INDEX
Abbott, John, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald: subscribes to Annexation manifesto, [27]; prime minister, [142].
Aberdeen, Lord, governor-general, [149].
Allan, Sir Hugh, and the Pacific Scandal, [97] and note, [99], [101].
Annexation manifesto of 1849, some subscribers to, [27].
Archibald, Adams, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, [79]; lieutenant-governor of Manitoba, [91].
Argyll, Duke of, and Sir John Macdonald, [116-17].
Assembly. See Parliament.
'Baldwin Reformers,' their union with the Conservatives, [38], [39], [46].
Baldwin, Robert, with LaFontaine in power, [20], [28]; burned in effigy, [22]; defends the Liberal-Conservative alliance, [39], [46]; the Common School Act, [55]; retires from public life, [20], [31].
Beaconsfield, Lord, and Sir John Macdonald, [175-6]. See Disraeli.
Blake, Edward, [22]; prime minister of Ontario, [93]; resigns in order to assist his party in the House of Commons, [96]; minister of Justice, [107], [109]; his opposition to the building of the C.P.R., [120]; is out-generalled on the Riel resolution, [132-3]; resigns Liberal leadership, [160]; retires from public life, [173]; his career and character, [95], [104-10].
Bowell, Mackenzie, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, [152].
British Columbia, its admission into Confederation, [93], [96], [118-21].
British America League, the, resolutions of, [27-8].
British North America Act, the, [74]; and the qualification of voters, [133].
Brown, George, founds the 'Globe,' [18]; stirs up racial and religious strife between Upper and Lower Canada, [29-31], [32], [71]; his antagonism towards Macdonald, [32] and note, [33], [46-7], [95], [117]; opposes Seigneurial Tenure and Clergy Reserves Bills, [45] and note; leader of the Clear Grits, [47]; his policy of Rep. by Pop., [54-5], [67], [69], [72]; his Short Administration in 1858 and humiliation, [57-8], [59]; his opinion of the Double Shuffle, [61]; joins hands with Macdonald and Cartier to carry through the scheme of Confederation, [42], [71-3], [83]; joins the Taché-Macdonald Cabinet, [73], [104]; quarrels with his colleagues and resumes his ferocious attacks on the Government, [75] and note; out of Parliament, [95]; his letter soliciting campaign funds, [101] n.; his assassination, [18], [118].
Campbell, Sir Alexander, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald: studies law under Macdonald, [7-8]; becomes a partner, [14]; the aristocrat of Macdonald's Cabinet, [115], [149-51].
Canada, and the Hudson's Bay Company, [49], [88]; financial depression in 1857, [53]; the visit of the Prince of Wales (Edward VII), [67-8]; the position of prime minister, [76-7]; the transfer of the North-West, [88]; the Treaty of Washington, [91-3], [94]; the terms of union with British Columbia, [93]; the building of the C.P.R., [49-52], [97-101], [118-21]; the Franchise Act of 1885, [135-8]; reciprocity with United States, [172], [173]; content to live under the flag of Great Britain, [179-81].
Canadian Pacific Railway, the, first mooted, [49-52]; the Pacific Scandal, [97] and note, [100]; the building of, [118-126].
Caron, Sir Adolphe, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, [140], [142-3].
Cartier, Sir George Étienne, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald: leader of French-Canadian wing of Liberal-Conservative government, [41], [44-5], [47], [57], [96], [115]; his work on behalf of Confederation, [42], [62], [78], [80]; the Double Shuffle, [59-62]; his relations with Macdonald, [78], [91]; negotiates for the transfer of the North-West, [88].
Cartwright, Sir Richard, [87], [96]; takes umbrage at Macdonald's appointment of Hincks as finance minister, [84], [85], [86] and note, [87]; his relations with Macdonald, [116], [118], [150], [165-7]; a most accomplished debater, [164-5].
Cayley, William, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, [25].
Chapleau, Adolphe, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, [140], [142-3], [156].
Clear Grits, the, press for the secularization of the Clergy Reserves, [29]; combine with the Conservatives in the defeat of the Government, [35], [36]; combine with the Rouges, [47]; protest against the choice of a capital being left to Her Majesty, [53]; their success with 'Rep. by Pop.' and 'No Popery' in Upper Canada, [54-6].
Clergy Reserves question, the, [29] and note, [37], [38], [45].
Collins, John Edmund, his book on Sir John Macdonald, [165-166].
Commercial Bank, failure of the, [82], [86] and note.
Common School Act, the, [55].
Confederation, the scheme of, [62], [71-4], [75], [76].
Conservatives, join with Lower Canadian Liberals in 1854, becoming the Liberal-Conservative party, [36-9], [102]; defection among, [69]; their National Policy, [112]. See Parliament.
Costigan, John, and Macdonald's Home Rule views, [153-4].
Dilke, Sir Charles, on Sir John Macdonald's resemblance to Lord Beaconsfield, [175-6].
Disraeli, Benjamin, [58]; on Goldwin Smith, [156]. See Beaconsfield.
Dominion of Canada. See Canada.
Dorion, A. A., the Rouge leader, [39-40], [47], [56], [67], [96]; his alliance with Brown, [45] and note; in the Macdonald-Sicotte Cabinet, [69-70]; hostile to Confederation, [74].
Dorion, J. B. E., 'l'enfant terrible,' [56].
Double Shuffle episode, the, [52], [57], [59-62].
Draper, W. H., and Macdonald, [13]; from prime minister to chief justice, [19]; Canadian commissioner in the Hudson's Bay Company investigation, [49].
Dufferin, Lord, and the Pacific Scandal, [97] and note; and Macdonald, [115-16].
Durham, Lord, his Report on the state of Canada, [15], [34]; the question of its authorship, [15] n.
Elgin, Lord, his troubles in connection with the Rebellion Losses Bill, [22], [23], [24], [25].
Family Compact, the, [3], [16-17], [44].
Farrer, Edward, his amusing article on Sir John Macdonald, [131].
Fitzpatrick, Sir Charles, chief justice, [128].
Foster, George E., a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, [145-6], [156].
Fournier, Telesphore, [56]; minister of Justice, [107].
Franchise Act of 1885, the, [133-138].
French Canadians, their hostility to the Union Act, [34-35]; and Sir Edmund Head, [40]; and Rep. by Pop., [54]; and the execution of Riel, [127], [130-2].
Galt, Sir A. T., a colleague of Sir John Macdonald: sent for in 1858, [58-9]; his work on behalf of Confederation, [62], [72-3], [78]; resigns portfolio of Finance, [82], [113]; his character, [82-3], [84-5].
Gladstone, W. E., attacks the Rebellion Losses Bill, [25]; his case of a 'Double Shuffle,' [62] and note; and the Fenian claims, [95]; and Home Rule, [154].
Gourlay, Robert, and the Family Compact, [3].
Grandin, Bishop of St Albert, denounces Louis Riel, [129-30].
Grand Trunk Railway, opening of, [48].
Great Western Railway, opening of, [48].
Guibord, Joseph, the famous case of, [110-12].
Head, Sir Edmund, governor-general, [40]; the Double Shuffle episode, [57-62].
Hincks, Sir Francis, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, [25]; with Morin in power, [20], [31]; defends the Liberal-Conservative alliance, [37], [39]; leaves the country, [46]; becomes finance minister under Macdonald on his return, [83-4], [93], [96]; his character, [85-6].
Holton, Luther H., [56], [65].
House of Commons. See Parliament.
Howe, Joseph, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald: his opposition to Confederation, [79]; enters the Dominion Cabinet, [79-80]; his work in connection with the transfer of the North-West, [88-9]; lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia, [80].
Hudson's Bay Company, and the transfer of the North-West, [49], [51], [87-8].
Independence of Parliament Act of 1857, the, [59-60].
'Institut Canadien, L',' the members' attitude towards the pastoral letter of 1858, [110-12].
Intercolonial Railway projected, [48].
Jameson, Sir Starr, and Cecil Rhodes, [174].
Jesuits' Estates Act, an amusing incident in connection with the, [162-4].
Jones, Walter R., his letter proposing a railway to the Pacific, [50-2].
Kingston, the principal town in Upper Canada in 1815, [1], [2], [4]; as the seat of government, [14], [16], [27] n., [52]; its population compared, [14], [48].
LaFontaine, Sir Louis H., leader of French Canadians in Liberal Government, [17], [20], [28]; burned in effigy, [22]; withdraws from public life, [20], [31], [38].
Landry, P., speaker of the Senate, [132-3].
Langevin, Sir Hector, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, [64], [115], [132-3], [140-3].
Laurier, Wilfrid, enters Parliament, [103]; Liberal leader, [137]; his personality, [160-1].
Liberal party, the, its opposition to the building of the C.P.R., [93], [97] n., [98-9], [100], [118], [119-21] and note; its strength in 1872, [96-7], [102]; and the Riel resolution, [132-133]; its organized obstruction to Macdonald's Franchise Bill, [136-7]; its policy of unrestricted reciprocity with United States, [172]. See Baldwin Reformers and Clear Grits.
Liberal-Conservative party, beginning of, [36-9], [40]; its programme, [28].
Lower Canada, its development between 1851 and 1861, [47-8]; and Rep. by Pop. and Non-sectarian Schools, [54], [56].
M'Carthy, Dalton, his fatuous course in 1887, [158].
Macdonald, Sir John, his birth and parentage, [1], [12-13]; boyhood and schooldays, [3-6]; called to the bar and opens a law-office in Kingston, [6-7], [14]; 'Hit him, John,' [8-9]; shoulders a musket in 1837, [9], [15], [16]; acts as counsel in the Von Shoultz affair, [9-12], [13]; elected to the city council of Kingston, [14]; his politics, [16] and note, [22]; elected to Assembly, [17]; enters Draper's Cabinet, [19] and note; favours Kingston as the seat of government, [26]; refuses to sign the Annexation manifesto and advocates the formation of the British America League, [27-8]; his policy tending to ameliorate the racial and religious differences existing between Upper and Lower Canada, [31-2] and note, [33-5]; attorney-general, [36], [38], [39], [107]; his connection with Cartier, [41], [44-5], [47], [78]; and Sir Allan MacNab, [41], [43-4]; his relations with Brown, [33], [46-7], [58] n., [71], [72-3], [104]; prime minister, [54]; opposes non-sectarian schools, [55-6]; the 'Double Shuffle' episode, [59-62]; and Sir John Rose, [64-5]; defeated on his Militia Bill, [68-9], [75]; his work on behalf of Confederation, [42], [71], [72-3], [74], [75], [99], [100]; forms the first Dominion Administration and is created K.C.B., [76-7]; and Sir Charles Tupper, [79], [156-8]; and Joseph Howe, [79-80], and D'Arcy M'Gee, [81]; on Galt, [83]; on Galt and Cartwright's defection, [84-5], [86-7], [166]; on his appointment of Hincks as finance minister, [83-4], [85-6]; his troubles over the transfer of the North-West, [87-8]; and Donald A. Smith, [89-90], [170]; member of the Joint High Commission which resulted in the Treaty of Washington, [91-2]; his troubles on the eve of the elections of 1872, [93-4], [100]; his account of the contests in Ontario, [95-6]; the Pacific Scandal, [97-101]; and Edward Blake, [109]; his National Policy, [112-14], [117]; his opinion of Lord Dufferin, [115-116]; his relations with the Duke of Argyll, [116-17]; his great work in connection with the building of the C.P.R., [50-2], [118-26], [139]; the trial and execution of Louis Riel, and the political effect, [127-133]; his experience of the fickleness of public opinion, [130-1]; his political strategy, [132-3]; his desire for a uniform franchise system, [133-4]; and the necessity of a property qualification for the right to vote, [134-5]; his Franchise Act, [135-8], [139]; a believer in the extension of the franchise to single women, [138]; on his relations with Langevin, Caron, and Chapleau, [140-3]; and his difficulty about his successor, [141]; and Sir John Thompson, [146-9]; and Sir Alexander Campbell, and Sir Oliver Mowat, [7-8], [149-51]; mourns J. H. Pope's loss, [151-2]; his reply to Sir C. H. Tupper, [153]; against Irish Home Rule, [154-5]; on Goldwin Smith, [154-6]; on Sir Wilfrid Laurier, [161]; an amusing interlude with Honoré Mercier, [162-4]; a pointed allusion to his supposed convivial habits, [165-6]; on Alonzo Wright, the 'King,' [167]; opposed to unrestricted reciprocity with United States, [172]; his famous manifesto of 1891, [173-4]; and Cecil Rhodes, [174-5]; his resemblance to Lord Beaconsfield, [175-6]; his Imperialism, [17], [92], [154-5], [174], [176-82]; his character, [12-13], [139-40], [158-159], [178-9], [182-3]; his death, [182].
Macdonald, John Sandfield, a 'political Ishmaelite,' [63]; in power with L. V. Sicotte, [69-70], [81]; opposed to Confederation, [74]; prime minister of Ontario, [93], [95].
M'Dougall, William, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, [63]; his work on behalf of Confederation, [73], [77]; lieutenant-governor of the North-West, [88], [89].
M'Gee, Thomas D'Arcy, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, [63], [81]; his career and assassination, [81-2].
Mackenzie, Alexander, leader of Liberals, [96], [114], [117], [120-121]; prime minister, [103], [105]; his career and character, [103-104], [133].
MacNab, Sir Allan, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, [25]; prime minister, [36-7], [41]; his career, [42-4].
Macpherson, Sir David, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, [27], [98] n., [119]; minister of Interior, [143-4].
Maitland, Sir Peregrine, lieutenant-governor, [3].
Mercier, Honoré, prime minister of Quebec, [132]; his interview with Sir John Macdonald, [162-4].
Metcalfe, Sir Charles, governor-general, [17].
Militia, commission on, [68-9].
Moderate Reformers. See Baldwin Reformers.
Monck, Lord, and the first Dominion Cabinet, [76-7]; and the first Dominion Day honours, [77-8].
Montreal, the seat of government, [18-19], [26], [27] n., [52]; its population, [48]; the riots in connection with the Rebellion Losses Bill, [22], [23-6].
Morin, A. N., a colleague of Sir John Macdonald: leader of French-Canadian wing of Liberal Government, [31]; and of Liberal-Conservatives, [36-39]; retires to the bench, [41].
Morris, Alexander, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, [72].
Mount Stephen, Lord, [113], [141]; introduces Donald A. Smith to Macdonald, [89], [90]; president of the C.P.R., [122], [125]; his letter to Sir John Macdonald, [123-4]; and the reply, [125] n.
Mowat, Sir Oliver, studies law under Macdonald, [7-8]; in Brown's Short Administration, [64]; his work on behalf of Confederation, [73]; prime minister of Ontario, [96], [160].
National Policy, the, [112-14], [117].
New Brunswick, and Confederation, [73], [74], [96].
North-West, its transfer, [87-91].
North-West Rebellion, the, [126-127], [129].
Nova Scotia, and Confederation, [73], [79], [93]; ratifies Macdonald's policy in connection with the Treaty of Washington, [92], [96].
Ontario, its population and condition in 1815, [2], [3].
Ottawa, chosen as the capital city of Canada, [26] and note, [53], [57].
Pacific Scandal episode, the, [97-101].
Papineau, L. J., leader of the Rouges, [29].
Parliament, and the Rebellion Losses Bill, [20-6], [28]; the selection of the capital, [53], [57]; the Double Shuffle, [59-62]; Conservatives defeated on Militia Bill, [68-9]; the double majority principle laid down, [70]; Liberals defeated on the National Policy, [113-15], [117]; the building of the C.P.R., [119-21], [122], [125] and note; the Electoral Franchise Act, [135-8]; a moderating influence begins to be felt, [161].
Pope, J. H., a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, [72], [115], [118]; his political sagacity, [151-2].
Prince Edward Island, and Confederation, [73], [74], [96].
Quebec, as a seat of government, [26], [27] n., [52]; its population in 1861, [48]; Confederation conference in, [74]; effect of Riel's execution on, [130-2], [159]; and the Jesuits' Estates Act, [162-3].
Radicals of Upper Canada. See Clear Grits.
Rebellion Losses Act, the troubles and disturbances in connection with, [21-6].
Red River insurrection, the, [89], [90].
Rhodes, Cecil, his letter to Sir John Macdonald, [174-5].
Riel, Louis, leader of the Red River insurrection, [89], [93]; and the North-West Rebellion, [126-7], [129-30]; his trial and execution, [128-9]; and its political effect, [130-3], [159].
Rose, Sir John, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald: subscribes to Annexation manifesto, [27]; a close friend of Edward VII, [64-5], [67], [68]; finance minister, [83]; takes up residence in London, [83].
Rose, Lady, the tragic event in her life, [65-7].
Ross, John, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald: joins the MacNab-Morin Cabinet, [37]; resigns, [46]; and Confederation, [62].
Rouge party, its programme, [29]; its alliance with the Clear Grits, [31], [35], [36], [47], [69-70]; opposed to Confederation, [74].
Russell, Lord John, defends the Rebellion Losses Bill, [25]; in the Hudson's Bay Company investigation, [49].
Ryerson, Rev. Egerton, superintendent of Schools, [55-6].
St Andrews Society of Montreal, [24].
School question, the, [54], [55].
Scott, Thomas, his murder at Fort Garry, [89], [93], [127].
Seigneurial Tenure, abolition of, [37] and note, [45].
Sherwood, Henry, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, [19-20].
Sicotte, L. V., leader of French-Canadian wing of Liberal Government, [69-70].
Smith, Donald A. See Strathcona, Lord.
Smith, Frank, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, [152].
Smith, Goldwin, two examples of his malevolence and wit, [103-4]; and Sir John Macdonald's Imperialism, [154-6].
Spence, Thomas, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, [37].
Stephen, George. See Mount Stephen, Lord.
Strathcona, Lord, his first meeting with Sir John Macdonald, [89-90]; his mission to Red River Colony, [91]; and the C.P.R., [121], [125]; two anecdotes concerning, [170-1].
Sweeny, Robert, the tragedy of, [65-7].
Sydenham, Lord, governor-general, [14], [34].
Taché, Sir Étienne, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, [44], [54], [70].
Thompson, Sir John, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, [142], [146], [156]; his character, [146-9].
Tilley, Sir Leonard, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, [77], [115]; his continuous spell of office, [145].
Toronto, a comparison in population, [14], [48]; as a seat of government, [26], [27] n., [52].
Tupper, Sir Charles, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald: his work on behalf of Confederation, [42], [77], [79]; his influence in Nova Scotia and his relations with Macdonald, [79-80], [115], [156-8], [172-3]; his interest in the C.P.R., [119], [120], [122]; high commissioner in London, [141] n., [146].
Tupper, C. H., a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, [153].
Union Act of 1840, the, [34-5], [54], [55].
United Empire Loyalist settlements in Ontario, [4-5].
United States, and reciprocity with Canada, [75], [113-14], [172], [173]; and the Treaty of Washington, [91-3]; the franchise system in, [134].
Upper Canada, development of between 1851 and 1861, [47-8].
Von Shoultz, his career and court-martial, [9-12].
Warde, Major H. J., killed in a duel, [66].
White, Thomas, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, [144], [156]; an unlucky politician, [144-5].
Wolseley, Colonel, quells the Red River insurrection, [90], [91].
Wright, Alonzo, the 'King of the Gatineau,' a characteristic speech, [167-9].