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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

For accounts of the whole career of Lord Elgin see Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin, etc., edited by Theodore Walrond, C.B., with a preface by his brother-in-law, Dean Stanley (London 2nd. ed., 1873); for China mission, Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan, by Lawrence Oliphant, his private secretary (Edinburgh, 1869); for the brief Indian administration, The Friend of India for 1862-63. Consult also article in vol. 8 of Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed.; John Charles Dent's Canadian Portrait Gallery (Toronto, 1880), vol. 2, which also contains a portrait; W. J. Rattray's The Scot in British North America (Toronto, 1880) vol. 2, pp. 608-641.

For an historical review of Lord Elgin's administration in Canada, see J. C. Dent's The Last Forty Years, or Canada since the Union of 1841 (Toronto, 1881), chapters XXIII-XXXIV inclusive, with a portrait; Louis P. Turcotte's Le Canada Sous l'Union (Quebec, 1871), chapters I-IV, inclusive; Sir Francis Hincks's Reminiscences of His Public Life (Montreal, 1884) with a portrait of the author; Joseph Pope's Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Sir John A. Macdonald, G.C.B. (Ottawa and London, 1894), with portraits of the great statesman, vol. 1, chapters IV-VI inclusive; Lord Grey's Colonial Policy of Lord John Russell's Administration (London, 2nd ed., 1853), vol. 1; Sir C. B. Adderley's Review of the Colonial Policy of Lord John Russell's Administration, by Earl Grey, and Subsequent Colonial History (London, 1869).

For accounts of the evolution of responsible government in Canada consult the works by Dent, Turcotte, Rattray, Hincks, Grey and Adderley, just mentioned; Lord Durham's Report on the Affairs of British North America, submitted to parliament, 1839; Dr. Alpheus Todd's Parliamentary Government in The British Colonies (2nd ed. London, 1894); Bourinot's Manual of the Constitutional History of Canada (Toronto, 1901); his Canada under British Rule (London and Toronto, 1901), chapters VI-VIII inclusive; Memoir of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Lord Sydenham, etc., by his brother G. Poulett Scrope, M.P., (London, 1843), with a portrait of that nobleman; Life and Correspondence of Charles, Lord Metcalfe, by J. W. Kaye (London, new ed., 1858). For comparisons between the parliamentary government of Great

Britain or Canada, and the congressional system of the United States, see Walter Bagehot's English Constitution and other political essays (New York, 1889); Woodrow Wilson's Congressional Government (Boston, 1885); Dr. James Bryce's American Commonwealth (London, 1888); Bourinot's Canadian Studies in Comparative Politics, in Trans. Roy. Soc. Can., vol. VIII, sec. 2 (old ser.), and in separate form (Montreal, 1891). Other books and essays on the same subject are noted in a bibliography given in Trans. Roy. Soc. Can., vol. XI, old ser., sec. 2, as an appendix to an article by Sir J. G. Bourinot on Parliamentary Government in Canada.

The reader may also profitably consult the interesting series of sketches (with excellent portraits) of the lives of Sir Francis Hincks, Sir A. MacNab, Sir L. H. LaFontaine, R. Baldwin, Bishop Strachan, L. J. Papineau, John Sandfield Macdonald, Antoine A. Dorion, Sir John A. Macdonald, George Brown, Sir E. P. Taché, P. J. O. Chauveau, and of other men notable from 1847-1854, in the Portraits of British Americans (Montreal 1865-67), by J. Fennings Taylor, who was deputy clerk of the old legislative council, and later of the senate of Canada, and a contemporary of the eminent men whose careers he briefly and graphically describes. Consult also Dent's Canadian Por trait Gallery, which has numerous portraits.

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INDEX

AMNESTY Act, 91
Annexation manifesto, 80, 81
Annexation sentiment, the, caused
by lack of prosperity and political
grievances, 191 f.
Archambault, L., 186
Aylwin, Hon. I. C., 45, 50, 53, 187
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BADGLEY, JUDGE, 187

Bagehot, on public interest in politics, 250, 251; on the disadvantage of the presidential system, 253,254

Bagot, Sir Charles, favourable to French Canadians, 30; 31 Baldwin, Hon. Robert, 28; aims of, 31; 45, 50, 51; forms a government with LaFontaine, 52; his measure to create the University of Toronto, 93, 94; resigns office, 103; death of, 104; views on the clergy reserves, 160, 162 Blake, Hon. W. H., 50, 53, 69 Boulton, John, 123 Bowen, Judge, 187 Brown, Hon. George, 110; editor of Globe, 111; raises the cry of French domination, leads the Clear Grits, 112; enters parliament, 113; his power, 114; urges representation by population, 117, 125, 137, 138; his part in confederation, 225

Bryce, Rt. Hon. James, on the disadvantages of congressional government, 255-257

Buchanan, Mr., his tribute to Lord Elgin, 123, 124

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CAMERON, John Hillyard, 50, 112 Cameron, Malcolm, 50, 53, 110, 113, 117, 126, 134, 163 Canada Company, 145 Canada, early political conditions in, 17-40; difficulties connected with responsible government in, 26; the principles of responsible government, 228; a comparison of her political system with that of the United States, 241 f. Canning, Earl, 217

Caron, Hon. R. E, 43, 53, 109, 113, 126, 187

Cartier, Georges Etienne, 135, 136, 226

Cathcart, Lord, succeeds Lord Metcalfe as governor-general, 38 Cauchon, 126, 164

Cayley, Hon. W., 140, 163
Chabot, Hon. J., 126, 141, 164, 186
Chaderton, 48

Chauveau, P. J. O., 45, 50, 109,
113, 126, 141, 164
Christie, David, 110

Church of England, its claims under the Constitutional Act., 145, 150 f. Church, Presbyterian, its successful contention, 153

tures, is conducted in the manner in which railway business was conducted in the House of Commons at a time when it is to be feared that, notwithstanding the high standard of honour in the British parliament, there was a good deal of jobbing. For instance, our reciprocity measure was pressed by us at Washington last session just as a railway bill in 1845 or 1846 would have been pressed in parliament. There was no government to deal with. The interests of the union as a whole, distinct from local and sectional interests, had no organ in the representative bodies; it was all a question of canvassing this member of congress or the other. It is easy to perceive that, under such a system, jobbing must become not the exception but the rule,”—remarks as true in 1901 as in 1850.

It is important also to dwell on the fact that in Canada the permanency of the tenure of public officials and the introduction of the secret ballot have been among the results of responsible government. Through the influence and agency of the same system, valuable reforms have been made in Canada in the election laws, and the trial of controverted elections has been taken away from partisan election committees and given to a judiciary independent of political influences. In these matters the irresponsible system of the United States has not been able to effect any needful reforms. Such measures can be best carried by ministers having the initiation and direction of legislation and must

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