Beaucours, de: in command of expedi

tion against Northampton, ii. 418.
Beauharnois, François de: appointed
intendant, ii. 409.

Beauharnois, Charles, marquis de in-
structed to foment discord, iii. 198:
governor general, 251; his early
career, 251; not one of the bâtards
of Louis XIV., 251n.; addresses
governor Burnet as to occupation of
Oswego, 252; his complaints disre-
garded in France 257; intervenes in
quarrel between Dupuy and the
canons, 265; forbids further proceed-
ings, 265; states that difficulties at
the hospital only some female bicker-
ings, 282; not in accord with bishop's
intervention as to liquor used in
trade, 283; points out difference of
youth in Canada and in West Indies,
292; reinforces forts, 302; his views
as to the Acadians, 344; recalled,
357; card-money introduced, 357.
Beaujeu, de: appointed to command

de La Salle's expedition, ii. 121; his
powers, 121; difficulties with de La
Salle previous to the start, 122; his
letters

as to the troops enlisted,
125; the expedition starts, 128; his
conduct to de La Salle, 131-142;
sails back to Fiance, 142.
Beaujeu, de: in command againt Brad-
dock, iii. 434; killed, 180.
Beaumont, de archbishop of Paris, iv.

:

38; exiled from Paris, 40.
Beauséjour, fort: constructed by French,
iii. 438; under command of de Ver-
gor, 487; siege commenced, 497;
surrenders, 499; stores plundered,
499.

Beaver mode of dressing, ii. 505.
Bedford, duke of motion in house of
lords to abandon Prussia, iv. 492;
negotiator peace of Paris, 497.
Bégon, Michel, intendant: arrives at
Quebec, ii. 482; his ordinances, 484;
his palace destroyed by fire, 488;
his losses, 489.

Bégon, Mde. loss of her wardrobe, ii.
488.

Bégon, Chevalier : bearer of message to
Burnett, iii. 252.

Bellaître, de destroys settlement of
Palatines on the Mohawk, iv. 70;
the last French success, 72; at De-
troit, 84.

Bellamy, George Ann: her account of
Braddock, iii. 464.

Belle Isle taken, iv. 480; influence of
event on France, 480.

Belleisle with Abenakis at George-
town, iii. 177.

Bellefontaine, de: on abbé de Féne-
lon's conduct : i. 423.

Bellomont, Richard Coote, lord: gover.
nor of New York and Massachusetts:
ii. 318.

Belmont, l'abbé: i. 180; 261.; ii.
39n.; 44n.; 94μ.; 100; 254′′.
Benoit sent to fort Frontenac, thence
to La Presentation, iv. 186; expects
to be attacked, 218.

Bernières, Louvigny de: his relations
with Madame de la Peltrie, i. 166.
Bienville, de: at Louisiana, iii. 213;

reaches lake Pontchartrain, 215; ex-
plores to Mobile bay, 216; in com-
mand at Biloxi, 221; determines to
chastise Alabamons, 222; fails in his
attack, 223; accused of malfeasance,
224; maintains his position, 225;
sends for negro slaves, 226; his good
judgment, 228; his unfortunate ex-
planation of governor's opposition
to him, 230; appointed commander-
in-chief, 232; builds fort at Natchez,
232; founds New Orleans, 233; re-
solves to attack Pensacola, 234; re-
moves government to New Orleans,
235; leaves for France, 236; returns
as governor-general, 241; attacks
Chickasaws, 242; forced to retreat,
243; attacks and defeats Chickasaws,
245; returns to France, 246; his
character, 246.

Bigot, Francis, intendant: arrives in
Canada, iii. 390; issues ordonnance
currency, 542; profits by distress,
544; his passion for Madame Péan,
391; 544; states want of provisions
would not permit garrison of William
Henry to be made prisoners of war,
iv. 63; desirous of returning to
France, 83; his presence indispen-
sable, 84; submits memoir recom-
mending capitulation, 401.
Bigot, Francis, jesuit father: does not
desire peace, iii. 69.

Billets de confession: explained, iv. 41.
Biloxi, Louisiana: iii. 221; badness of
soil, 225.

Biville, de officer of "la Reine"
killed, iv. 6n.

Bizard lieutenant of guards, i. 417;

arrested at Montreal, 417; matter
before council, 420.

Bochart, du Plessis : governor of Three

Rivers, i. 218; killed, 219.
Bernières, de arrives in Canada, i.
259; attends council during case of
abbé de Fénelon, 429.

Boishébert, de: gloomy account of
Indian affairs, iii. 353; at the Saint
John, 429.

Boishébert, de: arrives at Louisbourg

with Canadians and Indians, beaten
back on attack of outposts, iv. 130;
sent to Cape Breton [1759], 218.
Bonaventure, de present at capture of
"Newport," ii. 378; his conduct
arraigned, iii. 85; his honourable
public career, 85.

Bonaventure, father: present at meet-
ing at Annapolis [1714], iii. 133.
Bonnecamp jesuit, accompanies de

Céléron, iii. 407.
Bonrepaux, French minister to London :
his character, iii. 25.

517

bourg] receives thanks of parliament,
139.

Boucher, Pierre : addresses letter to
Colbert, i. 153; his narrative, 154;
sent to France, 284; his career, 285;
appointed governor of Three Rivers,
310.
Boucherville, de, senator Charles E.:
i. 285n.

Bougainville, de, A. D. C. iii. 553;

arrives at Quebec with re-inforce-
ments, iv. 220; in command of corps
of 1,500 men at Quebec, 257; writes
Wolfe on part of de Vaudreuil, 259;
reinforced, 267; follows movements
of British vessels, 267; after battle
appears with his force before Quebec
and retires, 285; in command at île-
aux-Noix, 397; receives orders to
abandon fort; holds council of war,
398; leaves behind fifty invalids and
retires, 398.

Bourlamaque, colonel de: his services,
iii. 553; sent to Carillon, iv. 48;
ordered to take up ground at end of
lake, 162; wounded at attack, 169;
sent in command to Carillon, 220;
in command at île-aux-Noix, 260;
wounded at battle of 28th April, 371;
charged with siege of Quebec, 371.
Boullé, arrives in Canada: i. 60; in

charge of fort at Quebec, 62; sent
by Champlain to Gaspé, 94; meets
Emeric de Caen, 97; taken by
Thomas Kirke, 98.

Boullé, Hélène [see Mde. de Cham-
plain].

Bouquet, lieutenant-colonel, Henry :

second in command to Forbes, iv.
195; his meeting with Washington,
197; opens roads to Loyal Hannon,
200; authorizes Grant's expedition,
201; commands column against fort
Duqesne, 211.

Bourbon, Charles de, count de Soissons:
lieutenant-governor of New France,
i. 42; his death, 42.

Bourbon, duc de: first minister of

France, iii. 268; his policy in marry-

ing Louis xv. 268; proposes as bride
grand-daughter of George II., 268;
dismissed from office, 268; breaks
off marriage with infanta of Spain,
294.

Bourbon river, Hudson's bay: de Cal-

lières' account of, iii. 7.

:

Bourdon, Jean: sent to the Mohawks,
i. 188; named attorney-general, 302;
his early life, 308; his insolent pre-
tension with regard to his office, 322;
makes voyage to 55° lat., iii. 3.
Bourgeois, Marguerite her birth, i.
225; arrives in Montreal, 226; re-
turns from France, 259.
Bourgmont, sergeant replaces de
Tonty, ii. 432; receives deputation
of Ottawas, 432; proposes they
should join with Miamis, 433; ex-
cites their jealousy, 433; attacks
Indian who had struck dog, 433.
Bourgoing arrives at Louisiana, as
vicar-general, iii. 223.

:

his death, 40.
Braddock, Edward, general: his early
years, iii. 463; depreciatory state-
ments unjustly made of him by
Franklin, 463; absence of Indians
not attributable to him, 466; his
expedition to the Ohio, 466; arrival
of, 466; difficulty in obtaining horses
and carts, 467; aided by Franklin,
467 his complaints to London, 468;
at fort Cumberland, 469; difficulty
in feeding troops, 469; few Indians
join force, 470; character of his
march, 471; calls council of war,
471; order of march established,
472; strength of force, 472; march
commenced, 472; his anxiety as to
provisions, 473; his march to the
Monongohela, 473-475, and 475′′. ;
resolves to move forward with strong
detachment, 476; alteration of march
not attributable to Washington,
476n.; change of route to river Mon-
ongohela, 478; the force crosses
river, 479; attacked on the march,

480; number of French, 479; troops
thrown into disorder, 480; attempt
to rally, 481; the men take to flight,
481; gains second crossing of Mon-
ongohela, 482; attempt to establish
discipline, 482; death of Braddock,
482; losses of British, 483; unre-
liable statements, 483. ; everything
fell into enemies' hand, artillery, arms,
money chest, 484; falsehood of
stories concerning him, 485.
Bradstreet, lieutenant-colonel, John:
commands regiment of bateau men,
iii. 559; defeats de Villiers, 559;
sent to take possession of saw mills,
Ticonderoga, iv. 167 ; replaces
bridge, 167; attack of Catarqui, fort
Frontenac, 182; first proposal to
Loudoun, 182; accepted by Aber-
crombie, 182; starts from Oswego,
183; strength of force, 1832. ; takes
fort Frontenac, 184; large amount of
furs taken, 184; obtains information,
Six Nations inclined to aid French,
187.

Brebeuf, Jean de, jesuit priest: starts
for Three Rivers, i. 73; commences
mission, 81; ascent with Hurons,
148; replies to the charge that small-
pox was introduced by the French,
163; early labours, 198; made pris-
oner at St. Joseph, 205; tortured and
burned, 206: his career, 205.
Bressani, jesuit father: i. 186; repairs
to Three Rivers, 203; his party at
tacked by Iroquois, 211; returned
with Ragueneau, 211.

to the conquest of Canada without
British intervention, iii. 356; their
jealousy of home interference, iv. 71 ;
belief in their power to conquer Can.
ada, 71; their low standard of public
duty, 72; debt to the mother country
soon forgotten, 73; taking of Louis-
bourg, a debt of safety due to mother
country, 141; their nationality as-
sured by British power, 141; detail
of levies [1758], 155n.
Brouillan, de, Jacques François : ap-

pointed governor of Acadia, iii. 70;
arrives at Port Royal, 70; calls upon
inhabitants to aid in establishing
fort, 70; demolishes old fort at St.
John, 71; complains of English
fishermen, 71; urges attack against
Boston, 71; defends Port Royal, 83;
goes to France, 85.

Brulé, Etienne : his murder, i. 127.
Bruyas, father: asked for by Iroquois,
ii. 389; sent to them, 391; present
at council, 399.

Brymner, Mr. Douglas, Dominion

archivist: i. 106n.; ii. 167; iv. 318n.
Buckingham, duke of: his expedition
against île Ré, i. 79.

Building regulations, [1701]: ii. 487.
Buisson, du in command at Detroit,
ii. 474; summons friendly Indians to
defend fort, 475; attacks Foxes, 475;
actively besieges them, 478; follows
them to lake St. Claire, 478;
almost destroys tribe, 478.
Bull fort, on Wood's creek: con-
structed, iii. 538; restored, 558.
Bullion, de, Madame: founder of hôtel-
Dieu, Montreal, i. 181 and n.
Burial ground, English, Dorchester
street, Montreal: its disgraceful con-
dition, 41.

Burlamachy, Philip: i. 108.
Burnet, William, governor of New
York: forms settlement at Ironde-
quoit bay, ii. 513; establishes Chou-
aguen [Oswego], 514; sends up
workmen, 516; his correspondence
with de Beauharnois, iii. 253.

519

Burt, Mr. B. B., of Oswego: iii. 562n.
Burton, brigadier Ralph: appointed

governor of Three Rivers, iv. 440;
courts of law, 441; proceeds to siege
of Havannah, 447; his census, 453;
his regulations as to trade with In-
dians, 457.

Bussy, de

presents paper advocating
Spanish claims, iv. 483; Pitt's reply,
483n.

Bute, John Stuart, earl of his early
life, iv. 472; his relations with the
princess dowager, 473; caricatures
of, 473".; appointed to privy coun-
cil, 476; his draft of the king's
speech, 476; advocates peace, 477;
his intrigues with lord Holderness to
obtain office secretary of state, 477;
prime minister, 487; his failure, 488;
his use of political writers, 489;
pensions granted by him to men of
letters, 490; desirous of abandoning
Prussia, 491; his intrigues with
prince Gallitzin, 492; charged with
receiving money from France, 495;
by Dr. Musgrave, 496; Wilberforce's
diary, 496; enters into secret negotia-
tions through count Viri, 497; his
sacrifice of Newfoundland fisheries,
498; prepared to abandon Havannah
without equivalent, 498.

Buteux, Jacques : jesuit father, i. 130;
his death, 217; his career, 217.
Byng, admiral: his conduct before
Minorca, iv. 94; his character and
trial, 94".

Byron, commodore: his services in the
bay of Chaleurs, iv. 415; his career,

4142.

C

Cabot's voyage: i. 2.

Cadet his career, iii. 544; obtains
wheat from habitants, 545; his dis-
honesty, 545.

Caen, Emeric de: i. 62; at Three
Rivers, 83; encourages Indian war
party, 83; defeated by Thomas

Kirke, 97; gives over Quebec to
Champlain, 126.

Caen, Guillaume de : i. 62; accused of
intolerance, 78; sent to Canada

after treaty, 109; complains of loss,

IIIN.

Calendar reformed [1747]: iii. 363n.
Callières, de, Louis Hector: governor

of Montreal, ii. 51; in command of
troops de Denonville's expedition,
79; causes redoubts to be built
government of Montreal, 87; sent to
France to advocate attack of New
York, 95; his plans adopted, 198;
returns to Canada, 200; ordered by
de Frontenac to Quebec, 232; pres-
ent during Phips' attack, 239; at-
tacked by Schuyler at Laprairie, 253;
builds fort at Montreal, 270; contest
with bishop de Saint Vallier, 282; on
expedition against Iroquois, 309;
efforts of to be appointed governor,
387; appointed, 388; shews to Iro-
quois the letter from William III. to
Bellomont, 390; signs peace with
Iroquois, 393; smokes pipe of peace,
403; extends fortifications of Que-
bec, 409; death, 410; his character,
410; memoir encroachments of Eng-
lish, iii. 4; 64; authority for the
story of des Groselliers and Radisson,
4; writes to the jesuit Bigot sees no
obstacle to peace being made, 69;
complains of de Brouillan, 71; states-
manlike views, 73.
Calvinism its political character in
France, i. 122.

Canabas territory of, ii. 189; massa-

cres by, 193; described, iii. 72n.
Canada etymology of word, i. 2;
early voyages to, 2; constant con-
nection with France, 12; frequent
voyages to, 33; constituted a royal
province, 293; rejoicings failure of
Walker's expedition, ii. 469; church
Notre Dame des Victoires built in
commemoration, 470; held to be
under protection of Virgin, iv. 218;
settlement at time of conquest, 240

and n.; fears of the descent of the
Saint Lawrence by the British force,
259; weakness in the west, 259; in-
fluence of conquest upon considered,
500-504; duration under French
rule, 500; its hope for the future,
504.
Canadian native born no career open
to him under French rule, iii. 280;
could only act as partizan leader,
280; could hold only inferior posi-
tions in the church, 280; contrasted
with liberty enjoyed under British
institutions, 280.

Canadian militia: in the field, pay and
allowances, iii. 555.

Canadian control of Indians: iii. 556.
Cannon sold by de Subercase to
Nicholson, iii. 997. ; notes for pay-
ment in circulation, 110.
Canoe travelling: i. 52.
Canons, chapter of Quebec: preten-
sions on death of bishop de Saint
Vallier, iii. 259; assume charge of
diocese, 259; claim to be independ-
ent of all authority, 260; their con-
duct on burial of de Saint Vallier,
261; suspend superioress, 262;
points in dispute, 262; summoned to
appear before council, 263; forbid-
den to perform executive acts, 263;
settlement of dispute, 265; appoint
irremovable curés, 279.

Canon, capitaine with French vessels
which pass Quebec, iv. 350; takes
British schooner, 350.

Canso: French fishermen there, iii. 140;
Indians defeated, 186; taken by
Duvivier, 302; re-established by
Shirley, 313; Englishmen seized by
Indians, 428.

Cap Tourment: attacked and burnt by
Kirke, i. 86; 88.

Cape Breton restored to France, ii.
179; given to French by treaty of
Utrecht, iii. 125: emigration direct-
ed to, 128; advantages of a port in
the island, 130; Indians from New-
foundland to be established there,