party, 110; invited by Hincks to a
seat in Cabinet, 1851, 112; becomes commissioner of crown lands, 113;
president of Executive Council, 1863, 126; votes against his colleagues,
136. =B= A leader of the Clear Grits, 39; plays a leading part in
movement for reform before the Rebellion, 39. =R= Member for Middlesex
in Upper Canada Assembly, 65-66. =Bib.=: Dent, _Upper Canadian
Rebellion_ and _Last Forty Years; Dict. Nat. Biog._ _See also_ Rebellion
of 1837, Upper Canada.

=Roman Catholic Church=. The first authentic landmark in the history of
the Roman Catholic Church in Canada is the arrival of several Jesuit
missionaries in Acadia in 1611. The Recollets first came to Quebec in
1615, and the Jesuits in 1625. In 1657 the Sulpicians arrived in
Montreal, and the following year Canada was made a Vicariate Apostolic.
The Jesuit missionaries explored the most distant parts of the
continent, in labouring among the Indians. Laval, the first
vicar-apostolic of New France, arrived in Quebec in 1659. In 1674 Quebec
was made a diocese, and Laval became the first bishop. After 1818 Canada
was divided into the dioceses of Nova Scotia, Upper Canada, New
Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton, and the North-West. In
1841 the chapter of Montreal was established, and in 1874 the diocese of
Quebec was subdivided into eight dioceses. The first cardinal of Canada
was Archbishop Taschereau. =Index=: =Sy= Its members excluded from
certain civil privileges, 63. =Dr= Attitude of British government
towards, 21, 57, 58; full privileges conceded to, by Quebec Act, 64. =S=
Free exercise of religion guaranteed by Constitutional Act, 12. =WM=
Important part played by Roman Catholicism in Quebec, 16. =Bk= Faithful
to British rule, 47. =B= Relations with George Brown, x, 44-46; 48-49,
61, 121-128; position and political sympathies in Upper Canada, 125.
=Bib.=: O'Leary, _Roman Catholic Church in Quebec_; Harris, _Roman
Catholic Church in Ontario_; Cameron, _Catholic Church in Maritime
Provinces_ in _Canada: An Ency._, vol. 2.

=Rooseboom, Johannes=. =F= Of Albany, carries goods to Lake Indians,
201.

=Roquemaure=. =WM= Montcalm's early childhood spent at, 3.

=Roquemont, Claude de, Sieur de Brison=. =Ch= Assists in forming Company
of New France, 168; comes out in command of ships, 172; encounters
English vessels under David Kirke in the St. Lawrence, 173; his conduct
criticized, 175.

=Rose, Sir John= (1820-1888). Born in Aberdeenshire, Scot