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218 CANADA AND ITS PROVINCESWhale Island. Post erected by AlexanderMackenzie on, 4 078.Whalebone. Snip sent on search for Knight sexpedition, 1 195.Wheat and Grain. Wheat first raised inAmerica at Port Royal, 14 646 ;cut inQuebec City for transportation to France, 16513 ;novel method suggested by merchantsfor consumption of surplus grain, 2 479 ;crop statistics (1719, 1734), 15 54; kind ofwheat sown and average crops, 2 510 ;anticipation of grading of wheat and erectionof elevators (1787), 4 544-5 ; price at Quebec(1779-80), 533; duty reduced to 5s. perbushel by Huskisson, 574-5; first cargobrought from Lake Michigan to Buffalo(1836), 10 502 ;difference in price of wheatcompared with United States (1840), 5 189 ;British sliding scale of duties (1838-42),194-5 ;a sufficient quantity not grown inLower Canada for local requirements, 192 ;leading crop in cereals, 7 653 ; ravages ofwheat midge, 653; grain production (1867-78), 9 117-18; remarkable fall in prices ofwheat in Great Britain (1877-96), 180;decline of wheat-growing in Eastern Provinces, 181 ; successful crossing leads toextension of northern limit of croduction, 7668, 10 450-1, 20 518, 523-4, 590 ;settlementand railway expansion in western wheatfields,10 450 ; increasing congestion anddifficulty in handling traffic at head of GreatLakes, 450 ;number of bushels passingthrough canals at Sault Ste Marie and percentage that passed to New York via Buffalo(1912), 549 ; freight rates by alternativeroutes, 549 ;reasons for preference given toBuffalo-New York route, 549-50 ;wheat-4mining, 20 316 ;varieties of wheat andtheir respective qualities, 516, 517, 522, 523,569, 589, 590.Prairie Provinces :progress (1867-78),9 119; statistics of wheat inspection atbecomes railway contractor in Canada, 20 302.Winnipeg (1886-91), 20 300; table showing Whitely, Stephen. One of fathers of Confederaacreage sown in wheat, total yield, and tion in British Columbia, 21 171 n.average per acre (1900-12), 317 ; rapid Whitmore, Edward (1691-1761), brigadier. Atexpansion of, in provinces of central West siege of Louisbourg (1758), 1 222 ; appointed(1901-11), 9 244; yield of oats, barley, and governor, 226 ; demolishes the fortress, 227.flax in 1912, 20 317 ; acreage sown in winter Whitney, H. M. A promoter of Dominionwheat in 1912, with average yield per acre, Coal Company and Dominion Iron and Steel317 ; grading of grain, 317-18 ;cash returnsof grain crops (1913), 324. Manitoba Company, 14 395.:yield Whitney, James. Purchases the steamboatin 1876, and average of wheat crop to acre, General Smythe, 10 561 ; builder of the294 ; wheat yield in 1878, 295 ; average Henrietta, 561.yield in 1887, 299 ; acreage under cultivation Whitney, Sir James Pliny (1843-1914), premierand production of 1911, 19 140; yield for of Ontario (1905-14). Attorney-general, 171912, with averages per acre, 20 523. Sas 196 n. ; leader of opposition, 178 his ; perkatchewan : assumes leadership in wheat, 9 sonality and successful administration, 184-244; production in 1913, with acreages 185 ; Henri Bourassa s tribute to efficiencysown, 20 568 ; crops sown, 569-70. Alberta : of his administration, 185suitability of soil and climate, 589 ;on contribution; winter to naval defence, 6 169; assists in antireciprocitycampaign, 184.and spring wheat, 589-90; other grains, 590;comparison of grainsfor 1912 and 1913 (table), Whitney, Captain. In command of the steam590 ; estimated value of crop for 1913, 191. ship Queenston (1825), 10 498.See under Trade and Tariffs.Whittaker, D. E. Assistant provincial assayer,Wheaton, Captain. Instructed to frustrate British Columbia, 22 580.projected Fenian invasion of Manitoba, 19101, 102.Wheeler, A. D. On copper-ore discovery atKootenay Lake, 22 562-3.Whelan, Patrick James (d. 1869). Executedfor murder of D Aroy M c Gee, 6 27.Whidden, Howard P. (6. 1871). President ofBrandon College, 11 374, 20 444.Whimster, D. B. Schoolmaster at Kildonan,20 426.Whitby Ladies College (Methodist), 11 337.Whitcher, W. F. First head of Fisheries branchof department of Crown Lands of Quebec,16 559.Whitcner, W. N. Advises extension of Canadian Fisheries Act to British Columbia, 22449.WhitchUTCh, Township of. Quaker and German settlements in, 17 46, 47.White, Aubrey (b. 1845). Devises fire-rangingsystem of Ontario, 18 594.White, Charles Henry. Cartoonist, 12 631.White, Frederick (b. 1847). Comptroller ofNorth-West Mounted Police, 6 351.White, Harlowe. Artist, 12 606.White, James (6. 1738). Pioneer settler onthe St John, 13 128 ; taken prisoner byAmerican marauders, 136 ; deputy Indianin New Brunswick, 13 138.agentWhite, J. H. Assists in forest survey of NovaScotia, 14 621.White, William Thomas (b. 1866). OpposesTaft-Fielding agreement, 6 180; minister ofFinance, 7 514.White Pass. Friction at, on discovery of gold atKlondike, 8 933-4.White Pass and Yukon Railway. Completed(1899), 10453; 22602, 607.White River. A tributary of the Yukon, 22592-3.Whitehead, Charles. Purchases first section ofland sold by Canadian Pacific Railway, 20302.Whitehead, Joseph. Fireman on the Rocket,Wholdaia Lake.4670.Samuel Hearne encamps at,