Member of Parliament, and capitalist, his company
offers to build railways in New Brunswick, 26; visits the province, 27;
agreement with government, 27.

=Jackson, Francis James= (1770-1814). British diplomatist. =Index=: =Bk=
Succeeds W. Erskine as British minister at Washington, 122. =Bib.=:
_Dict. Nat. Biog._

=Jackson, Sir Richard Downes.= Served in Peninsular campaign;
commander-in-chief of forces in Canada. Administrator, 1841-1842. Died
at Montreal. =Index=: =BL= Carries on government after Sydenham's death,
113. =Sy= Commander of forces, appointed administrator for Lower Canada,
194. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Cel. Can._

=Jacob, Dr.=, of Salisbury. =Sy= Maternal grandfather of Sydenham, 4.

=Jacques.= =Ch= English vessel seized by French, 221.

=Jacques Cartier River.= A tributary of the St. Lawrence, north shore,
above Quebec. =Index=: =WM= Retreat of French army to, 212, 216, 217;
retreat described as disorderly flight, 217.

=James Bay.= Southern extension of Hudson Bay, discovered in 1610, by
Henry Hudson who wintered there, 1610-1611, with the _Discovery_. The
bay was named after Captain Thomas James of Bristol, who explored the
west coast in 1631.

=Jameson, Anna Brownell= (1794-1860). Author. Married Robert Jameson,
afterwards vice-chancellor of the Court of Equity of Upper Canada.
=Index=: =E= On Upper Canadian schoolmasters, 87; compares conditions on
both sides of boundary, to the detriment of Canada, 191-192. =Bib.=:
Works: _Diary of an Ennuyee_; _Characteristics of Women_; _Visits and
Sketches_; _Essays_; _Sacred and Legendary Art_; _Legends of the
Madonna_; _History of Our Lord_; _Early Italian Painters_; _Sketches in
Canada_; _Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada_. For biog., _see_
Dent, _Can. Por._; _Dict. Nat. Biog._; Read, _Lives of the Judges_.

=Jameson, Robert Simpson.= A member of the English bar. Reporter in Lord
Eldon's Court, 1824. Married Anna Brownell Murphy, 1826. Judge in the
Island of Dominica, 1829; retired, 1833, and returned to England.
Appointed attorney-general of Upper Canada by the Imperial government,
1833, and took up his residence at York. Called to the bar of Upper
Canada, 1833. Member of the Assembly, 1835-1837. Appointed
vice-chancellor of the Court of Equity. Died in Toronto, 1854. =Bib.=:
Read, _Lives of the Judges_.

=Jamet, Father Denis.= =Ch= Recollet missionary and commissary of the
order in Canada, 85; returns to France, where he remains, 111, 112.

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