of Appeals
of Lower Canada, 105; receives baronetcy, 105; his rank as statesman and
jurist, 105; his death, 105, 220; his conservative influence, 138; his
views on Seigniorial Tenure question, 185, 187; as a constructive
statesman, 236. =C= Sides against the government, 6; statesmanlike
attitude towards Union of 1841, 16; forms alliance with Baldwin, 16, 97;
forms ministry, 16; resigns, 17; called to power again in 1846, 18;
standing as a statesman, 23; his party splits in two, 25-26; protests
against Union Act of 1840, 96; his fight for ministerial responsibility,
97; long lease of power, 99; wins constitutional battle, 100; his
retirement from politics, 132. =P= Refuses seat in Draper ministry, 72;
joins Papineau's party, 78; supports him in his violent attitude towards
government, 86; at meeting of Constitutional Committee, 88; his
character, 109; ridiculed by the _Mercury_, 123; relations with Papineau
in 1847 and after, 167-180; split in Liberal party causes retirement,
179-180; his farewell speech, 179. =R= Forms opposition party with
Baldwin, Hincks, and others, 122. =Mc= Addresses revolutionary meetings,
328. =Md= Given seat in administration by Bagot, 18; resigns, 1843, 18;
attacked by extreme Reformers, 22; forms administration with Baldwin,
30; elevated to the bench, 46-47. =Bib.=: Dent, _Can. Por._ and _Last
Forty Years_; Morgan, _Cel. Can._; Taylor, _Brit. Am._; David,
_Biographie et Portraits_; Hincks, _Reminiscences_.

=La Forest.= =F= Left in charge of Port Nelson, 346.

=La Franchise, Sieur de.= =Ch= Letter from in Champlain's first
narrative, 14.

=La Galissonniere, Rolland-Michel Barren, Comte de.= Came to New France
as administrator of the government until the arrival of the governor,
Marquis de la Jonquiere. Returned to France, 1749; the same year
appointed one of the commissioners on behalf of the French government,
to settle the boundaries of Acadia. Head of the department of nautical
charts at Paris. Commanded the French fleet at Minorca, 1756, and
defeated the British under Admiral Byng. Died in Nemours, France, 1756.
Is said to have furnished money and supplies to the Abbe de la Loutre to
enable him to carry on his work in Acadia. =Index=: =WM= Foresaw danger
from British colonies, 21. =Bib.=: _Memoire sur les Colonies de la
France dans l'Amerique Septentrionale_. For biog., _see_ Parkman,
_Montcalm and Wolfe_; _Selections from the Public Documents of Nova
Scotia_, ed. by Akins; Tyrrell, _Pa