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400 ; estimates of revenue, 401 ; associationof government with directorate, 401 ; itsglowing prospectus, 401-2 ; incorporatesother lines, 405 ;conflict and agreementwith Great Western, 405-7 ; anticipations ofhandsome dividends, 408 ;its financial difficulties, 409-10 ; Brassey s admission toEnglish stockholders, 411 ; estimated compared with actual operating costs, 411-12 ;faults in construction, 412 ;reckless expenditures of, 412 ;unable to compete withwaterways, 413 ; government assistance to,413-14 ; guarantees to and treasury losseson, 5 174, 177-8 ;in financial straits, 10 416 ;its mileage rate for mail carriage, 5 398 ;refuses to undertake Canadian Pacific construction, 10 424 ; average earnings permile per week (1867), 425 ; losses throughdepreciated paper currency, 425 ;rail andwater competition, 425 ; imperfect throughconnections, 426 ; proposed change of name,426 ;defective transportation conditions,426 ;friction between management anddirectorate, 427 ; opposes North Shorecharter, 429 ;involved in rate wars, 429-30 ;abortive negotiations and final amalgamation of Great Western, 430, 435-6 ; strategicexpansion of, and conflict with CanadianPacific, 435-8 ; depreciation of stocks causedby railway feud, 438 ;and Timiskaming andNorthern Ontario Railway, 465 ;its linesand connections in Prairie Provinces, 20311-12, 566 ;its steamship and car ferryservices, 10 546, 547-8 ;the father ofConfederation, 5 6.Grand Trunk Railway Brigade. Raised toguard lines of communication during Fenianraids, 7 408, 412.Grande Hermine. One of Cartier s ships, 1 34,36, 38.Grandfontaine, Hector D Audigny, Chevalier,commander in Acadia. His census ofAcadia (1671), 13 52.Grandidier, Charles.GENERAL INDEX 79Missionary priest at FortHope, Fraser River, 11 146.Grandin, Henri, O.M.I. Missionary priest inNorth-West, 11 161.Grandin, Vital Justin (1829-1902), RomanCatholic bishop of St Albert (1871-1902).Arrives at St Boniface, 11 139 ; at LakeAthabaska, 139; coadjutor to Bishop Tache,140 ;an extended pastoral visitation, 143 ;his rescue on Great Slave Lake, 143-4 ;superintendent of Saskatchewan missions,149 ;and the Metis, 167-8 ;his work afterNorth-West Rebellion, 172 ;death of, 186.Grannis, William, of Stanstead. One ofgrantors of site of Stanstead Academy, 16460.Grant, Alexander (1727-1813), president andadministrator of Upper Canada (1805-6).Member of executive council, 3 173 ; in conflict with legislative assembly, 183-4.Grant, Alexander. Captain of the Brunswick(1767), 10 486.Grant, Alexander. On racial components ofHalifax, and facilities for drinking (1749),1127.Grant, Andrew Shaw. Presbyterian missionaryto the Yukon, 11 293, 294.Grant, Charles. Signs Quebec traders petition(1770), 15 140.Grant, Charles William, Baron de Longueuil(2780-1848), 2 569.Grant, Cuthbert (d. 1799). Sent by Pond tobuild trading-post on Great Slave Lake, 4 651.Grant, Cuthbert. Raises Metis on behalf ofNorth-W T est Company, 19 35 ;leads half-Warden of thebreeds at Seven Oaks, 36-7 ;Plains for Council of Assiniboia, 19 53.Grant, David Alexander. Deputy receivergenerals legal attorney, 4 493.Grant, George Monro (1835-1902). Aids in reestablishing Dalhousie College, 13 263 ;histranscontinental journey in 1872, 12 517 ;literary and editorial work of, 517-18,523 ; principal of Queen s, 18 390 ;declinesoffice in Ontario cabinet, 17 164-5 ; opposescommercial union, 6 110 ;as an inspirationalforce, 18 391-2 ; opposes university federation, 394; his biography, 12 510.Grant; Richard. Justice of peace for VancouverIsland, 21 87.Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-85), president ofUnited States. Criticizes Canadian seizuresof fishing vessels, 6 46 ; at a railway celebration, 14 408 ;and Alaska BoundaryCommission, 8 930 ;his non-committalmessage on reciprocity, 6 68.Grant, Sir William (1752-1832). Deputy reand settleceiver-general of Quebec, 4 493 ;ment of dues owed to crown, 497 ; favourselective assembly, 3 121 ;action takenagainst and amount recovered from, 4 500.Grant, W. Colquhoun. First independentsettler on Vancouver Island, 21 89, 121 ;sells out and returns to England, 121 ; ondesertions from Hudson s Bay Company sservice, 122.Grant, William Lawson (b. 1872). Joint authorof Life of George Monro Grant, 12 510.Grant, Ensign. At siege of Louisbourg (1768),1 224.Granville, George Leveson-Gower, second Earl(1815-91), colonial secretary (1868-70, 1886).On transcontinental railway, 10 421 ; proposes fisheries arrangement with UnitedStates, 8 694.Grape Island, Bay of Quinte. School forIndian children established at, 5 349.Grass, Michael. Settles New York loyalists atCataraqui, 17 25.Graton, Damieu (1858-91). Priest frozen todeath at Regina, 11 180.Gravel, Elphege (1838-1904). Roman Catholicbishop of Nicolet (1885-1904), 11 108.Graves, Samuel (1713-87), British admiral.Refuses to sail up St Lawrence in October(1775), 3 77.Gray, Andrew (d. 1826). Minister of ProtestantDissenters Church, Halifax, 11 258.Gray, Hugh.Predicts commercial primacy ofQuebec, 15 305.Gray, James, major of New York King sRoyal Regiment. Signs loyalist petition(1785), 17 35.