oston, 86; rioting in, 91, 95; Lord North burnt
in effigy at, 97; Haldimand's departure from, 102; his property in, 103,
107; difficulties of communication with, 129; animosity against British
in, 252.
=New York State.= =Hd= Proposal to build Florida barracks there, 79;
slow in joining revolt, 98, 101; Vermont's dispute with, 198, 203, 209,
215, 217; Indians migrate from, 258. =F= British colony, plan for
conquest of, 231.
=Newark.= _See_ Niagara.
=Newcastle, Henry Pelham Tiennes Pelham Clinton, Duke of= (1811-1864).
Entered Parliament, 1832; chief secretary for Ireland, 1846; and
secretary for war and the colonies, 1852-1854; secretary for war in
1854-1855; colonial secretary, 1859-1864; visited Canada in 1860, with
the Prince of Wales, afterwards Edward VII. =Index=: =E= Secretary of
state for colonies, 167. =Md= Colonial secretary, accompanies Prince of
Wales on his visit to Canada in 1860, 88; his difficulty at Kingston
with Orange Order, 88; threatens to disallow high tariff measure, 218.
=T= And Intercolonial Railway question, 55, 56; on Confederation
question, 64. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._
=News.= Newspaper published at Toronto. Established, 1880. =Index=: =Mc=
Urges monument to Mackenzie, 521.
=Newspapers.= =Mc= Postage on, 93, 103, 106; their tributes to
Mackenzie, 509-523. _See also_ under names of individual newspapers.
=Niagara= (=Newark=). Settled by Loyalists about 1782. Selected by
Simcoe ten years later as the capital of Upper Canada, and named by him
Newark. The first Legislature of the province met there in 1792. The
first public library in the province established in 1800. =Index=: =Bk=
First seat of government of Upper Canada, 57. =S= First seat of
government of Upper Canada, 50; Loyalists settled at, 58; social life
at, 181. =L= Fort built at, 216. =Bib.=: Kirby, _Annals of Niagara_;
_Reminiscences of Niagara_ (Niagara Hist. Soc., n.d.); Carnochan,
_Niagara Library, 1800 to 1820_.
=Niagara Falls.= First described from actual observation by Father
Hennepin, in the narrative of his journey of 1678. The falls are
indicated on Champlain's map of 1632, and are briefly mentioned in
Ragueneau's _Relation des Hurons,_ 1648. The name is of Iroquois origin.
=Bib.=: Hulbert, _Niagara River_; Spencer, _Falls of Niagara_.
=Niagara, Fort.= =S= Guards entrance to Niagara River, 51; held by the
British pending settlement of Loyalist affairs, 55; cannon mounted on,
129; handed over to United State
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