A
Albion, the, Peter Brown contributes thereto, 2
Anglican Church, exclusive claims of, 11, 51, 52
Annexation manifesto, result of discontent aroused by Rebellion Losses Bill, and repeal of preferential trade, 37
B
Bagot, Sir Charles, Governor of Canada,
friendly attitude towards French-Canadians, 16;
accepts Lafontaine and Baldwin as his advisers, 16;
accused of surrender to rebels, 16;
his action threatens to cause ministerial crisis in England, 16;
denounced by Duke of Wellington, 16, 17;
recalled at his own request, 18;
illness and death, 18;
begs his ministers to defend his memory, 18
Baldwin, Robert,
father of responsible government, 21;
criticized by Dr. Ryerson, 22, 23;
his wise leadership, 24;
victory at polls, 33;
achievements of his ministry, 33;
the Rebellion Losses Bill, 34-7;
discontent of Clear Grits, 39;
the Baldwin-Lafontaine government defended by Brown, 42;
resigns because of vote of abolition of Court of Chancery, 47
Banner, the,
established by the Browns, 5;
descriptive extracts, 3, 6-8
Belleau, Sir Narcisse F.,
succeeds Sir É. P. TachÉ as head of the coalition government, 191;
his headship only nominal, 191
Bennett, George,
employed in engine room of the Globe, 256;
discharged, 256;
his conversation with Brown, 256;
shoots and wounds Brown, 257;
on death of Brown is tried and found guilty of murder, 258;
his mind disordered by misfortune and by intemperance, 258
Blake, the Hon. Edward, speech at Aurora advocating imperial federation, 240
British-American League, the, advocates federation, 37
British Chronicle, the, established by the Browns in New York, 4
Brown, George,
birth, 1;
education, 1;
leaves Scotland for the United States, 2;
visits Canada, 4;
founds the Banner, 5;
founds the Globe, 20;
addresses Toronto Reform Association, 21;
refuses to drink health of Lord Metcalfe, 27, 28;
his dwelling attacked by opponents of Lord Elgin, 36;
opposes Clear Grit movement, 40;
attitude towards Baldwin-Lafontaine government, 42;
dissatisfied with delay in dealing with clergy reserves, 42;
causes of rupture with Reform government, 44;
comments on Cardinal Wiseman's pastoral, 44, 45;
attacked as an enemy of Irish Catholics, 44-6;
defeated in Haldimand election by William Lyon Mackenzie, 46;
his election platform, 47;
rupture with Hincks's government, 48;
complains of French and Catholic influence, 48, 49;
series of letters to Hincks, 48;
addresses meeting in favour of secularization of clergy reserves, 55, 56;
candidate for parliament for Kent, 61;
his platform, 61;
advocates free and non-sectarian schools, 62;
advocates similar policy for university education, 62;
elected member for Kent, 64;
his first appearance in parliament, 65;
consequence of parliament being held in city of Quebec, 65;
hostility of French-Canadians to Brown, 65;
Brown's maiden speech, 66;
vindicates responsible government, and insists upon fulfilment of ministerial pledges, 66, 67;
condition of parties in legislature, 69;
Brown's temporary isolation, 69;
his industry, 69;
opposes legislation granting privileges to Roman Catholic institutions, 70;
his course leads towards reconstruction of legislative union, 70;
growth of his popularity in Upper Canada, 71;
remarkable testimony of a Conservative journal, 71, 72;
his appearance on the platform in 1853 described by the Hon. James Young, 73;
favours prohibition, 76;
elected for Lambton, 77;
forms friendship with the Rouge leader, A. A. Dorion, 80, 81;
advocates representation by population, 82-4;
charged by J. A. Macdonald with misconduct as secretary of prison commission, 87;
moves for committee of inquiry, 88;
forcibly repels attack, 89;
exposes cruelties and abuses in prison, 90;
his relations with Macdonald embittered by this incident, 91;
delivers address on prison reform, 91, 92;
repels charge that he had been a defaulter in Edinburgh, and defends his father, 93-7;
elected for city of Toronto in 1857, 99;
defeats government on question of seat of government, 100;
called upon to form a government, 101;
confers with Dorion, 101;
forms Brown-Dorion administration, 102;
waits upon the governor-general, 102;
receives communication from the governor-general, 102;
forms belief that obstacles are being placed in his way by intrigue, 102;
criticizes the governor-general's communication, 103;
meets his colleagues, 104;
his government defeated in parliament, 104;
asks for dissolution and is refused, 105, 106;
his government resigns, 106;
his part in work of the Anti-Slavery Society of Canada, 112;
denounces Fugitive Slave Law, 113, 114;
discusses Lincoln's proclamation of emancipation, 114-19;
his relations with Roman Catholics, 121;
opposes separate schools, 121;
accepts compromise, 122;
his "no popery" campaign, 123;
his letter to Roman Catholics, 124-6;
his position considered, 127, 128;
his course leads up to confederation, 130;
letter to Holton, 131;
his speech at Reform convention of 1859, 137;
fails to obtain support of legislature for proposals to federalize the union, 139;
contemplates retirement from leadership of Reform party, 141;
defeated in East Toronto, 141;
opposes John Sandfield's "double majority" plan, 143;
visits England, 143;
marriage in Edinburgh, 144;
his attitude towards separate schools, 145;
accepts compromise of 1863, 145;
describes dead-lock situation, 149;
lays before legislature report of special committee advocating federation of Canada as a remedy, 150;
negotiations with government, 151-6;
consults Reformers of Upper Canada, 156, 157;
urged by governor-general (Monk) to enter government, 157;
consents, 158;
enters ministry, 159;
visits Maritime Provinces, 161;
addresses meeting at Halifax in furtherance of confederation, 161;
advocates nominative as against elective senate, 164;
describes result of Quebec conference, 165;
addresses meeting at Music Hall, Toronto, 166;
visits England, 167;
describes English feeling in favour of confederation, 167;
his speech in parliament advocating confederation, 171-5;
describes crisis created by defeat of New Brunswick government, 181, 182;
visits England with Macdonald, Cartier and Galt, 186;
on the death of TachÉ objects to Macdonald assuming premiership, 189;
consents to succession of Sir N. F. Belleau, 191;
his work in connection with reciprocity, 192;
appointed member of confederate council on reciprocity, 193;
protests against Galt's proceedings in Washington, 194;
objects strongly to proposal for reciprocity by legislation, 194;
resigns from coalition, 195;
letter to Cartier, 196;
his reasons for resigning, 196;
the rupture inevitable, 199;
reasons why coalition could not endure, 199;
Holton's warning, 200, 201;
experience of Howland, Macdougall and Tilley, 202;
experience of Joseph Howe, 203, 204;
coalition endangers Liberal principles, 204-7;
Brown's course after leaving coalition, 208;
addresses Reform convention of 1867 against continuance of coalition, 209;
interest in North-West Territories, 211, 213;
advocates union of North-West Territories with Canada, 218-20;
takes part in negotiations with British government, 220;
his services as to North-West Territories acknowledged by Macdonald, 221;
sent to Washington by Mackenzie government to inquire as to reciprocity (1874), 226;
appointed with Sir Edward Thornton to negotiate treaty, 226;
finds much ignorance of value of Canadian trade, 228;
prepares memorandum as to trade, 229;
carries on propaganda in American journals, 230;
falsely accused of bribing them, 230;
describes progress of negotiations, 231;
join s issue with Canadian protectionists, 232, 233;
effect of his hostility to Canada First movement, 241, 242;
his family, 243, 244;
determines to retire from public life, 245;
describes difficulty of combining journalism with politics, 246-8;
his relations with party leaders after retirement, 247;
acquires Bow Park estate, and engages in raising of fine cattle, 248;
engaged in a famous case of contempt of court, 249;
accused by Mr. Justice Wilson of bribery, 249;
Mr. Justice Wilson attacked by the Globe, 250-2;
Brown charged with contempt of court, appears in person, and defends himself, 252-4;
attacked and shot by George Bennett, 255;
the wound not regarded as mortal, 257;
unfavourable progress of case, 257;
death, 258;
motives of Bennett, 258;
character of Brown, 259;
his career in relation to history, 260-3;
his share in achievement of confederation, 264, 265
Brown, J. Gordon, succeeds George as managing editor of the Globe, 244
Brown, Peter, father of the Hon. George Brown,
leaves Scotland for New York, 2;
contributes to the Albion, 2;
author of Fame and Glory of England Vindicated, 3;
establishes the British Chronicle, 4;
establishes the Banner, 5;
his business troubles in Edinburgh lead to an attack on George Brown, 93;
George Brown's speech in the legislature, 93-8;
his work on the Globe, 243, 244
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Canada First,
its platform, 235;
severely criticized by the Globe, 236;
the Globe suspects that it means Canadian independence, 237;
the Globe's attack on Canada First and Goldwin Smith, 237, 238;
Mr. Goldwin Smith's reply, 238;
national spirit evinced by movement, 239;
effect of Canada First movement, 240, 241;
Edward Blake at Aurora advocates imperial federation, 240;
Liberal party injured by hostility to Canada First, 240-2
Cartier, Georges E., asks Brown to reconsider his resignation from coalition ministry, 196
Cartwright, Sir Richard, on confederation, 148, 153
Cathcart, Earl, governor of Canada, 28

Church, the, opposes responsible government as impious, 6
Clear Grit party,
its leaders, 39;
opposed by George Brown and the Globe s="c7">conference between Brown and Dorion, 101;
the government formed, 102;
the governor-general notifies Brown that he will not pledge himself to grant dissolution, 102, 103;
his action criticized by Brown, 103, 104;
the government defeated in the legislature, 104;
policy of the government, 104;
a dissolution asked for, 105;
dissolution refused and government resigns, 106;
former government resumes office, 106;
artifice by which ministers avoid fresh elections, 107
Drummond, L. T., a member of the Brown-Dorion government, 102
Durham, Lord, extracts from his report, 11, 12, 52, 53, 54, 82, 83
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Elgin, Lord, (see also Rebellion Losses Bill)
condemns system of preferential trade, 32;
reconciles colonial self-government with imperial unity, 33;
concedes responsible government, 33;
attacked by Canadian Tories as a sympathizer with rebels and Frenchmen, 33;
assents to Rebellion Losses Bill, 36;
mobbed at Montreal, 30;
firm attitude during disturbance, 37
F
Ferrier, Mr., describes negotiations for confederation, 152
French-Canadians,
Lord Durham's plan of benevolent assimilation, 12;
its failure, 12;
friendly attitude of Bagot towards, 16;
their attitude towards representation by population, 83, 84
G
Galt, A. T.,
asked to form a ministry, 106;
enters reconstructed Cartier-Macdonald government, 107;
advocates confederation of Canada, 132, 133;
appointed with Brown to represent Canada in confederate council on reciprocity, 193;
visits Washington and confers with Mr. Seward, secretary of state, 193;

discusses with him question of reciprocity by legislation, 193;
his course condemned by Brown, 194
Gladstone, W. E.,
his eulogy of Peel government, 14;
replies to despatch of Canadian government complaining of repeal of preferential tariff, 31
Globe, the,
founded, 20;
its motto, 20;
its prospectus, 20;
champions responsible government, 20;
advocates war with United States to free slaves, 28, 29;
defends abolition of Corn Laws in England, 31;
defends Lord Elgin, 36;
opposes Clear Grit movement, 40;
discusses dissensions among Reformers, 42, 43;
comments on Cardinal Wiseman's pastoral, 44;
attacks Hincks-Morin government, 48;
first issued as a daily in 1853, 74;
absorbs North American and Examiner, 74;
declaration of principles, 74, 75;
advocates alliance with Quebec Rouges, 78;
befriends fugitive slaves, 112;
opposes slavery, 119;
"no popery" campaign, 123, 124;
attacks Separate School Bill, 145;
the early article showing value of North-West Territories, 213-17;
severely criticizes Canada First party, 236-8;
its attitude considered, 239;
Brown declares his preference for editorship of Globe to any official position, 247;
its attack on Mr. Justice Wilson, 250-2;
the article gives rise to proceedings for contempt of court, 252;
Brown's defence, 252-4;
the court disagrees, 254;
description of building where Mr. Brown was shot, 255
Gordon, Arthur Hamilton, governor of New Brunswick,
opposes confederation, 187;
is censured by British government and instructed to reverse his policy, 187;
brings pressure to bear on his ministers to abandon opposition to confederation, 188;
the ministry resigns and is succeeded by a ministry favourable to confederation, 188
H
Head, Sir Edmund Bond,
sends for George Brown to form government, 101;
notifies Brown that he gives no pledge to dissolve, 102;
refuses dissolution, 106;
charge of partiality considered, 107, 108
Hincks, Sir Francis,
succeeds Robert Baldwin, 48;
attacked by Brown and the Globe, 48;
policy as to secularization of clergy reserves, 59;
his government defeated, 77;
he retires and gives his support to the MacNab-Morin government, 77, 78
Holton, Luther,
a member of the Brown-Dorion government, 102;
opposes coalition of 1864, 199;
his remarkable appeal to Brown to leave coalition, 200, 201
Howe, Joseph, his relations with Sir John Macdonald, 203
Howland, Sir W. P.,
visits Washington in connection with reciprocity, 193;
his relations with Sir John A. Macdonald's ministry, 202;
defends his course in adhering to coalition, 209
I
Isbester, Mr., services in calling attention to North-West Territories, 212
L
Liberal, the, founded during Canada First movement, 235
M
Macdonald, John A.,
rises to leadership of reconstructed Conservative party, 42;
charges Brown with misconduct as secretary of prison commission, 87-90;
enmity with Brown, 91;
recounts negotiations with Brown as to confederation, 154;
speech in legislature supporting confederation, 170;
informs House of crisis caused by defeat of New Brunswick government, 182;
announces mission to England, 182;
deals with question of defence, 183;
moves previous question, 185;
goes to England to confer with British government, 186;
asked to form an administration on death of Sir É. P. TachÉ, 189;
Brown objects, 190;
proposes Sir N. F. Belleau, who is accepted, 191;
relations with Brown, 201;
relations with Joseph Howe, 203
Macdonald, John Sandfield,
a member of Brown-Dorion government, 102;
advocates the "double majority," 142;
his government adopts Separate School Bill, 144
Macdougall, William,
one of the Clear Grits, 39;
editor of the North American, 40;
enters coalition ministry for purpose of carrying out confederation, 159;
argues for continuance of coalition, 210
Mackenzie, Alexander,
opposed to Reformers entering coalition ministry in 1864, 199;
his government sends Brown to Washington in connection with reciprocity, 1874, 226
Metcalfe, Sir Charles (afterwards Lord),
asked to undertake government of Canada, 18;
difficulty of position emphasized by Lord Stanley, 18;
misinformed as to intentions of Canadian Reformers, 19;
his dispute with Baldwin and Lafontaine, 19;
regards himself as defending unity of empire, 19;
willing to grant responsible government in a qualified sense, 19;
personal character, 19;
dissolves legislature, 24;
his view of the contest, 24;
votes offered for him personally, 25;
his victory, 26;
subsequent difficulties, 26;
illness and death, 27;
raised to peerage, 27
Mowat, Oliver,
a member of the Brown-Dorion government, 102;
a member of committee of Anti-Slavery Society, 112;
advocates federal union, 135;
enters coalition to carry out confederation, 159
N
Nation, the,
founded to advocate Canada First movement, 235;
sets forth programme of Canada First party, 236
National Club, the, founded during the Canada First movement, 235
New Brunswick,
defeat of local government, 181;
the confederation scheme endangered by this defeat, 181;
the situation discussed in the legislature of Canada, 182, 183;
the Canadian mission to England, 186;
the British government agrees to bring influence to bear on Maritime Provinces to enter confederation, 186;
position of Mr. Gordon, lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick, 187;
he at first opposes confederation, 187;
receives instructions from England to promote confederation, 187;
brings pressure to bear on his government to abandon opposition to confederation, 187, 188;
the government resigns, 188;
a general election follows, and a government favourable to confederation is returned, 188
New York, experience of the Browns in, 2, 3
North American, the organ of the Clear Grits, 40
Nova Scotia, the province of, forced into confederation, 206
North-West Territories,
Brown's interest in, 211;
address by Robert Baldwin Sullivan, 211;
article in the Globe describing resources of country, 213-15;
letters of "Huron" in Toronto Globe, 215;
meeting of Toronto Board of Trade, 216;
Reform convention of 1857 advocates addition of territories to Canada, 217;
scepticism as to value of country, 217, 218;
Brown speaks in favour of extension of Canada to Pacific Ocean, 219;
negotiations with British government, 220;
Macdonald's testimony to Brown's services, 221
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Parties, political,
in state of transition on Brown's entry into parliament, 69;
reconstruction on defeat of Hincks-Morin government, and formation of MacNab-Morin government, 77;
the new government described as a coalition by its friends and as Tory by its opponents, 77;
gradually comes to represent personal influence of John A. Macdonald, 78;
the Baldwin Reformers, 78;
opposition gathers under Brown, 78;
alliance between Upper Canadian Reformers and Rouges, 78
Peel government, its attitude towards responsible government in Canada, 13;
Gladstone's eulogium on, 14;
misunderstands Canadian situation, 14;
controversy with Governor Bagot, 16;
regards Bagot's action as a surrender to rebels, 16, 17;
appoints Metcalfe, 17-19
Preferential trade,
abolished by repeal of Corn Laws, 31;
complaints from Canada, 31;
the Globe defends British position, 31;
Lord Elgin condemns imperial protection, 32
Prison commission,
Macdonald charges Brown with falsifying testimony and suborning prisoners to commit perjury, 87;
scene in the House, 88;
Brown moves for a committee of inquiry, 88;
unexpectedly produces report of commission, 88;
proceedings of committee, 89;
Brown describes abuses revealed by commission, 90;
the incident embitters relations between Brown and Macdonald, 91;
Brown delivers public address on prison reform, 91, 92
Prohibition,
advocated by the Globe in 1853, 75;
discussed in legislature, 75;
drinking habits of Canada in early days, 75, 76
Protection,
beginning of agitation in Canada, 231;
opposed by Brown, 232, 233
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Rebellion in Canada (1837),
causes of, 11;
remedies proposed, 12
Rebellion Losses Bill, 34;
disturbance occasioned by, 35;
burning of parliament buildings at Montreal, 37;
mobbing of Lord Elgin, 37
Reciprocity,
abrogation of treaty of 1854 one of the causes of confederation, 148;
negotiations for renewal of treaty, 192;
confederate council on reciprocity formed, 193;
Galt and Howland visit Washington, 193;
Seward, American secretary of state, proposes reciprocal legislation instead of treaty, 193;
Brown's objections, 194, 223;
reasons for failure of negotiations of 1866, 224;
Americans set little value on Canadian trade, 224;
attempts at renewal in 1869 and 1871, 225;
the Brown mission of 1874, 225;
meeting with Mr. Rothery, agent of British government, 226;
Brown visits Washington, 226;
Sir Edward Thornton and Brown appointed to negotiate a treaty, 226;
reasons for selection of Brown, 227;
opening of negotiations, 227;
sketch of proposed treaty, 227;
list of articles on free list, 228;
Brown finds value of Canadian trade greatly under-estimated in Washington, 228;
Brown prepares a memorandum showing extent of trade, 229;
carries on propaganda in American newspapers, 230;
falsely charged with corrupting the press, 230;
the treaty goes to the American senate, 231;
failure of negotiations, 231;
objections made in Canada, 231;
Canadian movement for protection, 231;
Brown opposes protection, 232, 233
Reformers, Canadian,
open campaign for responsible government against Governor Metcalfe, 21;
wise leadership of Baldwin and Lafontaine, 24;
convention of 1857 advocates addition of North-West Territories to Canada, 217;
convention of 1859 to consider relations of Upper and Lower Canada, 133, 134;
arguments for confederation, 135;
George Sheppard's powerful speech against federation, 135, 136;
the advocates of federation agree to amendment minimizing powers of central government, 130, 137;
Brown advocates confederation, 137, 138;
Reformers consulted by George Brown as to confederation, 156;
they agree to Brown and others entering coalition cabinet, 157;
Reform party inadequately represented in coalition, 159;
question of Reform representation again raised on death of Sir É. P. TachÉ, 190;
Reform convention of 1867, 208;
approves of confederation, 208;
but declares that coalition should come to an end, its objects having been achieved, 208, 209
Representation by population,
proposed by George Brown, 82-4;
objections raised on behalf of Lower Canada, 84;
strength o