can.= Newspaper published at Toronto. =Index.=: =B= The
organ of the Clear Grits, edited by Macdougall, 40; absorbed by the
_Globe_, 74; publishes personal attack on George Brown, editor
apologizes, 93. =BL= Radical publication, edited by Macdougall, 341.

=North American Colonial Association.= =Sy= On appointment of Poulett
Thomson (Sydenham), 132.

=North American Fur Company.= =D= Succeeds Pacific Fur Company, 134;
Astor at head of, 134. _See also_ Astor; Pacific Fur Company.

=North-West America.= =D= Built by Meares at Nootka--first ship launched
in what is now British Columbia, 28; seized by Martinez, 28; crew sent
to China, 29.

=North-West Coast.= =D= Spanish influence delays colonization, 4;
history of, affected by Russian occupation of Alaska, 4; by British
trade interests by sea, 4; by North West Company, 4; by Hudson's Bay
Company, 4; by Astorians, 4; unvisited by European navigators during
whole of seventeenth and three-quarters of eighteenth century, 11, 12;
final era of exploration of, 18; American voyages to, 23, 24, 25; La
Perouse explores in 1788, 25; Etienne Marchand explores in 1791, 25;
Malaspina's voyage to, in 1791, 25; Elisa's and Quimper's visit to, 26.
=Bib.=: Bancroft, _History of the North-West Coast_.

=North West Company.= Organized in 1795, by a number of merchants
chiefly of Montreal, engaged in the fur trade. The first "partners," or
_bourgeois_, of the Company were Simon McTavish, Joseph Frobisher, John
Gregory, William McGillivray, Angus Shaw, Roderick McKenzie, Cuthbert
Grant, Alexander McLeod, and William Thorburn. Most of them had
previously been in the North-West as independent fur traders. A new
agreement was entered into by the then partners in 1802; in 1804 the
Company absorbed its vigorous rival, the X Y Company, and in 1821 was
itself absorbed by the Hudson's Bay Company. =Index=: =MS= Early
beginnings--Montreal traders enter the North-West, 2; oppose the
Hudson's Bay Company, 3; the Frobishers build a post on Sturgeon Lake,
4; penetrate to Lake Athabaska, 5; their aggressiveness, 5; more than a
match for the Hudson's Bay Company, 6; Company organized, 1783-1784, 6;
opposition (X Y) Company formed, 6; absorbs rival interests, 1787, 6,
16; growth of fur trade, 7; amalgamates with Hudson's Bay Company, 8;
rearrangements of partners and stock, 58; operations extended to Hudson
Bay, 99; absorbs X Y Company, 1804, 99; opposes Red River settlers,
161-164; resents Miles Macdonel