ada into two provinces, 21; its shortcomings,
21-23; abuse of personal power under, 24; constitution suspended, 25;
suspension recommended by Sir James Craig, 29; Papineau's eulogy of, in
1820, 34-38. =Mc= Its objects, 48, 49; debate on the bill, 49, 50;
handiwork of Pitt, 51; germ of the federal system, 51; divided Canada
into two provinces, 52; created Legislative Assembly, 52; created
Legislative Council, 52; created Executive Council, 53; General Simcoe
on, 54; Goldwin Smith on, 54; Durham's commentary on, 53, 56;
recommends revision of, 57; provisions creating Clergy Reserves, 70;
effect on parliamentary rule summarized, 71, 72; Mackenzie declares war
against, 72; silent on question of executive responsibility, 80; evils
of system of government summarized, 73-75; Durham on evils of, 76, 77.
=Bib.=: Bourinot, _Parliamentary Procedure and Government_ and _Manual
of the Constitutional History of Canada_; Houston, _Canadian
Constitutional Documents; Dominion Archives Report_, 1890; Watson,
_Constitutional History of Canada_; Durham, _Report_; Bradshaw,
_Self-Government in Canada_; Egerton and Grant, _Selected Speeches and
Despatches relating to Canadian Constitutional History_; Kingsford,
_History of Canada_; Shortt and Doughty, _Constitutional Documents of
Canada_.
=Constitutional Associations.= =Sy= Of Quebec and Montreal, their aims,
112; send delegations to Upper Canada and to England to urge union of
the provinces, 112.
=Constitutional Reform Society.= =BL= Organized in Upper Canada, July
16, 1836. =Dr= William Baldwin, president, Francis Hincks, secretary,
42; its programme, 42.
=Cook, Dr. Henry.= =T= Tilley in his service, 7.
=Cook, Captain James= (1728-1779). Served in Canada during siege of
Quebec, 1759. Discovered New Zealand, 1769, and New South Wales, 1770.
In his famous voyage of 1776-1778, explored the north-west coast of
America. Returning the following year, murdered by the natives of
Owhyhee or Hawaii, in the Sandwich Islands. =Index=: =D= At Nootka, 14;
motive of his voyage to North-West Coast, 17; his skill, courage, and
endurance, 19; search for North-West passage, 19; his voyage of 1778,
20; refits his ship at Nootka, 20; names the Sound, 20; denies existence
of Fonte's and De Fuca's channels, 21; discovers and names Prince
William's Sound and Cook's Inlet, 21; visits Unalaska, 21; sails through
and names Bering Strait, 21; reaches the Arctic, 21; killed by natives,
at Sandwich Islands, Fe
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