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Bagot, Sir Charles, Governor-General, [70], [126] et sqq., [156], [163]; as Financier, [237-8]; and King's College, Toronto, [36]; Political antecedents of, [126-7]; Political opportunism of, [138] et sqq., [143-6], wisdom of his methods, [147]; the practical surrender of Responsible Government by, [158], [161], [228-9]; Russell's view on, [261], Stanley's view on, [278]; Relations with French-Canadians, [57], [146-7], [149-50]; Stanley's instructions to, [129], and relations with, [127] et sqq.
Work of his period of office, three factors of, [128] et sqq.
on Autonomy, Separation, and Loyalty, [138]; on the Crown's right to name the Capital, [155]; on the French Canadians after the Union, [57-8]
Baldwin, Robert, Leader of Reforming Loyalists, [64], [105], [125], [197], [295]; Anti-annexation actions of, [339]; Averse to the "Double majority," [308]; Bagot and, [143], [144]; Challenge by, to Sydenham's system, [143-6]; Character and Politics of, [109] et sqq., [141]; Check to, [155]; and the Clergy Reserve question, [52]; and Elgin, [203]; Harrison's views on, and Draper's, [134]; Insistence by, on Responsible Government, [113-5], [116], [119], [150], [161-2], [176]; Loyalty of, [339]; Motion by, demanding a Provincial Parliament, [119]; Office claimed for, [149]; and the Patronage crisis, [168]; as Solicitor-General of Upper Canada, [109] et sqq.; Stanley's attitude to, [142].
on Coalition government, [299-300]; on Patronage, and the position of the Council, [175]; on Russell's Colonial Administration Speech (1850), [264]
Baldwin-Hincks Reformers, in Politics, [301]
Baldwin-La Fontaine Ministry, the, [161], [212], and the origin of Anglo-French Solidarity, [215-6], [229], [295], [298]; Precedent provided by, [307]
Belleville, Population (1846), [24]
Bentinck, Lord William, Governor-General of India, [159]
Black, Dr., and the Clergy Reserve question, [48]
Board of Works for Canada set up, [106], [118]
Boston, Elgin's official visit to (1851), [232]
Bridges, Lack of, [12]
Bright, John, and Separation, [283], [290]
British aid to Canada, need of (1839), and Sydenham's Loan Scheme, [68-9], [97] et sqq.
Approval of Metcalfe's methods, and those of earlier Governors, [170], [175], [180], [182], [186], [193] Colonial Empire, maintenance of, views on, [275], [277] et sqq.
Communities, Government of, Lesson on, from Canadian history, [345]
Community, attempted absorption in, of French-Canadians, [57], [59], [83], [142], [211], [306], [311-12]
Empire, permanence of, some firm believers in, [274]; World-value of, Grey's view on, [275-6]
British Half-pay Officers as Colonists, [18-20]
Opinion on Canadian Autonomy, changes in, [235] et sqq.
Predominance, passim; Russell's theory of, effects of, [228-9]
Universities, relations of, with Canadian College Education, [37-8] &n.1
Views on Imperialism, early Victorian, [230], gradual change in, [230] et sqq.
British-American League, aims of, [336-7]
British-Canadian connexion, on what chiefly dependent, [292]
Brockville, Population (1846), [25]
Brougham, Lord, and Separation, [281], [282-7]
Brown, George, pioneer of Political journalism, Scottish origin of, [23]; Characteristics of, [323], [340-3]; and the Clear-Grits, [300] &n.2, [340-1]; and Confederation, [312-14], [341], [342]; as Editor, and Leader, [341]; Loyalty of, [339]; and Macdonald's federation scheme, [302] &n. et sqq.; Macdonald's unfairness to, [319]; Political rectitude of, [321]; Political views of, [298]; Why disliked by the French, [312]
on Canadian loyalty, [326-7]; on Canadian population distribution (1857), [310-11], and Parliamentary representation, [310-11]; on Political corruption, [317]; on Public spirit connected with Confederation, [322]
Brown-Dorion two days' administration, the, [302]
Buchanan, Isaac, and Canadian Tariff, [327]
Buller, Arthur, on the Illiteracy of the Habitants, [16]
Buller, Charles, characteristics of, [241]; as Educator in sound Colonial policy, [247], [251]; Imperialism of, [162], [245]; La Fontaine's objection to, [162]; and Local Government, [94]; Non-belief of, in Separation, [278], [281]; Views of, on Colonial affairs, [94], [162], [234-5], [236], [237], [240-3], [247], [251], [278], [281], [291]
famous pamphlet by, [234-5], [236], [240-3]
on Permanent Officials and Changing Heads at the Colonial Office, [234-5], [236]; on Russell's Imperialism, [262]
Burke, Edmund, on American Education and Book-reading, [40]; on Colonial Independence and Imperial Unity, [2], [3]; on Party, [294]; on the Whigs, [166]
Bytown (Ottawa), and the Immigrants, [21]; Population (1846), [24]; Social conditions at, [30]