h America Act, it was vested in the provincial
government. The Mercier Act authorized payment of $400,000 as
compensation to the Jesuits for the lands confiscated by the crown. An
agitation in Ontario for disallowance of the Act, was followed by a
formal motion in the Dominion House, by Colonel O'Brien, but only
thirteen members voted for disallowance. =Index=: =Md= Origin, 286;
claimed by Society of Jesus, 286; Act passed by Quebec Legislature
authorizing payment for lands Jesuits held before the conquest, 286,
287; motion favouring federal disallowance, proposed, 288, 289; motion
defeated, 289; agitation ends by formation of Equal Rights Association
and later by the Protestant Protective Association, 289. =Dr= Proposal
to apply revenues of, to educational purposes, 230; General Amherst's
claim to, 230. =BL= Revenue from, 18. =Bk= Appropriation of property a
grievance with French-Canadians, 77. =Bib.=: Willison, _Sir Wilfrid
Laurier and the Liberal Party_; Grant and Hamilton, _Principal Grant_;
Pope, _Memoirs of Sir John A. Macdonald_.

=Jesuit Missions.= =L= Zeal of the missionaries compared with that of
the Apostles, 61; among the Iroquois, 64-67; wide extension of, 103; to
the Algonquians, destroyed by drunkenness, 175. =F= Pure lives of
missionaries produces good effect, 168. _See_ under names of individual
missionaries. =Bib.=: Parkman, _Jesuits in North America_. _See also_
Jesuits.

=Jesuit Relations.= _The Relations_ were published in Paris, by the
provincial of the order, in small annual volumes. The original
narratives were written in Canada, or in one or other of the remote
mission fields, by the devoted missionaries, and are invaluable as a
record of the condition and character of the various Indian tribes in
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. =Index=: =Ch= Promoted
immigration to Canada, 250; describe religious condition of the colony,
256-258; also last days of Champlain, 262, 263. =F= Parkman on, 30;
Rochemonteix on, 30; Marie de l'Incarnation on, 30; their influence in
securing support for the missions, 30-31. =Bib.=: _Jesuit Relations and
Allied Documents, 1610-1791_, ed. by Thwaites, Cleveland, 1896-1901, 73
vols.; _Relations des Jesuites_, Quebec, 1858, 3 vols.

=Jesuits.= The first missionaries of the order, Lalemant, Masse, and
Brebeuf, arrived in Canada in 1625. Work among the Algonquians began
that year; and among the Hurons in 1626. The mission to the Iroquois
dates from 1642. With the