ent, 1874-1885, and Hampstead, 1885-1888;
secretary of state for the colonies, 1887-1892. =Index=: =Md=
Macdonald's letter to, on Confederation, 158.

=Kondiaronk.= =F= Huron chief, wrecks peace negotiations with Iroquois,
222. =L= Treachery of, 216; becomes friend of the French, 235. =Bib.=:
Parkman, _Frontenac_.

=Kootenay District.= In British Columbia. =Index=: =D= First explored by
David Thompson, 58.

=Kuprianoff, Ivan Andreevich.= =D= Succeeds Wrangell in Russian America,
1836, 45.

=L'Alouette.= =Ch= One of De Caen's vessels, 156.

=L'Ange, Captain.= =Ch= Meets Champlain on his return from the Upper
Ottawa, 78.

=L'Anticoton.= =Ch= Pamphlet against Jesuits, 153.

=L'Avenir.= Newspaper, of Montreal. =C= Organ of _Club democratique_,
26, 27. =E= Organ of the _Parti Rouge_, 108. =BL= Organ of the Radicals
of Lower Canada,--demands universal suffrage, etc., 343.

=Laas, Captain de.= =WM= In battle of Ste. Foy, 263.

=La Barre, Joseph Antoine Lefebvre de.= Governor of La Guyane in 1665;
and in 1682 arrived in Quebec as governor of Canada. His administration
marked by hopeless incompetence; recalled, 1685. =Index=: =L= Succeeds
Frontenac as governor, 168; a feeble administrator, 185; prejudiced at
first against the bishop, 188; convokes a special assembly, 190; asks
for more troops, 191; his expedition against Iroquois, 193; makes terms
of peace, 193; recalled, 193. =F= Governor, arrival of, 171; summons
conference on Indian question, 172; applies for troops, 172; criticized
in despatches by intendant, 173, 174; takes to illegitimate trading,
175; disparages discoveries of La Salle, 176; seizes Fort Frontenac and
Fort St. Louis, 177, 179; instructed to restore to La Salle all his
property, 180; his unwise instruction to Iroquois, 180; decides to make
war on Senecas, 181; corresponds with Colonel Dongan, governor of New
York, 182; leads expedition, 183; arranges ignominious terms of peace,
186; recalled, 188; unfitness for his position, 189; results of his weak
policy, 198, 209. =Bib.=: Parkman, _Frontenac_ and _La Salle_.

=Laberge, C. J.= =C= A Liberal leader in Quebec, 25; on Dorion, 28; kept
in opposition by Radical programme, 29.

=Labrador.= The name has been popularly applied to the whole territory
bounded by the Atlantic, Hudson Strait, and Hudson Bay, which includes
not only the Labrador coast-strip, but also a portion of the North-West
Territories. Also known at one time as New Britain. The nam