Table of Contents
Directory of Key Names viii
Preface xxv
Introduction xxviii
Editor's Note xxxi
Part 1 Birth of a Parliamentarian
Declaring for the Crown and for Britain, 1843 2
Upholding the Election Law, 1844 5
Defending Primogeniture, 1845 8
Challenging the Usury Laws, 1846 12
Arguing for Import Duties, 1846 14
Thoughts on the Secret Ballot, 1846 16
Learning the Lessons on Education: His First Bill, 1847 18
Winning the Voter with the University Question, 1847 20
Fighting the Rebellion Losses Bill, 1849 31
Rejecting the Temperance Bill, 1853 37
Representation Bill, 1853 42
Compensation to the Seigneurs, 1853 47
Part 2 Rise of a Statesman
"Yielding to the Times": Secular Clergy Reserves, 1854 54
Defending Separate Schools, 1855 64
"Double Majority," 1858 67
Finding the Seat of Government, 1858 71
Defining a Homeland with the Homestead Act, i860 74
Talking on Tour, i860 77
"Best Speech Mr. Macdonald Ever Delivered," 1861 105
Part 3 Nation Maker
Toast to Colonial Union, 1864 140
Debating Confederation, 1865 148
"Martyr to the Cause," Eulogizing McGee, 1868 205
Founding a Library, 1868 209
Pacification of Nova Scotia, 1869 211
Part 4 Steadfast Visionary
Resistance at Red River, 1870 216
Manitoba Enters Confederation, 1870 222
Waiting for News of PEI, 1873 231
Treaty 1 and the North West Mounted Police, 1873 236
The Pacific Scandal, 1873 243
Placing the Tariff Pillar of the National Policy, 1879 281
Land, Money, and the Canadian Pacific Railway, 1881 289
Analyzing the North-West Rebellion, 1885 324
Wading Against the Rivers and Streams Act, 1882 346
Being an Auxiliary Kingdom, 1886 351
Part 5 Making Canadians
New Brunswick Schools, 1873 358
A Sun Run Its Course, 1873 369
Election Speech to the Workingmen, 1882 375
Celebrating Forty Years in Politics, 1885 387
Unveiling George-Etienne Cartier's Statue, 1885 389
The Franchise Debates, 1885 393
The Science of Model Farms, 1885 419
Disallowance and the Jesuits' Estates Act, 1889 422
Portrait-Unveiling Ceremony, 1890 430
Election Manifesto of 1891 435
Last Words, 1891 445
Eulogizing Macdonald, 1891 448
Acknowledgements 457
Works Cited 458
Notes 470
Index 477