North-West Company, the, [2].
Nova Scotia, [13], [14]; favours maritime union, [27], [45], [47], [49], [51]; the opposition to Confederation, [99-104], [114-116]; the agitation for repeal, [152-7]; reconciled, [82], [156], [173-4].
Ontario. See Upper Canada.
Palmer, Edward, a father of Confederation, [49], [63] n.
Palmerston, Lord, [23]; his adventurous foreign policy, [119], [120].
Parliament: Confederation a question of practical politics, [18-19]; political deadlock, [30-32]; Brown's committee on federal union, [32-3]; the public reconciliation of Brown and Macdonald, [34]; a coalition formed to forward Confederation, [38-41], [44], [144]; an amusing incident, [42-3]; the debate on the Quebec resolutions, [84-96]; the mission to England and the resignation of Brown, [105-7]; a period of 'masterly inactivity,' [117]; the educational privileges of minorities, [132-3]; dual premiership abolished, [137-9]; the Hudson's Bay Company, [160]. See Dominion.
Penny, Edward Goff, [57].
Pope, James C., [174].
Pope, John Henry, and Brown, [34], [35].
Pope, Sir Joseph, quoted, [32], [36], [61], [72] n., [76] n., [80], [93] n., [129], [138] n.