[8] Ministerial explanations read to the House of Assembly, by the Hon. John A. Macdonald, on Wednesday, 22 June, 1864. [9] Elgin-Grey Correspondence: Elgin to Grey, 2 August, 1850. [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. [15] Pope, _Life of Sir John Macdonald_, p. 234. [16] _Life and Speeches of the Hon. George Brown_, p. 72. [17] Cauchon, L'Union des provinces de l'Amerique Britannique du Nord, p. 45. [18] _Report from the Select Committee of the Legislative Council_, p. xiv., Quebec, 1855. [19] Pope, _Life of Sir John Macdonald_, p. 149. [20] _Life and Speeches of the Hon. George Brown_, p. 271. [21] Sir Richard Cartwright, _Reminiscences_, pp. 20-21. [22] The Independence of Parliament Act--20 Victoria, c. 22. [23] _Life and Speeches of the Hon. George Brown_, p. 299. [24] See the volume containing the Parliamentary Debates on confederation, in 1865. [25] Pope, _Life of Sir John Macdonald_, i. p. 283. [26] Elgin-Grey Correspondence: Elgin to Grey, 13 July, 1847. [27] The Secretary of State for the Colonies to Monck, 10 July, 1863. [28] _Confederation Debates_ (1865), p. 34. [29] _Life and Speeches of the Hon. George Brown_, p. 272. [30] See the previous chapter, pp. 283-290. [31] See the most important statement by Galt, dated 25 October, 1859, and contained in _Sessional Papers of the Canadian Parliament_, vol. xviii., No. 4. [32] Monck to Newcastle, 28 July, 1863. [33] See, on the Annexation movement, Allin and Jones, _Annexation, Preferential Trade, and Reciprocity_, a useful summary of Canadian opinion in 1849 and 1850. [34] Elgin-Grey Correspondence: Elgin to Grey, 23 April, 1849. [35] Christie, _History of Lower Canada_, iv. p. 539. [36] See _La Revue Canadienne_, 21 December, 1847. [37] _Confederation Debates_, p. 56. In answer to Cartier, "the Hon. Mr. Dorion said that was not the case. The honorable gentleman had misquoted what had passed there (_i.e._ at the _Institut_). The Hon. Mr. Cartier said he was right. If resolutions were not passed, sentiments were expressed to that effect. Then the organ of the Institute--_L'Ordre_ he thought--had set forth that the interests of Lower Canada would be better secured by annexation to the United States than by entering into a Confederation with the British American Provinces." [38] _The Irish Position in British, and in Republican North America_--a lecture, p. 13. [39] Elgin-Grey Correspondence: Elgin to Grey, 3 September, 1849. [40] Allin and Jones, _op. cit._ pp. 91 and 164. [41] _Montreal Gazette_, 25 April, 1849. [42] Allin and Jones, _op. cit._ p. 115.