of death of Ross to
Grand Portage, 16; joins his cousin Alexander Mackenzie in Athabaska
department, 23; their friendship, 23; his _Reminiscences_, 24; builds
Fort Chipewyan, 24; plans library there, 26; winters there, 1788-1789,
27; at Chipewyan, 53; goes down to Grand Portage, 53; sent to Great
Slave Lake, 54. =Bib.=: _Reminiscences_ in Masson, _Bourgeois de la
Compagnie du Nord-Ouest_; Bryce, _Hudson's Bay Company_; Burpee, _Search
for the Western Sea_.
=Mackenzie, William Lyon= (1795-1861). =Mc= His personality, Goldwin
Smith on, 3; Dr. Harrison on, 4; W. J. Rattray on, 5, 6; first to
enunciate principle of responsible government, 5; "a man ahead of his
time," 6; his loyalty, 10; not an annexationist, 11; constitutional
reformer, 12; parentage and ancestry, 34-36; defends himself from
charges of disloyalty, 36-38; books read by him from 1806 to 1809, 40,
41; enters commerce, 41, 42; goes to Canada, 43; physical description
of, 43; joins survey of Lachine Canal, 44; enters business with John
Lesslie, 44; moves to Queenston, 44; marries, 45; declares war on
Constitutional Act, 72; starts _Colonial Advocate_, 85; describes Upper
Canada in 1820, 85-87; warns Canadians against union with United States,
87, 97; attitude on Clergy Reserves, 94; advocates provincial
university, 95; reforms advocated by, which have come into effect, 97,
98; defends himself against disloyalty charge, 98-101; advocates
federation of all North American colonies, 104, 105; moves to York, 106;
pictures life of editors, 111; assists to bring about a party
revolution, 112; mob destroys _Colonial Advocate_, 113; Macaulay offers
damages, 115; personal attacks, 117-120; Macaulay's treatment of,
121-123; retaliates, 124, 125; answers Macaulay's pamphlet, 126; gets
L625 damages, 129; refuses to prosecute criminally, 129; indicted for
libel, 130; prosecution abandoned, 135; friendship of Robert Randal,
138; secures Randal's mission to England, 139; advocates responsible
government, 146, 148; elected for York, 150; moves committal of Allan
MacNab, 152; chairman of committee on post-office, 153; chairman of
committee on privileges of House, 154; carries many motions and
addresses, 154; introduces Thirty-two Resolutions, 155; opinions stated,
156; visits New York, 157; letter in _National Gazette_, 158; supports
Robert Baldwin, 159; chairman of committee on banking, 161, 162; moves
Libel Bill, 162, 163; letters to Sir John Colborne, 164; advocates
respons
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