thur, Sir George, his severity, 30.

Assembly: the first election after Union, 57-8; composition of parties,
58; the Baldwin incident, 59-61; measures passed, 61, 63-4; majority
rule principle, 62-3; the Draper government defeated, 76, 115-17; --
LaFontaine-Baldwin (Reform) Administration, 76-7, 79-80, 84, 85-7;
placemen removed from Assembly, 87; the Common Schools Act, 88;
University of Toronto, 89-90, 106-7; the Metcalfe Crisis, 90-3; --
Draper (Tory) Administration, 93-4, 101; -- LaFontaine-Baldwin (the
Great) Administration, 101-3, 106, 109-12; 142-3; Municipal
Corporations Act, 107-9; Rebellion Losses Bill, 117-18, 119-27; a
breeze in the House, 119-120; Clergy Reserves, 139; Seigneurial Tenure,
141; -- Hincks-Morin Administration, 143; a business man's government,
144-5, 155-6; -- MacNab (Liberal-Conservative) Administration, 157.

Bagot, Sir Charles, governor-general, 74-5, 79; forms a coalition
government, 75-6; his death a reproach to Canada, 80-1.

Baldwin, Robert, 68-9; a Moderate Reformer, 40, 69-70, 71-2; his cool
proposal to Sydenham, 60-1; his association with LaFontaine, 66, 74,
77-8, 101-2, 118; his first administration, 77-8, 85, 80-90; the
Metcalfe peerage, 95; the Great Administration, 101-2, 106-8, 118, 120,
139; resigns the leadership, 142; retires from public life, 143.

Baldwin, W. W., 68-9; president of Constitutional Reform Society, 71.

Blake, W. H., causes an uproar in the House, 119-20; burned in effigy,
120.

Bouchette, Robert, 15.

Brougham, Lord, his malign attacks on Durham, 8, 16-17, 20; burned in
effigy in Quebec, 18.

Brown, George, the Protestant champion, 143-4.

Brown, Thomas Storrow, 4.

Bruce, Colonel, wounded in the attack on Lord Elgin, 129.

Buller, Charles, 8; with Durham in Canada, 19.

Canada, political development in, 3; strained relations with United
States, 11-13, 25-8; Lord Durham's Report, 21-4; the 'Hunters' Lodges,'
25-8; political and financial situation in 1839, 30-1; the capital
city, 56-7, 86, 137, 130; the Irish famine of 1846-47, 101; Municipal
Corporations Act, 107-9; trade relations dislocated by Britain's
adoption of free trade, 109; the disturbances in connection with the
Rebellion Losses Bill, 112-31; the Annexation movement of 1849, 133-6;
boom periods, 137, 153, 161; assumes control of the postal system, 138;
separate schools, 138-9; attains full self-government, 139; her
interest in world affairs, 146; the Reciprocity Treaty, 147-8,