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viiiCANADA AND ITS PROVINCESwords in a dictionary. And this General Index will do more than merelyindicate the volume and page where the information is to be found. It willitself give a great deal of useful and elementary information ;so that if theinquirer is only in search of a date or a brief description of a person or place,the Index will answer the question there and then. Nor will the entries beconfined to proper names. Under such comprehensive headings as Immigration, Missions, Shipping, Fur Trade, Tariffs, etc., there will be collectedreferences to the volumes and pages where these are discussed and crossreferences to closely allied topics.Thus any subject maybe followed andstudied in all its ramifications and aspects.The following pages will show that the twenty-third volume has beencarried out substantially on the lines then indicated, and with no diminutionof the diligent and accurate attention which was given to its predecessors.The General Index, the work of Mr D. S. Douglas, bears testimony to thepatience and industry of itscompiler in the pursuit of useful but obscureit containsdates and facts, of which, besides the indexical references,thousands.The publishers desire to extend their thanks to all who have assisted inthe preparation and publication of Canada and its Provinceseditors,to the generalDr Shortt and Dr Doughty, with whom their relations throughouthave been most cordial, to the associate editors, to the contributors, to thesubscribers, and particularly to the printers, Messrs T. & A. Constable.TORONTO, May 1916.ROBERT GLASGOW.