= Perishes with his men on fireship, 98.
=La Minerve.= Montreal newspaper, established 1826. =Index=: =P= Morin's
seditious articles in, 101; denounces every one opposed to Papineau,
122-123. =BL= Praises policy of La Fontaine-Baldwin government, 142;
discusses debate in Imperial Parliament on colonial government, 232; La
Fontaine's speech in reply to Papineau, printed in, 292. =C= Praises
Cartier, 88.
=Lamontagne.= =Ch= Interpreter, 144.
=La Montagne.= A settlement near Montreal. =Index=: =L= Settlement of
Christian Indians at, 9, 74.
=Lamotte.= =WM= Chief of the Follis-Avoines, 41.
=La Motte, Pierre de St. Paul, Sieur de.= Came to Canada with the
Carignan Regiment, 1665. Built Fort Ste. Anne, at the northern extremity
of Lake Champlain, 1666. Two years later took the place of Zacharie
Dupuis as commandant at Montreal. Returned to France, 1670. =Index=: =L=
Foundation stone of the parish church of Montreal laid on his behalf by
Philippe de Carion, 88.
=La Motte Cadillac, Antoine de.= Son of Jean de La Motte, Sieur de
Cadillac, de Launay et de Montet. Served for a time in the army, and
about 1683 came to Canada in search of fortune or adventure. Married
Marie-Therese Guyon at Quebec in 1687; stationed for several years at
Port Royal; returned to Quebec, and sent by Frontenac in 1694 to command
the post at Michilimackinac. In 1701 built a post at Detroit, went to
Quebec in 1709, sailed for France, and in 1713 sent out to Louisiana as
governor. =Index=: =F= Post commander at Michilimackinac, 340. =Bib.=:
_Cadillac Papers_ (Michigan Hist. _Papers_, 1903); Sulte, _Les Tonty_
(R. S. C., 1893); Roy, _Le Baron de Lahontan_ (R. S. C., 1894); Verreau,
_Quelques Notes sur Antoine de Lamothe de Cadillac_; Parkman, _Old
Regime_ and _Frontenac_.
=La Mouche.= =L= Nephew of Huron chief, deserts to the Iroquois at Long
Sault, 71.
=Lampman, Archibald= (1861-1899). Educated at Trinity University,
Toronto, graduating in 1882; appointed to a clerkship in the post-office
department at Ottawa the following year, and remained there up to the
time of his death. Put the best of himself into his poems, in which he
interpreted with rare discernment and charm the spirit of the woods and
fields of his native country. =Bib.=: Works: _Among the Millet_; _Lyrics
of Earth; Poems_, ed. by Duncan Campbell Scott, with biog. sketch. For
biog., _see_ Morgan, _Can. Men_; MacMurchy, _Canadian Literature_.
=Lancaster, Joseph= (1778-1838). F
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