ct on Reading habits, 39 _&n._, 40

Corduroy Roads, 12

Cornwall, Strachan's School at, 35

Corruption, political, in Canada, 315 _et sqq._; Brown's salutary
counteraction of, 341

County Courts, Canadian, new system set up, 106

Crime, in early days, 29 _&n._2, 30

Crown, the, and the Case of a Governor-General, compared by
Stanley, 152-3

Crown Colony administration, period of, 4-5

D

Dalhousie, Earl of, Governor-General, 189-90

Daly, Sir Dominick, the "perpetual secretary," 168, 176, 177

Darwin, and Bright & Cobden, parallel between, 284

Davidson, John, retirement of, 150

Day, Charles Dewey, 113

Debate in House of Commons on Canadian affairs (1844), 182

Defence of Canada (_see also_ Militia Bill), British views on, 254,
272, 287 _et sqq._

Democracy, attitude to, of the Family Compact, 60 _et sqq._

Democratic Government in Canada, established by Elgin, 190
Institutions, Elements of Success in, 320

Derby, Earl of (_see_ for earlier references, Stanley, Lord), 252

Derbyites, and Separation, 290

Despatches of Elgin and later Governors, 208-9, 249, 325

Diplomacy, and Separation, 287 War, and Land as matters for
Imperial Control, in Wakefield's view, 240

District Councils for French Canada set up, 98, 118, 119

Draper, Hon. H. W., Attorney-General, leader of Ministerialists,
105, 111 _&n._, 113, 150, 177; Metcalfe on, 184; Resignation
of, 194
on the Political crisis of 1842, 134-5

Disraeli, Benjamin (Earl of Beaconsfield), Imperialism of,
misgivings in, 255-8, 292

District Council Bill (Canadian), passed, 106, 118

Doctrinaire, the, in Practical Politics, position of Metcalfe as
illustrating, 185,

Domestic Colonial affairs, Imperial Intervention in, views of
Russell, and of Grey, 271-2, 274

Dorchester, Earl of, and Colonial affairs, 4; and the French
Canadians, 13

Dorion, A. A., _see_ Brown-Dorion ministry

"Double majority," evolution of, 307-8

"Double Shuffle" episode, 318-9

Dougalls, the, and the _Montreal Witness_, 38-9

Drunkenness, among Whites and Indians, 30; among Members of
Parliament, 320

Durham, Earl of, Governor-General, 6, 14, 71, 76, 190, 191, 251;
Canadian views on, 190; and the Change in British views on
Canadian affairs, 237; and the Destruction of French Nationalism,
57, 59, 83