These simple Scotch verses strike the most memorable fact respecting McGee. His name should live in Canadian History as a statesman, orator, and poet. But he should be remembered for an additional reason. The Dominion, for which he laboured, grew, as he prophesied that it would grow, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and its scattered provinces, flattened out over a vast territory, are bound together by the steel lines of trans-continental railways. Yet such material bases of union must fail to hold together the different sects and races inhabiting the Dominion, unless Canadians cherish what McGee passionately advanced, the spirit of toleration and goodwill as the best expression of Canadian nationality. BIBLIOGRAPHY No adequate biography of Thomas D'Arcy McGee has hitherto been written. Consequently the student of his life must depend upon sundry sources of information. Sir Charles Gavan Duffy's books, _Young Ireland _(New York, 1881), _Four Years of Irish History_ (London, 1883), and _My Life in Two Hemispheres_ (London, 1898) contain material on McGee's adventures as a Young Irelander. For the study of his Canadian career, his own _Speeches and Addresses, chiefly on the Subject of British-American Union_ (London, 1865) is of prime interest. This volume comprises his leading speeches on the subject of Confederation, but many more of his addresses must be sought for in the columns of Canadian newspapers, particularly in the _Montreal Gazette_. The _Canadian Freeman_, published in Toronto from 1858 to 1869, was a Catholic paper which gave special place to McGee's views. Of course, the _New Era_ is also of interest. In the _British American Magazine_ for August and October, 1863, McGee wrote articles on British American nationality. A few of his remarks in parliament on the same subject may be found in Thompson's _Mirror of Parliament_ for 1860. Much interesting material will be found in the _Memoirs of Ralph Vansittart_ (Toronto, 1924) by Edward Robert Cameron, a personal friend of McGee. W. A. Foster, _Canada First_ (Toronto, 1890; with intr. by Goldwin Smith) is worth consulting for a contemporary opinion on McGee's influence over the younger generation of Canadians. George W. Ross, _Getting into Parliament and After_ (Toronto, 1913) has a good, if brief, description of McGee as an orator. Joseph Pope, _The Memoirs of the Right Hon. Sir John A. Macdonald_ (Ottawa, 1894) contains some information of interest. The _Macdonald Papers_ in the Dominion Archives, have a fund of material on the movement of Confederation, with which McGee was so intimately connected. Sir Charles Tupper, _Recollections of Sixty Years_ (London, 1914) has a few notes of interest.