e is properly
applied to the strip of coast from Cape Chidley to Blanc Sablon, forming
a dependency of the colony of Newfoundland. On various theories as to
origin of name, _see_ Ganong, _Cartography of Gulf of St. Lawrence_ (R.
S. C., 1889). The boundaries have long been in dispute between
Newfoundland and Canada, and the territory has several times changed
hands. The Labrador coast was first discovered by the Northmen, in the
tenth century. Cabot sailed along the coast in 1498, and Corte-Real in
1500. The interior remained practically unexplored till traversed by
officers of the Hudson's Bay Company about 1840. There are a few posts
of the Hudson's Bay Company on the coast. The southern portion is
inhabited by a primitive race of fishermen; in the north are several
missions of the Moravian Brethren, first established there in 1764.
=Index=: =Dr= Canadians petition for its restoration to Canada. =Bib.=:
Cartwright, _Sixteen Years on the Coast of Labrador_; Hind,
_Explorations in Interior of Labrador_; Packard, _The Labrador Coast_;
Stearns, _Labrador_; Dawson, _Canada and Newfoundland_; Grenfell,
_Labrador_; Hubbard, _A Woman's Way through Unknown Labrador_; Gosling,
_Labrador, Its Discovery and Development_.

=Labreche, L.= =E= Member of the _Parti Rouge_, 108.

=La Caffiniere, De.= =F= Commander of squadron sent against New York,
234.

=La Canardiere.= =F= Former name of Beauport flats, 293. =WM= French
position on Beauport shore, 94, 105, 134.

=Lac aux Claies.= =S= Renamed Lake Simcoe in honour of Governor Simcoe's
father, 207. _See_ Simcoe.

=Lac de Soissons.= =Ch= Name given by Champlain to Lake of Two
Mountains, 75.

=La Chaise, Francois d'Aix= (1624-1709). Born at the castle of Aix in
Forez. Entered Society of Jesus, and provincial of his order when
selected by Louis XIV as his confessor in 1675. Retained that difficult
position up to the time of his death. =Index=: =L= His report on the
liquor question, 174; his letter to Laval, 238.

=La Chesnaye.= _See_ Aubert de la Chesnaye.

=La Chesnaye Settlement.= =F= Iroquois raid on, 226. =L= Ravaged by
Iroquois, 228.

=Lachine.= Said to have been named by La Salle's men, in derision of his
dream of a westward passage to China. The land was granted by the
Sulpicians to La Salle as a seigniory in 1666; and from here he set
forth on his memorable explorations, in 1669. Twenty years later, this
was the scene of a terrible massacre by the Iroquois. In the eigh