, where he established a mission and built a fort. In 1613
Captain Samuel Argall (_q.v._), attacked the fort, and Masse and most of
the colonists were taken prisoners. In 1614 went to France; returned in
1625, and spent the remainder of his life in mission work among the
Algonquians and Montagnais. Taken prisoner at Quebec in 1629, but
afterwards released. =Index=: =Ch= Jesuit, 152; returns to college of La
Fleche, 207; returns to Canada, 228. =Bib.=: Charlevoix, _History of New
France_; Parkman, _Old Regime_; Murdoch, _History of Nova Scotia_.

=Masson, Louis Francois Rodrigue= (1833-1903). Born at Terrebonne.
Entered Parliament in 1867 as member for Terrebonne; minister of militia
and defence, 1878; president of the Council, 1880; called to the Senate,
1882; lieutenant-governor of Quebec, 1884; again called to the Senate,
1890. =Bib.=: _Bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest_. For biog.,
_see_ Morgan, _Can. Men_.

=Mather, Cotton= (1663-1728). =F= On failure of Phipps's expedition,
302; on rescue of some men cast ashore on Anticosti, 304. =Bib.=: _Cyc.
Am. Biog._

=Matheron.= =L= Steward of abbey of Maubec, 137.

=Mathews, Peter.= =Mc= Executed, 435; monument to, 436.

=Mathews, Robert.= =Hd= English secretary to Haldimand, 245, 305; signs
order for arrest of Du Calvet, 286; sails for England with Haldimand,
309; on Mrs. Fairchild, 314; Haldimand's interest in, 331; returns to
Canada as aide-de-camp to Lord Dorchester, 332; sent to Detroit as
lieutenant-governor, 332; receives bequest from Haldimand, 342.

=Maubec, Abbey of.= =L= Revenues of, assigned to bishopric of Quebec,
131, 132, 136, 137.

=Maupassant.= =F= Recollet father, Frontenac's confessor, 165.

=Maurelle, Francisco Antonio.= Sailed to the North-West Coast with
Quadra in 1775, and again in 1779. Embodied the results of the
explorations in several charts of the coast with explanatory text, which
were published in Mexico and also in London. His journal of the 1775
expedition published in Barrington's _Miscellany_, 1781. Commanded the
_Princessa_, 1781-1782, on a voyage from Manilla to San Bias. =Index=:
=D= On North-West Coast, 15. =Bib.=: Walbran, _British Columbia Coast
Names_; Bancroft, _History of the North-West Coast_.

=Maxwell, Colonel.= =W= Sent to frontier with troops in 1839, 135.

=May, Sir Humphrey= (1573-1630). Born in England. Educated at Oxford. In
1604 groom of the King's privy chamber; in 1618 surveyor of the Court of
Wards, and