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Edward Island, 13 354-7, 19 15-16 ;on the immigration, 13 357, 19 16 ;hisGaelic-speaking settlement at Baldoon, 1771-2, 19 16 ;sells Baldoon property, 17 72 ;entertained at Montreal by Beaver Club, 1917 ; marries Jean Colvile, 17 ; purchasesHudson s Bay Company stock, 19 ;obtainsgrant from Hudson s Bay Company, 19 ;involved in rivalries of trading companies,20 ; opposition engineered in Scotland byNorth-West Company, 20, 23 ;his correspondence tampered with, 24 ; settles fourparties of colonists at Red River, 20-6, 34 ;projects Gaelic schools to guard againstAmerican influence, 25, 20 422 ; educationalplans of, 422-3 ; hostility of Nor westers to,19 25 ;maintains legal validity of his charter,26-8 ;learns of destruction of colony, 33 ;endeavours to secure protection, 33-4 ;settles de Meurons, 38 ; learns of SevenOaks affray, 38 ; his seizure of Fort William,38-9 ;his transactions with Daniel M c Kenzie,39 ; submits his controversy to arbitration, 39 ;refuses to submit to arrest, 39 ;Bathurst s instructions regarding, 40 ; triedat Sandwich, Upper Canada, 40 ;arrives atRed River, 41 ; cession of Indian territoryto, 5 345, 7 594, 19 41 ; assists RomanCatholic mission at Red River, 11 120-1 ;his losses at Red River, 19 41 ; endeavoursto obtain legal recognition of his grant,41-2 ; leaves Red River, 42 ; death of, 42 ;cost of Red River Colony on his estate, 20370 ;his patriotic motives, 19 14-16, 25 ;range of his correspondence, 41 ; his efficientsupervision and practical foresight, 41 ;significance of his work, 42-3 his ; place inCanadian immigration, 13 355.Selkirk. First general trading steamer on RedRiver, 20 287.Sellar, Robert. On pioneer schoolmasters, 16462-3.Semlin, Charles Augustus (b. 1836), premier ofBritish Columbia (1898-1900). Member offirst legislative assembly of British Columbia,GENERAL INDEX 189(1864), 690-1, 18 508; special Seigneurial 21 180 ; premier, 224 ; dismissed fromCourt and its decisions, 2 591-2. Suited to office, 225.early colonial conditions, 533 ; its defensive Semple, Robert (1766-1816), governor of Redstrength, 534 ; beneficial to development of River Colony. Learns of destruction ofagriculture, 16 508 ;number of families in settlement, 19 34 ; arrives at Red River,Quebec now living on lands taken up by 35 ;winters at Pembina, 35 ; orders deancestors prior to 1700, 509 ; its establish molition of Fort Gibraltar, 36 ;slain atment logical and natural, 2 592-3 ;first and Seven Oaks, 37.last grants, 16 508 ;number granted under Seneca. War vessel on Lake Ontario, 10French and British r6gimes respectively, 487.508 ; summarized, 15 86-7, 16 507-8.Seneeas, Indian tribe. Visited by EtienneSeine. French ship captured by English Brule, 1 56-7 ; incorporate numbers fromfleet (1704), 2429.other tribes, 69 ;Fenelon spends winter with,Selkirk, D unbar James Douglas, sixth Earl of 86 ;La Salle s visit to, 89-92 ;ambush(1809-85). Reconveys Red River grant to convoy at Devil s Hole, 3 67 ; cede land onHudson s Bay Company (1834), 19 47 and n. Niagara River, 17 18.Selkirk, Jean Colvile, Lady. Patronises Senegal. Sent on expedition against Maohias,Buffalo Wool Company, 19 45.13 216.Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, fifth Earl of Separate Schools. Manitoba : French and(1771-1820). His early life, 19 14 ; proposes Catholic rights safeguarded, 11 174-5 ;emigration from Ireland, 14-15 ; applies for claim embodied in Riel s secret Bill ofgrant near Sault Ste Marie, 17 71 ;forms Rights, 19 90-1 ; agitation against, 125 ;Scottish Highland settlement in Princehis viewsdisparity in grants between Protestant andRoman Catholic schools, 125 ; alleged confiscation of Roman Catholic moneys, 11 175 ;French edition of Gazette suspended, 170,19 128 ; system abolished, 6 123-4, 19 126-8,20 429-30 ;a petition for redress, 11 176 ;question in the law-courts, 176-7, 19 128-9,20 432-3 ;conflict with Dominion government, 6 125-6 ; Archbishop Langevin scampaign, 11 182 ; obstruction of remediallegislation, 183 ; newspaper propaganda,187 ; settlement under Laurier, 6 131, 19129-30, 20 433-4 ;papal delegate s inquiry,11 107 ;Leo XIII s encyclical Affari voo,107 ; summary of arguments, 20 430-2.Saskatchewan and Alberta :dispute oncreation of provinces, 6 154-5 ;a by-electionissue in Ontario, 156 ; provisions made,19 266-7 ; clauses of acts cited, 266 n. ;compromise effected, 268 ; system and controversies associated with it, 20 453-7 ; growthof public and separate schools in Territoriesand in Saskatchewan (1885-1911), 457.Ontario :beginning and development, 18312-15 ; safeguarded under Confederation,315-16; provision and management, 17 223-4;points of approximation with public schools,18 340-1 ; fostered by urban conditions,341 statistics ; showing expansion (1852-1911), 341.*Seranus. See Harrison, S. Frances.Seraphim. Ruthenian pseudo-bishop, 11 191.Serigny, Joseph le Moyne de (1668-1734).Joins d Iberville at Placentia (1697), 1 184.Servants, Domestic. Prohibited from leavingtheir masters, 2 481.Servia. First Cunarder to be constructed ofsteel, 10 601.Service, Robert (b. 1876). His Songs of aSourdough and other poems, 12 582-3.Seton, Ernest Thompson (6. 1860). His studiesof animals, 12 526-7, 528 ;as book illustratorand artist, 622, 631.Settee, James. Native Anglican clergyman,11 227.Seven Oaks. Conflict between Hudson s Bav