit mission at, for benefit of Micmacs, 236; maintained until 1659, 237.

_See also_ Louisbourg; Sydney; Nova Scotia. =Bib.=: Brown, _History of Cape Breton_; Bourinot, _Cape Breton and its Memorials_; Grant, _Cape Breton, Past and Present_.

=Cape Diamond, Quebec.= =Ch= Fortified, 157.

=Cape St. Vincent.= =Bk= British naval victory of, 10.

=Car Brigade.= =Bk= Formed, 196.

=Carden, Major.= =Dr= Killed in dispersing Ethan Allen's force, 99.

=Cardinal Joseph.= =P= At meeting of Const.i.tutional Committee, 1834, 88.

=Carey.= =Sy= Made deputy inspector-general, 333.

=Carheil, etienne de.= A Breton, of n.o.ble birth. Came to Canada as a Jesuit missionary in 1666. After two years spent at Quebec, left in 1668 for his mission among the Cayugas. Spent a number of years there in a zealous but largely fruitless effort to convert the Indians to Christianity. In 1683 sent to the Hurons at Michilimackinac, and laboured among that tribe for many years. Finally returned to Quebec, where he died. =Bib.=: Campbell, _Pioneer Priests of North America_; _Jesuit Relations_, ed. by Thwaites.

=Cariboo Gold-fields.= =D= History of, 284-289.

=Carignan-Salieres.= The first regiment of regular troops sent to America from France. Raised in Savoy by the Prince of Carignan in 1644; employed for some years in the service of the king of France, and after the peace of the Pyrenees, was regularly incorporated in the French army. Fought against the Turks in 1664, and ordered to America the following year. With the original regiment was incorporated the fragment of a regiment of Germans, the whole under the command of Colonel de Salieres. The regiment served with distinction in Canada until 1668, when it was ordered home; a large number of officers and men, however, remained in the colony, where they were given generous grants of land.

The regiment was reconstructed in France, and under the name of the Regiment of Lorraine existed until 1794. =Index=: =L= Gives strength to the colony, 53; discharged soldiers of, become settlers, 77; further detachment of, arrives, 79. =E= Officers settle on lands along the Richelieu, 178-179, 181. =F= Sent out, 51; some of the officers settle in Canada and become seigneurs, 57. =Bib.=: Parkman, _Old Regime_; Susane, _Ancienne Infanterie Francaise_, vol. 5.

=Carillon, Fort.= =Hd= Repulse of British forces at, 18-21. =WM= The fort defended by Montcalm with De Levis and Bourlamaque, 54-55; attacked by the British under Abercromby, 55-60; failure of the attack, 60-61; Bourlamaque evacuates the fort and destroys it, 146. _See also_ Ticonderoga. =Bib.=: Parkman, _Montcalm and Wolfe_.

=Carion, Philippe de.= =L= Lays second foundation stone of church at Montreal, 88. =F= Officer at Montreal, refuses to recognize Frontenac's order for arrest of _coureurs de bois_, 91.

=Carleton, Christopher.= =Dr= Father of Guy Carleton, 29; his widow marries Rev. Thomas Skelton, 29.

=Carleton, Sir Guy.= _See_ Dorchester.

=Carleton, Lady Maria.= =Dr= Gains social popularity at Quebec, 162; lives to great age, 308; her extreme hauteur, 309.

=Carleton, Thomas= (1736-1817). Served with Wolfe in 1755; quartermaster-general of the army in Canada, 1775; wounded in the naval battle on Lake Champlain, 1776. Appointed first lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick, 1784. Returned to England in 1803; the colony was governed by administrators until 1817, when General Smyth was appointed governor. =Index=: =Dr= Nephew of Lord Dorchester, 249; lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick, 249. =W= First governor of New Brunswick, 5; his Council, 5; opposes reforms in government, 13; grants charter to Fredericton Academy, 86. =Hd= Devastates country bordering on Lake Champlain, 149; his expedient for obtaining rebel letters, 194; his connection with the Du Calvet case, 280, 281. =Bib.=: _Cyc. Am. Biog._; Bradley, _The Making of Canada_.

=Carleton Island.= =Hd= Indians of, 148; projects of Americans against, 150; reinforcements sent to, 153; depot for stores established at, great cost of transporting provisions to, 184.

=Carling, Sir John= (1828- ). Represented town of London in Legislative a.s.sembly, 1857-1867; and continued to sit for the same const.i.tuency in the Dominion Parliament. Appointed receiver-general in Cartier-Macdonald ministry, 1862; and commissioner of agriculture and public works in Ontario government, 1867. Entered federal government as postmaster-general, 1882; minister of agriculture, 1885-1892. Called to the Senate, 1891; resigned, 1892; again called, 1896. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Can. Men_; Dent, _Can. Por._

=Carlton House.= Two forts of this name were founded by the Hudson's Bay Company. One stood on the banks of the Saskatchewan, above the forks; the other on the upper waters of the a.s.siniboine. Both were established about the end of the eighteenth century. =Index=: =MS= Built by Hudson's Bay Company, 6.

=Carnarvon, Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, fourth Earl of= (1831-1890).

Colonial secretary, 1866-1867, and as such introduced the British North America Act; colonial secretary again, 1874-1878; chairman of Colonial Defence Commission, 1879-1882. Joined Imperial Federation League, 1884.

=Index=: =Md= President of Westminster Conference in London, 126; effect of his resignation on Confederation, 128; Macdonald's letter to, on the franchise, 259. =T= Conference with, on Confederation scheme, 122. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._

=Caroline.= =Mc= Steamboat, goes over Niagara Falls, 419; cutting out of, 420; merits of act, 421; international complications, 423. =Bib.=: Drew and Wood, _The Burning of the Caroline_; Dent, _Upper Canadian Rebellion_.

=Caroline Almanac.= =Mc= Mackenzie publishes, 459.

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