154.

Gourlay, Robert, and the Family Compact, 3.

Grandin, Bishop of St Albert, denounces Louis Riel, 129-30.

Grand Trunk Railway, opening of, 48.

Great Western Railway, opening of, 48.

Guibord, Joseph, the famous case of, 110-12.

Head, Sir Edmund, governor-general, 40; the Double Shuffle episode,
57-62.

Hincks, Sir Francis, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, 25; with Morin
in power, 20, 31; defends the Liberal-Conservative alliance, 37, 39;
leaves the country, 46; becomes finance minister under Macdonald on his
return, 83-4, 93, 96; his character, 85-6.

Holton, Luther H., 56, 65.

House of Commons. See Parliament.

Howe, Joseph, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald: his opposition to
Confederation, 79; enters the Dominion Cabinet, 79-80; his work in
connection with the transfer of the North-West, 88-9;
lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia, 80.

Hudson's Bay Company, and the transfer of the North-West, 49, 51, 87-8.

Independence of Parliament Act of 1857, the, 59-60.

'Institut Canadien, L',' the members' attitude towards the pastoral
letter of 1858, 110-12.

Intercolonial Railway projected, 48.

Jameson, Sir Starr, and Cecil Rhodes, 174.

Jesuits' Estates Act, an amusing incident in connection with the, 162-4.

Jones, Walter R., his letter proposing a railway to the Pacific, 50-2.

Kingston, the principal town in Upper Canada in 1815, 1, 2, 4; as the
seat of government, 14, 16, 27 n., 52; its population compared, 14, 48.

LaFontaine, Sir Louis H., leader of French Canadians in Liberal
Government, 17, 20, 28; burned in effigy, 22; withdraws from public
life, 20, 31, 38.

Landry, P., speaker of the Senate, 132-3.

Langevin, Sir Hector, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, 64, 115,
132-3, 140-3.

Laurier, Wilfrid, enters Parliament, 103; Liberal leader, 137; his
personality, 160-1.

Liberal party, the, its opposition to the building of the C.P.R., 93,
97 n., 98-9, 100, 118, 119-21 and note; its strength in 1872, 96-7,
102; and the Riel resolution, 132-133; its organized obstruction to
Macdonald's Franchise Bill, 136-7; its policy of unrestricted
reciprocity with United States, 172. See Baldwin Reformers and Clear
Grits.

Liberal-Conservative party, beginning of, 36-9, 40; its programme, 28.

Lower Canada, its development between 1851 and 1861, 47-8; and Rep. by
Pop. and Non-sectarian Schools, 54, 56.

M'Carthy, Dalton, his fatuous course in 1887, 158.

Macdonald, Sir Joh