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St. Benoit, Village of, and the Rebellion Losses Bill, [214]
St. Lawrence River, Rapids on, [10]
Salaries of Executive, in relation to Political purity, [316]
Schools, early, [32] et sqq.
Scott, R. W., and the Separate Schools Act, [309]
Scotsmen as Settlers, [23], [27-9], [42], [45]; Keenness for Education, [33-7]; Links of, with Scotland, [44], [45]; Loyalty of: a striking instance, [338]; Noteworthy names among, [23]
Sectarianism and Education, [34], [35], [36]
Secularization, Advocates of, [64], [90]
Seignorial tenure difficulties, [95-6], [306]
Self-government, Colonial, see Autonomy, and Responsible Government
Separate Schools Act (Scott's), how carried, [307]
Separation, Anticipations of, [166], [200], [231], [248], [266], [274], [278] et sqq., [282], of British Tories, [253], [254], [255], [256]
Four disbelievers in, [278], [291]
Military views on, [290]
Possibility as affected by Autonomy, [323] et sqq.
Russell's views at different times, [262], [263], [265]
Settlers, see Half-pay officers, Irish, Population, Scotsmen, Squatters, United Empire Loyalists, &c.
Sherman, General, [290]
Sherwood, Henry, Solicitor-General, Bagot and, [144]; Elgin and, [194]; Retirement of, [250]
Sicotte-Macdonald Ministry, and the "Double majority," [309]
Simcoe, Lieut.-General John Graves, [19]
Single-party Government, Canadian tendency to, [298-9]
Small, J. E., in Office, [150]
Smith, Professor Goldwin, and his party, Separationists, [289]
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, in Canada, [43]
Sovereign, the, True relations with Canadian people, [327]
Stanley, Lord, as Colonial Secretary, relations with Bagot and Canada, [127], [128] et sqq., [156], [217], [236], [250-2]; Hincks' indictment of, [170]; Separation anticipated by, [278]
on Bagot's diplomatic services, [127]; on the Tie between Great Britain and the Colonies, [139-40]
Statesmanship, Elgin's conception of, [227]
Statesmen, Canadian, Loyalty of the more eminent, [339] et sqq.
Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames, Influence of, at the Colonial Office, [234-7], [238]; Views of, on Separation, [237] &n.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, [236] &n.
Strachan, Dr. John, Bishop in Toronto, [36], [89], [133]; and the Anglican Church, [43]; and the Clergy Reserve question, [49], [50], [52], [54], [90], [92]; and Education, [35], [36]; and Methodism, [45]
Strickland family, the, as Colonists, [19]
Strickland, Lieut.-Colonel Samuel, and Mackenzie's Rebellion, [55]; on Unsuitable Colonists, [19-20]
Suburbs, and the Electorate, [102]
Sullivan, Robert Baldwin, [113]
Sydenham, Lord (Rt. Hon. Charles Poulett Thomson), as Governor-General, [54], [57], [65], [70]; Raised to Peerage, [53]; Characteristics, [76-8], [107-8], [131], [141]; and his Coalition of Moderates, [113], [141], [298]; Debt to, of Canada, [122-5], [132], [133]; Despatches of, [325]; Episodes and course of his rule, [78] et sqq.; the Fall of the Family Compact, [63]; Practice of, Bagot's action contrasted with, [149]; Relations with French Canadians, [58], [141], [162]; Religious distribution of members of his Council (1841), [47]; Responsible Government practically granted by, [107], [228-9], his own views as worded by Harrison, [119-20], Metcalfe on, [164-5]; and Russell's system, [260]; Settlement by, of Clergy Reserve Question, [53], [54]; Sleigh-journey, record breaking [11-12], [92]; Success with the Act of Union, [92]
on Baldwin's action in the First Union Parliament, [44-5]; on Business in a Colonial Parliament, [65-6]; on the Clergy Reserve question, [53-4]; on Early Travel in Canada, [10]; on the French Anti-Union movement, [103-4]; on Party names, [56], [295]