al for the Isle of Man, as
well as district registrar at Liverpool. =Index=: =Sy= Attorney-general
for Lower Canada, 283. =BL= Attorney-general for Lower Canada, 1841, 76;
unpopular with French, 78; Baldwin's attitude to, 80; his retirement
suggested by Bagot, with a pension, 123; pension objected to by La
Fontaine, 125; is given Imperial appointment, 133. =Bib.=: Taylor,
_Brit. Am._; Dent, _Last Forty Years_.
=Ogden, Isaac.= Born in New England. Took the Loyalist side in the
Revolution, and, when New York was evacuated in 1783, went to England.
Came to Canada, 1784, and appointed judge of the Admiralty Court for the
Montreal district; judge of the Superior Court, 1796.
=Ogden, Peter Skene= (1794?-1854). Son of Isaac Ogden (_q.v._). Entered
the fur trade, was sent out to Astoria by Astor, and, finding that
Astoria had been transferred to the North West Company, entered their
service. Led trading expeditions into the interior, explored the
Yellowstone country, Lewis River and Utah, and discovered the Ogden
River in California. After the union of the North West and Hudson's Bay
Companies, moved to New Caledonia and became chief factor in 1835, with
headquarters at Fort St. James. Died at Ogden City, Oregon. =Index=: =D=
Sent with Anderson to establish post on the Stikine, 1834, 120;
frustrated by Russians, 120; reaches Sacramento River, 126; associated
with McLoughlin and Douglas on board of management of western
department, 187; dies, 1854, 265; in charge of New Caledonia, 285.
=Bib.=: Laut, _Conquest of the Great North-West_; Bancroft, _History of
the North-West Coast_.
=Ogdensburg.= _See_ Oswegatchie.
=O'Grady, Doctor.= =Mc= Publishes _Correspondent and Advocate_, 259;
visits Quebec with Mackenzie, 287; prepares answer to governor, 298;
pens "Declaration of Independence," 330. =Bib.=: Dent, _Upper Canadian
Rebellion_.
=Ohio River.= One of the largest tributaries of the Mississippi,
discovered by La Salle in 1669. Its short portages from Lake Erie to the
navigable tributaries of the Ohio, and the continuous waterway to the
Gulf of Mexico, made the river an important route for the explorer,
missionary, and settler of the early colonial days. =Index=: =WM= First
named La Belle Riviere, 19. =S= Demanded as boundary of Indian
territory, 120, 122. =Bib.=: Parkman, _La Salle_.
=Ohio Valley.= =WM= French retreat from, 62.
=Olbeau, Jean d'.= Born in Langres. Joined the Jesuit College there in
1628. In 1640 came
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