Macaulay, Lord, quoted,20,79,83,96.
Macdonald, John A., his entry into politics,93,101; 'a British subject I will die,'135; attorney-general,157; his Liberal-Conservative administration,158,144.
Macdonald, J. S., his studied insult,156,157.
Mackenzie, W. L., incites anti-British feeling in the States,12,26; granted amnesty and returns to Canada,118-19,120,142.
MacNab, Sir Allan, leader of the Conservative Opposition,86,101; Speaker,94; gives 'the lie with circumstance,'119-20,125; his tribute to Baldwin,142; prime minister,157.
Marcy, W. L., and reciprocity with Canada,151.
Melbourne, Lord, and Durham,17.
Metcalfe, Sir Charles, his early career,82-3; his arrival at Kingston,81; upholds the prerogative of the Crown,84-6,87; refuses to surrender right of appointment,90-1; triumphs over the Reformers,92-4; his peerage and death,95-6.
Montreal,124,137; as the capital,86,94; the riots in connection with the passing of the Indemnity Bill,120-1; the burning of the Parliament Buildings,124-7,1; the attacks on Lord Elgin,124-5,128-9; the capital no more,130; the Annexation Association,134-5.
Morin, A. N., Speaker of the Assembly,102; his administration,143.
Municipal system of Canada, the,55-6,64; the Municipal Corporations Act,107-9; municipalities and railways,145.
Murdoch, T. W. C., secretary to Sydenham,37.
Neilson, John, his policy of obstruction,62,68.
Nelson, Robert, proclaims a Canadian republic,29.
Nelson, Wolfred, a Rebellion leader,15,93; his claim for indemnity,119.
New Brunswick, Sydenham's visit to,52.
Nova Scotia, the struggle for responsible government in,51; the rise of the colleges,88-9; the fishery question,149-50,152.
O'Callaghan, E. B., a rebel leader,104.
Oliphant, Laurence, and the Reciprocity negotiations,150,152.
Ontario, Sydenham's tour in,53-4; its municipal system,55,64. See Upper Canada.
Orange Society, the,87.
Ottawa, the capital city,130.
Papineau, D. B.,93.
Papineau, L. J., takes refuge in France after Rebellion,103-4; returns to the House, claiming and receiving arrearage of salary as Speaker,104; his uncompromising attitude towards the Union,104-6,118,138,141,157; his retiral,157,106.
Paquin, Father, petitions for indemnity,112-13.
Politics, the game of,1-2,67,76,77; an old-time election,77-8.
Quebec, its municipal system,55,64; the seat of government,137,155. See Lower Canada.
Railway building in Canada,111-12,144-5.
Rebellion Losses Bill, the,112-118,132; the violent scenes in connection with,119-31.
Reciprocity Treaty of 1854, the,110-11,147-55.
Reform party, the, supports Sydenham,38,40,60-1; the Clergy Reserves,47; opposes Bagot's coalition,76; the struggle with Metcalfe,86,90-3,95; the Great Administration,101; Liberals and 'Clear Grits,'137-8; Liberal-Conservatives,157-8.
Registry Act, the,56.
Reid, Stuart J., on the authorship of Durham's Report,20.
Responsible Government: Durham's remedy,24; Sydenham's campaign of education,41,58-9,67; Howe's achievement,51; majority rule,62-3,79; the Executive beg-in to presume,84; the difficulty of reconciling with the colonial status,84-5; placemen removed from Assembly,87; education of the democracy,88; right of appointment,90-91; the difficulty of government with a small majority,100; from colony to free equal state,161-2.
Rouge party, the,138.
Russell, Lord John, colonial secretary,32,55.
Seigneurial tenure,140-1,155; abolished,141.
Sherwood, Henry, solicitor-general,76.
Special Council of Quebec, and Sydenham,38,49-50,55,56,114-15.
Strachan, Bishop,69; and the Clergy Reserves,46,47; his crusade against Baldwin's 'godless institution,'90.
Stuart, James, chief justice of Lower Canada,37,50.
Sullivan, R. B., a Reform leader,70,77.
Sydenham, Lord,68. See Thomson.
Thomson, Charles Poulett, his early career and personality,33-8; his mission of Union of the Canadas,38-40,68; his responsible government campaign of education,41-2; the Clergy Reserves,42,47-8; on political and financial conditions in Canada,48-50,32; his triumphal progress,50-4; his vision of Ontario,54; Baron Sydenham,54-5; initiates Canada's municipal system,55-6; the first Union Assembly,58-9,61,63-4; the Baldwin incident,60-1; majority rule,62-3; his five great works,63-4; G.C.B.,59; his tragic and heroic end,64-5.
Toronto,1; the founding of the University,89-90,106-7; scenes in connection with the Indemnity Bill,120-1; the seat of government,137.
Turton, Thomas, with Durham in Canada,8.
Union Act of 1840, the,54-5.
United Empire Loyalists, the,163.
United States: American detestation of the British,11-13; 'Hunters' Lodges,'25-28; her mistaken views regarding Canada,121,133-6; her elective system of government,138; her educational system,139; the Reciprocity Treaty with Canada,147-8,150-5,110-11; the fishery question,148-50,152; the Civil War,148,153,154.
University of Toronto, the founding of,89-90,106-7.
Upper Canada: its political and financial state prior to Union,23,31-2,38-9,48-9,114,115; the execution of the Rebellion leaders,30; Opposition to Union,33,57; the terms of Union,40; Clergy Reserves,45; Sydenham's tour,53-4; the rise of the colleges,88-90; the Metcalfe Crisis,93.
Van Buren, President, and Durham,13.
Victoria, Queen,75,136.
Viger, 'Beau,'93.
Von Shoultz, his chivalrous sacrifice,27-8.
Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, with Durham,8.