Volume 23 - Section XII - ElectricCanadian.com

172 CANADA AND ITS PROVINCESdevelopment of interprovincial trade, 252 ;causes leading up to abrogation, 252-0 ;Canadian sufferers under, 253 ; Gait s tariffreadjustments objected to by Congress,254-5 ; treaty denounced, 256 ; its results,187-8 financial ; position of Canada at conclusion of treaty, 17 249-50 ;its effect inMaritime Provinces, 10 585-6, 14 385-6, 13207 ;effect of repeal on exports of coal andfish in Nova Scotia, 9 136, 14 678 ; repealadversely affects Maritime Provinces, 5 257 ;abrogation checks demand for live stock, 9118; Canada s recovery from effects ofabrogation, 136-7 ;Sir James Douglas on,21 113-14; Brown-Fish draft treaty (1874),6 67-9 ; Tupper s negotiations, 108-9 ;notat first a party issue, 109 ; favoured byliberal party, 109 ; interprovincial conference (1887) supports free trade, 110; defeatof Cartwright s resolution, 110 ; public feeling on, 110-11 ; supporters charged withannexationist tendencies, 111 ; limited,favoured by conservatives, 111-12; declaration of party leaders on, 112 ; an issue in1891, 113; Blake s letter and its effect inthe country, 113-15 liberal ; party declaration(1893), 121-2; favoured by President Taft,9 223; Laurier states his policy (1910), 6176 ;terms of Taft-Fielding agreement,177-8, 9 224-5 ;causes of reversal of policyin United States, 6 178-9 ; reception ofFielding policy in Canada, 179-80 ; arguments pro and con, 180-2, 9 228-32 ; agreement passed by Congress, 6 182-3, 9 225-6 ;utterances of American statesmen and theireffect in Canada, 6 183, 9 224 ; causes of itsdefeat, 6 184-6, 9 226 ; summary of effortsfor renewal of, 127-33, 162-71 ; table summarizing commercial negotiations withUnited States (1854-1911), facing 126.Commercial Union and Unrestricted Reciprocity : proposal for commercial union,5 256 ;causes of movement in favour of, ineighties, 9 162-4 ;leaders in agitation,165-6 ;attitude of Canadian parties, 6 110,9 167-9, 110 ;their policies, 170-1.R6collets. First missionaries of New France,1 52 ;build chapel at Quebec (1615), 2 387 ;officiate at first celebrations of mass, 388 ;their Canadian missions, 1 57-8, 86, 2 287-97,13 35 ; efforts of to colonize Indians frustrated by merchant companies, 2 389, 392,393 their ; reception of Jesuits, 398 ;theirwork taken up by Jesuits, 1 64 ; capturedby English (1629), 2 401 refused ;permissionto return, 402 ; return to colony (1670), 420 ;abandon attempts to civilize Indians, 396-7 ;educational work of, 16 347, 404 ; forbiddento recruit and consequent extinction of, 1121, 16 399 ; their convent destroyed by fire(1796) and site given to Anglican bishop,1135.Recovery. Vessel at Fort Langley at inauguration of colony of British Columbia, 21 150.Recruit. Vessel built at Moncton, 10 585.Red Cross Line. Engaged in Atlantic coasttrade, 10 562.Red Plover. Lake Ontario vessel, 10 494.Red River. Explored by La Verendryobrothers, 1 122 ; steamship service on, 10567.Red River Expedition.Its strength, organization, and cost, 6 41-3, 7 424.Red River Rebellion. See Kiel Rebellion.Red River Settlement. Special Article, 19 13-93. Selkirk s third colonizing project, 14 ;Selkirk s grant, 19 ; hostility of tradingcompanies to, 19-20, 21, 23, 25, 44, 46 ;organization of first party, 20-1 ; colonistssail from Stornoway (July 26, 1811), 21;encamp on Nelson River, 21 ; arrive at YorkFactory, 21 ; mutiny, 21-2 ; arrive at theForks (August 20, 1812), 22 ; recruitinggrounds of second party, 22 ;arrive at YorkFactory (August 26) and at the Forks(October 27), 23 ; composition of third party,25 ;sail from Stromness (June 28, 1813), 25 ;outbreak of fever, 25 ; settlers winter atFort Churchill, 25-6 ; the journey to RedRiver, 26 fourth ; party arrive at HudsonBay (1815), 34; English taught on boardship to fourth party of settlers, 20 422 ;Selkirk s aim formation of a Gaelic-speakingcolony, 422 ; dispute between Scottishcolonists and half-breeds, 369 ; North-WestCompany s armed campaign against, 1926-37 ; affair of Seven Oaks, 37-8 ; arrivalof the de Meurons, 38 ; Selkirk s residenceat and departure from, 41-2 ;its moral andspiritual condition, 11 122 ;first schoolorganized (1818), 20 418; Presbyteriansettlers petition for a minister, 11 285 ;migration from to Upper Canada, 17 72 ;plague of locusts, (1818) 19 43, (1868) 68;high cost of provisions, 43-4 ;Swiss settlersarrive, 44 ; disastrous floods (1826), 44 ;experimental farm established by Selkirk sexecutors, 44-5 ; Buffalo Wool Companyestablished, 45-6 ; attempts to develop industries at, 46 ; terms of transfer to Hudson sBay Company, 47 and n. ; organized underCouncil of Assiniboia, 47-8 ;contrasted typesof settlers, 49 ; buffalo hunts at, 5 321-2,19 49-50 ; credit system established bySelkirk, 50-1 ; measures against illicit tradein furs, 51-4 ;official connivance in freetrade, 54-5 ; Sayer trial and subsequentpolitical awakening, 56-9 ; Nor -Westerestablished, 59 ;movement for incorporation in Dominion, 60-1 ; terms of transferof Rupert s Land, 61-2 ;racial and religioussolidarity of Metis contrasted with Englishspeakingpopulation, 63-4 ; its paternalgovernment, 64-5 ; aggressiveness of Canadiansettlers, 65, 66-8 ; locations of settlers, 20284 ; names of British and French settlements, 284 ; occupations of residents, 285 ;dependent on outside supplies, 285 ; freightrates and import duties, 285 ; organizationof judicature in, 370 ; salary of teachers andschool books in use at Kildonan, 426 ;settlers offer to construct road to Lake ofthe Woods, 7 633 ; first wheat exportationfrom, 20 294-5 ; English settlement priorto 1870, 422-6. Population: character ofearly, 417 ;with racial components and