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].