excisions and emendations in his own handwriting. In
the present little book I have not scrupled to embody these portions of
my father's work.

Howe's speeches and public letters are the basis for any story of his
career. They were originally published in two volumes in Boston in
1858, nominally edited by William Annand, {viii} really by Howe
himself. In 1909 a revised edition, with chapters covering the last
fourteen years of his life, was published at Halifax, excellently
edited by Mr J. A. Chisholm, K.C. The Journals of the Legislative
Council and Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia contain the dispatches
from the Colonial Office quoted in the text. Incidents and anecdotes
have been taken from the biographies by Mr Joseph Fenety and Mr Justice
Longley. I have also consulted the collection of his father's papers
presented to the Canadian Archives by Mr Sydenham Howe, and a
manuscript life of Howe by his old friend the late George Johnson.
Lord Grey, with his invariable interest in things Canadian, has had the
private correspondence of his uncle searched for anything that might
throw light on the railway imbroglio of 1851, but without result.

W. L. GRANT.

QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY,
KINGSTON, 1914.

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CONTENTS

Page

PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
I. NOVA SCOTIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
II. BIRTH AND TRAINING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
III. THE OLD COLONIAL SYSTEM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
IV. THE FIGHT FOR RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT . . . . . . . . 47
V. RAILWAYS AND IMPERIAL CONSOLIDATION . . . . . . . . 91
VI. BAFFLED HOPES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

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ILLUSTRATIONS

THE TRIBUNE OF NOVA SCOTIA--AFTER
A SPEECH IN MASON HALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_
From a colour drawing by C. W. Jefferys.

THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . Facing page 42
From an engraving in the Dominion Archives.

SIR JOHN HARVEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " 86
From a portrait in the John Ross Robertson
Collection, Toronto Public Library.

JOSEPH HOWE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " 124
From a painting by T. Debaussy, Lon