n, his birth and parentage, 1, 12-13; boyhood and
schooldays, 3-6; called to the bar and opens a law-office in Kingston,
6-7, 14; 'Hit him, John,' 8-9; shoulders a musket in 1837, 9, 15, 16;
acts as counsel in the Von Shoultz affair, 9-12, 13; elected to the
city council of Kingston, 14; his politics, 16 and note, 22; elected to
Assembly, 17; enters Draper's Cabinet, 19 and note; favours Kingston as
the seat of government, 26; refuses to sign the Annexation manifesto
and advocates the formation of the British America League, 27-8; his
policy tending to ameliorate the racial and religious differences
existing between Upper and Lower Canada, 31-2 and note, 33-5;
attorney-general, 36, 38, 39, 107; his connection with Cartier, 41,
44-5, 47, 78; and Sir Allan MacNab, 41, 43-4; his relations with Brown,
33, 46-7, 58 n., 71, 72-3, 104; prime minister, 54; opposes
non-sectarian schools, 55-6; the 'Double Shuffle' episode, 59-62; and
Sir John Rose, 64-5; defeated on his Militia Bill, 68-9, 75; his work
on behalf of Confederation, 42, 71, 72-3, 74, 75, 99, 100; forms the
first Dominion Administration and is created K.C.B., 76-7; and Sir
Charles Tupper, 79, 156-8; and Joseph Howe, 79-80, and D'Arcy M'Gee,
81; on Galt, 83; on Galt and Cartwright's defection, 84-5, 86-7, 166;
on his appointment of Hincks as finance minister, 83-4, 85-6; his
troubles over the transfer of the North-West, 87-8; and Donald A.
Smith, 89-90, 170; member of the Joint High Commission which resulted
in the Treaty of Washington, 91-2; his troubles on the eve of the
elections of 1872, 93-4, 100; his account of the contests in Ontario,
95-6; the Pacific Scandal, 97-101; and Edward Blake, 109; his National
Policy, 112-14, 117; his opinion of Lord Dufferin, 115-116; his
relations with the Duke of Argyll, 116-17; his great work in connection
with the building of the C.P.R., 50-2, 118-26, 139; the trial and
execution of Louis Riel, and the political effect, 127-133; his
experience of the fickleness of public opinion, 130-1; his political
strategy, 132-3; his desire for a uniform franchise system, 133-4; and
the necessity of a property qualification for the right to vote, 134-5;
his Franchise Act, 135-8, 139; a believer in the extension of the
franchise to single women, 138; on his relations with Langevin, Caron,
and Chapleau, 140-3; and his difficulty about his successor, 141; and
Sir John Thompson, 146-9; and Sir Alexander Campbell, and Sir Oliver
Mowat, 7-8, 149-5