In 1813, while on a journey in the rear of the
allied armies from Hamburg to Gottenburg, arrested by Lord Cathcart as
an American spy. In 1815 appointed governor of the factories and
territories of the Hudson's Bay Company. In the course of his tour of
inspection, reached his headquarters at Douglas (now part of Winnipeg),
early in 1816. For some time there had been an active feud between the
Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, and in an attack at
Seven Oaks by a party of "Nor'-Wester's," under Cuthbert Grant, Semple
was killed. =Index=: =MS= Brings party of Highlanders to Red River,
1815, 164; succeeds Macdonell as governor of Red River settlement, 164.
=Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._; Bryce, _Manitoba_. _See also_ Red River
Colony; Seven Oaks.

=Senate.= =B= Elective _versus_ nominative system discussed at Quebec
Conference--latter decided upon, 164; George Brown approves of
nominative system, 165; distribution of members of, 173; Dorion objects
to nominative system, 175, 177; weakness of the system, 178; its
reorganization advocated by Canada First Association, 236.

=Seneca Indians.= One of the tribes of the Iroquois confederacy. They
dwelt chiefly in the region of the Seneca and Canandaigua lakes, and
extended westwards to Genesee River. During the American Revolution they
espoused the British cause. There are now some hundreds living in Grand
River Reservation, Ontario. =Index=: =F= Show quarrelsome temper, 143;
attack Illinois, 144; enraged by murder of a chieftain on territory of
Ottawas, 145; accept terms of peace, 146; attack canoes of French
traders, 181; Denonville's expedition against, 207-214. =Ch= One of the
five tribes or nations, 50; murder four delegates sent to Five Nations,
164. _See also_ Iroquois. =Bib.=: Charlevoix, _History of New France_;
Hodge, _Handbook of American Indians_.

=Senezergues, De.= =WM= Brigadier, commands battalion of La Sarre
Regiment, 12; commands regular troops, 105; mortally wounded, 199;
carried on board British vessel, 222.

=Separate Schools, Manitoba.= =C= The question used as a test of
provincial power, 61-62; rights of Roman Catholics safeguarded, 1871,
71; overthrown by Legislature, 72; judgment of provincial courts
reversed by Supreme Court, 72. =Bib.=: Ewart, _Manitoba School
Question_; Wade, _Manitoba School Question_; Willison, _Sir Wilfrid
Laurier and the Liberal Party_. For further references, _see_ _Lit. Am.
Hist._, pp. 438-439.

=Separate Schools