xisted in
Montreal as early as 1824, and at Kingston in 1836; the Red River
library was founded at Fort Garry in 1847. =Index=: =Hd= First in Canada
established by Haldimand, 190; merged in 1869 into Literary and
Historical Society of Quebec, 190; objects and cost of, 191;
appreciation of, 191. =R= Public school libraries established by Dr.
Ryerson, for use by the community, 185-187. =MS= One established by
Roderick Mackenzie at Fort Chipewyan, 26. =BL= W. L. Mackenzie maintains
a circulating library, 13. =E= Provided for in Upper Canada after 1841,
88. =S= For Upper Canada, Simcoe recommends government to establish, 46;
plan not adopted, 175. _See also_ Books. =Bib.=: Bain, _Public Libraries
of Canada_ in _Canada: An Ency._, vol. 5.
=Licorne.= =WM= Frigate in which Montcalm embarked at Brest, 12.
=Lieutenant-governor.= =Mc= Office of, Durham's view of power of, 56,
57; surroundings of, in 1838, 61; position in both Upper and Lower
Canada, 62.
=Lieutenants.= =S= Intended to be analogous to lords-lieutenant in
England, appointed by Governor Simcoe for the principal counties in
Upper Canada, 197; measure not approved by secretary of state, 197;
appointments not continued by later governors, 198.
=Ligneris.= =WM= Force gathered by, and Aubry, dispersed, 146.
=Lincoln, Abraham= (1809-1865). Fourteenth president of the United
States. =Index=: =B= Believed by George Brown to be favourable to
renewal of Reciprocity Treaty, 192. =Bib.=: For biog. sketch, and
bibliog. of lives, _see Cyc. Am. Biog._; Larned, _Lit. Am. Hist._
=Lincoln, Benjamin= (1733-1810). American general. =Index=: =S= United
States commissioner, entertained by Simcoe at Navy Hall, 184, 229.
=Bib.=: _Cyc. Am. Biog._
=Lindsay, W. B.= =Sy= Made clerk of Legislative Assembly, 334.
=Lindsay, William.= =T= Elected for the county of Carleton, New
Brunswick, 89, 107.
=Linschot.= =Ch= His definition of the territory of New France, 211.
=Lippincott, Captain.= =Dr= Hangs Joshua Huddy, 198.
=Liquor Question.= =B= Agitated by Brown and the _Globe_, 75; the Canada
Company and cheap whiskey, 75; the movement in and out of Parliament,
75-76. _See also_ Brandy question; Stills; Cas reserve.
=Lisgar, John Young, Baron= (1807-1876). Born at Bombay. Entered
Parliament in 1831; became lord of treasury in 1841, and secretary of
the treasury, 1844-1846; chief secretary for Ireland, 1852-1855; and
lord high commissioner of the Ionian Islands, 1855-1859. In 1
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