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Port Hope School, 18 401.Port la Joye, Prince Edward Island. St Pierre scolonists at, 13 313-14 ; grain yield of(1728-30), 318 ; Franquet s plans fordefence of (1751), 321; population (1752),307 ; Professor Caven s description of, 320-1.See also Charlottetown.Port Leopold, North Somerset. Sir JamesClark Ross winters at (1848), 5 297.Port Mouton. Father Masse s escape fromMount Desert Island to (1613), 2 386.Port Nelson (Hudson Bay). Button wintersat, 1 156 ;visited by Luke Foxe, 158 ;Radisson constructs fort at, 171 ;d lbervilles fight at, 183-7 ; expeditions from insearch of North-West Passage, 196 ; terminalof Hudson Bay Railway, 20 313.York Factory.Port Renfrew (Port San Juan). Button attacked by natives at, 21 36.Port Royal. Founded by de Monts, 13 20 ;described by Champlain and Lescarbot, 21 ;first permanent settlement of whites inCanada, 21 ;first wheat raised, first millbuilt, first vessel launched, first convertmade, and first blood shed between Englandand France for supremacy in North Americaat, 21, 14 646 ;domestic cattle introducedGENERAL INDEX159See alsoPortland, New Brunswick. Destroyed bv fire14 426.Portland Canal. Storehouses constructed byUnited States on disputed territory on 8934-5.Portlock, Nathaniel (c. 1748-1817). Captain ofthe King George, North Pacific trader, 21 31.Portman, John. Original member of Hudson sBay Company, 1 166.Portneuf. Ownership of barony of (1712), 2556.Post Office. Special Articles: (1763-1841) 4729-57, (1840-67) 5 365-404, (1867-1912) 7629-48. Postal rates in North America fixedby act of 1710, 4 729-30 ; post offices established in Canada ( 1763), 331 ; courier servicesto New York and on St Lawrence, 731 ; areduction in rates (1765), 731-2 ; isolationduring Revolutionary War, 732-3 ; beginning of packet service between Falmouthand Halifax (1788), 733 ; post offices openedin Maritime Provinces, 733 ; lack of facilitiesin Upper Canada and postmaster-general sattitude, 734-5 ; beginning of service inUpper Canada, 735-6 ; modes of conveyance of oversea mail, 736-7 ; irregularitiesand evasions of post-office charges, 737-8 ;rates of postage for oversea mail, 738 ;at, 646 ; changes in ownership of, 13 22 ;natural surroundings of, 28-9 ; Order of theGood Time founded at, 30 ; abandoned onrevocation of de Monts patent, 32 ;seigniory of confirmed to Poutrincourt, 32 ;Jesuits withdraw from, 2 386 ; looted bySamuel Argall, 386, 13 34; Sir WilliamAlexander s colonists at, 38 ; shipbuildingat, 47 ; meeting of Radisson and ZachariahGillam at, 1 161 ; captured by Phips (1690),13 56; fort and settlement in 1700, 61;failure of New England expedition against,63 ;a rendezvous for privateers, 64 ; capturedby British (1710), 2 364, 13 64; renamedAnnapolis Royal, 65. See also AnnapolisRoyal.Portage la Prairie. Extreme westward outpost of Red River Settlement, 20 285 ;population (1901, 1911), 327.Porteous, John (d. 1789). Member of Montrealmerchants committee, 15 142.Porteous, Thomas. Manager of Montreal watercompany (1815), 15 309.Porter, James. Superintendent of Educationin New Brunswick, 14 552.Porter, Peter Buell (1733-1844). Americanboundary commissioner, 8 828, 830, 831,832, 834, 835.Portland,William Henry Cavendish Bentinck,third Duke of (1738-1809), secretary forWar and the Colonies (1794). CriticizesSimcoe s plans of colonization, 3 179-80, 18414 ; on relations of governor and lieutenantgovernor,4 446 ; withdraws opposition topayment of members in New Brunswick, 13179 ;recalls Prescott, 3 156 ; his instructionon encouragement to be given to spread ofEnglish, 16 409.Portland, Maine. International railway convention held at (1850), 14 406.Freeling s restrictive policy, 739-41 ; illegalpostal charges, 740-1 ; right of postal taxationchallenged by Upper Canada assembly,741-2 ; control of surplus revenues, 742-6 ;Upper Canada assembly s committee ofinquiry, 742-6 ; movement for colonialcontrol, 746-7, 752-3, 755 ;newspaperpostal irregularities, 747-9, 752-4; officialanxiety in England, 749-50, 755-6 ; ColonialPost Office Bill (1834) and its reception,750-1,5378-80 ; deputy postmaster-general semoluments, 4 751-2 financial ;arrangementwith United States, 752 ; profits remittedto British Treasury (1831-34), 754 ; colonialcontrol favoured in Durham s report, 756 ;Sydenham s commission (1840), 756-7; arevolution through steam carriage, 5 365-6 ;reductions in rates (1840), 366-7; pennypostage established in Great Britain (1840),367 ; report and recommendations ofSydenham s Postal Commission (1841), 367-372 ; proposed reform of postal rates, 369,371, 372 ; private carriage of letters, 366-7,369-70 ; new schedule of rates and adoptionof weight system (1843), 371-2. Clanricardes policy of reform, 387-9 ; NovaScotia Postal Committees, 389-92 ; interprovincialconference of 1847, 390-1 ; adoption of uniform interprovincial rates, 391-2 ;colonial control conceded (1849), 392 ;development (1851-67), 392-5; increasedrevenues through rate reduction, 393-6 ;postage stamps introduced (1851), 395;money order system established : in Canada(1855), in Nova Scotia (1859), in NewBrunswick (1863), 395; payment to railways for conveyance of mails and basis ofsettlement, 396-8 ; establishment of CanadianOcean Mail Service (1853), 398-9; disputesand adjustments with British Post Office,