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Macdonald, “a panic”: Creighton,
Politician,
p. 410.

Macdonald, “a hole may be made in the mud”: Winks,
Civil War,
p. 354.

Macdonald, “forcible annexation and abandonment”: letter to Col. Gray, March 27, 1865, Pope,
Memoirs,
p. 298.

Queen Victoria, “the impossibility of our being able to hold Canada”: Stacey, “British Military Policy,” p. 25.

CHAPTER 17: IRREPLACEABLE MAN

Brown, “Now gentlemen, you must talk to me”: Careless,
Brown,
vol. 2, p. 127.

“A strong feeling was found to exist”: Creighton,
Politician,
p. 355.

Macdonald, “the member for South Oxford”: ibid., p. 356.

Brown, “the repeated endeavours year after year”: Reid,
Source-book,
pp. 200–201.

Brown, “You never saw such a scene”: Careless,
Brown,
vol. 2, p. 135.

Canadien,
“comptera parmi les plus memorable”: Waite,
Life and Times,
pp. 45–46.

Berliner Journal,
“George Brown mit John A. Macdonald, Cartier und Galt”: ibid.

Macdonald, “As leader of the Conservatives”: letter to S. Lynn, April 1866, Pope,
Correspondence,
p. 31.

Cartwright on union with United States: Cartwright,
Reminiscences,
p. 20.

Cartwright on understanding between Cartier and Brown: ibid.

Macdonald, “If Canada is to remain a Country”: Waite,
Confederation Debates,
p. 307.

Brown, “I am not so well informed”: Martin,
Britain and Confederation,
p. 53.

Globe,
“Efforts are to be made to induce the Lower Provinces”: ibid.

Smith, “In this country, what is there for Conservatives to conserve”: Gwyn,
Paradox,
p. 36.

“Macdonald practised the Burkean principles”: Preece, “Political Philosophy,” p. 157.

Preece, “What distinguished Macdonald”: ibid., p. 162.

(fn) Webbs' view of Canada: Feaver, “The Webbs in Canada.”

“For Macdonald, the word ‘reform' was largely devoid of political significance”: Waite, “Sir John A. Macdonald: The Man,” p. 37.

Macdonald, “I am satisfied to confine myself to practical things”:
Parliamentary Debates on Confederation,
pp. 1001–1002.

“he thumped no tubs”: Creighton,
Politician,
p. 180.

“For the evangelical school of reconstructionists”: Willison,
Reminiscences,
p. 197.

Macdonald, “I am like those who hear me”:
Address to the Elec
tors, 1860, Appendix A, p. 6.

McGee, “How
can
you hope to secure the settlement”: Slattery,
McGee,
p. 220.

Monck, “depends very much on your consenting to come into the Cabinet”: Careless,
Brown,
vol. 2, p. 138.

Brown, “There was no help for it”: ibid., p. 140.

Brown, “it will cost half the revenue to the province”: letter to John A., August 14, 1864, Pope,
Memoirs,
pp. 281–82.

Macdonald, “that I may call on you to lay aside”: letter, July 7, 1864, ibid., pp. 276–77.

Brown, “bearing symptoms of having been on a spree”: Careless,
Brown,
vol. 2, p. 151.

Brown, “John A. and I were the only civilians”: ibid., p. 150.

Brown, “For the first time in my political life”: Waite,
Life and Times,
p. 38.

Canadians met by oyster boat: ibid. p. 75.

Brown, “shake elbow and how d'ye-do” and “something to the sea”: Careless,
Brown,
vol. 2, p. 154.

Islander,
“substantials of beef rounds”: Louella Creighton,
Elegant Canadians,
p. 13.

Brown, “the ice became completely broken”: Careless,
Brown,
vol. 2, p. 155.

Brown, “They were unanimous”: Wilfrid Smith, introduction to “Tupper's Minutes.” Pp. 305–306 Ross, “The fascinating dance goes merrily”: Waite,
Life and Times,
p. 79.

Macdonald, “there was no political connection”: Whelan,
Union of the Provinces,
p. 43.

Pp. 307–308 Macdonald, “as a commercial enterprise”: ibid., p. 45.

Macdonald, “Everything, gentlemen, is to be gained by union”: ibid., pp. 46–47.

CHAPTER 18: A PACT OF TRUST

Macdonald, “I ha[d] no help”: letter to James Gowan, Nov. 15, 1864.

Feo Monck, “He is always drunk now”: Monck,
Canadian Leaves,
p. 81.

Rogers, “Macdonald was the ruling genius”: Moore,
1867,
pp. 213–14.

Macdonald, “I am satisfied”: letter to M.C. Cameron, Dec. 19, 1864, LAC, Macdonald Fonds, vol. 387.

Macdonald, “should be a mere skeleton and framework”: Waite,
Life and Times,
p. 120.

Morning-Chronicle,
“bump-thump-jump”: ibid., p. 86.

Delegates' working hours: Moore,
1867,
p. 98.

Mercy Coles, “with every stitch of clothing wringing wet”: ibid., pp. 98–99.

Whelan, “the Cabinet ministers—the leading ones especially”: Waite, “Whelan's Reports.”

Carter, “retir[e] to the Old Country to spend their fortunes”: Doughty, “Notes on the Quebec Conference,” p. 26.

Macdonald gets applause for opening speech: Creighton,
Politician,
p. 375.

Globe,
“Everyone here has had a fit of the blues”: Waite,
Life and Times,
p. 90.

Palmer, “the current seemed to set with the Canadians”: ibid., p. 94.

Mowat, “I quite concur in the advantages”: ibid., p. 95.

Northern Kingdom,
“Never was there such an opportunity”: ibid., p. 88.

Chandler, “merely large municipal corporations”: ibid., p. 95.

Macdonald rejects New Zealand example: Martin, “Archival Evidence.”

Times,
“practical and unpretending”: Waite,
Life and Times,
p. 111.

Brown, “Constitution adopted—a most credible document”: Careless,
Brown,
vol. 2, p. 171.

Macdonald, “We have avoided all conflict”: Russell,
Constitutional Odyssey,
p. 27.

Globe,
“We desire local self-government”: Vipond, “Federal Principle,” p. 14.

(fn) Senators to be knighted: Pope,
Memoirs,
pp. 727–28, including Macdonald letter to Carnarvon, Jan. 30, 1867.

Macdonald's books by Madison, Hamilton: Munro,
American Influ
ences, p. 18.

Original Swiss constitution: McRoberts,
Canada and the Multinational State,
p. 695.

Macdonald, “the use of the French language”:
Parliamentary Debates on Confederation,
p. 944.

Journal de Québec,
“can and must one day aspire to being a nation”: Silver, “Quebec and the French-Speaking Minorities,” thesis.

La Minerve,
“As a distinct and separate nationality”: ibid.

Macdonald, “a distinct bargain, a solemn contract”: Stanley, “Act or Pact,” p. 142.

Macdonald, “as a matter of fact…a Federal Union”: ibid., p. 8.

Macdonald, “The sad experience on the other side”: Sweeny,
Cartier,
p. 143.

Cartier, “That is not my policy”: ibid.

Taché, “tantamount to a separation”: Jennifer Smith, “Confederation,” p. 454.

Taché, “The important thing to remember”: Sweeny,
Cartier,
p. 106.

Macdonald, “My great aim”: letter to Buchanan, Oct. 16, 1864, LAC, Macdonald Fonds, vol. 587.

Cameron, “better shown [his] patriotism”: Dec. 19, 1864, ibid., vol. 587.

Macdonald, “I thought my hon. friend knew”: Martin, “Archival Evidence.”

Macdonald, “chief executive officers”: Glazebrook,
History of Political Thought,
p. 146.

(fn) Tupper, “a large municipality under the Central Government”: Waite,
Life and Times,
p. 204.

Macdonald, “the Central Government assumes”: Creighton,
Politician,
p. 403.

Hamilton's centralizing measures; Munro,
American Influences,
pp. 19, 33.

Macdonald, “all the powers which are incident to sovereignty”: Vipond, “Federal Principle,” p. 14.

Dunkin, “cry will be found to be pretty often”: Martin,
Causes of Confederation,
p. 31.

(fn) “Confederation table”: Turner, “Mystery.”

Macdonald, “Have you thought over the formation of the Govt”: letter to Tilley, Nov. 14, 1864, LAC, Macdonald Fonds, vol. 587.

Macdonald, “I intend to commence next week”: letter to Tupper, Nov. 14, 1864, ibid.

St. Alban's Raid: Winks,
Civil War,
pp. 311, 314–15.

Macdonald, “the unhappy and mistaken decision of Cursol”: Creighton,
Politician,
p. 392.

Macdonald, “individuals or incorporated companies like Railways”: letter to Thomas Swinyard, Jan. 1, 1865, Macdonald Papers, Letterbook 7.

Repayment to U.S. banks of $70,000: Winks,
Civil War,
p. 320.

Macdonald, “a shrewd, cool and determined man”: Creighton,
Politician,
p. 393.

Macdonald, “We can't help the South”: letter to Buchanan, Oct. 16, 1864, Hamilton Public Library.

CHAPTER 19: PARLIAMENT VS THE PEOPLE

“Then let us be firm and united”: Waite,
Life and Times,
p. 98.

(fn) Whelan, “illness induced by fatigue”: Waite, “Whelan's Reports,” p. 139.

Edinburgh Review,
“harbinger of the future and complete independence”: Waite,
Life and Times,
p. 20.

Saturday Review,
“not so much a step towards independence”: Martin,
Britain and Confederation,
p. 173.

Times,
“nothing could be more in correspondence”: Stewart, “Imperial Policy,” thesis, p. 138.

Brown, “A most gracious answer”: Careless,
Brown,
vol. 2, p. 177.

Brown, “Though we had been discussing the highest questions”: ibid.

Adderley, “Gladstone said to me the other day”: Batt,
Monck,
p. 152.

Brown, “John A.'s business affairs are in sad disorder”: Careless, ibid., p. 190.

Macdonald, “Canada on the whole”: letter to Tupper, Nov. 14, 1864, Pope,
Correspondence,
p. 13.

Dorion, “true confederation”: Waite,
Pre-Confederation,
p. 221.

“create a new nationality”: Slattery,
McGee,
p. 268.

Whelan, “a patch of sandbank in the Gulf”: Waite,
Life and Times,
p. 186.

Macdonald, “was in the nature of a treaty”: Ajzenstat,
Founding Debates,
p. 421.

Macdonald, “If this measure received the support of the House”: ibid., p. 422.

Macdonald, “general if not universal favour”: letter to John Beattie, Feb. 3, 1865, Pope,
Correspondence,
p. 21.

Macdonald, “Parliament is a grand inquest”: Lockhart, “Contribution.”

Macdonald, “the tyranny of mere numbers”: Johnson,
Macdonald,
p. 220.

“one of those dreadful American heresies”:
Globe,
Nov. 5, 1864.

Brown, “the balance of power is held by the ignorant”: Wise,
Peculiar Peoples,
p. 137.

McGee, “The proposed Confederation”: Ajzenstat,
Founding Debates,
pp. 189–90.

O'Halloran, “When we assume the power”: ibid., pp. 449–51.

Hamilton
Times,
“If their [the people's] direct decision”: Martin,
Causes of Confederation,
p. 30.

Macdonald, “We in this house”: Ajzenstat,
Founding Debates,
pp. 455–63.

(fn) Macdonald denounces conventions as “immoral and democratic”: letter to Henry Becher, Mar. 15, 1862, LAC, Macdonald Fonds, vol. 587.

Macdonald, “a strong and lasting government”: letter to S. Amsden, Dec. 1, 1864, ibid., vol. 397.

Macdonald, “the best, the cheapest”: Ajzenstat,
Founding Debates,
p. 279.

Macdonald, “lose their individuality”: Reid,
Source-book,
p. 208.

Macdonald, “it is an advance towards independence”: ibid., p. 209.

Dunkin, “What are we doing?”: Ajzenstat,
Founding Debates,
p. 236.

Cartier, “When we were united together”:
Parliamentary Debates on Confederation,
p. 60.

Mackenzie, “I do not think the federal system is necessarily a weak one”: ibid., speech of Feb. 23.

Stratford Beacon,
“an unmistakably seedy condition”: Waite,
Life and Times,
p. 156.

Macdonald, “full of fight”: Martin,
Britain and Confederation,
p. 244.

CHAPTER 20: THE ADMINISTRATION OF STRANGERS

Macdonald, “declaration against the policy of Confederation”: Creighton,
Politician,
p. 406.

Macdonald, “any signs of weakness”: Martin,
Foundations,
p. 365.

Macdonald, “stick with the ship”: Lockhart, “Macdonald Conservatism,” p. 129.

Macdonald on Tilley, “unstatesmanlike”: Moore,
1867,
p. 169.

Tupper, “under existing circumstances”: Creighton,
Politician,
p. 409.

Dorion, “This scheme is killed”: Martin,
Foundations,
p. 365.

Macdonald, “the most seminal mind”: Waite, “Sir John A. Macdonald: The Man,” p. 147.

Howe, “live and die in insignificance”: Waite,
Life and Times,
p. 71.

Howe, “play second-fiddle to that damn'd Tupper”:
Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
vol. X.

Howe, “I am a dear lover of old England”: Beck,
Howe,
p. 210.

Howe, “You go down to the sea in ships”: ibid., p. 202.

Howe, “London [was] large enough”: ibid.

Howe, “with an Indian name”: ibid., p. 201.

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