860. In 1860 appointed chief-justice of Nova Scotia,
retiring after twenty-one years' service. Knighted, 1868. =Index=: =H=
Political leader in Nova Scotia, and afterwards chief-justice of the
province, 6; sent as delegate to England to urge granting of
representative government to Nova Scotia, 51, 56; appointed to Executive
Council, 1843, 75; elected Speaker the same year, 75; reelected Speaker,
1848, 107; attorney-general and leader of government, 146; his
government sustained, 157; non-committal attitude of, on Irish Roman
Catholic question, 163; chief justice of Nova Scotia, 169. =Bib.=:
Campbell, _History of Nova Scotia_; Saunders, _Three Premiers of Nova
Scotia_.

=Young, Sir William A. G.= (1827-1885). Secretary to the North American
Boundary Commission, 1856; colonial secretary and auditor of British
Columbia, 1859; colonial secretary of Vancouver Island, 1864;
administrator of the government there, 1866. Subsequently appointed
governor of the Gold Coast.

=Yukon River.= Rises at the headwaters of the Nisutlin, and empties into
Bering Sea, after a course of 1765 miles. The lower waters of the river
were explored by Glazunof in 1836 or 1837; and a Russian post was built
at Nulato, about four hundred miles above the mouth, in 1838. In 1843,
Zagoskin carried the exploration up to the mouth of the Nowikakat. In
1846, John Bell, of the Hudson's Bay Company, reached the Yukon by way
of the Porcupine; and in 1847 Alexander H. Murray, of the same Company,
built Fort Yukon, at the mouth of the Porcupine. Robert Campbell
explored the Pelly and Yukon, down to the mouth of the Porcupine, in
1840-1850. =Index=: =MS= Mackenzie establishes existence and course of,
50; makes inquiries concerning, 55. =D= Operations of Hudson's Bay
Company on, 123; explored by Robert Campbell, 125. =Bib.=: Dall,
_Alaska_; Bancroft, _History of Alaska_; Campbell, _Discovery of the
Youcon_; Whymper, _Travel and Adventure in Alaska_; Murray, _Journal of
the Yukon_ (Archives, Pub. 4); Dawson, _Report on the Yukon_ (Geol.
Survey Report, 1887-1888).

=Yverdun.= =Hd= Home of the Haldimand family, 2, 3; visited by
Haldimand, 113, 116; his death there, June 5, 1791, 340; its
institutions remembered in his will, 342.

=Zollverein.= =Md= Proposed by Butterworth in United States Congress, as
a method of fiscal union with Canada, 295. _See also_ Commercial Union.
=Bib.=: Willison, _Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Liberal Party_.

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