rocedure, 62; her free trade policy, 109; the Rebellion
Losses Bill, 132; Navigation Laws repealed, 137; her colonial policy,
140; the Great Exhibition, 145-6; the fishery question, 148-50, 152;
her sympathies with the South in the American Civil War, 154.
Grey, Earl, and Durham, 6.
Grey, Earl (son of above), and Elgin, 99, 136.
Grey, Colonel, his mission of remonstrance, 13.
Harrison, S. B., leader of Sydenham's government, 62.
Hincks, Francis, 70; a Reform leader, 40, 61; his many interests, 70-1;
his talent for affairs, 71-2, 74; minister of Finance, 76, 77, 132,
137, 157; his policy of protection, 87-8, 124; his railway policy,
111-112; precipitates a crisis, 124-5; the Clergy Reserves, 139; his
administration, 143, 156, 157; the Reciprocity Treaty, 147, 150, 110;
his valuable services, 137; governor of Barbados, 157.
Howe, Joseph, and responsible government, 51; and railways, 111; his
recruiting mission, 146; his vision of Canada's future, 164-5.
'Hunters' Lodges,' the, 13, 25-8.
Kingston, as the capital, 56-7, 58, 86, 94; Sydenham's tomb, 65.
LaFontaine, L. H., his early career and appearance, 72-4; his
association with Baldwin, 66, 74, 77-8, 101-2, 118; his first ministry,
77-8, 85, 87, 93; the Great Administration, 101-2, 117-18, 127, 129,
139, 141; his crushing reply to Papineau's onslaught, 103-5; resigns,
142; chief justice for Lower Canada, 143.
Liberal party, a split in the ranks, 137-8. See Reform.
Liberal-Conservative party, the, 157-8.
Lount, Samuel, his execution, 30.
Lower Canada, racial feeling in, 22; the Rebellion, 3, 4, 25, 28-30;
Durham's amnesty and ordinance, 14-19; Durham's Report, 21-3; political
state before Union, 50; the Registry Act, 56; the opposition to Union,
57, 62, 68, 93; amnesty to all political offenders, 103; the Rebellion
Losses Bill, 112-14, 116-17; Seigneurial Tenure, 140-1. See Quebec and
Special Council.
Macaulay, Lord, quoted, 20, 79, 83, 96.
Macdonald, John A., his entry into politics, 93, 101; 'a British
subject I will die,' 135; attorney-general, 157; his
Liberal-Conservative administration, 158, 144.
Macdonald, J. S., his studied insult, 156, 157.
Mackenzie, W. L., incites anti-British feeling in the States, 12, 26;
granted amnesty and returns to Canada, 118-19, 120, 142.
MacNab, Sir Allan, leader of the Conservative Opposition, 86, 101;
Speaker, 94; gives 'the lie with circumstance,' 119-20, 125; his
tribute to Baldwin,
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