39 and 1740. Returned to Boston, 1740, as blindness
prevented him from attending to his duties.

=Addison, Robert.= =S= First chaplain of Upper Canada Assembly, 85, 158;
opens a school at Niagara, 167. =R= Member of Board of Education, Upper
Canada, 58.

=Adet, Pierre Auguste= (1763-1832). Appointed on the 10th thermidor,
member of the French Council of Mines. In 1795, went to the United
States in the capacity of plenipotentiary. In 1796 presented to the
United States Congress the tricolour flag on behalf of the French
nation; and the following year, handed to the secretary of state the
famous note in which the Directoire, complaining to the American
government of breach of neutrality, stated that the republic would give
to every neutral flag the same treatment that the latter would get from
Great Britain. =Index=: =Dr= French minister to United States, intrigues
of, 300, 301.

=Agniers.= _See_ Mohawks.

=Agriculture.= Societies for improving the conditions of agriculture
were founded in Nova Scotia, 1789; in Quebec the same year; and in Upper
Canada in 1792. Simcoe in Upper Canada and Dorchester in Quebec did much
to further agricultural interests, but Quebec owes most to J. F.
Perrault (_q.v._), and Nova Scotia to John Young (_q.v._). An
agricultural school was founded at Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere in 1859;
the Guelph Agricultural College was established in 1874; the Nova
Scotia School of Agriculture, 1885; and the Macdonald College, at Ste.
Anne de Bellevue, opened in the fall of 1907. Agricultural Colleges are
also in operation in connection with the provincial universities of
Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. =Index=: =F= In New France,
difficulties in the way of, 87. =S= Progress of, in Upper Canada, 108,
109; Simcoe's endeavours to promote, 110, 198. =E= Elgin on, 49-50;
department of, established by Hincks-Morin government, 117; charged with
founding of model farms and agricultural schools, 117. =MS= Agricultural
experiments of the Red River colony, 1820-1835, 222-223; experimental
farm at Red River, 237; Governor Simpson's views, 273-278. =D= In
British Columbia, 256-257, 329-330. =B= Splendid field for in North-West
predicted by Toronto _Globe_, in 1852, 213-215. _See also_ Farmers;
Wheat; Flour-milling; Puget Sound Agricultural Society. =Bib.=: _Canada:
An Ency._, vol. 5; Johnson, _First Things in Canada_.

=Aguesseau, Henri-Francois= (1668-1751). Studied law; appointed third
barrister of the Parliame