s
organ of _Le Parti National_, in 1872, 30.

=Leonard, Samuel.= =T= English schoolmaster, 5.

=Leopard and Chesapeake.= =Bk= Affair of, 82-86.

=Leroux, Laurent= (1758-1855). Western fur trader. =Index=: =MS= Builds
post on Great Slave Lake, 18; sends Sutherland and the "English Chief"
to northern tribes, 18; with Mackenzie at Chipewyan, 33; Mackenzie's
return, 48; post on Great Slave Lake, 49; sent to Beaver Indians, 49.
=Bib.=: Morice, _Dict. Hist. des Canadiens de l'Ouest_; Burpee, _Search
for the Western Sea_.

=Le Roy, Marguerite.= =Ch= Mother of Champlain, 1.

=Le Sage, Captain.= =WM= Repulses landing of English, 107.

=Lesage, Marguerite.= =Ch= Wife of Nicolas Rivert, 146.

=Lescarbot, Marc.= Born at Vervins, near Laon, France, about 1570.
Studied law and called to the bar in 1599. The previous year delivered
two Latin orations before the papal legate sent by Clement VIII to
arrange the terms of the treaty of Vervins. Through Poutrincourt
(_q.v._), who had been one of his clients, induced to sail for Port
Royal, 1606; and spent twelve months in the New World, returning to
France in 1607. While at Port Royal, took an active part in the work of
building, gardening, etc., spent much of his time hunting and fishing;
and in the evening read and composed many of the poems afterwards
included in his _Muses de la Nouvelle France_. On his return, set to
work to prepare his account of Acadia. Spent the years 1612 to 1614 in
Switzerland; married in 1619. Beyond this year, nothing is known of his
life. =Index=: =Ch= Arrival of, at Port Royal, 35; useful in the colony,
37; returns to France, 37. =Bib.=: _Histoire de la Nouvelle France_,
Paris, 1609; 2nd ed., 1611; reprinted 1612; 3rd ed., 1618; reprint of
1612 issue, 1866. In 1907 the Champlain Society, Toronto, published a
new edition, with an English translation and notes by W. L. Grant, and
an introduction by H. P. Biggar. _See also_ Demarsy, _Notes sur Marc
Lescarbot_; Parkman, _Pioneers of France_; Hannay, _History of Acadia_.

=Le Sire.= =Ch= Clerk in De Caen's company, 138.

=Leslie, Alexander= (1740?-1794). British general. =Index=: =Dr= In
command at Charleston, S. C., 197; embarks his force with large number
of refugees, 204; joins Carleton at New York, 205.

=Leslie, James.= =BL= Victim of election frauds in 1841--elected for
Vercheres, 1842, 116; president of Executive Council, 1848, 284; a
radical, 284; given seat in Legislative Council, 285; at farew