ations, 319

Independency, as moulding New England Character, 41

Indian Career of Elgin, 189, 191, and of Metcalfe, 158-9

Indians, Canadian, Trade and Drink as affecting, 29-30

_Institut Canadien_, Annexationist advocate, 332 _&n._1

Internal government, and Imperial matters, Durham's distinction
concerning, 244-5

Irish Agitation, as affecting Canada, 22 _&n._2, 200, 337
Immigrants; as Colonists, 21, 22, 23; Political trend of, 163;
Turbulence of, 22, 67, 179; won by Elgin, 222; Arriving after
the Famine, anxieties caused by, 332-3

Irish-American hostility to Great Britain as affecting Canada,
288-9, 332, 333

Irish Republican Union, 207

J

Jackson, General ("Stonewall"), 290

Jamaica, Metcalfe's success in, 159, 167

Jameson, Mrs., on Colonel Talbot as Colonist, 19; on Toronto and
its Conventionalism, 26

K

King's College, Toronto, 36

Kingston, Anglicanism in, 43, 44; as Capital, 103; Educational
efforts at, 36; Election riots near (1844), 179; Population
of (1839-46), 13, 24; Presbyterianism in, 44; Removal from,
of the Seat of Government, 171, 176

_Kingston Chronicle and Gazette_, on the Anglo-French Anti-Union
Movement, 103 _&n._2

Knox, John, & Melville, Canadian followers of, 44

L

Lachine, portage to, 10

Lachine Canal, 179

La Fontaine, Sir Louis, Leader of French Canadians, 14, 32, 59, 65,
295; and Anglo-French cooperation, 125, 162; and the Anti-Union
movement, 103; Claims of, as to Office, 149, Bagot's action,
150-1; and the Clergy Reserve troubles, 52-3; Loss of Election
by, 113, 117; Loyalty of, 338; Office refused by (1845), 96;
accepted (1848), effects of, 305; and the Patronage Crisis,
168, 171; and the Rebellion of 1837, 142; and the Rebellion
Losses Bill, 214; Restrictive attitude to Governors-General,
162; on the Importance of the Anglo-French Union, 177; on
Patronage, 172-3

La Fontaine-Baldwin Ministries, 161, 212, 215-16, 229, 295, 298

_Laissez faire_ doctrine, in British colonial politics, 188, 230;
Autonomy the natural result of, 291; and Home Control, in
Colonial affairs, Grey's views on, 267 _et sqq._; as
Influencing Annexationism, 334

Lake Ontario, 10

Lake-neutralization Treaty, _see_ Rush-Bagot Treaty

Lanark, Scottish and Canadian, ties between, 45

Land