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t different points on St. Lawrence, 112. =P= Opposed by Papineau, 172. _See also_ Waterways; and under names of individual canals, as Lachine; Rideau; Welland, etc. =Bib.=: Keefer, _Canals of Canada_ (R. S. C., 1893); _Waterways of Canada_ (Women's Can. Hist. Soc. of Ottawa, _Trans._, vol. 2); Kingsford, _Canadian Canals_; _Report of Royal Commission on Canals_, 1871; _Annual Reports on Railways and Canals_, Ottawa. =Cananee.= =Ch= Famous French seaman, joins Champlain at Gaspe, 141; the Turks capture his ship, the _Ste. Madeleine_, on the coast of Bretagne, and put him to death, 141. =Canard River.= A small stream in Essex County, Ontario, falling into the Detroit River. =Index=: =Bk= Americans repulsed at, in War of 1812, 237. =Candiac, Chateau of.= =WM= Birthplace of Montcalm, 3; position of, still remains, 5. =Canning, Charles John, Viscount= (1812-1862). Postmaster-general, under Aberdeen and Palmerston. Governor-general of India, 1855, and through the period of the Indian Mutiny. =Index=: =E= His record in India, 217. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._ =Canning, George= (1770-1827). Entered British Parliament, 1793; foreign secretary, 1807; ambassador to Portugal, 1814; president of Board of Control, 1816; succeeded Londonderry as foreign secretary, 1822; prime minister, 1827. A consistent advocate of constitutional principles. =Index=: =Sy= Foreign secretary and afterwards prime minister, 16; death of, 16. =Bk= Secretary of war, 81; deals with matter of _Leopard_ and _Chesapeake_, 83, 85; disapproves of Walcheren expedition, 118; foreign secretary, 120. =Bib.=: Canning, _Speeches_; Stapleton, _Political Life of George Canning_; Stapleton, _George Canning and His Times_; _Dict. Nat. Biog._ =Cannon, Captain.= =WM= Repulses landing of English, 107. =Canterbury, John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton, Viscount= (1814-1877). Born in England. Entered Parliament, 1841; home secretary from 1841 to 1846 in Peel's ministry. From 1854 to 1861, lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick; in 1864-1866 governor of Trinidad; and in 1866-1873 governor of Victoria. =Index=: =T= Dissolves New Brunswick Assembly, 38-39. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._; Hannay, _History of New Brunswick_. "=Canvas House.=" =S= Purchased by Simcoe from Captain Cook, and used as winter residence at York, 204. =Cap de la Victoire.= On St. Lawrence, near mouth of Richelieu. =Index=: =Ch= Fur trade carried on at, 119, 139. =Cap du Ciel.= =Ch= French vessel
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