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Lachine, portage to, [10]
Lachine Canal, [179]
La Fontaine, Sir Louis, Leader of French Canadians, [14], [32], [59], [65], [295]; and Anglo-French cooperation, [125], [162]; and the Anti-Union movement, [103]; Claims of, as to Office, [149], Bagot's action, [150-1]; and the Clergy Reserve troubles, [52-3]; Loss of Election by, [113], [117]; Loyalty of, [338]; Office refused by (1845), [96]; accepted (1848), effects of, [305]; and the Patronage Crisis, [168], [171]; and the Rebellion of 1837, [142]; and the Rebellion Losses Bill, [214]; Restrictive attitude to Governors-General, [162]; on the Importance of the Anglo-French Union, [177]; on Patronage, [172-3]
La Fontaine-Baldwin Ministries, [161], [212], [215-16], [229], [295], [298]
Laissez faire doctrine, in British colonial politics, [188], [230]; Autonomy the natural result of, [291]; and Home Control, in Colonial affairs, Grey's views on, [267] et sqq.; as Influencing Annexationism, [334]
Lake Ontario, [10]
Lake-neutralization Treaty, see Rush-Bagot Treaty
Lanark, Scottish and Canadian, ties between, [45]
Land transfers, under French law, Sydenham's efforts to simplify, [95-6], [306]
Languages for Debates and Records, [90]
Lee, General, [290]
Legislative and Executive powers of Canadian Government, views on, of Russell, and of the Canadians, [71] et sqq.
Lewis, Cornewall, [238]
Liberal-Conservatism Canadian, evolution of, [297]
Liddell, Dr., and Queen's College, [37]
Lincoln, President, Brown's support of, [341]
Literary Inactivity, Canadian, some causes, [39] &n., [40]
"Little Englanders," Early Victorian, [278] et sqq., [292]
Local government, Absence of Provision for, in Act of Union, [93-5]; in French Canada, Bagot on, [57]; as Training for higher politics, [94]; Sydenham's views on, [94], and efforts for, [106]
London, and Early Canadian Society, [27]
London (Ontario), in early days, [13]; population of (1846), [24]
Lower Canada, French-Canadians of (q.v.), Clericalism, Politics and Society among, [14-17]; Priestly control of Schools in, [31-2]
Municipal Franchise limitations in; results, [25]
Union with Upper, difficulties in, [82]
Lowland Scots, as Settlers, [21]
Loyalist electioneering practices (1844), [179-80]
Loyalty, Canadian, as affected by Autonomy, [203], [229], [314], [323] et sqq.
Inspiration given to, by Brown and such men, [342-3]
Mistrust of, begotten over the Militia Bill, [289]
Lyons, Lord, on Elgin's Reciprocity Treaty, [288] n.
Lucas, Sir C. P. cited, [4] n., [5] n.
Lumberers, Wild life among, [30]