05;
financial difficulties, 506; declining health, 506; death of, Aug. 28,
1861, 507; funeral, 507, 508; one of the founders of St. Andrew's
Church, 507; tributes of the press, 509-523. =Md= Leads Rebellion of
1837 in Upper Canada, 7; supports Brown in his quarrel with Macdonald,
81. =R= Views on relation of church and state in 1824, 45; his work for
popular government, 66; his policy, 111; his "Seventh Report on
Grievances," 112; opposes separate schools, 224. =B= His return to
Canada, 36; burnt in effigy at Toronto, 36; defeats George Brown in
Haldimand, 40, 44, 46; his resolution for abolition of Court of
Chancery, 47. =BL= His parentage, 12; early days in Canada, 12, 13; in
politics, 13-16, 26, 27, 33; aids Baldwin to secure seat in Legislature,
31; organizes revolutionary clubs, etc., 43; his proposed constitution
for Upper Canada, 43; plans attack on Toronto by rebels, 43; described
as a "mountebank," 120; his correspondence with Hume and Roebuck, 229;
founds Canadian Alliance Association, 1834, 229; returns to Canada, 312,
318, 319; one of the leaders of the new Radicalism, 340-341; brings in
motion to abolish Court of Chancery, 352. =Sy= Reform party falsely
identified with his proceedings, 85, 138. =E= And the Rebellion of 1837,
17; leads Radical wing of Liberal party, in Upper Canada, 21, 22; and
parliamentary government, 51; and MacNab, 75, 76; returns from his
exile, 91; causes of his failure as a political leader, 91-93; proposes
abolition of Court of Chancery, 103, 112; defeats George Brown, 113;
attacks the government, 127; aftermath of the Rebellion, 190. =P= His
correspondence with Papineau, 189. =H= Effect of his action in Upper
Canada, upon popular party, in Nova Scotia, 49. =Bib.=: Works: _Life and
Times of Martin Van Buren_; _Life and Opinions of B. F. Butler_;
_Sketches of Canada and the United States_. For biog., _see_ Morgan,
_Cel. Can._; Lindsey, _Life and Times of W. L. McKenzie_; Dent, _Can.
Por._, _Upper Canadian Rebellion_, and _Last Forty Years_; King, _Other
Side of the Story_; Read, _Rebellion of 1837_. _See also_ Rebellion of
1837 (Upper Canada.)
=Mackenzie River.= Named after Sir Alexander Mackenzie, who explored it
from Great Slave Lake to the Arctic in 1789. It was known at one time as
Disappointment River. Its ultimate source is in Thutage Lake, the
headwaters of the Finlay in northern British Columbia. Its total length
from Thutage Lake to the sea is 2525 miles. The Hudson's Bay Co
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