plied by Indians to French
governors, 35.

=Ontario.= =Hd= Armed vessel, foundering of, 163.

=Ontario.= Area, 260,862 square miles. Formerly Upper Canada. As a
separate province, its existence dates from 1791. The population at that
time was insignificant. Simcoe became the first governor, and the first
Legislature met at Newark (Niagara) in 1792. The province was reunited
to Lower Canada in 1841; and in 1867 became a member of the new
Confederation, under its present name. The greater part of the province
was explored by Champlain, Etienne Brule, and Brebeuf, Chaumonot, and
other Jesuit missionaries, in the first half of the seventeenth century.
=Index=: =W= Abolishes second chamber, 71. _See also_ Upper Canada; New
Ontario. =Bib.=: Dent, _Last Forty Years_; Smith, _Geographical View of
Upper Canada_; Gourlay, _Statistical Account of Upper Canada_; Haight,
_Country Life in Canada_; Canniff, _History of the Settlement of Upper
Canada_; Moodie, _Roughing it in the Bush_; Edgar, _Ten Years of Upper
Canada_; Strickland, _Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West_; Clarke, _Sixty
Years in Upper Canada_; Conant, _Upper Canada Sketches_.

=Ontario Boundary Dispute.= =Md= Began in 1871, 254; arbitration
arranged, 254-255; Macdonald refuses to accept award, 255; federal
influence in Manitoba dispute, 255-256; Manitoba's claims, 256;
settlement of, 257-258. =Bib.=: Mills, _Report on Boundaries of
Ontario_; Lindsey, _Unsettled Boundaries of Ontario_; _Documents
relating to the Boundaries of Ontario, 1878_; _Correspondence, etc.,
relating to the Boundaries of Ontario, 1882_; _Proceedings before the
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, 1889_; Biggar, _Life of Sir
Oliver Mowat_.

=Ontario, Lake.= The smallest of the Great Lakes; area, 7,260 square
miles. Discovered by Etienne Brule in 1615.

=Orders-in-Council.= =Bk= British, prohibiting neutral trade between
hostile ports, 93, 106, 111; premature announcement of withdrawal of,
120, 121; difficulty of withdrawing, 192, 193; repealed, 193. =Bib.=:
_Dict. Eng. Hist._

=Ordre du Bon Temps.= =Ch= Social club established at Port Royal, 36.

=Oregon.= =D= Extent of district, 56-57; origin of name, 56-57; arrival
of ships _Convoy_ and _Owyhee_, 1829, 136; first missionaries, 136-142;
coming of the settlers, 138-142; provisional government, 143; John
Gordon sent to report on its value, 183; incident of his salmon fishing,
183-184; question of ownership, conflicting views of Great Brita