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Dalhousie, Earl of, Governor-General, [189-90]
Daly, Sir Dominick, the "perpetual secretary," [168], [176], [177]
Darwin, and Bright & Cobden, parallel between, [284]
Davidson, John, retirement of, [150]
Day, Charles Dewey, [113]
Debate in House of Commons on Canadian affairs (1844), [182]
Defence of Canada (see also Militia Bill), British views on, [254], [272], [287] et sqq.
Democracy, attitude to, of the Family Compact, [60] et sqq.
Democratic Government in Canada, established by Elgin, [190]
Institutions, Elements of Success in, [320]
Derby, Earl of (see for earlier references, Stanley, Lord), [252]
Derbyites, and Separation, [290]
Despatches of Elgin and later Governors, [208-9], [249], [325]
Diplomacy, and Separation, [287] War, and Land as matters for Imperial Control, in Wakefield's view, [240]
District Councils for French Canada set up, [98], [118], [119]
Draper, Hon. H. W., Attorney-General, leader of Ministerialists, [105], [111] &n., [113], [150], [177]; Metcalfe on, [184]; Resignation of, [194]
on the Political crisis of 1842, [134-5]
Disraeli, Benjamin (Earl of Beaconsfield), Imperialism of, misgivings in, [255-8], [292]
District Council Bill (Canadian), passed, [106], [118]
Doctrinaire, the, in Practical Politics, position of Metcalfe as illustrating, [185],
Domestic Colonial affairs, Imperial Intervention in, views of Russell, and of Grey, [271-2], [274]
Dorchester, Earl of, and Colonial affairs, [4]; and the French Canadians, [13]
Dorion, A. A., see Brown-Dorion ministry
"Double majority," evolution of, [307-8]
"Double Shuffle" episode, [318-9]
Dougalls, the, and the Montreal Witness, [38-9]
Drunkenness, among Whites and Indians, [30]; among Members of Parliament, [320]
Durham, Earl of, Governor-General, [6], [14], [71], [76], [190], [191], [251]; Canadian views on, [190]; and the Change in British views on Canadian affairs, [237]; and the Destruction of French Nationalism, [57], [59], [83], [211], [311-2]; and Immigration, [97]; Responsible Colonial government as advocated by, [61], [149], [166], [244-5]; non-Separationist views, [281]; Visit of, to Canada, [31]
on the Catholic clergy of Lower Canada, [41-2]; on Local Government, [94]
Durham's Report, [4] n., [5] n., [6], [57]; Effects of, [249]; Fallacy in, [260-1]; Illusions on, dispelled, [243-4]; Imperial note of, [246-7]