Union of Canada, Lord John Russell's instructions on, 71 First Parliament of, 100; Elections (and other preliminaries), 101; Results, 104; Groups in, 59, 100, 104-5; Sydenham's successes, and struggles against the Autonomy party, 106 _et sqq._; Work of the First Session, 106 Second, Bagot's, forecasts on, 140-1 United Empire Loyalists, origin, characteristics, and views of, 17-20 United Reform Party, Baldwin on, 113 Unity Forces conducing to Education, 16, 31 _et sqq._; Politics, 31; Religion, 31, 32, 40 et seq. Forces retarding, Physical, 8-13, 24, 28-9; Racial, 13, 20-3, 24; Religious, 34-5; Social, 24 University Question, in Upper Canada (1845), 184 Universities of Canada, 36-8 _&n._1, 136 Upper Canada, Arrested Development of, Sydenham's plans in aid, 98-100; Educational Efforts in, 33 _et sqq._; Methodism in, 45-7; Population increase of, 24; Radicalism of, 32; and the Union, 83-9 Upper Canada College, 35, 50 V _Vendus, Les_, 142 Viger, Jacques, French Canadian politician, 59; and the Rebellion, 142; Rival to La Fontaine, 171; in Metcalfe's Council, 177, 194 Voluntary Principle in matters Ecclesiastical, pros and cons of, 51-2 W Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, _Art of Colonization_ by, 239; Enthusiasm of, for Immigration, 97; Influence of, on British views on Colonization, 237 _et sqq._; Influence on Grey, 267 on Baldwin's position at Metcalfe's arrival, 162; on the Patronage crisis, 170-1 Wardens, Canadian, appointment of, 118 Washington, Elgin's diplomacy at, 221 Wellington, Duke of, opposition of, to Canadian Union, 249-50, 280 West Indies Slave question, 235 Whig party, Evolution from, of the Liberal Party, 280-1; Separation views of, 266, 278, 280 Women of the _habitants_, 16, 31 GLASGOW: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD. [Transcriber's note: In the index entry "Non-Separationists, the four, 278, 491", "491" is clearly incorrect since there are not that many pages in the book. It is unknown what this number should have been.]