The Day of Sir John Macdonald / A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion

by Sir Joseph Pope

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].