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. =Bk= Lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada and commander of forces in British North America, 45; calls attention of home government to lack of proper accommodation for provincial government and Legislature, 50; a Scotsman, previously governor of Barbados, 51; death of, 69. =Bib.=: Read, _Lieutenant-Governors of Upper Canada_; Rattray, _The Scot in British North America_. =Hunter.= =Bk= British sloop, her boats capture United States schooner _Cayahoga_, with stores of General Hull, 218. =Hunter, Captain of.= =WM= Obtains information as to movements of French provision boats, 172. =Hunters' Lodges.= =Mc= Convention of, 440; attack on Prescott, 442. =Hunting Permits.= =F= Issue of, sanctioned, 125; number to be issued annually limited, 128; issue of, becomes a form of patronage, 129. =Huntington, Herbert.= =H= Appointed to Executive Council, Nova Scotia, 47; sent as delegate to England, to urge concession of responsible government, 51, 56; candidate for speakership, 1843, 75; advocates non-sectarian education, 82; member of Uniacke government, 110; finance minister, 112; acts as Joseph Howe's second in duel, 236. =Bib.=: Saunders, _Three Premiers of Nova Scotia_. =Huntington, Lucius Seth= (1827-1886). Born at Compton, Quebec. Studied law, and engaged in journalism, in the Eastern Townships. Elected to the Legislature for Shefford, 1861; solicitor-general, 1863-1864. Advocated independence of Canada. Became president of the Council, in the Mackenzie government, 1874-1875; and postmaster-general, 1875-1878. Defeated for Shefford, 1882, and retired from public life. Died in New York. =Index=: =C= Brings charges against government in connection with Pacific Scandal, 53. =Md= Prefers his charges in the House of Commons, 201-203. =Bib.=: Dent, _Can. Por._ and _Last Forty Years_; Buckingham and Ross, _Alexander Mackenzie_; Pope, _Memoirs of Sir John A. Macdonald_; Willison, _Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Liberal Party_. =Huot, P. G.= =C= One of the leaders of the Quebec Liberals, 24. =Huron Indians.= Name applied by the French to a confederacy of four Iroquoian tribes. When French missionaries and explorers first went among them, they occupied the country about Lake Simcoe and Georgian Bay. They had been at enmity with the Iroquois for many years, and had repeatedly ravaged their country. Finally the Iroquois determined to make an end of the Hurons. They invaded their country in force in 1648, and in 1650 had destro
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