150-5,
110-11; the fishery question, 148-50, 152; Confederation, 161-2; and
the Empire, 162, 164. See Assembly and Responsible Government.
Cartwright, Richard, and Hincks, 76.
Cathcart, Lord, governor-general, 97-8.
Church of England, and the Clergy Reserves, 43-4, 46, 47.
Church of Scotland, and the Clergy Reserves, 44, 46, 47.
'Clear Grit' party, the, 138, 142.
Clergy Reserves question, the, 39, 42-6; Colborne's forty-four
parishes, 46, 71; Sydenham's solution, 47-8, 64; secularized, 139, 155.
Colborne, Sir John, lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada, 46; quells the
Rebellion and acts as administrator in Lower Canada, 4, 8, 9, 16, 25,
38, 113; raised to the peerage, 33.
Constitutional Reform Society, the, 71.
Disraeli, Benjamin, and Canada, 132.
District Council Bill, the, 64.
Draper, W. H., his administrations, 76, 93-4.
Durham, Lord, his early career, 5-7; invested with extraordinary powers
in the governance of Canada, 4-5, 7-8; firmness with conciliation his
policy, 9; the composition of his councils, 9-10; takes prompt action
in connection with the border troubles, 11-13; proclaims a general
amnesty to the rebels, 14-15; the disallowance of his ordinance
banishing the ringleaders, 15-19; his resignation and departure, 17-18,
25, 29; posterity's judgment, 18-19; his dying words, 20; his
personality and family ties, 7, 8-9, 99; his enemy Lord Brougham, 8,
16-17, 20; his Report, 10-11, 19-24, 32, 35, 46, 68.
Elgin, Earl of, 98-9; a constitutional governor-general, 99-100, 101,
118, 123, 131, 147, 155; initiates the custom of reading the Speech in
both French and English, 103; the Rebellion Losses Bill, 121-3;
attacked by the mob on the occasions of giving his assent and on
receiving an Address, 124-5, 127-9; the Hermit of Monklands, 129,
130-1; on Annexation sentiment in Canada, 133, 135-6; negotiates the
Reciprocity Treaty with United States, 147, 150-152, 110; insulted in
the House, 155-6; his administrative triumph, 158-60; his gift of
oratory, 98, 151; his connection with Durham, 99.
Ermatinger, Colonel, and the Montreal riots, 129.
Fishery question, the, 148-50, 152.
Fleming, Sandford, his act of gallantry, 127.
Girouard, a rebel, 79.
Gladstone, W. E., and Canada, 132.
Glenelg, Lord, his incompetency, 32.
Gosford, Lord, 72.
Gourlay, Robert, and the Clergy Reserves, 45.
Great Britain, and the 1837 rebellions, 4, 33; the Clergy Reserves, 48;
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