m with pension, 125;
opposition to, 126; collector of customs, 133.

=Davin, Nicholas Flood= (1843-1901). Born in Ireland. Studied law and
called to the English bar, 1868. Served as war correspondent during
Franco-Prussian War. Came to Canada, 1872; joined staff of the _Globe_,
and later, the _Mail_. Called to the Ontario bar, 1874. Established the
Regina _Leader_, 1883. Represented West Assiniboia in Dominion
Parliament, 1887-1900. =Index=: =BL= Quoted on Hincks, 121, 131; on
Baldwin, 172. =Bib.=: Works: _The Irishman in Canada_; _Eos, an Epic of
the Dawn_; _Culture and Practical Power_; _Ireland and the Empire_. For
biog., _see_ Morgan, _Can. Men_.

=Davies, Sir Louis Henry= (1845- ). Born in Prince Edward Island.
Educated at Prince of Wales College; studied law and called to the bar
of Prince Edward Island, 1866. Sat in the Assembly, 1872-1879; premier
and attorney-general, 1876. Elected to the House of Commons for Queen's,
1882; minister of marine and fisheries in the Laurier administration,
1896; counsel for Great Britain before the International Fisheries
Commission at Halifax, 1877; one of the joint high commissioners on
behalf of Great Britain to settle differences between the United States
and Canada, 1898; knighted, 1897; appointed a judge of the Supreme Court
of Canada, 1902. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Can. Men_; _Canadian Who's Who_.

=Davis, Captain Sylvanus.= =F= Captured at Fort Loyal, 252; a prisoner
in Quebec, during siege by Phipps, 294.

=Davost, Father.= =Ch= Jesuit missionary in Cape Breton, 237.

=Dawson, George Mercer= (1849-1901). Son of Sir J. W. Dawson (_q.v._).
Studied geology and palaeontology under Huxley, Ramsay and Etheridge at
the Royal School of Mines, London. Geologist and botanist to North
American Boundary Commission, 1873-1875. Appointed to staff of
Geological Survey, 1875; assistant director, 1883; director, 1895. One
of British commissioners in Bering Sea Arbitration, 1892. =Bib.=: For
his numerous reports and papers on geological and allied subjects, _see_
_General Indexes to Geological Survey Reports_, 1863-1884, and
1885-1906; and _Bibliography of the Royal Society_ (R. S. C., 1894). For
biog., _see_ Morgan, _Can. Men_.

=Dawson, Sir John William= (1820-1899). Born at Pictou, Nova Scotia.
Educated at Edinburgh University. Accompanied Sir Charles Lyell on his
geological explorations in Nova Scotia. Appointed superintendent of
education for Nova Scotia, 1850. Principal of McGill Unive