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nded in skirmish on Beauport flats, 294. =Judah, Henry Hague= (1808-1883). Born in London, England. Came to Canada, and called to the bar, 1829. Represented Champlain in the Assembly, 1843-1844. Appointed one of the Commissioners under the Act abolishing the Seigniorial Tenure, 1854. =Index=: =E= Commissioner under Federal Tenure law, 186. =Judges.= =Bk= Bill for exclusion of, passed by Lower Canada Assembly, but thrown out by Council, 104; further discussion of question, 116; instructions from Great Britain regarding, 117, 126; Act of Exclusion passed, 145. =Judicature.= =E= Measures relating to, passed by second La Fontaine-Baldwin government, 86-87; =S= Act for establishing Superior Court for Upper Canada passed, 92; amended, 94. =Sy= Bill passed by Special Council, 255. =BL= Revisions of system, 286, 300-301; terms of the Act, 292, 302-303, 339. =Jurisdiction, Question of.= =L= In New France, 163. =Justices of the Peace.= _See_ Magistrates. =Kaministiquia, or Kaministikwia, Fort.= At mouth of river of same name, north-west shore of Lake Superior. Built by Zacharie Robutel de La Nouee, in 1717. La Verendrye wintered there in 1731, while making preparations for his western explorations. The site abandoned in favour of Grand Portage, which became for many years, under both French and British rule, the jumping-off place for the western fur country. Fort William was afterwards built on or near the site of the old French fort. =Kane, Paul= (1810-1871). Born in Toronto. Received his first training under Drury, the drawing-master at Upper Canada College. Spent the years 1836-1840 in the United States; and then sailed for Europe, where he studied art in Italy and throughout the continent. Returned to Toronto in 1845, and shortly after set out on a tour of the western territories of the Hudson's Bay Company. Visited many of the tribes, from Lake Superior to the Pacific, and brought back with him in 1848 several hundred sketches, from which he painted a series of oil pictures of Indian life and western scenery. Some years after, published a narrative of this journey, illustrated from his own sketches. =Bib.=: _Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America_. For biog., _see_ Morgan, _Cel. Can._; _Cyc. Am. Biog._; MacMurchy, _Canadian Literature_. =Kaye, John W.= =BL= Quoted on Metcalfe, 156, 158; on La Fontaine and Baldwin, 169-171; on Metcalfe, 176, 186, 236, 237. =B= Defends Metcalfe's attitud
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