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IV. CONFEDERATION

147

The Failure of the Union-The British North America Act

V. THE JUDICIARY

157

Judges independent of the Crown-Growth of the Judicial

System

ECONOMIC HISTORY, 1840-1867. By ADAM SHORTT

I. GENERAL VIEW OF ECONOMIC CONDITIONS

II. CANADIAN INDUSTRY AND FOREIGN TRADE

III. THE TEA TRADE

IV. THE TIMBER TRADE

Dawson, Hind and Palliser-Sir George Simpson-Paul

Kane-Milton and Cheadle

INDIAN AFFAIRS, 1840-1867. By DUNCAN C. SCOTT

I. THE PROVINCE OF CANADA

331

Organized Effort - Education - The Legal Status of the

Indians-The Indian Department

A Revolution through Steam Carriage-The Burden of High

Rates-Sydenham's Postal Commission

II. THE MARITIME PROVINCES

Early Postal Effort-The Newspaper Postage Question-The

Colonial Post Office Bill-Establishment of the Mail Steamer

-Inadequate Mail Services-A Demand for Reduced Rates

III. POST OFFICE REFORM

Clanricarde's Policy-The Nova Scotia Postal Committee

IV. PROVINCIAL CONTROL

A Period of Progress-Railway Mail Service-The Ocean

Mail Service-A Setback through Steamship Disasters

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392

LORD ELGIN.

ILLUSTRATIONS

From an engraving in the Dominion Archives

SIR CHARLES BAGOT

From an engraving in the Dominion Archives

MEMORANDUM FROM MR LA FONTAINE TO SIR

CHARLES BAGOT

SIR CHARLES METCALFE

From an engraving by William Warner after the painting
by A. Bradish

From a photograph by Notman, Montreal

JOHN RAE

From an engraving in the Dominion Archives

ADMIRAL SIR JOHN ROSS

From the painting by B. R. Faulkner in the Scottish
National Portrait Gallery

THE ARCTIC COUNCIL DISCUSSING A PLAN OF
SEARCH FOR SIR JOHN FRANKLIN

From the painting by Stephen Pearce in the National
Portrait Gallery

A BLACKFOOT CHIEF AND HIS SUBORDINATES
From the painting by Paul Kane in the Dominion Archives