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=Ogden.= =S= Methodist preacher, not allowed to officiate, being a citizen of the United States, 190.

=Ogden, Charles Richard= (1791-1866). Son of following. Studied law and called to the bar, 1812; elected to the a.s.sembly for Three Rivers, 1815; attorney-general for district of Three Rivers, 1818; solicitor-general, 1823; attorney-general for Lower Canada, 1833-1842. On his retirement went to England, and appointed attorney-general for the Isle of Man, as well as district registrar at Liverpool. =Index=: =Sy= Attorney-general for Lower Canada, 283. =BL= Attorney-general for Lower Canada, 1841, 76; unpopular with French, 78; Baldwin's att.i.tude to, 80; his retirement suggested by Bagot, with a pension, 123; pension objected to by La Fontaine, 125; is given Imperial appointment, 133. =Bib.=: Taylor, _Brit. Am._; Dent, _Last Forty Years_.

=Ogden, Isaac.= Born in New England. Took the Loyalist side in the Revolution, and, when New York was evacuated in 1783, went to England.

Came to Canada, 1784, and appointed judge of the Admiralty Court for the Montreal district; judge of the Superior Court, 1796.

=Ogden, Peter Skene= (1794?-1854). Son of Isaac Ogden (_q.v._). Entered the fur trade, was sent out to Astoria by Astor, and, finding that Astoria had been transferred to the North West Company, entered their service. Led trading expeditions into the interior, explored the Yellowstone country, Lewis River and Utah, and discovered the Ogden River in California. After the union of the North West and Hudson's Bay Companies, moved to New Caledonia and became chief factor in 1835, with headquarters at Fort St. James. Died at Ogden City, Oregon. =Index=: =D= Sent with Anderson to establish post on the Stikine, 1834, 120; frustrated by Russians, 120; reaches Sacramento River, 126; a.s.sociated with McLoughlin and Douglas on board of management of western department, 187; dies, 1854, 265; in charge of New Caledonia, 285.

=Bib.=: Laut, _Conquest of the Great North-West_; Bancroft, _History of the North-West Coast_.

=Ogdensburg.= _See_ Oswegatchie.

=O'Grady, Doctor.= =Mc= Publishes _Correspondent and Advocate_, 259; visits Quebec with Mackenzie, 287; prepares answer to governor, 298; pens ”Declaration of Independence,” 330. =Bib.=: Dent, _Upper Canadian Rebellion_.

=Ohio River.= One of the largest tributaries of the Mississippi, discovered by La Salle in 1669. Its short portages from Lake Erie to the navigable tributaries of the Ohio, and the continuous waterway to the Gulf of Mexico, made the river an important route for the explorer, missionary, and settler of the early colonial days. =Index=: =WM= First named La Belle Riviere, 19. =S= Demanded as boundary of Indian territory, 120, 122. =Bib.=: Parkman, _La Salle_.

=Ohio Valley.= =WM= French retreat from, 62.

=Olbeau, Jean d'.= Born in Langres. Joined the Jesuit College there in 1628. In 1640 came to Canada, and laboured as a missionary at Miscou until 1643. =Index=: =Ch= Recollet missionary, 85; his missionary labours, 107; returns to France to report to the king, 113; lays foundation stone of Recollet convent, 148; sees its doors closed in 1629, 167. =Bib.=: Charlevoix, _History of New France_.

=Old Company.= =F= Name given to Company of New France after 1645, 36.

_See also_ Company of New France.

=Olier de Verneuil, Jean Jacques= (1608-1687). In 1640 parish priest of St. Sulpice, Paris, and established the St. Sulpice Seminary in 1645.

Founded in 1636 the Company of Montreal, through whose instrumentality Maisonneuve was sent out in 1641-1642 to lay the foundations of the future city. =Index=: =L= His designs for establis.h.i.+ng a religious centre at Montreal, 6; trained by St. Vincent de Paul, 24; sends four priests to Canada, 25; dying, recommends work to his successor, 135. =F= Founder of Sulpician Order, obtains grant of island of Montreal, 32.

=Bib.=: Parkman, _Old Regime_.

=Oneidas.= A tribe of the Iroquois confederacy. Their villages stood between those of the Mohawks on the east and the Onondagas on the west.

In the American Revolution, they alone with some of the Tuscaroras took the side of the rebellious colonists, the remainder of the confederacy remaining loyal to Great Britain. The remnant of the tribe is now settled on reservations in New York, in Wisconsin, and in the Niagara peninsula. =Index=: =F= Torture Father Millet, 216; party of, destroyed, 308; three burnt alive, 309; negotiate for peace, 324. =Ch= Iroquois tribe, 50. =L= Frontenac marches against, 233. =Hd= Their wavering fidelity, 148; Brant burns village of, 153. =Bib.=: _See_ Iroquois.

=Onneyouts.= _See_ Oneidas.

=Onondaga.= =S= Armed schooner of eighty tons, 113; Prince Edward embarks on, at Kingston, 183.

=Onondagas.= A tribe of the Iroquois confederacy. Their country lay west of that of the Oneidas. They took the British side in the Revolutionary War; and on its conclusion many of them settled on Canadian reservations. Some are now on reservations in New York. =Index=: =F= Iroquois tribe, demand a French colony, 40; escape of, 41; a number treacherously captured for king's galleys, 215; their orator, Teganissorens, 338; campaign against, 250-253. =Ch= Indian tribe, 50.

=L= Frontenac marches against, 233. _See also_ Iroquois. =Bib.=: _See_ Iroquois.

=Onontagues.= _See_ Onondagas.

=Onontio (Big Mountain).= =F= Name applied by Indians to French governors, 35.

=Ontario.= =Hd= Armed vessel, foundering of, 163.

=Ontario.= Area, 260,862 square miles. Formerly Upper Canada. As a separate province, its existence dates from 1791. The population at that time was insignificant. Simcoe became the first governor, and the first Legislature met at Newark (Niagara) in 1792. The province was reunited to Lower Canada in 1841; and in 1867 became a member of the new Confederation, under its present name. The greater part of the province was explored by Champlain, etienne Brule, and Brebeuf, Chaumonot, and other Jesuit missionaries, in the first half of the seventeenth century.

=Index=: =W= Abolishes second chamber, 71. _See also_ Upper Canada; New Ontario. =Bib.=: Dent, _Last Forty Years_; Smith, _Geographical View of Upper Canada_; Gourlay, _Statistical Account of Upper Canada_; Haight, _Country Life in Canada_; Canniff, _History of the Settlement of Upper Canada_; Moodie, _Roughing it in the Bush_; Edgar, _Ten Years of Upper Canada_; Strickland, _Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West_; Clarke, _Sixty Years in Upper Canada_; Conant, _Upper Canada Sketches_.

=Ontario Boundary Dispute.= =Md= Began in 1871, 254; arbitration arranged, 254-255; Macdonald refuses to accept award, 255; federal influence in Manitoba dispute, 255-256; Manitoba's claims, 256; settlement of, 257-258. =Bib.=: Mills, _Report on Boundaries of Ontario_; Lindsey, _Unsettled Boundaries of Ontario_; _Doc.u.ments relating to the Boundaries of Ontario, 1878_; _Correspondence, etc., relating to the Boundaries of Ontario, 1882_; _Proceedings before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, 1889_; Biggar, _Life of Sir Oliver Mowat_.

=Ontario, Lake.= The smallest of the Great Lakes; area, 7,260 square miles. Discovered by etienne Brule in 1615.