BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
The following are a few of the works which should be consulted:
Lord Durham, Report on the Affairs of British North America (1839).
Sir Francis Hincks, Reminiscences (1884).
Dent, The Last Forty Years (1881).
Reid, Life and Letters of the First Earl of Durham (1906).
Shortt, Lord Sydenham (1908).
Wrong, The Earl of Elgin (1906).
Bourinot, Lord Elgin (1905).
Walrond, Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin (1872).
Leacock, Baldwin, LaFontaine, Hincks (1907).
Pope, Memoirs of Sir John Macdonald (1894).
Canada and its Provinces, vol. v (1913), the chapters by W. L. Grant, J. L. Morison, Edward Kylie, Duncan M'Arthur, and Adam Shortt.
Consult also, for individual biographies of the various persons mentioned in the narrative, Taylor, Portraits of British Americans (1865); Dent, The Canadian Portrait Gallery (1880); and The Dictionary of National Biography (1903).