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en, Earl of= (1784-4849). =Index=: =Sy= President of board of trade, when Poulett Thomson was vice-president, 26. =Auguste.= =Hd= Transport ship wrecked in St. Lawrence, 40. =Aulneau, Jean-Pierre.= Jesuit missionary, with La Verendrye in his western explorations. Murdered by Sioux on an island in the Lake of the Woods, May, 1736. =Aumont, Marechal d'.= =Ch= Champlain serves under, 1. =Austerlitz.= =Bk= Battle of, its significance, 72-73. =Auteuil, Denis Joseph Ruette d'.= _See_ Ruette d'Auteuil. =Avaugour, Pierre Dubois, Baron d'.= Governor of New France, 1661-1663, succeeding D'Argenson. =Index=: =F= Governor, 45; disagrees with clergy on liquor question, 46; describes earthquake, 46. =L= His attitude on liquor question, 10, 38; recalled, 39; his report on Canada, 40. =Bib.=: Parkman, _Old Regime_. =Aylesworth, Sir Allen Bristol= (1854- ). Born in Newburgh, Ontario. Educated at Newburgh High School and at the University of Toronto; studied law and called to the bar of Ontario, 1878; practised his profession in Toronto; appointed one of the British Commissioners in connection with the settlement of the Alaska boundary, 1903; elected to the House of Commons, 1905; postmaster-general, 1905; minister of justice, 1906; British agent in connection with the Fisheries case before the Hague Tribunal, 1910. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Can. Men_. =Aylmer, Matthew Whitworth, Baron= (1775-1850). Entered the army, 1787; served in the West Indies, in Holland, and in the Peninsula under Wellington. Reached the full rank of general, 1825, and in 1830 became the governor-general of Canada; returned to England, 1835. =Index=: =Bk= Present with Brock at battle of Egmont-op-Zee, 17. =BL= Pays official salaries from the war chest, 21. =P= His influence did not extend beyond Quebec--hostility towards French-Canadians, 39-40; his conciliatory attitude, 75-76; at open war with the Assembly, 77-78; remonstrates with Assembly, 86; refuses to interfere in factional strife in Montreal, 87; held responsible by Papineau and his friends for cholera epidemic, 88-89; bitterly attacked in the Ninety-Two Resolutions, 95; attacked by Papineau, 100, 105; criticizes the Ninety-Two Resolutions, 106. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Cel. Can._; _Dict. Nat. Biog._ =Aylwin, Thomas Cushing= (1806-1871). Born in Quebec city. Studied law and called to the bar, 1828. First entered public life, 1841, as member for Portneuf. After filling the office of solicitor-general in tw
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