d, 143. =BL= Brought under consideration, 1849, 287; Hincks on,
332. =B= Members of British government in 1862 favourable to, except
Gladstone, 143; George Brown a convert to the scheme, 166; opposed by
Dorion, 175. =C= Cartier advocates roundabout route, for military and
political reasons, 49-50; Major Robinson's report, 49. =T= Proposal to
build through St. John Valley, 26; delegates consult British government,
26; arrangements made with Jackson. 27; British government refuses to
guarantee interest, 45; St. John to Shediac line, 46-47; history of,
53-58, 90, 111-112, 116, 119, 122. =Bib.=: Fleming, _The Intercolonial_;
Fleming, _Historical Sketch of the Intercolonial Railway_ in _Canada: An
Ency._, vol. 2.

=Interpreters.= =Ch= Brule, Marsolet, _et al._, 144.

=Irish Immigrants.= =E= Measures for their relief, 1847-1848, 46-47;
bring plague to Canada, 47-48; prominent victims, 48; Elgin persuades
British government to reimburse Canada for expenses incurred in relief
work. 48-49.

=Iroquet.= Algonquian chief. =Index=: =Ch= Urges Champlain to attack the
Iroquois, 48; his son meets Champlain, 51; a leader of the Hurons, 69;
chief of the Petite Nation--captures small party of Iroquois, 102;
adopts an Iroquois prisoner as his son, 104. =Bib.=: Parkman, _Old
Regime_.

=Iroquois.= A confederation of tribes, at first five, the Cayuga,
Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca, to which the Tuscarora was added
after 1726, as well as the remnants of many other tribes. They were
known to the English colonists as the Five Nations, and later as the Six
Nations. They called themselves _Ongwanonsionni_, "we are of the
extended lodge." When they first came into contact with Europeans, they
occupied the country between Lake Champlain and the Genesee River, and
this remained their home territory, but they ranged far and wide,
carrying their conquering raids eastwards to the Kennebec, westwards to
Lake Michigan, north to the Hudson Bay watershed, and south to the
Tennessee. They numbered about 16,000 in 1677, and after dropping to
10,000 in the next century, they returned to their original strength at
the opening of the twentieth century. About two-thirds are on
reservations in Canada; the remainder in New York. =Index=: =F=
Champlain joins Hurons and Algonquians in attacking, 9, 10, 14; nearly
exterminate Hurons, 26, 35; demand establishment of French colony in
their country, 40; their confederacy, of what tribes composed, 41;
attack r