[[10]] Head to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, 26 May, 1856.
[[11]] Statement of the Hon. John A. Macdonald in the Assembly, 26 May, 1856.
[[12]] See Appendix to the First Report of the Board of Registration and Statistics, Montreal, 1849.
[[13]] Life of the Hon. George Brown, p. 263. This is undoubtedly an overestimate—prophetic rather than truthful.
[[14]] Life and Speeches of the Hon. George Brown, p. 267.