INDEX.
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Agricultural and mercantile enterprise, 457
Alaska Boundary Line, 527
Albanel, Father, journeys to the north, 69
Albany, Fort, 149
" " Attack on, 135
" " Capitulation of, 137
" " renamed St. Anne, 142
" " The English regain, 153
" " Attacked by the French, 193
Albany, 212
" Fate of the, 292
Albemarle, Duke of, 42
Allemand, Pierre, 98
America purchases Alaska, 488
Anglo-Russian Treaty of 1825, 448
Argenson, D', 58
Arlington, Lord, letter to, 34
Ashburton, Lord, 456
Assiniboines, The, 222
" Radisson and Groseilliers first meet the, 26
Astarte, 321
Astor, John Jacob, 386
Astoria—Fort George, 387, 445
Astronomers at Hudson's Bay, 294
Athabaska, Fort, 426
Avagour, Governor M. d', 28
Back, Captain, 451
Bad Lake, The robbery at, 359
Baffin, expedition of, 47
Bailey, Charles, Governor of Rupert's Land, 70, 178
Balmerino, Lovat, and Kilmarnock, Lords, 260
Barillon, Sieur, 141
Barlow, Capt. George, commanding the Albany, 212
" Governor of Albany Fort, 193
Barre, M. de la, 110
" " receives letter from Lewis, 125
" " recalled, 129
Barrow, Sir John, 284
Beaver, Varieties of, 238
Beechy, Captain, 451
Bellicose instructions from the Company, 258
Berens, Thomas, 296
Bering, Capt. Vitus, commanding Russian expedition, 246
Bering's discoveries, 247
Bladen, Martin, 203
Bladen's description of the Commission, 205
Bois-Brulés, The, 383
Bolingbroke's letter, 203
Bonrepas, Sieur, 141
Boundaries between French and English territory, 216
Bourbon, Fort, 96
Bourdon, Jean, 55
Boyle, Robert, letter to, 43
Brazen, 392
Bridgar, Arrival of, 92
" John, Governor of the new settlement at Port Nelson, 89
" taken prisoner by the French, 134
Bristol, defence of, 37
Brown, Honorable George, 487
Browne, Sir Richard, 39
Butterfield's, Mrs. Mary, letter, 209
Button, Sir Thomas, pursues Hudson's discoveries, 46
Button's Bay, 47
California, 264
Callieres, M. de, memoir, 57
Canada, Conquest of, 279
" exerts pressure on the Company, 490
" Jurisdiction Act, 368
Canada's debt to the Company, 497
Cardwell, Mr., Colonial Secretary, 487
Carr, Robert, 33
Cartwright, George, 33
Catherine of Braganza, 63
Cession to Canadian Government, 493
Charles, Fort, 70
" Fort, Jesuit priest at, 77
" the First, 36
" the Second, 17
" the Second, death of, 129
Charlie's, Prince, stock confiscated, 261
Charlevoix, quotation from, 55
Charlton Island, winters at, 47
Charter, The Royal, 515
Chechouan River, discovers the, 76
Chesnaye, M. de la, 84
Chouart surrenders to Radisson, 120
Churchill, 248
" caught in the ice, 138
" captured by the French, 139
Churchill, Lord, succeeds King James as Governor of the Company, 139
Clandestine trade, 283, 297
Coats, Captain, 283
" " Death by his own hand of, 284
Colbore, 447
Cole, Captain, 72
Colbert, M., 52, 228
Colonial neutrality, Negotiations for, 140
Coltman, Colonel, 423
Company's losses by French, 146
Comportier, Gauthier de, 128
Convention with Russia, 528
Cook, Captain, 340
Corrigal Case, The famous, 369
Council of Trade, 173
Couture, M., 28
Craven, Lord, 43
Crees, The, 220
Croix, Sieur de la, 125
Cumberland House built, 314
Dablon, Father, 56
Dallas, A. E., succeeds Simpson as Governor, 473
" Governor, issues a circular, 483
Davis, Captain John, 45
Duluth's letter to M. de la Barre, 125
Denonville's letter to Seignely, 149
Denonville, Marquis de, succeeds M. de la Barre as Governor, 129
" plans the capture of Fort Nelson, 150
Deputation goes to England, 489
Dering, 159
Diggs, Sir Dudley, 46
Discovery, 212
Dobbs, Arthur, 248
" and the North-West Passage, 263
" petition rejected by Parliament, 268
Dobbs' Galley, 264
Douglas, Fort, attacked, 399
" Thomas, Earl of Selkirk, 399
" T. M., Governor of Vancouver Island, 465
Drummond, Sir Gordon, Governor of Canada, 406
Dryad, 448
Duchesneau, Intendant, 86
" protests against English encroachment, 86
Duffell, 177
Duluth in the West, 125
" builds a fort on Lake Nepigon, 127
Duqué, commander of Profound, 159
Duquet, Sieur, King's attorney for Quebec, 58
East India Company, 18
" " transfer of Province of Bombay, 63
Eddystone, 392
Elgin, Lord, Governor-General of Canada, 462
Ellice, Edward, 432, 479
Engageante, 321
England at war with France, 361
English, departure of, 110
Erebus, 466
Esquimaux, first sight of the, 45
" The, 223
Expedition to explore the North-West Passage, 212
Fishery and Fur Company, The, 352
Fitzgerald, James, 296
Fletcher, Major, 423
Fort, construction of the first, 47
Forts, Building of stone, 280
Fox, Captain Luke, 47
France, Joseph la, 239
" War with, 257
Franklin, Expedition of, 449
" " Fate of the, 466
" Lieutenant, 427
French activity, 52
" fur trade, 21
" and English ships, meeting of, 159
French attack Fort Prince of Wales—1782, 320
" attack York Factory, 324
" declare war against England, 191
" encroachment on trade, 275
" prisoners taken by the Churchill, 138
" repulsed at Albany Fort, 193
" send fourteen ships, 150
" Surrender of the Company's ships to the, 143
" The, at Michilimackinac, 182
" The, capture a Company's ship, 130
Frobisher, Sir Martin, 45
" intercepts Company's Indians, 316
" escapes from York Factory, 428
Furnace, 249
Fur trade, 20
Furs, first sale of, 61
General Court held, 62
George the Fourth, 437
Ghent, Treaty of, 445
Gibraltar, Fort, captured, 408
Gillam, Zachary (Capt. of Nonsuch), 33, 43
" Benjamin, 98
" " meets his father, 99
Gladstone, Opposition of Mr., 463
Godey, Captain, attaché to Lord Preston, 112
Gorst, Thomas, secretary to Governor Bailey, 72
Government assistance, 366
Grant, Cuthbert, 385
Granville, Lord, 490
Green, Henry, 46
Grey, Earl, Letter to, 461
Grimington, Captain, 153
Groseilliers (Medard Chouart), 23
" Death of first wife, 24
" first marriage, 23
" first time in English capital, 34
" in Boston, 30
" second marriage, 24
Hampshire, 159
" goes down with nearly all on board, 161
Happy Return sails for Hudson's Bay, 117
Hardi goes to the bottom with all on board, 156
Hawke, Sir Edward, 296
Hays' Island fort, 104
" " " burned, 108
Head, Sir Edmund, 485
Hearne returns to England, 307
" blamed for surrendering, 323
Hearne's expedition of discovery, 300
" second expedition, 302
" third expedition, 305
Henry's expedition, 290
Henry, Prince, 46
Herault, Mlle. Elizabeth, 24
Herbert, Sir Edward, Lord-keeper, 39
Hobart, Lord, 368
Holder, John, 40
Holmes, Captain, 41
Horner, Captain John, discharged, 297
Horth's, John, meetings at, 62, 80
Hudson's Bay, 159
" " surrendered to the French, 161
Hudson's Bay Company apply for Vancouver Island, 464
Hudson's Bay Company, arms of the, 67
Hudson's Bay Company, List of nations visiting, 81
Hudson's Bay Company in difficulties, 361
Hudson's Bay Company obtains a new license, 438
Hudson's Bay Company, Plan to re-organize, 210
Hudson's Bay Company seek Act of Parliament to confirm charter conferred by Charles II., 147
Hudson's Bay Company's claims, 196
Hudson's Bay Company's claims after Treaty of Ryswick, 189
Hudson's Bay Posts, The, 509, 510, 511, 512.
Hudson's Bay, The, Governor and Company of Merchants-Adventurers charter from the King, 22, 51, 60
Hudson, Captain Henry, 46
" " " fate of, 46
Humes, Edward, captain of the Merchant of Perpetuana, 130
Hyde, Edward, afterwards Lord Chancellor Clarendon, 39
Iberville, captures two Company's ships, 143
" demands surrender of the fort, 164
" given the rank of lieutenant in the French Royal Navy, 150
" goes to France, 152
" sails for home in the Envieux, 152
" sails for Quebec in the Hampshire, 140
" Sieur d', accompanies de Troyes on his expedition, 131
" takes Fort Nelson, 156
" treacherous plan, 144
Imploy to sail in the spring, 65
Iroquois—English allies, 29
Ivett, Robert, 46
Imperial Parliament appoints Select Committee, 469
Indian treachery, 185
" country, 218
Indians as hunters, 230
" Effect of intoxication on the, 229
" Intelligence of the, 225
" liking for liquor, 228
" Superstition of the, 226
International Financial Association, 478
Isbister, A. K., 461
" Joseph, 258
Isle a la Crosse, Lake of, 317
James, Captain, 47
" King, applied to for protection, 139
Jesuits, Relations des, 21, 69
Joliet, Louis, 53
Jonquiere, Fort, 244
Jenyn's, Soame, letter to Pitt, 279
Ka-chou-touay, 121
Kamloops, Legend of, 503
Kas-Kidi-dah, chief of the Nodwayes, 72
Kilistineaux, makes treaty with the, 48
Kirke, Sir John, 25
Kelsey, Henry, recommended for bravery, receives sum of forty pounds, 156, 179
" voyage, 179
Knight, Governor, 191
" Death of, 293
" Letter from the Company to, 212
L'Anglois, Jean, 58
Labau, Murder of, 355
Lack of military system Company's weakness, 491
Lacombe, Father, 504
La Couture, Sieur, 56
" " mythical voyage, 57
Lampson, Mr., 483
Law, John, 206, 208
Letters of marque to the Company's ships, 259
Lewis unwilling to oppose the English, 128
" proposes boundaries, 190
Lincoln, Earl of, 463
Louisburg, Fall of, 260
Lyddal, William, to supersede Bailey as Governor, 78
Mackenzie, Alexander, 329
" reaches the Arctic, 336
" sets out for the Pacific, 338
" Sir Alexander & Co., 349
Mackenzie's expedition to the Arctic, 333
" Sir Alexander, letter, 366
Maissoneuve (voyage from Rochelle), 23
Matonabee, 304
Maverick, Samuel, 33
Ménard, Réné, 27
Meuron, Colonel De, 407
" De, Regiment of, 407
Mezy is recalled, 52
Middleton, Captain Christopher, 248, 264
" explores for a north-west passage, 251
" has trouble with his men, 252
" Lord, 141
" returns without discovering the Passage, 253
Middleton's report, 220
Migichihilinons, 220
Milnes, Sir Robert, 368
Merchant of Perpetuana captured by the French, 130
Monk, Lord, Governor-General of Canada, 486
Montreal merchants combine, 328
Moon, Captain, 142
Moor, Captain William, 264
Moose Factory, Capture of, 133
Moose River fort erected by the French, 73
" " first visit to, 75
" " Bailey at, 76
Mounslow, Captain, 192
Mountain House, 504
Mowat, Trial of, 371
Musquash, 248.
McClintock, Captain, 466
McDonnell, Miles, first Governor of the new colony, 379
" surrenders, 399
McDonnell's proclamation, 395
McDougall, Honorable William, Minister of Crown Lands, 486
McTavish, Simon, 249
" " Death of, 352
McTavish, Governor, resigns, 485
Nadouichiouecs, Wintered with the, 26
Nekauba, Dablon reaches, 58
Nelson, Fort, Burning of, 151
" " Erection of, 93, 194
" " evacuated by the French, 202
" " surrendered to the French, 154
" " surrendered to the English, 157
" " surrendered to the French, 166
Nelson, Port, Fox landed at, 47
Nepisingues, 219
Nichols, Richard, 33
Nodwayes, 47, 71, 219
Nonsuch anchors in Hudson's Bay, 45
" Set sail in the, 34
Nonsuch weighs anchor, 44
" sails with cargo, 48
Norton, Governor, 250, 265
" Death of Governor, 312
New Amsterdam, into English hands, 20
New North-West Company, 349
New Severn Fort captured by the French, 143
North-West Association formed, 264
North-West Association, Expedition of the, 264
North-West Company, 328-330
North-West Company oppose Selkirk's scheme, 377
North-West Company partners arrested, 420, 427
North-West passage discovered, 468
North-Westers demand evacuation of Fort Douglas, 415
Oldenburgh, Letter written by, the secretary of the Royal Society, 43
Ontario Boundary Commission, 59
Oregon question, The, 445
Ottawas, Make treaty with the, 48
" treaty, 459
Owner's Love, 159
Pacific Scheme, 477
Palmier, 158
Parliament and the North-West Passage, 263
Parliamentary enquiry, 269
Pelican, 158
Pelly, Sir J. H., 461
Pérouse, Admiral, 321
" La, in the Pacific, 344
Peter the Great, 244
" " " Death of, 245
Petition to the Lords of Treasury, 361
Phipps' letter to the Company, 123
Phipps, William, new Governor, 118
Pishapocanoes, 75
Poli, 156
Policy, The Great Company's, 506
Pond, Peter, 317
Pontiac at Detroit, 288
Pontchartrain, 152
" letter to the Marquis de Vaudreuil, 201
Portman, John, 43, 60
Preston's, Lord, letter to Rupert, 42
Preston, Lord, informed of the return of Radisson and Groseilliers, 112
Preston, Lord, induces Radisson to join the English, 116
Prickett, Habbakuk, 46
Prettyman, William, 60
Profound, 159
Pulteney, Daniel, 203
Radisson and Groseilliers leave Quebec, 111
" arrives in London, 122
" arrives in Quebec, 85
" assisted by the Jesuits, 85
" captures Hays' Island fort, 104
" captures the Susan, 104
" " Fort Nelson, 105
" departs for Hudson's Bay, 117
" discovers young Gillam, 90
" first marriage of, 24
" in France, 83
" offers his services to the French Navy, 82
" overawes the Indians, 109
" Pierre, 23, 24, 65
" receives pension from the Company, 124
" sails from Hudson's Bay, 122
" takes John Bridgar, Governor of Fort Nelson, prisoner, 106
Rae, Dr., Expedition of, 466
Red River claimed by United States, 440
Red River Settlement threatened Deadlock, 485
Reformation, 38
" loss of the, 39
Remin, Daniel de, Seigneur de Courcelles, 52
Resolution Isle sighted, 44
Reward offered for Radisson's capture, 123
Richmond, Duke of, Governor of Canada, 429
Riel, Louis, 494
Robertson, Colin, 386
" Governor, taken prisoner, 426
Robinson, John, Lord Bishop of London, 195
" Sir John, 43
Ross, Captain, 451
Rupert created Earl of Holdernesse and Duke of Cumberland, 37
" Fort, captured by the French, 134
" illness of, 43
" is sworn a member of the Privy Council, also the Tangier Commission; is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society; is appointed member of the Council of Trade; and also is a member of the Royal African Company, 41
" second marriage of, 25
" sends for Groseilliers, 43
" sent to command the Guinny fleet, 41
" Prince, 20, 35
" Prince, granted charter by King, 50
" Prince, is paid a lump sum, 64
Rupert, Prince, death of, First Governor of Hudson's Bay Company, 94
Rupert, The Prince, arrival of, 78
" " " sails from Gravesend, 51
" " " to sail in the spring, 64
" " " stuck in the ice, 96
" " " wreck of, 102
Rupert's River, 47
Russia looks toward the New World, 244
Russians on the west coast, 347
Russian-American Fur Company, 348
Russian claims, 445
Ryswick, Treaty of, 148, 168, 187
Salamandre, 156
Sanford, Robert, 175
Sargeant, Governor, 95, 135, 137
Saxon, Sir Charles, 429
Sceptre, 321
Scroggs, John, Captain of the Whalebone, 213
Shark, 264
Seahorse captured by the press-gang, 268
Seignely, Marquis de, 84
Selkirk arrives at Fort William, 419
" captures " 421
" winters at " 422
" Death of, 432
" Lord, arrives in Canada, 406
" The Earl of, 371
Selkirk's immigrants arrive, 380
" project, 375
" proposal accepted, 378
Semple, Death of, 413
" Robert, 404
Semple's murderers, Trial of, 431
Shaftesbury, arrival of the, 78
Sharpe, Mr., Company's solicitor, 269
Shepherd, Captain, of the Shaftesbury, 78
Ships besieged by peddlers, 65
Shrewsbury, Duke of, 201
" Death of Thomas, 455
" " Sir George, 473
" expedition to the northern coast, 453
" Thomas, 453
" George, Governor-in-Chief of the amalgamated Companies, 437, 447
Smallpox epidemic, 319
Smith, Cape, 47
" Smith, Francis, 264
" Donald Alexander, Governor, 496
South Sea Company, 208, 209, 211
Spanish claims, 346
" Main, The, 38
Spence, Governor, 267
Stanion, John, 261
Stanton, Governor, at Moose Factory, 177
Stickeen River, 448
Strange, Lord, 271
Strathcona, Lord, 496
Strike of the Company's men, 296
Strong, William, engaged as secretary to Rupert, 40
St. Anne, 87
" destruction of the, 106
St. Peter, Fort, 241
St. Simon, Sieur de, 69
St. Pierre, 87
" arrives at mouth of St. Lawrence, 110
" destruction of the, 106
" re-built, 107
Superior, Lake, 23, 219
" " reaches shore of, 26
Susan returned to the New England Merchants, 111
Sutherland, Lord, 141
Tabiti Indians encountered, 75
Tadoussac, 86
Talon, Jean, Intendant, 22, 52, 69
" returns to France, 52
" writes Colbert, 53
Tast, Admiral, arrival of, 150
Thompson, David, 342
Three Rivers, 24
Territorial Rights, The surrender of, 487
Terror, 466
Tionnontates, or the Tobacco Nation, 26
Toronto merchants petition Legislative Council, 471
Treaty between Russia and Great Britain, 445
" of 1783, 442
" of neutrality, 140
" with Red River Indians, 425
Troyes, Chevalier de, 131
" Chevalier de, receives commission to drive the English from Northern Bay, 131
" de, Expedition of, 132
Turbulent meetings at Hudson's Bay House, 496
Turner's exploration, 341
Union of the two Companies, 433
Upland Indians, 65
Utrecht, Treaty of, 199
Valiere, Sieur de, 56
Vancouver, Fort, 500
Vancouver Island granted to the Company, 464
Varennes, Death of, 243
" Peter Gauthier de, 150, 240, 241
" Sieur de, marries, 241
" sets out to explore the West, 241
" son reaches the Rockies, 243
Vaughan, Captain David, commanding the Discovery, 212
Vermilion, Fort, Attack on, 426
Violent, 158
Wales, Prince of, 392
" Prince of, 61
" Prince of, Fort, built of stone, 281
" Prince of, Fort, surrenders to the French, 321
Walker, Jeremiah, 66
William, King, declares war against France, 146
" Fort, 389, 418
" Fort, restored to the North-Westers, 424
" of Orange landed at Plymouth, 145
" the Third's accession to the throne, 146
William and Ann wrecked, 447
Winnipeg, Lake, Meeting at, 232
Weesph, 158
Welcome, 249
Western Company, The, 183
West, Rev. Mr., principal chaplain, 437
Weymouth, Viscount, 296
Whalebone, 213
Wolseley, Lord, Expedition of, 495
York, Duke of, 20, 61
" " to succeed Rupert as Governor, 94
" " ascends the throne, 129
" Fort, Desperate condition of the French at, 194
" Factory, 232
" " surrenders to the French, 324
Yukon, Fort, 502