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Lieutenant-Governor and acted as such till Carleton's return in 1774. Being in 

 command at Quebec on the approach of Arnold's expedition in 1775, he acted with 

 promptness and prudence — removing all the sailing craft from the south side of the 

 river, he delayed the invaders and probably saved Quebec. He continued to take 

 a very prominent part in the affairs of the Province for many years and seems to 

 have been a capable reliable and conscientious public servant. His Summons 

 seems to be dated June 21, 1764. 



Adam Mabane, a Scotsman, educated at Edinburgh for the medical profession 

 who came to Quebec as a Surgeon (or Surgeon's mate) -in the British Army. He was 

 pushing and untiring in his efforts to advance himself, and obtained the confidence 

 of successive Governors, especially Haldimand whom he almost entirely dominated. 

 He was removed from the Council, 1766, by Carleton, appointed a Judge of the 

 Court of Common Pleas under the Quebec Act of 1774, a member of the Legislative 

 Council, and lastly a Judge of the Court of King's Bench. He acquired considerable 

 property and played a great part in the history of Quebec during the early years of 

 British rule. 



Walter Murray, of whom Carleton says in a letter to Lord Shelburne October 26, 

 1766 (S. & D., pp. 192, 193), "Mr. Walter Murray who has acted as a strolling 

 player in other Colonies, here as a Councellor" — otherwise unknown to fame. 



Samuel Holland, Surveyor General. Dr. Scadding in his "Surveyor General 

 Holland," Toronto, 1896, has an account of Holland; the following will be sufficient 

 here. Holland seems to have been a native of Canada, a personal friend of General 

 Wolfe who made him a present of a brace of fine pistols. He was engaged in making 

 surveys at Louisbourg after its surrender in 1744 where he made the acquaintance 

 of Capt. Simcoe father of John Graves Simcoe, afterwards Lieutenant-Governor 

 of Upper Canada. He became the first Surveyor General of British North America, 

 a position he filled for nearly fifty years. His residence at Quebec was near Spencer 

 Wood and was known as Holland House. He died at Quebec in 1801, a member of the 

 Executive and Legislative Councils. Holland River and Holland Landing are called 

 after him. 



Thomas Dunn, born in 1731 in Durham, England, Engaging in commercial 

 life, he came to Canada very shortly after the Conquest in 1759-60 and carried on 

 business as a merchant. So far as appears, he had no legal education but he was a 

 man of great executive ability, and was "most enlightened, able minded and im- 

 partial." A member of the first Executive Council he became a member of the first 

 Legislative Council in 1775, and the same year Judge of the Court of King's Bench, 

 Quebec. He became Administrator of the Government in 1805 and again in 1811 

 and acted with promptness and energy. A Seigneur, he was very popular with the 

 French-Canadian people and with no small number of the English population, but 

 in those days it was impossible to please both factions. 



Francois Mounier, a French-Canadian merchant, described by Carleton in his 

 letter above mentioned as "an honest quiet trader who knows very little of our 

 Language or Manners like most Canadians will sign without Examination whatever 

 their Acquaintance urges them to." Gagnier says Vol. I, pp. 87, 88, "Only one native 

 was admitted; the exceptional man being a person of no mark and his name added 

 merely to complete the requisite number." 



(4) Dr. Kingsford in his History of Canada, Vol. V, p. 165 n, gives a fairly 

 full and accurate account of Masères; Masères' paper will be found in Shortt and 

 Doughty, Const. Docs., pp. 179 sqq. 



(5) Shortt and Doughty, p. 185. 



(6) Shortt and Doughty, pp. 243 sqq. 



