INDEX
Annexation movement of 1849, the, [133-6].
Arthur, Sir George, his severity, [30].
Assembly: the first election after Union, [57-8]; composition of parties, [58]; the Baldwin incident, [59-61]; measures passed, [61], [63-4]; majority rule principle, [62-3]; the Draper government defeated, [76], [115-17]; -- LaFontaine-Baldwin (Reform) Administration, [76-7], [79-80], [84], [85-7]; placemen removed from Assembly, [87]; the Common Schools Act, [88]; University of Toronto, [89-90], [106-7]; the Metcalfe Crisis, [90-3]; -- Draper (Tory) Administration, [93-4], [101]; -- LaFontaine-Baldwin (the Great) Administration, [101-3], [106], [109-12]; [142-3]; Municipal Corporations Act, [107-9]; Rebellion Losses Bill, [117-18], [119-27]; a breeze in the House, [119-120]; Clergy Reserves, [139]; Seigneurial Tenure, [141]; -- Hincks-Morin Administration, [143]; a business man's government, [144-5], [155-6]; -- MacNab (Liberal-Conservative) Administration, [157].
Bagot, Sir Charles, governor-general, [74-5], [79]; forms a coalition government, [75-6]; his death a reproach to Canada, [80-1].
Baldwin, Robert, [68-9]; a Moderate Reformer, [40], [69-70], [71-2]; his cool proposal to Sydenham, [60-1]; his association with LaFontaine, [66], [74], [77-8], [101-2], [118]; his first administration, [77-8], [85], [80-90]; the Metcalfe peerage, [95]; the Great Administration, [101-2], [106-8], [118], [120], [139]; resigns the leadership, [142]; retires from public life, [143].
Baldwin, W. W., [68-9]; president of Constitutional Reform Society, [71].
Blake, W. H., causes an uproar in the House, [119-20]; burned in effigy, [120].
Bouchette, Robert, [15].
Brougham, Lord, his malign attacks on Durham, [8], [16-17], [20]; burned in effigy in Quebec, [18].
Brown, George, the Protestant champion, [143-4].
Brown, Thomas Storrow, [4].
Bruce, Colonel, wounded in the attack on Lord Elgin, [129].
Buller, Charles, [8]; with Durham in Canada, [19].
Canada, political development in, [3]; strained relations with United States, [11-13], [25-8]; Lord Durham's Report, [21-4]; the 'Hunters' Lodges,' [25-8]; political and financial situation in 1839, [30-1]; the capital city, [56-7], [86], [137], [130]; the Irish famine of 1846, [101]; Municipal Corporations Act, [107-9]; trade relations dislocated by Britain's adoption of free trade, [109]; the disturbances in connection with the Rebellion Losses Bill, [112-31]; the Annexation movement of 1849, [133-6]; boom periods, [137], [153], [161]; assumes control of the postal system, [138]; separate schools, [138-9]; attains full self-government, [139]; her interest in world affairs, [146]; the Reciprocity Treaty, [147-8], [150-5], [110-11]; the fishery question, [148-50], [152]; Confederation, [161-2]; and the Empire, [162], [164]. See Assembly and Responsible Government.
Cartwright, Richard, and Hincks, [76].
Cathcart, Lord, governor-general, [97-8].
Church of England, and the Clergy Reserves, [43-4], [46], [47].
Church of Scotland, and the Clergy Reserves, [44], [46], [47].
'Clear Grit' party, the, [138], [142].
Clergy Reserves question, the, [39], [42-6]; Colborne's forty-four parishes, [46], [71]; Sydenham's solution, [47-8], [64]; secularized, [139], [155].
Colborne, Sir John, lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada, [46]; quells the Rebellion and acts as administrator in Lower Canada, [4], [8], [9], [16], [25], [38], [113]; raised to the peerage, [33].
Constitutional Reform Society, the, [71].
Disraeli, Benjamin, and Canada, [132].
District Council Bill, the, [64].
Draper, W. H., his administrations, [76], [93-4].
Durham, Lord, his early career, [5-7]; invested with extraordinary powers in the governance of Canada, [4-5], [7-8]; firmness with conciliation his policy, [9]; the composition of his councils, [9-10]; takes prompt action in connection with the border troubles, [11-13]; proclaims a general amnesty to the rebels, [14-15]; the disallowance of his ordinance banishing the ringleaders, [15-19]; his resignation and departure, [17-18], [25], [29]; posterity's judgment, [18-19]; his dying words, [20]; his personality and family ties, [7], [8-9], [99]; his enemy Lord Brougham, [8], [16-17], [20]; his Report, [10-11], [19-24], [32], [35], [46], [68].
Elgin, Earl of, [98-9]; a constitutional governor-general, [99-100], [101], [118], [123], [131], [147], [155]; initiates the custom of reading the Speech in both French and English, [103]; the Rebellion Losses Bill, [121-3]; attacked by the mob on the occasions of giving his assent and on receiving an Address, [124-5], [127-9]; the Hermit of Monklands, [129], [130-1]; on Annexation sentiment in Canada, [133], [135-6]; negotiates the Reciprocity Treaty with United States, [147], [150-152], [110]; insulted in the House, [155-6]; his administrative triumph, [158-60]; his gift of oratory, [98], [151]; his connection with Durham, [99].
Ermatinger, Colonel, and the Montreal riots, [129].
Fishery question, the, [148-50], [152].
Fleming, Sandford, his act of gallantry, [127].
Girouard, a rebel, [79].
Gladstone, W. E., and Canada, [132].
Glenelg, Lord, his incompetency, [32].
Gosford, Lord, [72].
Gourlay, Robert, and the Clergy Reserves, [45].
Great Britain, and the 1837 rebellions, [4], [33]; the Clergy Reserves, [48]; parliamentary procedure, [62]; her free trade policy, [109]; the Rebellion Losses Bill, [132]; Navigation Laws repealed, [137]; her colonial policy, [140]; the Great Exhibition, [145-6]; the fishery question, [148-50], [152]; her sympathies with the South in the American Civil War, [154].
Grey, Earl, and Durham, [6].
Grey, Earl (son of above), and Elgin, [99], [136].
Grey, Colonel, his mission of remonstrance, [13].
Harrison, S. B., leader of Sydenham's government, [62].
Hincks, Francis, [70]; a Reform leader, [40], [61]; his many interests, [70-1]; his talent for affairs, [71-2], [74]; minister of Finance, [76], [77], [132], [137], [157]; his policy of protection, [87-8], [124]; his railway policy, [111-112]; precipitates a crisis, [124-5]; the Clergy Reserves, [139]; his administration, [143], [156], [157]; the Reciprocity Treaty, [147], [150], [110]; his valuable services, [137]; governor of Barbados, [157].
Howe, Joseph, and responsible government, [51]; and railways, [111]; his recruiting mission, [146]; his vision of Canada's future, [164-5].
'Hunters' Lodges,' the, [13], [25-8].
Kingston, as the capital, [56-7], [58], [86], [94]; Sydenham's tomb, [65].
LaFontaine, L. H., his early career and appearance, [72-4]; his association with Baldwin, [66], [74], [77-8], [101-2], [118]; his first ministry, [77-8], [85], [87], [93]; the Great Administration, [101-2], [117-18], [127], [129], [139], [141]; his crushing reply to Papineau's onslaught, [103-5]; resigns, [142]; chief justice for Lower Canada, [143].
Liberal party, a split in the ranks, [137-8]. See Reform.
Liberal-Conservative party, the, [157-8].
Lount, Samuel, his execution, [30].
Lower Canada, racial feeling in, [22]; the Rebellion, [3], [4], [25], [28-30]; Durham's amnesty and ordinance, [14-19]; Durham's Report, [21-3]; political state before Union, [50]; the Registry Act, [56]; the opposition to Union, [57], [62], [68], [93]; amnesty to all political offenders, [103]; the Rebellion Losses Bill, [112-14], [116-17]; Seigneurial Tenure, [140-1]. See Quebec and Special Council.
Macaulay, Lord, quoted, [20], [79], [83], [96].
Macdonald, John A., his entry into politics, [93], [101]; 'a British subject I will die,' [135]; attorney-general, [157]; his Liberal-Conservative administration, [158], [144].
Macdonald, J. S., his studied insult, [156], [157].
Mackenzie, W. L., incites anti-British feeling in the States, [12], [26]; granted amnesty and returns to Canada, [118-19], [120], [142].
MacNab, Sir Allan, leader of the Conservative Opposition, [86], [101]; Speaker, [94]; gives 'the lie with circumstance,' [119-20], [125]; his tribute to Baldwin, [142]; prime minister, [157].
Marcy, W. L., and reciprocity with Canada, [151].
Melbourne, Lord, and Durham, [17].
Metcalfe, Sir Charles, his early career, [82-3]; his arrival at Kingston, [81]; upholds the prerogative of the Crown, [84-6], [87]; refuses to surrender right of appointment, [90-1]; triumphs over the Reformers, [92-4]; his peerage and death, [95-6].
Montreal, [124], [137]; as the capital, [86], [94]; the riots in connection with the passing of the Indemnity Bill, [120-1]; the burning of the Parliament Buildings, [124-7], [1]; the attacks on Lord Elgin, [124-5], [128-9]; the capital no more, [130]; the Annexation Association, [134-5].
Morin, A. N., Speaker of the Assembly, [102]; his administration, [143].
Municipal system of Canada, the, [55-6], [64]; the Municipal Corporations Act, [107-9]; municipalities and railways, [145].
Murdoch, T. W. C., secretary to Sydenham, [37].
Neilson, John, his policy of obstruction, [62], [68].
Nelson, Robert, proclaims a Canadian republic, [29].
Nelson, Wolfred, a Rebellion leader, [15], [93]; his claim for indemnity, [119].
New Brunswick, Sydenham's visit to, [52].
Nova Scotia, the struggle for responsible government in, [51]; the rise of the colleges, [88-9]; the fishery question, [149-50], [152].
O'Callaghan, E. B., a rebel leader, [104].
Oliphant, Laurence, and the Reciprocity negotiations, [150], [152].
Ontario, Sydenham's tour in, [53-4]; its municipal system, [55], [64]. See Upper Canada.
Orange Society, the, [87].
Ottawa, the capital city, [130].
Papineau, D. B., [93].
Papineau, L. J., takes refuge in France after Rebellion, [103-4]; returns to the House, claiming and receiving arrearage of salary as Speaker, [104]; his uncompromising attitude towards the Union, [104-6], [118], [138], [141], [157]; his retiral, [157], [106].
Paquin, Father, petitions for indemnity, [112-13].
Politics, the game of, [1-2], [67], [76], [77]; an old-time election, [77-8].
Quebec, its municipal system, [55], [64]; the seat of government, [137], [155]. See Lower Canada.
Railway building in Canada, [111-12], [144-5].
Rebellion Losses Bill, the, [112-118], [132]; the violent scenes in connection with, [119-31].
Reciprocity Treaty of 1854, the, [110-11], [147-55].
Reform party, the, supports Sydenham, [38], [40], [60-1]; the Clergy Reserves, [47]; opposes Bagot's coalition, [76]; the struggle with Metcalfe, [86], [90-3], [95]; the Great Administration, [101]; Liberals and 'Clear Grits,' [137-8]; Liberal-Conservatives, [157-8].
Registry Act, the, [56].
Reid, Stuart J., on the authorship of Durham's Report, [20].
Responsible Government: Durham's remedy, [24]; Sydenham's campaign of education, [41], [58-9], [67]; Howe's achievement, [51]; majority rule, [62-3], [79]; the Executive beg-in to presume, [84]; the difficulty of reconciling with the colonial status, [84-5]; placemen removed from Assembly, [87]; education of the democracy, [88]; right of appointment, [90-91]; the difficulty of government with a small majority, [100]; from colony to free equal state, [161-2].
Rouge party, the, [138].
Russell, Lord John, colonial secretary, [32], [55].
Seigneurial tenure, [140-1], [155]; abolished, [141].
Sherwood, Henry, solicitor-general, [76].
Special Council of Quebec, and Sydenham, [38], [49-50], [55], [56], [114-15].
Strachan, Bishop, [69]; and the Clergy Reserves, [46], [47]; his crusade against Baldwin's 'godless institution,' [90].
Stuart, James, chief justice of Lower Canada, [37], [50].
Sullivan, R. B., a Reform leader, [70], [77].
Sydenham, Lord, [68]. See Thomson.
Thomson, Charles Poulett, his early career and personality, [33-8]; his mission of Union of the Canadas, [38-40], [68]; his responsible government campaign of education, [41-2]; the Clergy Reserves, [42], [47-8]; on political and financial conditions in Canada, [48-50], [32]; his triumphal progress, [50-4]; his vision of Ontario, [54]; Baron Sydenham, [54-5]; initiates Canada's municipal system, [55-6]; the first Union Assembly, [58-9], [61], [63-4]; the Baldwin incident, [60-1]; majority rule, [62-3]; his five great works, [63-4]; G.C.B., [59]; his tragic and heroic end, [64-5].
Toronto, [1]; the founding of the University, [89-90], [106-7]; scenes in connection with the Indemnity Bill, [120-1]; the seat of government, [137].
Turton, Thomas, with Durham in Canada, [8].
Union Act of 1840, the, [54-5].
United Empire Loyalists, the, [163].
United States: American detestation of the British, [11-13]; 'Hunters' Lodges,' [25-28]; her mistaken views regarding Canada, [121], [133-6]; her elective system of government, [138]; her educational system, [139]; the Reciprocity Treaty with Canada, [147-8], [150-5], [110-11]; the fishery question, [148-50], [152]; the Civil War, [148], [153], [154].
University of Toronto, the founding of, [89-90], [106-7].
Upper Canada: its political and financial state prior to Union, [23], [31-2], [38-9], [48-9], [114], [115]; the execution of the Rebellion leaders, [30]; Opposition to Union, [33], [57]; the terms of Union, [40]; Clergy Reserves, [45]; Sydenham's tour, [53-4]; the rise of the colleges, [88-90]; the Metcalfe Crisis, [93].
Van Buren, President, and Durham, [13].
Viger, 'Beau,' [93].
Von Shoultz, his chivalrous sacrifice, [27-8].
Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, with Durham, [8].