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leaving, 331 ;social condition and education of first colonists, 16 327-8 ; caretaken in selection of colonists, 15 32 ;importation of wives for settlers, 33-4 ;rule of early marriage and its effect,33-4 ; morality of, as attested by baptismalregister of Quebec (1621-90), 34 ; proposalto make it a penal settlement, 2 331, 458 ;GENERAL INDEX143convicts sent as settlers become creditablecolonists, 15 53 ;Church dominating power Public Finance ; Seigneurial System Shiptill arrival of Talon, 85-6, 92-3 ; ; suggestion building Shippingthat information about Canada should ; ; Trade and Tariffs.be New Glasgow. Shipbuilding industry at, 10concealed from English, 2 461 ; marriage 582, 587 ; mining development at, 14enjoined by ordinance, 343 ; proposed intro 395.duction of negro slaves, 490 ;mental char New Glasgow Iron, Coal, and Railway Company.acteristics of children of, 15 44 ; Treaty of Formed (1890), 14Neutrality operates in favour of, 2 489 688; merged in Nova;Scotia Steel Company (1895), 688.immodest fashions in dress condemned, 424 ; New Jersey Volunteers (1st, 2nd, and 3rd).outbreaks of smallpox, (1690) 358, (1755) Tkeir settlements on the St John, 13 149.375 ; number of parishes formed up to 1700, New Johnstown. See Cornwall.16 508 ; delimitation of parishes, 2 561-2 authorities ; Newattempt to evade Netherlands terms Company. Forms first settleof Treatyof Utrecht, 365-70 ; freedom of discussionforbidden, 501 n. ; famine in (1743), 439;firewood dearer in Quebec than in Paris, 513 ;contrasted with West Indies, 503-4 ; Frenchlaws inoperative unless registered by SuperiorCouncil, 511 ;La Galissoniere on resourcesof country round Detroit, 504 ; scalpingexpeditions by French to be discontinued(1752), 374; growth of colony in eighteenthcentury, 15 48-59 ; causes of slow growth ofeducation, 94-5 ; regarded as a land of snowand ice, 85 ;friction with arrivals fromFrance, 96 ; its surrender, 1 310-12 ;itsgeographical extent, 15 3 ; influence of lawof inheritance in, 2 511-12 ;the policy ofHuguenot exclusion, 11 253-4, 15 25-6 ;official corruption in, 2 486-7, 488, 501, 505,506 ; peculation by officials an illuminativeexample, 493 and n. ; powers of bishop clashwith governor s, 340 ; evils of dividedauthority in, 1 207, 257, 263-4, 267, 276, 280,282, 291-2, 294, 300, 301, 2 340, 350 ; paternalism and its influence, 463-4, 472, 474, 475,478, 479, 493, 505 ; causes of failure of colonization, 15 47-8, 97 ; weakened by policy ofexpansion, 2 490, 15 58-9 ; European warswhich affected its relations with NewEngland colonies, 49-50 ; contrasted withNew England colonies, 2 363-4, 366, 371,534, 15 59, 17 14-15 ; menaced by industrialwardevelopment of British colonies, 2 350 ;with British colonies inevitable, 367 ;astrategical post in conflict with GreatBritain, 370 ; a drag on British power inAmerica, 372-3 ; a pawn in Europeanstruggle, 500 ; self-preservation its perpetualproblem, 534 ;its golden age, 346 ; political results that might have followed discoveryof silver-mines of Cobalt during Frenchr6gime, 18 631 ; achievements of, 1 12-13 ;a brilliant and engaging entity, 12. Population :permanent settlers, (c. 1630) 2 455 n.,(1640) 409; and its components, 15 22;compared with New England in 1650, 2 333,(1663) 464; Quebec (1663), 464; in 1663,with details of their location, 15 33 ; (1666)2 471 ; details of first census (1666), 15 56,57 ; census of 1673, 57 ; and of 1675, 58 ;(1685) 2 423; decrease in population reported in 1692, 491; (1705 and 1713) 494;increase between 1713 and 1730, 15 54; atthe Conquest, 96. See also Agriculture ;Currency ; Defence ; Education ; Fisheries ;French Canadians ; Immigration ; LiquorTraffic ; Mining ; Municipal Institutions ;ment on the Hudson, 2 453.New Orleans. Founded by d Iberville, 1558 ; disastrous British expedition against,3 268.New Severn. Hudson s Bayseized by d Iberville, 1 181.Company fortNew South Wales. Canadian preference grantedto (1898), 9 213.New Wales (Hudson Bay). Claimed by Buttonfor England, 1 156.New Westminster. Chosen as headquarters ofgovernment, 21 149 ; dispute on namesettled by Queen Victoria, 149 ;first municipality in Pacific colonies formed at (1860),22 353-4 ; Holy Trinity Church consecrated,11 232; first fall fair held, 22 538; itsshipping facilities, 10 620.New York (Manhattan). Dutch establish postat, 2 451 n. ; purchase from Dutch suggestedby Talon, 15 39 ; desired as a winter portby French authorities, 2 348 ; suggestedpurchase from Duke of York, 350, 355 ;proposed exchange of colony of, for some ofFrench West Indies (1687), 356 n. ; Frontenacs plans of attack on, 357 ; Frontenac sinstructions as to distribution of farms in,among French Canadians (1689), 357 ;government of, appoint commissioners forIndian affairs, 4 698 ;suppression of itstrade with Montreal (1734), 2 502; Stateopposes War of 1812, 3 196-7 ; British armycontracts supplied in State of, during War of1812, 262.New York Volunteers. Settle on the St John,13 149.New Zealand. Raises force for service in imperial wars, 7 461 ; receives Canadianpreference (1903), 9 213.New Zealand Shipping Company, 10 616.Newark (Niagara). Schools established at, 18278, 351 ;meeting-place of firstassembly ofUpper Canada, 3 174 ; seat of governmentremoved from (1797), 183; Americans invested in, 243 ;burned by M c Clure, 251.See also Niagara.Newburyport. Embarkation of expeditionagainst Quebec from (1775), 3 84.