urt, 1617-1641. A member of the Court of
High Commission, 1620-1641. One of the commissioners appointed to
negotiate a settlement in Canadian affairs between England and France,
1629-1630. =Index=: =Ch= English commissioner in matter of Canada, 214.
=Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._

=Martin, Joseph= (1852- ). Born in Milton, Ontario. Educated at the
public schools and at the Toronto Normal School. Taught school for a
time; studied law at Ottawa; removed to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba,
1882, and the same year called to the bar of Manitoba. Member of the
Manitoba Assembly, 1883-1892; attorney-general, 1888-1891; carried
through the Act abolishing separate schools in Manitoba, 1890. In 1891
contested Selkirk for the House of Commons, but defeated; elected for
Winnipeg, 1893, but defeated, 1896. Removed to British Columbia, 1897;
elected to the British Columbia Assembly for Vancouver; subsequently
attorney-general and premier of the province. Removed to England, 1909,
and in same year contested Stratford-on-Avon for the British House of
Commons, but defeated; elected to represent East St. Pancras, London,
1910. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Can. Men_; _Canadian Who's Who_; Ewart, _The
Manitoba School Question_.

=Martin, Marguerite.= =Ch= Daughter of Abraham Martin, 146.

=Martinez, Estevan Jose.= Accompanied Perez to North-West Coast in 1773
as pilot. In 1788 sent again to the North-West Coast as joint commander
with De Haro of an expedition to watch the operations of the Russians;
the following year again sent north from Mexico in command of the
_Princessa_. Seized the _Iphigenia_ at Nootka, but afterwards released
it; fortified Hog Island near Friendly Cove, and took formal possession
of Nootka; also seized several other vessels at Nootka, and imprisoned
Captain Colnett. After carrying out some local explorations returned to
Mexico. =Index=: =D= Asserts Spanish sovereignty over Pacific, 28; at
Nootka, 28; seizes _Iphigenia_ and _North-West America_, and claims
Nootka by right of conquest, 28; claims disproved by Douglas, 28;
_Iphigenia_ released, but _North-West America_ retained, 29; seizes
_Princess Royal_ and _Argonaut_, 29. =Bib.=: Bancroft, _History of the
North-West Coast_.

=Marylanders.= =Dr= Loyalists, commanded by Chalmers, 202.

=Mascarene, Paul= (1684-1760). Born in Castras, in the south of France.
Educated at Geneva, and afterwards went to England; naturalized, 1706.
Entered the army, 1708; accompanied his regiment to Am