dquarters
of the Royal North-West Mounted Police. =Bib.=: Powers, _History of
Regina: its Foundation and Growth_.
=Regiopolis College.= Established at Kingston. =Index=: =BL= Established
by Roman Catholics, 194. =R= Incorporated March 4, 1837, 147.
=Registration.= =S= Of deeds in Upper Canada, system introduced, 94,
102. =Sy= Of titles in Lower Canada, ordinance providing for, passed by
Special Council, 278, 279.
=Reid, Stuart J.= =Mc= On colonial government, 2; on Lord Durham, 7; on
the Duke of Wellington, 17; on authorship of Durham's Report, 82, 83.
=Bib.=: _Life and Letters of Durham_; _Lord John Russell_.
=Renaud.= =C= Demands disallowance of New Brunswick Act abolishing
separate schools, 73.
=Repentigny.= On the St. Lawrence, north bank. =F= Band of Iroquois
surprised and destroyed at, 308.
=Repentigny, Captain de.= =WM= With Canadians, guards fords of
Montmorency, 112; drives British force back to their camp, 129; ordered
with his reserve, with Indians, to the city, 161; commands Canadian
sharpshooters, in battle of Ste. Foy, 259.
=Representation Bill, 1853.= =E= Sir John Macdonald's view on, 132-133.
=Representation by Population.= =B= Advocated by George Brown, 71, 75,
82, 142; principle defined, 82-83; movement for, 83-84; demanded by
Upper Canada Reformers, 125; conceded at Confederation to Ontario, 127;
growth in sentiment for, 142. =Md= Not an issue in 1844, 14; difficulty
caused by working out of Act of Union, 70; Lord Durham on, 71; George
Brown's solution of difficulty, 71-72; Macdonald becomes less opposed
to, 89; solution of problem, 112-113; settled by British North America
Act, 141. =T= Movement for, in Upper Canada, 67-68.
=Representative Government.= =Dr= Little interest felt in, by
French-Canadians, 61; mentioned in their petition to the king, 61. _See
also_ Responsible government.
=Representative Institutions.= =F= Complete absence of, in New France,
131-132.
=Responsible Government.= The period of responsible government in Canada
dates from the union of 1841; in Nova Scotia, from 1848; in New
Brunswick, the same year; in Prince Edward Island, 1851. The agitation
for responsible government, from its very nature, cannot be limited to
an exact period. It was a gradual growth, whose roots ran back almost to
the beginning of the period of British rule in Canada. The Quebec Act of
1774, the Constitutional Act of 1791, the Ninety-Two Resolutions of
1834, the Rebellion of 1837,
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