The Day of Sir John Macdonald: A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the DominionPope, Joseph, Sir
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The Day of Sir John Macdonald: A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion
Pope, Joseph, Sir
Macdonald, John Alexander, Sir, 1815-1891
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.
Cartier, Sir George Étienne, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald: leader
of French-Canadian wing of Liberal-Conservative government, 41, 44-5,
47, 57, 96, 115; his work on behalf of Confederation, 42, 62, 78, 80;
the Double Shuffle, 59-62; his relations with Macdonald, 78, 91;
negotiates for the transfer of the North-West, 88.
Cartwright, Sir Richard, 87, 96; takes umbrage at Macdonald's
appointment of Hincks as finance minister, 84, 85, 86 and note, 87; his
relations with Macdonald, 116, 118, 150, 165-7; a most accomplished
debater, 164-5.
Cayley, William, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, 25.
Chapleau, Adolphe, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, 140, 142-3, 156.
Clear Grits, the, press for the secularization of the Clergy Reserves,
29; combine with the Conservatives in the defeat of the Government, 35,
36; combine with the Rouges, 47; protest against the choice of a
capital being left to Her Majesty, 53; their success with 'Rep. by
Pop.' and 'No Popery' in Upper Canada, 54-6.
Clergy Reserves question, the, 29 and note, 37, 38, 45.
Collins, John Edmund, his book on Sir John Macdonald, 165-166.
Commercial Bank, failure of the, 82, 86 and note.
Common School Act, the, 55.
Confederation, the scheme of, 62, 71-4, 75, 76.
Conservatives, join with Lower Canadian Liberals in 1854, becoming the
Liberal-Conservative party, 36-9, 102; defection among, 69; their
National Policy, 112. See Parliament.
Costigan, John, and Macdonald's Home Rule views, 153-4.
Derby, Lord, 49, 58.
Dilke, Sir Charles, on Sir John Macdonald's resemblance to Lord
Beaconsfield, 175-6.
Disraeli, Benjamin, 58; on Goldwin Smith, 156. See Beaconsfield.
Dominion of Canada. See Canada.
Dorion, A. A., the Rouge leader, 39-40, 47, 56, 67, 96; his alliance
with Brown, 45 and note; in the Macdonald-Sicotte Cabinet, 69-70;
hostile to Confederation, 74.
Dorion, J. B. E., 'l'enfant terrible,' 56.
Double Shuffle episode, the, 52, 57, 59-62.
Draper, W. H., and Macdonald, 13; from prime minister to chief justice,
19; Canadian commissioner in the Hudson's Bay Company investigation, 49.
Dufferin, Lord, and the Pacific Scandal, 97 and note; and Macdonald,
115-16.
Durham, Lord, his Report on the state of Canada, 15, 34; the question
of its authorship, 15 n.
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