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=Marsolet, Nicolas= (1587-1677). Came to Canada from France about 1608, and for many years an interpreter for the Montagnais and Algonquian tribes. In 1629, when Kirke took Quebec, deserted to the English.

=Index=: =Ch= Accompanies Champlain to Quebec, 41; joins Algonquians to learn their language, 63; interpreter of Algonquian language, 144; sides with the Kirkes, 194; subsequent career, 203. =Bib.=: Parkman, _Pioneers of France_.

=Marteilhe.= =Dr= Appointed judge, 183.

=Martial Law.= =Bk= Question respecting, 226. =Hd= Canada under, for four years after conquest, 41, 43; abolished, 59; Haldimand's opinion of, for Florida, 65; at Vincennes, 93; not strictly enforced by Haldimand, 275.

=Martin, Abraham= (1589-1664). Born in Scotland. Came to Canada in 1614, having married Marguerite Langlois the previous year. Engaged as a pilot at Quebec. In 1635 granted lands on the heights of Quebec by the Hundred a.s.sociates, and in 1648 and 1652 received further gifts of land from Adrien d.u.c.h.esne. =Index=: =WM= First proprietor of Plains of Abraham, 186. =Ch= Early settler, 145, 146; his property, 147. =Bib.=: Doughty, _Siege of Quebec_; Wood, _Fight for Canada_.

=Martin, Anne.= =Ch= Daughter of Abraham Martin, 146.

=Martin, Charles Amador.= =Ch= Priest, 146.

=Martin (or Marten), Sir Henry= (1562-1641). Born in London. Educated at Oxford. Sent to the Palatinate, 1613; chancellor of London diocese, 1616; judge of the Admiralty Court, 1617-1641. A member of the Court of High Commission, 1620-1641. One of the commissioners appointed to negotiate a settlement in Canadian affairs between England and France, 1629-1630. =Index=: =Ch= English commissioner in matter of Canada, 214.

=Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._

=Martin, Joseph= (1852- ). Born in Milton, Ontario. Educated at the public schools and at the Toronto Normal School. Taught school for a time; studied law at Ottawa; removed to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, 1882, and the same year called to the bar of Manitoba. Member of the Manitoba a.s.sembly, 1883-1892; attorney-general, 1888-1891; carried through the Act abolis.h.i.+ng separate schools in Manitoba, 1890. In 1891 contested Selkirk for the House of Commons, but defeated; elected for Winnipeg, 1893, but defeated, 1896. Removed to British Columbia, 1897; elected to the British Columbia a.s.sembly for Vancouver; subsequently attorney-general and premier of the province. Removed to England, 1909, and in same year contested Stratford-on-Avon for the British House of Commons, but defeated; elected to represent East St. Pancras, London, 1910. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Can. Men_; _Canadian Who's Who_; Ewart, _The Manitoba School Question_.

=Martin, Marguerite.= =Ch= Daughter of Abraham Martin, 146.

=Martinez, Estevan Jose.= Accompanied Perez to North-West Coast in 1773 as pilot. In 1788 sent again to the North-West Coast as joint commander with De Haro of an expedition to watch the operations of the Russians; the following year again sent north from Mexico in command of the _Princessa_. Seized the _Iphigenia_ at Nootka, but afterwards released it; fortified Hog Island near Friendly Cove, and took formal possession of Nootka; also seized several other vessels at Nootka, and imprisoned Captain Colnett. After carrying out some local explorations returned to Mexico. =Index=: =D= a.s.serts Spanish sovereignty over Pacific, 28; at Nootka, 28; seizes _Iphigenia_ and _North-West America_, and claims Nootka by right of conquest, 28; claims disproved by Douglas, 28; _Iphigenia_ released, but _North-West America_ retained, 29; seizes _Princess Royal_ and _Argonaut_, 29. =Bib.=: Bancroft, _History of the North-West Coast_.

=Marylanders.= =Dr= Loyalists, commanded by Chalmers, 202.

=Mascarene, Paul= (1684-1760). Born in Castras, in the south of France.

Educated at Geneva, and afterwards went to England; naturalized, 1706.

Entered the army, 1708; accompanied his regiment to America, 1710; took part in the capture of Port Royal. Became lieutenant-colonel of Philipps's regiment, and a member of the Council of Nova Scotia.

Lieutenant-governor of Annapolis, 1740, and administrator of the government of the province until the arrival of Governor Cornwallis, 1749. Defended Annapolis against Du Vivier, 1744. Retired from active service on account of advancing age; gazetted major-general. Lived in Boston until his death. =Bib.=: _Selections from the Public Doc.u.ments of Nova Scotia_, ed. by Akins; Campbell, _History of Nova Scotia_. _See also_ Acadians, Expulsion of the.

=Mascouten Indians.= An Algonquian tribe. The name means ”Little prairie people.” They were known to the French as _Nation du feu_. First mentioned by Champlain in 1616; Perrot visited their village, near Fox River, Wis., some time before 1669. They were also seen by Allouez in 1670, and by Marquette in 1673. Always a small tribe, they disappeared entirely before the end of the eighteenth century. =Bib.=: Hodge, _Handbook of American Indians_.

=Maseres, Francis= (1731-1824). Born in London. Educated at Cambridge.

In 1766 appointed attorney-general of Quebec, holding the position until 1769. Returned to England and was cursitor baron of the Exchequer, 1773-1824, and in 1780 became senior judge of the Sheriff's Court, London. =Index=: =Dr= Attorney-general, of Huguenot descent, conducts prosecution in Walker Case, 37; called upon to report on a system of law for the country, 41; goes to England, 56; opposed to Carleton and others on question of Canadian laws, 62; called as witness in connection with Quebec Act, 63; evidence before House of Commons, 68. =Hd= Supports Du Calvet, 290, 291, 305; mentioned by MacLean, 310; his opinion of Mabane, 315. =Bib.=: Works: _Account of the Proceedings of the British and other Protestant Inhabitants of the Province of Quebec, in Order to Obtain an House of a.s.sembly_; _Additional Papers Concerning the Province of Quebec_; _Canadian Freeholder_; _Collection of Commissions, etc., Relating to the Province of Quebec_; _Occasional Essays_. For biog., _see Dict. Nat. Biog._; Bradley, _The Making of Canada_.

=Ma.s.sachusetts.= =F= Charter of, declared null and void, 264; takes lead in expedition against Quebec, 277. =Bk= War of 1812 unpopular in, 208.

=Ma.s.se, Enemond= (1574-1646). Born in France. Entered the Society of Jesus, 1596. In 1611 went to Port Royal (Annapolis); and later to Mount Desert Island, where he established a mission and built a fort. In 1613 Captain Samuel Argall (_q.v._), attacked the fort, and Ma.s.se and most of the colonists were taken prisoners. In 1614 went to France; returned in 1625, and spent the remainder of his life in mission work among the Algonquians and Montagnais. Taken prisoner at Quebec in 1629, but afterwards released. =Index=: =Ch= Jesuit, 152; returns to college of La Fleche, 207; returns to Canada, 228. =Bib.=: Charlevoix, _History of New France_; Parkman, _Old Regime_; Murdoch, _History of Nova Scotia_.

=Ma.s.son, Louis Francois Rodrigue= (1833-1903). Born at Terrebonne.

Entered Parliament in 1867 as member for Terrebonne; minister of militia and defence, 1878; president of the Council, 1880; called to the Senate, 1882; lieutenant-governor of Quebec, 1884; again called to the Senate, 1890. =Bib.=: _Bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest_. For biog., _see_ Morgan, _Can. Men_.

=Mather, Cotton= (1663-1728). =F= On failure of Phipps's expedition, 302; on rescue of some men cast ash.o.r.e on Anticosti, 304. =Bib.=: _Cyc.

Am. Biog._

=Matheron.= =L= Steward of abbey of Maubec, 137.

=Mathews, Peter.= =Mc= Executed, 435; monument to, 436.

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