._ and _Pan. Can._

=Melbourne, William Lamb, second Viscount= (1779-1848). Born in London,
England. Educated at Eton, Cambridge, and Glasgow. Entered Parliament,
1805; Irish secretary under Canning, 1827, and under Wellington, 1828;
and in 1830-1834 home secretary under Grey; for a few months in 1834,
prime minister. In 1835 again became prime minister and retained office
for six years; from 1837 to 1841 acted as adviser to the young Queen
Victoria. =Index=: =Sy= Becomes prime minister, 45; dismissed by the
king, 45; recalled to power, 46; weakness of his government, 47; his
estimate of Poulett Thomson, 6; resigns, 56; returns to office, 57;
Cabinet reorganized, 57. =W= Negotiations _re_ New Brunswick crown
lands, 37. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._; _Letters of Queen Victoria_.

=Melville, Henry Dundas, first Viscount= (1742-1811). Sat for
Midlothian, 1774-1790, and for Edinburgh, 1790-1802; home secretary,
1791-1794; secretary of war, 1794-1801; first lord of admiralty,
1804-1805. =Index=: =S= Secretary of state, thought Simcoe's educational
schemes premature, 169. =Dr= Colonial secretary, disapproves of
Dorchester's speech to Miami Indians, 283. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._

=Melville, Henry Dundas, third Viscount= (1801-1876). Served through
Rebellion of 1837. General, 1868. =Index=: =Mc= Defends Windmill Point,
443; accepts Van Schoultz's surrender, 444. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._

=Membertou, Henry= (1510?-1611). Micmac sagamore; became a convert to
Christianity in extreme old age. In 1604 De Monts and his band of
colonists landed in Acadia, and the chief received them hospitably.
Assisted the French against hostile Indians, and in 1607 with a force of
Micmacs defeated the Armouchiquois Indians. In 1610 baptized, with his
family and other Indians; and was counted a zealous son of the church.
Is reputed to have been over a hundred years of age at his death.
=Index=: =Ch= Aged Indian who claimed to have known Jacques Cartier, 36.
=Bib.=: Parkman, _Pioneers of France_.

=Membre, Zenobius= (1645-1687). Born in France. The first novice in the
Recollet province of St. Anthony. In 1675 came to Canada; in 1679 a
member of La Salle's expedition to the West; and in 1682 accompanied La
Salle on his voyage down the Mississippi. In 1684 again associated with
La Salle on his second expedition to the mouth of the Mississippi.
Killed at Fort St. Louis, in an Indian attack. =Index=: =L= Recollet
missionary, 149, 150. =Bib.=: Parkman