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Free Trader. Steamboat on Toronto-Montrealroute, 10 541.Freeling, Sir Francis (1764-1836), secretary toBritish Post Office. His attitude to demands from Upper Canada for increasedfacilities, 4 734-5 ;and newspaper postageirregularities, 748-9.Freeman, Joseph. Insulted in Nova Scotiaassembly, 13 277.Fregeau Freres. First French Canadians toopen a cheese factory, 7 661, 16 526.Freleighsburg. Pioneer Baptist Church inTownships founded at, 11 3G1.Fremin, Jacques (1628-91), Jesuit. Missionaryto the Senecas, 1 91.French, Sir George Arthur (b. 1841). Organizesfirstpermanent Canadian artillery force, 7426 ; first commissioner of North-WestMounted Police, 19 148.French, Sir John Denton Pinkstone, first Viscount (b. 1852), field-marshal. His reporton defences of Canada, 7 465-7.French Canadians. Special Article : TheHabitant, his Origin and History, 15 17-117.General outlines, 3-13 ; first habitants, 16505-7 ; land clearing and means of livelihood, 15 36-7 ; their partiality for contiguityof settlement and a river frontage, 2 559, 1588 ; ordinary extent of holding, 2 559 ;large families of proverbial, 582, 15 50 ;table of births and deaths in three parishes(1741-54), 51 ;rewards and preference givento fathers of large families, 51 ; encouragements to early marriage, 51 ; preventedfrom returning to France, 51-2 ;NewEngland prisoners elect to remain in NewFrance, 52 ; partiality for horses, 2 581, 1555 ; character, conditions, social life, manners and customs, 2 581-4, 15 56, 92, 111-14,16 518-21 ; their consideration for Indians,15 92 ; litigious temper of, 2 575-7 ; fetes,festivals, and holidays, 544 ; purity ofmorals, 417 ;their origins, 583, 15 59-68 ;statistics showing provinces of origin anddeductions therefrom, 60-2 ; criticism ofclaim that Normandy sent out largestnumber of settlers, 60-3 ; influence ofNorman stock on manners and language,62-3 ; names of immigrants (1615-41), 62 n. ;language and idiom, 63-4 their ; points ofdissimilarity and of resemblance with inhabitants of France, 64-8 ; as soldiers, 79-85 ;their skill as skirmishers, 79 ; heroism andprivations during Seven Years War, 80-5 ;Montcalm s opinion of military qualities of,82 ; houses and barns destroyed by Wolfe ssoldiers, 83 ;as sailors, 80 ; Saint-Vallieron their piety and skill in handicrafts, 90 ;Parkman on, 91-2; education of, 91-2 ;and the seigneur, 2 580 ;physique of, 15 94 ;aptitude in mechanical labour, 95 ; settlement of in Ontario at the Cession, 17 13 ;between Conquest and passing of QuebecAct, 15 9G-100 ; their recognition asneutrals refused, 3 23, 15 261 ; Murray sopinion of, 3 24 ; sympathy betweenMurray s army and, 30 ; admitted as jurors,31 ; Dorchester on climatic and economicGENERAL INDEX 69conditions as likely to determine theirpredominance, 45-6 ;and American Revolutionary War, 107-10 ; effect of alliancebetween France and rebel colonies on, 114 ;in Invasion of 1775, 86, 97, 15 101, 143 ;number at defence of Quebec, 3 85 ; effectof British rule on respect for authority, 109 ;effect of loyalist invasion on, 118 ; estrangedfrom France by Revolution, 148, 15 101 ;contribute to expenses of war with France,101-2 ; services in War of 1812, 3 212-13,224, 247-9, 249-50, 15 101 ; seigneurs giveplace to lawyers as their political leaders, 3160 ;effect of Bonaparte s successes on, 165 ;uninfluenced by Papineau s reform movement, 15 105 ;insolence of British immigrants to, 114-15; distrust grant of municipal institutions, 293 ; hostile to directtaxation, 4 553, 15 292-3, 16 416 ; Sydenhamand, 5 87-8 ; Bagot makes first moveto understanding with, 88 ; Elgin s attitudeto, 68, 82 ; migrations to Upper Canada, 15107; repatriation of, in Manitoba, 11 161;danger of absorption outside Quebec, 15116-17 ; pioneers of civilization, 117 ;Grande Ligne Mission (Baptist), 11 371-3.See Coureurs de bois ; Emigration ;Literature ; Nationalism ; New France.French-Canadian Missionary Society (Presbyterian). Formed (1839), 11 278.French Immigration To Prince EdwardIsland, 13 312, 313, 314, 315; emigrd settlements in Upper Canada, 17 51-7 ; recent, inDominion, 7 563, 19 180.French Mills, on Salmon River. Wilkinsongoes into winter quarters at, 3 250.French Revolution. Its effect in United Statesand Canada, 3 147-8.French River. Explored by Champlain, 1 53.Frenchman s Creek. Engagement at, in Warof 1812, 3 235-6.Freneuse, Mathieu d Amours, Sieurde (b. 1657).Granted seigniory in Acadia, 13 59 ;erectsfirst saw-mill in New Brunswick, 14 602 ;death of, 13 59 ;his widow indiscreet, 59-60.Fr6ret, Louis. Canadian sculptor, 12 632.Freshwater Cove, Louisbourg. New Englanderslanding at, 1 215 ;Wolfe s attack on,224, 268.Friend. Schooner built at Lunenburg, 10581.Friends, Society of. Its tenets and influence,11 388-9 ;the Hicksite schism, 389 ; historyand organization in Canada, 389-90 ; inconsistencies of Pennsylvanian Quakers, 1 239-240 ;form settlements in Upper Canada, 1746-7, 63.Frobisher,- North-West Benjamin (d. 1787). Director ofCompany, 4 642.Frobisher, Joseph. Co-operates with AlexanderHenry the Elder, 4 542 ; joins Henry sexpedition, 645 ; partner in North-WestCompany, 543 ; signs western tradersmemorial to Dorchester, 642.Frobisher, Sir Martin (c. 1535-94), navigator.Equips expeditions and brings back cargoesof a gold-bearing stone from Baffin Land,22 654-5.