askatchewan,
Calgary, Mackenzie River, Qu'Appelle, Athabaska, Keewatin, and Selkirk.
In 1859 was established the see of British Columbia, divided later into
New Westminster and Caledonia. In 1857 the Church of England Synod was
legally constituted; and after that year bishops were elected by the
votes of clergy and laity in Canada. The first Church Congress was held,
1883. The General Synod of the Church in the Dominion was established,
1893, and the metropolitans of Canada and Rupert's Land were made
archbishops, the first of whom were Dr. J.T. Lewis and Dr. R. Machray.
=Index=: =B= And the Family Compact, 11; and the Clergy Reserves, 48-49;
privileges granted under Act of 1791, 51-52; Durham's estimate of
numerical strength, 52-53; recognition of its exclusive claims said by
Durham to have been chief cause of Rebellion, 53; =E= Its claims to the
Clergy Reserves under the Constitutional Act, 1791, 145, 150 _et seq._
=R= Its relations with mother church in England, 39; advantages in
Canada, 39; statistics in Upper Canada, 51. =Dr= Allowed use of Recollet
church at Montreal, 241; Jesuit church transferred to them, 242; first
Anglican conference and confirmation held in Recollet church at Quebec,
242, 272. =W= In New Brunswick, 7. =T= Controls King's College, 21.
=Bib.=: Hopkins, _Canada: An Ency._, vol. 2; Cross, _The Anglican
Episcopate and the American Colonies_; Anderson, _History of Church of
England in the Colonies_; Akins, _Church of England in North American
Colonies_; Taylor, _The Last Three Bishops Appointed by the Crown_;
Lowndes, _Bishops of the Day_; Machray, _Life of Archbishop Machray_;
Mockridge, _Bishops of the Church of England in Canada and
Newfoundland_; Champion, _The Anglican Church in Canada_; Wynne, _The
Church in Greater Britain_.

=Churchill, Fort.= _See_ Prince of Wales, Fort.

=Churchill River.= Rises in La Loche Lake, lat. 56 deg. 10' N., long. 109
deg. 40' W., and after a course of 1000 miles, empties into Hudson Bay.
The mouth of the river was discovered by Munk, a Danish navigator, in
1619, but it was not until 1774 that its upper waters were discovered by
Joseph Frobisher (_q.v._), and explored by Thomas Frobisher and
Alexander Henry, _the Elder_ (_q.v._), in 1775. The Churchill was
formerly known under various names: Danish River, in honour of Munk;
English River, so called by Frobisher; and Missinipi, the native name.
=Bib.=: Laut, _Conquest of the Great North-West_; Bryce, _Hudson's Ba