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while Pierre Radisson (_q.v._) followed, in 1669, in the _Waveno_. Gillam's journal of the voyage is quoted in Joseph Robson's _Hudson's Bay_. Made several subsequent voyages to the bay, on behalf of the Hudson's Bay Company. In 1684 his ship crushed in the ice at the mouth of Nelson River, and he and several of the crew perished. =Bib.=: Robson, _Account of Six Years' Residence in Hudson's Bay_; Laut, _Conquest of the Great North-West_; Burpee, _Search for the Western Sea_; Bryce, _Hudson's Bay Company_. =Gillmor, A. H.= =T= Provincial secretary in Smith ministry, New Brunswick, 91; a strong Liberal, 91. =Gilmore, George.= =Hd= School teacher at St. Johns, 235. =Ginseng.= =Hd= Gathered by Jesuits, for shipment to China, 148; brought $5 a pound, 148; Indians engaged in trade, 148. =Gipps, Sir George= (1791-1847). Born at Ringwould, England. Educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at the Military Academy, Woolwich. Entered the army, 1809; served throughout the Peninsular War; employed in the West Indies, 1824-1829; appointed private secretary to the first lord of the Admiralty, 1834; sent to Canada as commissioner, together with Lord Gosford and Sir Charles Grey, to attempt to allay prevailing discontent, 1835; knighted, 1835; governor of New South Wales, 1836-1846. =Index=: =P= Royal commissioner sent to Canada with Lord Gosford and Sir Charles Grey, in 1835, 111. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Cel. Can._; _Dict. Nat. Biog._; Lang, _New South Wales_. =Girouard, Desire= (1836- ). Born at St. Timothee, Quebec. Educated at Montreal College; studied law and called to the bar of Lower Canada. For some years sat in the House of Commons. Appointed judge of Supreme Court of Canada, 1895. =Index=: =F= On loss of life in massacre of Lachine, 224; at La Chesnaye and other places, 226. =Bib.=: _Lake St. Louis and Cavelier de la Salle._ For biog., _see_ Morgan, _Can. Men_; _Cyc. Am. Biog._; _Canadian Who's Who_. =Girouard, John Joseph= (1795-1855). Born in Quebec. Studied law, and called to the bar of Lower Canada, 1816. Elected to the Assembly, 1830; a strong supporter of Papineau; took an active part in the Rebellion of 1837-1838; imprisoned at Montreal for six months. Resumed the practice of law. Offered a portfolio on the La Fontaine-Baldwin administration, but refused to accept office; took no further part in public life. =Index=: =BL= Associated with La Fontaine in constitutional agitation in Lower Canada, 49; commissionershi
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