lgin, discussed various Imperial questions, but was chiefly memorable
because of the decision to hold similar meetings every four years, and
to provide a permanent bureau at London devoted specifically to the
interests of the Empire.

=Imperial Federation.= Advocated by Thomas Pownall, governor of
Massachusetts Bay, in 1764. He proposed a scheme by which "Great Britain
may be no more considered as the Kingdom of this Isle alone, with many
appendages of provinces, colonies, settlements, and other extraneous
parts, but as a grand marine dominion, consisting of our possessions in
the Atlantic and in America united into one Empire." Subsequently
proposed by Joseph Howe, in 1855, and again in 1863; also by Thomas
Chandler Haliburton and other Canadian statesmen and writers. =Index=:
=B= Elgin's conception of, 33; advocated by Edward Blake, 240. =H=
Joseph Howe a pioneer in the movement for, 174. =Bib.=: Denison,
_Struggle for Imperial Unity_; Macphail, _Essays in Politics_; Brassey,
_Imperial Federation and Colonization_; Ewart, _Kingdom of Canada_,
_Imperial Federation_, etc.; Parkin, _Imperial Federation_; Young, _A
Pioneer of Imperial Federation in Canada_; Milner, _Speeches in Canada_;
_The Empire and the Century_; Argyll, _Imperial Federation_.

=Imperial Federation League.= Formed in Canada at a meeting in Montreal,
in May, 1885. A conference to the same end had been held in London, in
July, 1884. The league in Canada changed its name, in 1896, to the
British Empire League in Canada, at the suggestion of Sir Charles
Tupper. _See_ Denison.

=Incarnation, Marie de L'.= _See_ Marie de L'Incarnation.

=Inches, Dr.= =T= Attends Sir Leonard Tilley in his last illness, 145.

=Independence.= =B= George Brown writes Macdonald of widespread
sentiment in England in 1864 in favour of British American colonies
securing complete autonomy, 167; and the Canada First party, 236, 237,
238, 239; advocated by Goldwin Smith, 238, 239. =P= Advocated by
Papineau, 167. =Mc= Declaration of, July, 1837, its history, 330; work
of Rolph and O'Grady, 330; object of Association of Canadian Refugees,
449.

=Indians.= =Ch= Superstitions of, 10, 12; council held to consider best
policy to adopt in dealing with them, 108-111; murders committed by,
115; their great esteem for Champlain, 159; difficulty of educating
their children, 233. =S= Their general friendliness to Upper Canada
settlers, 62; their good conduct rewarded, 62; lands allotted to o