ake Champlain frontier, 146,
158, 233.

=Ile Jesus.= At the junction of the Ottawa and the St. Lawrence.
=Index=: =L= Seigniory of Beaupre exchanged by Laval for, 58; obtained
by Laval in exchange for Island of Orleans, 138.

=Ile Perce.= =L= Recollet mission at, 111.

=Ile Royale.= A large island in Lake Superior, United States territory.
Mentioned in Carver's _Travels_ and other early narratives.

=Illinois Indians.= Of Algonquian stock. First mentioned in the Jesuit
_Relation_ of 1660 as living south-west of Green Bay. They ranged
throughout the country between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi, and
down the west bank of that river as far as the Des Moines; and have been
described by Allouez, Marquette, Hennepin, Rasles, and other early
French explorers. Harassed on one side by the Sioux and Foxes, and on
the other by the Iroquois, their numbers were reduced from six or eight
thousand, at the end of the seventeenth century, to less than two
thousand about 1750. The murder of Pontiac by one of their warriors
brought upon them a war of extermination. To-day only a handful remain,
in Oklahoma. =Index=: =F= Allies of the French against the Iroquois,
144. =L= La Salle forms alliance with, 148. =Bib.=: Hodge, _Handbook of
American Indians_.

=Immaculate Conception.= =L= Church at Quebec placed under patronage of,
85. =Ch= Church of Notre Dame de la Recouvrance consecrated under name
of, 240; feast of, observed by people of Quebec, 240.

=Immigration.= =Mc= To colonies in 1820, state of, 88. _See also_ Irish
Immigrants.

=Imperial Conference.= Held in London, 1887. Canada was represented by
Sir Alexander Campbell and Sandford Fleming. Among the questions
discussed were those of inter-Imperial defence and trade, the Pacific
cable, etc. Another conference was held in Ottawa in 1894 (_see_
Colonial Conference, 1894); and another in London in June, 1896, Canada
being represented by Sir Mackenzie Bowell and Sandford Fleming. At an
adjourned meeting in October, 1896, Sir Donald Smith and Hon. A.G. Jones
represented the Dominion, Mr. Fleming being present in an advisory
capacity. On the occasion of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, 1897,
another conference was held in London, Joseph Chamberlain presiding, and
the self-governing colonies being represented by their premiers. Again,
in 1902, the colonial premiers met in London, under the presidency of
Joseph Chamberlain. The London Conference of 1907, presided over by Lord
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