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GENERAL INDEX 211Union. (1) First merchant brig to navigateLake Huron (1814), 10 500. (2) Boat employed in Franklin s expedition of 1825, 4683. (3) Ottawa River steamer, 10 500.Union Bank. Founded at Hamilton (1856), 5279.Union Bank (Quebec). Chartered (1865), 10639 ;its varying fortunes, 639.Union Bank of Halifax. Established (1856),10 028.Union Bank of Prince Edward Island. Purchases railway debentures in excess of itscapital, 13 372.Union Scheme (1822). Favoured by commercial interests in Quebec and Montreal,3 295 ; its object, 296 ; provisions of bill,296-7 ; not actively supported in UpperCanada, 297 ; strenuously opposed in lowerprovince, 298.Unitarian Church in Canada, 11 399-400.United Brethren in Christ. Founded by Otterbeinand Boehm (1767), 11 399.United Canada. Union of the Canadas proposedin Lord Durham s Report, 4 403 ;UnionBill introduced (1839), 406; becomes law(July 23, 1840), 416 ; provisions of act, 413,417 ; competing claims for capital, 416-17 ;administrations between September 1854and July 1867, 5 77 n. ;amendments in Actof Union (1841-60), 147 ;conflict of tradeinterest between provinces, 10 372-3. SeeConstitutional Development.Legislative Council :Sydenham s attemptat rehabilitation, 5 137 : churchmen excluded, 137 ; again falls into disrepute, 137 ;number of nominations to, under successivegovernors, 138 n. ; Elgin s suggestions forreform, 138-9 ; assembly s scheme of reform,139-40; Colonial Office proposals, 140-1;home authorities favour elective principle,141 ; arguments used against reform, 141-3 ;its remodelling in 1855, 143-4 ; claims voicein control of finance, 144-5 ;results of adoption of elective principle, 145-6 ;membershipin avoided by politicians from Lower Canada,40.Legislative Assembly : originates moneybills, 4 487-8 ;fiscal resolutions of 1846,5 221 ; address of 1846 threatening separation and favouring reciprocity, 221-2 ;Gladstone s reply, 222-3 ;increase in representation and redistribution of seats, 136 ;voting qualifications, 136 ; legislation onconduct of elections, 136-7 ; paymentmembers ofand travelling expenses, 137 andn. ; favours elective principle for legislativecouncil, 139-40 ; equality in representation,as between provinces, 148 ; the doublemajority, 148-50 ; reference of legislationto section exclusively interested in it, 150-1.See under Constitutional Development ;Public Finance.United Empire Loyalists. General : differencein aim between whigs and tories of revolting colonies, 17 15-16 their ; persecutions,sufferings, and sacrifices, 13 133-4, 141-2, 143,232, 17 16, 17, 20 ; historic families represented among, 13 133 ; losses sustained byHarvard College through their proscriptionand banishment, 133 ; diversities of theirsocial condition, 233 ; formed into battalions, 17 16-17 ; their dispersal after thepeace, 17 ; their influence on future ofCanada, 3 117 ; prosecute fishing industryin Eastern Canada, 14 566 ; impellingmotives in War of 1812, 3 212 ; LossesClaims Commission appointed, 17 27-8 ;amount of compensation awarded andnumber of recipients, 13 172, 17 28.Quebec return of disbanded : troops andloyalists settled upon the King s Landsin 1784, 15 145-6 ; settlements in province,146-51 ;their effect on French Canada, 3118; as settlers in Eastern Townships, 16509 ; introduce live stock into EasternTownships, 7 655.Nova Scotia : effect of Treaty of Versailleson population of province, 13 "232-3 ; theirlanding at Annapolis Royal, 234-5 ;atHalifax, 235-6 ; sufferings and privationsof, 236 ; hatred of victorious Americans expressed in gibes at climate of Nova Scotia,236 ; founding of Shelburne, 237-8 ; influence on political sentiment, 245-6 ; characteristics of, 246 ; regarded with jealousyby old inhabitants, 247 their ;public abilities,247-8 ; as agriculturists, 14 647.New Brunswick : effect of expulsion onsettlement of New Brunswick and in maintenance of British rule, 13 141 ; advanceagents arrive (1782), 142 ; plans formed fortransportation and settlement, 142 ;allocations to non-residents, 144 ; founding of StJohn (1783), 144-5, 233; number andlocations on St John River, 145 ; theirhardships, 146-7, 151 ; contiguous militarysettlements formed on upper St John.147-50 ; grants to disbanded loyalist soldiers,148 ;locations of the several regiments,149 ; settlements on the Miramichi, 189 ;demand redress of grievances, 151, 234 ;partial failure of military settlement, 151-2 ;members of first assembly who returned toUnited States, 173 ; hostility aroused bytheir action, 173-4 ; lack of educationalfacilities a reason for withdrawal, 176.Prince Edward Island their :hardshipsand grievances, 359 ; motive actuatingproprietors in their settlement, 359 ; numbers, places of origin, and social status ofimmigrants of 1784, 359.Upper Canada : site of proposedment settleat Niagara, 17 18 ; conditions attachedto grants, 19 ;their localities of origin, 19 ;number settled at Niagara (1782, 1783), 19,20, 26 ; corps recruited in old colonies andsettled in province after disbandment, 22 ;the task of Haldimand, 3 115-16, 17 22-4;the surveys, 23-4 ; corps and locations,24-6 ; method employed in their transportation, 10 489-90 ; townships settled, 17 25-6 ;table showing respective numbers settledeast and west of Cataraqui with acreagecleared as at October 1784, 26 ;Haldimandignores instruction to reduce rations, 26 ;government assistance, 26-7 ; land granted