rst manager, 130; disputes
with United States, 130-131; claims settled by commission, 131; Douglas
succeeds McLoughlin as manager, 132; epidemic of fever and ague follows
first turning of soil about Fort Vancouver, 132; land claims on
Vancouver Island, 198; dispute with Langford, 199. =Bib.=: Bancroft,
_History of the North-West Coast_.

=Punshon, William Morley= (1824-1881). Born in England. Engaged for a
time in the timber business with his father; joined the Methodists,
1838, and ordained a Wesleyan minister, 1845. Worked in London,
1858-1868, and in Canada, 1868-1873, when he returned to England.
=Index=: =R= Ryerson's friendship for, 285; comes to Canada, 285-286;
Ryerson's letter to, 288-289. =Bib.=: Dent, _Can. Por._; _Dict. Nat.
Biog._

=Purchas, Samuel= (1575?-1626). A graduate of St. John's College,
Cambridge. Rector of St. Martin's, Ludgate, London, 1614-1626. Fell heir
to a number of unpublished narratives left by Hakluyt, and edited them
with many others, in his collections of voyages and travels. =Index=:
=Ch= Gives in his _Pilgrims_ English version of Champlain's first
narrative, 15. =Bib.=: _Purchas his Pilgrimage_, 1613; _Purchas his
Pilgrim_, 1619; _Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes_, 1625.

=Purchase of Commissions.= =Dr= In Loyalist corps, 217.

=Putnam, Charles S.= =W= A leading barrister of Fredericton, 11.

=Quadra, Juan Francisco de la Bodega y= (1744?-1794). Knight of the
Order of Santiago. Made voyages of exploration to the North-West Coast
in 1775 and 1779. Governor of Nootka, and met Vancouver there in 1792
for the purpose of arranging the restoration of Nootka to the British
crown. =Index=: =D= Voyage to North-West Coast, 7, 14; at Bay of
Islands, 15; takes possession for Spain, 15; searches for Strait of
Anian, 15; fails to discover mouth of Columbia, 15; sights Mount St.
Elias and enters Prince William's Sound, 15; meets Vancouver at Nootka,
33. =Bib.=: Bancroft, _History of the North-West Coast_.

=Quakers.= =S= Try to bring about peace with Indians, 122. =Hd= Of
Pennsylvania, their opposition to the government, 11, 12. =Bk=
Emigration of, from Pennsylvania to Upper Canada, 49.

=Quebec Act, 1774.= Provided that the boundaries of the province of
Quebec in the west should extend from Lake Erie to the Ohio, along the
Ohio to the Mississippi, and north to the territories of the Hudson's
Bay Company; guaranteed the French-Canadians in the free exercise of
their religion;