to Canada, and laboured as a missionary at Miscou
until 1643. =Index=: =Ch= Recollet missionary, 85; his missionary
labours, 107; returns to France to report to the king, 113; lays
foundation stone of Recollet convent, 148; sees its doors closed in
1629, 167. =Bib.=: Charlevoix, _History of New France_.

=Old Company.= =F= Name given to Company of New France after 1645, 36.
_See also_ Company of New France.

=Olier de Verneuil, Jean Jacques= (1608-1687). In 1640 parish priest of
St. Sulpice, Paris, and established the St. Sulpice Seminary in 1645.
Founded in 1636 the Company of Montreal, through whose instrumentality
Maisonneuve was sent out in 1641-1642 to lay the foundations of the
future city. =Index=: =L= His designs for establishing a religious
centre at Montreal, 6; trained by St. Vincent de Paul, 24; sends four
priests to Canada, 25; dying, recommends work to his successor, 135. =F=
Founder of Sulpician Order, obtains grant of island of Montreal, 32.
=Bib.=: Parkman, _Old Regime_.

=Oneidas.= A tribe of the Iroquois confederacy. Their villages stood
between those of the Mohawks on the east and the Onondagas on the west.
In the American Revolution, they alone with some of the Tuscaroras took
the side of the rebellious colonists, the remainder of the confederacy
remaining loyal to Great Britain. The remnant of the tribe is now
settled on reservations in New York, in Wisconsin, and in the Niagara
peninsula. =Index=: =F= Torture Father Millet, 216; party of, destroyed,
308; three burnt alive, 309; negotiate for peace, 324. =Ch= Iroquois
tribe, 50. =L= Frontenac marches against, 233. =Hd= Their wavering
fidelity, 148; Brant burns village of, 153. =Bib.=: _See_ Iroquois.

=Onneyouts.= _See_ Oneidas.

=Onondaga.= =S= Armed schooner of eighty tons, 113; Prince Edward
embarks on, at Kingston, 183.

=Onondagas.= A tribe of the Iroquois confederacy. Their country lay west
of that of the Oneidas. They took the British side in the Revolutionary
War; and on its conclusion many of them settled on Canadian
reservations. Some are now on reservations in New York. =Index=: =F=
Iroquois tribe, demand a French colony, 40; escape of, 41; a number
treacherously captured for king's galleys, 215; their orator,
Teganissorens, 338; campaign against, 250-253. =Ch= Indian tribe, 50.
=L= Frontenac marches against, 233. _See also_ Iroquois. =Bib.=: _See_
Iroquois.

=Onontagues.= _See_ Onondagas.

=Onontio (Big Mountain).= =F= Name ap