James Evans, Inventor of the
Syllabic System_; Carroll, _James Evans_ in the _Methodist Magazine_,
October, 1882; Pilling, _Bibliography of the Algonquian Languages_.

=Ewan, John Alexander= (1854-1910). Born in Aberdeen, Scotland. Educated
in Scotland and in Canada. Assistant editor of the Toronto _Globe_ for
many years; war correspondent for that paper during Boer War, 1899-1902.
=Index=: =B= Witnesses shooting of George Brown by Bennett, 255-256;
seizes Bennett, 256.

=Examiner.= Newspaper published at New York. =Index=: =Mc= Published by
William Lyon Mackenzie, 470.

=Examiner.= Newspaper published at Toronto. =Index=: =Sy= Advocates
responsible government, 107; supports union of provinces as leading
thereto, 212; on Clergy Reserves question, 247. =E= Chief organ of the
Clear Grits,--owned by James Lesslie, 110. =BL= Established by Hincks,
July 3, 1838, 58; in the interests of responsible government, 58;
excites interest in Oxford County, 69; Hincks explains his political
position in, 104; on Hincks, 179-180; Macdougall contributes to, 341.
=Mc= Of Toronto, newspaper, published by Sir Francis Hincks, 483; on the
riots, 483; its estimate of Mackenzie, 484, 485.

=Executive Council.= =Mc= In Upper Canada; created under Constitutional
Act, 53; irritating relations with Assembly, 55, 58; Durham on, 61; real
advisers of the governor, 63; responsibility of, demanded by Upper
Canada Reformers, 64, 69; Durham's view of effect of irresponsibility
of, 65, 66; Sir John Colborne's view of, 279; Lord Glenelg's view of,
286. =Dr= In Lower Canada, how composed, 269. =Sy= Its powers and
influence, 74-76, 78; practically controlled the governor, 175;
necessity for change in, 177; its defects described by Sydenham, 220,
221; changes made in, 334, 335; salaries of, 334. =W= In New Brunswick,
its irresponsibility, 5, 6.

=Executive Office.= =Sy= Tenure of, in Canada, 175; Lord John Russell's
despatch on, 180-182; press comments on new regulations respecting, 183,
184.

=Exhibitions.= The first industrial exhibition held in Canada, and
probably the first in the world, was that of 1737, promoted by the
Intendant Hocquart. It included fruits and grains, woods and furs, and
the products of the mines and the fisheries. The exhibition was
afterwards sent to France. A provincial exhibition was held in Toronto
in 1846; Ottawa had an exhibition in 1878; Montreal in 1880; Halifax in
1881; and St. John in 1883. Since then many other cities