n in, 143-144; 174-175.
=B= Withdraws from Confederation scheme, 185-186. =Md= Electors reject
proposals of Quebec Conference in 1865, 147; again reject Confederation
terms in 1866, 147; Macdonald's interest in acquisition of, 148;
financial difficulties lead to union in 1873, 148-149; railway debt of,
assumed by Canada, 149. =Dr= Carleton arranges to visit, 235; difficulty
in transfer of governorship from Patterson to Fanning, 235. _See also_
Charlottetown. =Bib.=: Campbell, _History of Prince Edward Island_.

=Prince of Wales College.= Located at Charlottetown, Prince Edward
Island. Founded, 1860, and amalgamated with the provincial Normal
School, 1879.

=Prince of Wales Fort.= At the mouth of the Churchill River, Hudson Bay.
Built by the Hudson's Bay Company, between the years 1733 and 1771. It
was of massive masonry, 37 to 42 feet thick; 310 feet long on the north
and south sides, and 317 on the east and west; and is said to have been
designed by English military engineers. The walls are still standing,
though parts have fallen in. The parapet mounted forty guns, which are
still on the walls. _See_ Tyrrell's Introduction to Hearne's _Journey_
(Champlain Society ed., 1910). Hearne was governor of the fort in 1782,
when it was captured by the French under Admiral La Perouse. The fort
was built on Eskimo Point, just west of the mouth of the river. The
present Hudson's Bay Company post stands on the site of a much earlier
fort, built by the Company in 1688. =Bib.=: Bryce, _Hudson's Bay
Company_; Laut, _Conquest of the Great North-West_.

=Prince of Wales Island.= On the north-west coast of North America.
=Index=: =D= Recognized as Russian territory by Convention of 1825, 118.

=Pringle, Captain.= =Dr= Commands flotilla on Lake Champlain, 154.

=Prison Reform.= =B= Need of, in Upper Canada, shown by George Brown,
90; his strong interest in, 91-92.

=Prisoners.= =Dr= British, in America, 201; exchange of, after
Revolutionary War, 207, 208; hardships suffered by Germans captured by
Burgoyne, 208, 209; refuse service either as farm labourers or in
American army, 210, 211; liberation and embarkation of, 214.

=Proclamation, Royal.= =Dr= Following treaty of Paris, 7; its
provisions, 7, 8.

=Proclamation of 1764.= =P= Attorney-general Yorke's opinion of, 11-13;
Solicitor-general Wedderburne's views on, 14.

=Procter, Henry A.= (1787-1859). Born in Wales. Served in the army, and
became colonel of his regiment. In 1812