Dent, The Last Forty Years (1881).
Reid, Life and Letters of the First Earl of Durham (1906).
Shortt, Lord Sydenham (1908).
Wrong, The Earl of Elgin (1906).
Bourinot, Lord Elgin (1905).
Walrond, Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin (1872).
Leacock, Baldwin, LaFontaine, Hincks (1907).
Pope, Memoirs of Sir John Macdonald (1894).
Canada and its Provinces, vol. v (1913), the chapters by W. L. Grant, J. L. Morison, Edward Kylie, Duncan M'Arthur, and Adam Shortt.
Consult also, for individual biographies of the various persons mentioned in the narrative, Taylor, Portraits of British Americans (1865); Dent, The Canadian Portrait Gallery (1880); and The Dictionary of National Biography (1903).