“clergy was as much a means of national unity”: Trofimenkoff, Dream, p. 115.
Durham Report as “the greatest state document”: Hyam and Martin, Reappraisals, p. 75.
Lord Russell, “impossible for a Governor to be responsible”: Finlay, Structure of History, p. 138.
Sydenham election tactics: Abella, “Sydenham Election.”
Bagot, “Whether the doctrine of responsible government is openly acknowledged”: McInnis, Canada, p. 237.
British attitudes to Responsible Government: Bodelson, Studies in Imperialism.
Baldwin descriptions: Careless, Pre-Confederation Premiers; and Cross, “The Waste that Lies before Me.”
Pp. 98–99 LaFontaine description: Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. XII.
“With a kind of bacterial thoroughness”: Monet, in Hamelin, Political Ideas, p. 27.
CHAPTER 8: A SHORT TIME BEFORE THE LONG GAME
Macdonald, “it would make me too dependent on Govt”: letter to Margaret Greene, Jan. 20, 1847, Johnson, Affectionately, p. 48.
“could not be called a great speaker”: Pope, Memoirs, p. 647.
Pp. 104–105 journalist, “careless utterance”: Martin, “Sir John Eh?” p. 2.
Fabre, “he is languid at times at stating his case”: Pope, Memoirs, p. 658.
“not infrequently contrived to mislay”: ibid., p. 658.
Fabre, “too clever and too well-versed”: ibid., p. 658.
Pp. 105–106 Macdonald’s memory for names: Biggar, Anecdotal Life, pp. 206–209.
Patteson literary argument: Waite, Macdonald, p. 40.
Pp. 106–107 Macdonald, “an Indian once said to myself”: Smith, “John A. Macdonald and Aboriginal Canada.”
Macdonald, “I returned last week from Toronto” and “She had as much to do as she is able for”: Dec. 3, 1848, Johnson, Affectionately, p. 60.
Macdonald, “She is like the ‘Invisible Lady’” and “Since September last I have been alone”: Jan. 20, 1850, ibid., pp. 67–68.
Campbell-Macdonald partnership negotiations: Johnson, Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald, vol. 1, p. 158, and (fn) pp. 158–59; and Creighton, Politician, p. 148.
Macdonald, “I am more than usually tight now”: letter to Benson, Johnson, Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald, vol. 1, p. 178.
p. 110 Macdonald, “I haven’t got a shilling to jingle”: letter to Saddler, ibid., vol. 1, p. 260.
Buchanan, “I would not have supposed it possible”: Waite, Life and World, p. 17.
Macdonald, “I thoroughly understand that business”: Johnson, Macdonald: Young Non-Politician, p. 144.
Campbell, “You will remember”: Pope, Memoirs, p. 148.
Macdonald, “If I don’t carry a thing” and “There’s no use crying”: Waite, Life and World, p. 22.
Pp. 113–14 Rose, description: Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. XI; and Frankfurter, Baneful Domination, pp. 210–12.
“personally, he was most attracted to Rose”: Pope, Memoirs, p. 422.
Ogle Gowan, relations with Macdonald and rape charge: Akenson, Orangeman, pp. 249, 295–300.
Effect of Canada of British free trade: Finlay, Structure, pp. 148–50; and Shippee, Relations, pp. 3–6.
Elgin, “property in most Canadians towns”: Shippee, Relations, p. 6.
Montreal manifesto calling for annexation: Macpherson, Macdonald, p. 201; Finlay, Structure; and Skelton, Galt.
(fn) Carnegie, “trade follows the lowest price” Hyam and Martin, Reappraisals, p. 4.
Kingston meeting: Creighton, Politician, pp. 140–45; and Stewart, “Imperial Policy,” thesis.
Macdonald, “all arrangements have long been made”: Johnson, Affectionately, p. 66.
Macdonald, “We have got Johnnie back again”: ibid., p. 71.
CHAPTER 9: ENLARGING THE BOUNDS
Macdonald, “We are a good deal hampered”: Feb. 9, 1854, Johnson, Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald, vol. 1, pp. 200–203.
Formation of Grit party: Careless, Union of the Canadas, p. 167; and Underhill, National Political Parties.
Macdonald, “little ability, no political principles and no strength in numbers”: Stewart, Origins, p. 61.
Macdonald, “pre-Adamite Tories”: letter to Charles Lyndsay, June 18, 1860, Johnson and Stelmack, Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald, vol. 2.
Brown on possible Reform-Conservative alliance: Careless, Brown, vol. 2, p. 188.
Pp. 127–29 Macdonald letter to Brown Chamberlain: Jan. 21, 1856, Johnson, Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald, vol. 1, pp. 337–40.
“They [Scots] manifested a real goodwill”: Siegfried, Race Question, p. 55.
Pp. 130–31 Macdonald’s fluency in French: From commentaries to author by historians Keith Johnson and Donald Smith. Sulte, “Macdonald was fond of reading French novels”: Sweeny, George-Etienne Cartier, p. 102 (also fn p. 131). Ged Martin, in “Sir John Eh? Macdonald,” cites a unlingual Quebec MP who claimed to have had many conversations in French with Macdonald. Smith cites a biography of Senator F.X.A. Trudel, who, in a February 1887 edition of L’Etandard, claims Macdonald spoke not a word of French. Martin, in “Sir John Eh?” cites the Dictionary of Canadian Biography as an authority that Laurier spoke English with a slight Scots accent. Taché’s last letter to Macdonald, entirely in French, is quoted in Creighton, Politician, p. 418.
Macdonald, “steeped to the lips in corruption”: Swainson, Macdonald, p. 42.
MacNab, “all my politics are railroads”: Simpson, Spoils, p. 68.
Macdonald, “The party is nowhere”: letter by Macdonald to Campbell, March 8, 1855, LAC, Macdonald Fonds, vol. 194.
Macdonald, “the Parson”: Johnson, Affectionately, p. 15.
Louisa’s rental arrangements with Williamsons: Pope, Memoirs, p. 650.
Macdonald, “Isabella has been very, very ill” and “desperately ill all last week”: Johnson, Affectionately, pp. 75, 77.
Macdonald, quoting Hugh John, “I like Kingston best”: ibid., p. 77.
Macdonald, “I am carrying on a war”: March 17, 1856, ibid., p. 77.
Macdonald, “The great reason I have always been able to beat Brown”: Pope, Memoirs, p. 653 (fn). Pp. 138–39 Brown description: Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. X; Careless, Brown, and Careless, “Brown’s Political Ideas,” in Careless at Work, pp. 67–74.
“A campaign is George Brown in the pulpit”: Willison, Reminiscences, p. 178.
(fn) Brown, “men-stealers: Careless, Brown, vol. 2, p. 27.
Sheppard, “Take him on the ground of abuses”: Waite, “Ideas and Politics in British North America,” p. 100.
Macdonald, “every man should support his own religious teacher”: Debates, vol. XI, part I, pp. 546–48.
Brown versus Macdonald re Kingston Penitentiary: Creighton, Politician; Careless, Brown; and Debates, 1849 (pp. 203, 207, 208), 1850 (pp. 1507–09), 1851 (pp. 519–20). Pp. 141–42 Macdonald, “If there is one thing to be avoided”: Debates, vol. XI, part III, p. 2296, March 23, 1853.
Brown, “What has French-Canadianism been denied?”: Careless, Brown, vol. 1, p. 166; Bliss, Canadian Historical Documents, pp. 92–94.
“Church and state could not really be separated”: Morton, Shield, p. 316.
CHAPTER 10: FORMS ARE THINGS
Macdonald, “You will see by the enclosed”: Johnson, Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald, vol. 1, p. 296.
Macdonald, “I am told there are a dozen [Conservative] candidates”: letter to Henry Becher, Dec. 5, 1857, ibid., p. 466.
A.J. Macdonnell to replace Campbell: Creighton, Politician, p. 208.
“Contrary to the claims of the Liberal politicians”: Sowby, “Macdonald the Administrator,” thesis, p. ii.
“He took these duties seriously”: Johnson, Macdonald, p. 206.
Macdonald, “I have infinitely more to do”: ibid., p. 207.
“He attached great importance to his correspondence” and “was exacting in his demands”: Pope, Memoirs, pp. 639, 655.
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p; Macdonald, “the devil of a departmental reformer”: Waite, Life and World, p. 20.
Macdonald, “I’d as soon go to hell”: Gwyn, Private Capital, p. 118.
Responsibilities of attorney general: Johnson, Macdonald, pp. 207–208.
Pp. 153–54 Macdonald and Indian affairs: Smith, “John A. Macdonald and Aboriginal Canada,” pp. 10–14.
Macdonald and Rev. Peter Jones: Smith, ibid., p. 20. Pp.
155–56 Lewis, “all Criminal Law should be considered a transcript of the Divine Law”: Bellomo, “Attitudes Towards Crime,” p. 11.
Macdonald on sentence for attempted sodomy: letter to provincial secretary, May 7, 1864, LAC, Macdonald Fonds, vol. 587.
Macdonald on sentencing of thirteen-year-old girl: letter to provincial secretary, Nov. 16, 1864, ibid.
Macdonald on sentencing of Samuel Ross: July 12, 1858, Johnson and Stelmack, Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald, vol. 2, p. 65. Macdonald on poverty of another prisoner: June 15, 1859, ibid., p. 151.
Macdonald, “Your natural kindness of disposition”: Oct. 31, 1871, Creighton Papers, LAC, Macdonald Fonds, MG 29, F 9–3.
Brown, “the moral tomb of those who enter them”: Bellomo, “Attitudes Towards Crime,” p. 22.
Pp. 157–58 Macdonald, “Cut him dead”: Gwyn, Private Capital, pp. 93–94.
Macdonald, “The first duty of a Government”: June 19, 1871, LAC, Macdonald Letters, LB-15, pp. 940–41.
Macdonald, “We are satisfied that these requirements”: letter to Bench, Feb. 13, 1855, Johnson, Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald, vol. 1, pp. 240–41.
Macdonald, “to consider fitness as the first requirement”: Simpson, Spoils, p. 305.
“Sir John was always anxious”: Cartwright, Reminiscences, p. 49.
Macdonald promotion of William Ritchie to Supreme Court chief justice: Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. XII, entry for Ritchie.
Macdonald, “He is a Grit”: Stewart, “Macdonald’s Greatest Triumph,” p. 6.
Macdonald, “Certainty of punishment”: Oct. 31, 1871, LAC, Creighton Papers, MG 29 L9–3.
Macdonald, “This is a country of law and order”: MacDermot, “Political Ideas,” p. 250.
CHAPTER 11: THE DOUBLE SHUFFLE
Macdonald, “Heap as many epithets and reproaches on me”: Debates, May 28, 1856, vol. XIII, part V, p. 2283.
Macdonald, “I might, as you know, have been Premier”: Nov. 13, 1856, Johnson, Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald, vol. 1, p. 392.
Campbell, “I dare say you are very busy”: Swainson, Macdonald, p. 43.
“Ah, John A., how I love you”: Cartwright, Reminiscences, p. 47.
Maclean, Macdonald “had a wonderful influence over many men”: Willison, Reminiscences, p. 184.
Macdonald, “He destroyed one or two marvellous good plots”: letter to James Strachan, Feb. 9, 1854, Johnson, Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald, vol. 1, pp. 100–102.
Macdonald, “It’s a damned sharp curve”: Waite, Life and Times, p. 324.
Macdonald, “We are losing everywhere”: letter to Becher, Dec. 14, 1857, Johnson, Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald, vol. 1, p. 472.
Macdonald, “Canvass steadily and vigorously”: Johnson, Macdonald, p. 218.
Macdonald, “I am infinitely obliged to you”: Johnson, Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald, vol. 1, p. 1.
clientelism “long assumed to be a normal part of the political process”: Noel, Patrons, p. 15.
Zimmerman claims more members to be found in own apartment: ibid., p. 117.
Macdonald, “keep the Whitby Post Office [position] open”: letter to Smith, May 23, 1861, Johnson, Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald, vol. 1, p. 366.
Pp. 168–69 Macdonald, “As soon as Toronto returns Conservative members”: Stewart, Origins, p. 65.
Macdonald, “De L’Armitage is dying”: July 12, 1856, Johnson, Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald, vol. 1, p. 326.
Macdonald, “I have a letter from Noel wanting the Notaryship of the Bank”: letter to Charles Ross, June 7, 1864, ibid., vol. 3.
Macdonald, “It was of the very greatest importance”: Debates, Oct. 27, 1854, vol. XII, part II, p. 830.
Macdonald, “that the agitation will still be kept up” and “There is no maxim which experience teaches more clearly”: Debates, Nov. 6, 1854, vol. II, part II, pp. 897, 942–46.
“He should be sorry” and “if they [the opposition] could make the world all of one way of thinking”: Creighton, Politician, p. 221.
Queen’s choice of Ottawa as capital: Gwyn, Private Capital, p. 37.
Head, “the least objectionable”: Memorandum, CHR, vol. 16 (1935), p. 417.
Macdonald, “an insult offered to the Queen”: telegram to S. Amsden, July 30, 1858, Johnson, Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald, vol. 2, p. 70.
Macdonald, “Some fish require to be toyed with”: Creighton, Politician, p. 267.
Pp. 177–78 Macdonald’s comments on Cartier: Johnson and Stelmack, Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald, vol. 2, pp. 22, 235, 238.
Pp. 178–81 Description of Cartier: Sweeny, Cartier; Young, Montreal Bourgeois; Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. X; Best, “George-Etienne Cartier,” thesis.
“his career demonstrates the power of railways”: Young, Montreal Bourgeois, p. xii.
Cartier, “The prosperity of Montreal”: Underhill, National Political Parties, p. 372.
Cartier, “That is quite correct, I do not consult anybody”: Moore, 1867, p. 136.
Cartier, “The activity of the heart”: Monck, My Canadian Leaves, p. 149.
Description of Luce Cuvillier: Young, Montreal Bourgeois, p. 35.
Macdonald, “sheet anchor”: letter to George Benjamin, June 4, 1861, Johnson and Stelmack, Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald, vol. 2, p. 342.
Cartier’s plan to retire to England: Young, Montreal Bourgeois, p. 45.
CHAPTER 12: ISABELLE, HUGH JOHN AND DAISY
“grey unrelieved tragedy”: Creighton, Politician, p. 260.
Macdonald, “bare his bottom with dignity”: Aug. 21, 1857, letter to Helen Macdonald, Johnson, Affectionately, p. 82.
Pp. 184–86 Dr. McSherry’s diagnosis of Isabella’s illness: McSherry, “The Illness of the First Mrs. John A. Macdonald,” pp. 31–37.
Dr. Hyde’s diagnosis: commentary to author.
Macdonald, “In the first place, tell Hugh that I am extremely pleased at the report”: April 11, 1861, letter to Louisa, Johnson, Affectionately, p. 95.
James Williamson’s letters to father: Phenix, Demons, pp. 112–19.
Ploughboy shipwreck scare: July 7, 1859, letter to Margaret: Johnson, Affectionately, p. 91.
CHAPTER 13: DOUBLE MAJORITY
Pp. 190–91 British commentary on Macdonald as “a distinguished statesman” and “the principal man”: Stewart, “Imperial Policy,” thesis, p. 108 (fn).
“Whither Are We Drifting?”: Colonist, June 29, 1858.
Jones, “through British American territory to the Pacific”: Pope, Day, p. 50.
“an almost total absence of a literature of pessimism”: Fallis, “Idea of Progress,” p. 176.
Keefer, “Steam has exerted an influence over matter”: Nelles, Philosophy of Railroads, p. xxv.
“Steam conquered space and time” Bliss, Northern Enterprise, pp. 161–62.
Keefer, “Ignorance and prejudice will flee”: Nelles, Philosophy of Railroads, p. xxxvii.
Canadian Gem, “Canada is destined to become one of the finest countries”: Morton, Shield, p. 171.
Hind, “a magnificent future…which shall place the province”: Fallis, “Idea of Progress,” p. 172.
“Upon my word, I do not think that there is much to be said”: Noel, Patron s, p. 137.
Macdonald, “We are having a hard fight in the House”: letter to Margaret Williamson, March 29, 1858, Johnson, Affectionately, p. 89.
Macdonald, “We are getting on very slowly”: letter to Helen Macdonald, June, 17, 1858, ibid., p. 90.
Pope, “I believe, [he] had fu
lly made up his mind”: Creighton, Politician, p. 337.
Macdonald, “When I have looked back upon my public life”: Kingston speech, November 1860, Macpherson, Macdonald, pp. 296–98.
Macdonald, “He is a very good fellow”: letter to Margaret, Johnson, Affectionately, p. 94.
Macdonald, “Take things pleasantly”: Waite, Life and World, p. 18.
Macdonald, “For twenty long years”: Pope, Memoirs, Appendix F, pp. 526–30.
Macdonald, “too abstract a question”: letter to Brown Chamberlin, 1855, Johnson, Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald, vol. 1, p. 292.
Globe, “Our French rulers”: Sweeny, Cartier, p. 100.
Brown, “a deep scheme of Romish Priestcraft”: Slattery, McGee, p. 41.
Macdonald, “The Elections will come off in June”: letter to Ryerson, May 29, 1861, Johnson and Stelmack, Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald, vol. 2, p. 331.
Macdonald, “We must soothe the Orangemen”: letter to Sidney Smith, Oct. 13, 1860, ibid., vol. 2, p. 168.
Macdonald, “politics is a game requiring great coolness”: ibid.
Macdonald, qualified double-majority: Russell, Constitutional Odyssey, p. 16.
Globe, “The disruption of the existing union”: Morton, The Critical Years, p. 72.
Macdonald, “I am a sincere unionist”: Johnson, Macdonald, p. 225.
“was known to have an amorous disposition”: Roy, Kingston, p. 163.
Macdonald, “There is no wisdom below belt”: Waite, “Sir John A. Macdonald: The Man,” p. 151.
“I have never met”: Jameson, Summer Rambles, p. 139.
Macdonald, “I forgot to tell you”: letter to Margaret Greene, Nov. 3, 1845, Johnson, Affectionately, p. 37.
Pp. 205–206 St. Valentine’s Day ball: Macpherson, Macdonald, pp. 38–39; and Newman, Album, p. 46.
Macdonald and Agnes Bernard in Toronto and Quebec City: Reynolds, Agnes, pp. 28–30.
Macdonald, “a warm, personal friend”: letter to Helen Macdonald, Oct. 20, 1858, Johnson, Affectionately, p. 90.
Pp. 207–208 Hall, “My loved John”: Dec. 21, 1860, LAC, Macdonald Fonds, vol. 545; and Newman, Album, p. 46.
Macdonald, “P. S. You can make love to Polly”: Johnson and Stelmack, Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald, vol. 2, p. 402.
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