, New
Caledonia, in 1824, and still in the same district in 1828 when Sir
George Simpson made his overland journey to the Pacific. In 1842 in
charge of Fort Halkett. =Index=: =D= At Stuart Lake, 99. =Bib.=: Bryce,
_Hudson's Bay Company_; Bancroft, _History of British Columbia_; Morice,
_History of the Northern Interior of British Columbia_.

=Panama Canal.= =Ch= Suggested by Champlain, 5; undertaken by De
Lesseps, 6.

=Panet, Jean Antoine= (1751-1815). Practised as an advocate and notary
in Montreal, represented Quebec in the Legislature, 1792, and presented
a petition from the citizens of Quebec for the abolition of slavery.
First Speaker of the Legislature of Quebec; appointed judge of the Court
of Common Pleas by Lord Dorchester, 1793, but resigned almost
immediately and re-elected to the Legislature of Lower Canada where he
sat until 1815; appointed a member of the Legislative Council, 1815.
=Index=: =Bk= Speaker of Lower Canada Assembly, his commission as
lieutenant-colonel of militia cancelled by Governor Craig, 105; elected
for Huntingdon and again made Speaker, 115. =Dr= Speaker of first Lower
Canada Assembly, 276; appointed to judgeship, 277. =C= Claims liberty of
the press, 95; sent to jail, 95. =P= Establishes _Le Canadien_, 28; name
struck off militia list by Sir James Craig, 28; sent to jail, 29;
released, 29; Speaker of Assembly succeeded by Papineau, 33. =Bib.=:
Bibaud, _Pan. Can._; Christie, _History of Lower Canada_.

=Panet, Jean Claude.= =Dr= Appointed judge, 183.

=Pangman, Peter.= Born in New England. Engaged in the fur trade west of
Lake Superior about 1780. With Peter Pond, John Gregory, and A. N.
McLeod, organized in 1784 a company in opposition to the North West
Company. Afterwards for some years in the service of the North West
Company. In 1793 retired from the fur trade, and purchased seigniory of
Mascouche in Lower Canada. =Index=: =MS= Associated with Pond and others
in opposition to North West Company, 11; sent to Saskatchewan, 14; his
share as partner of North West Company, 58. =Bib.=: Bryce, _Hudson's Bay
Company_.

=Paper Currency.= =Bk= Issue of, in Upper Canada, 198. =Hd= Redemption
of, 58, =Dr= French, in circulation in Canada, 23; _habitants_ object to
American, 116, 135, 150. =Bib.=: Weir, _Sixty Years in Canada_.

=Papin.= =C= Liberal leader in Quebec, 25; protests against Dorion
entering Cartier administration, 106-107.

=Papineau, Denis B.= =E= Brother of Louis Joseph Pap