Notes

 

1 Emerson Bristol Biggar, Anecdotal Life of Sir John Macdonald (Montreal: Lovell, 1891), 28.

2 Catharine Parr Traill, The Backwoods of Canada: Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America (London: C. Knight, 1836), 320.

3 Patricia Phenix, Private Demons: The Tragic Personal Life of John A. Macdonald (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2006), 17.

4 Joseph Pope, Memoirs of the Right Honourable Sir John Alexander Macdonald, G.C.B., First Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada, vol. 1 (Ottawa: J. Durie & Son, 1894), 6-7.

5 Ged Martin, John A. Macdonald: Canada’s First Prime Minister (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2013), 28.

6 Biggar, Anecdotal Life of Sir John Macdonald, 46.

7 Ibid., 47.

8 Phenix, Private Demons, 22.

9 Richard Gwyn, John A: The Man Who Made Us (Toronto: Random House, 2008), 31.

10 Ged Martin, “Sir John Eh? Macdonald: Recovering a Voice From History,” British Journal of Canadian Studies 17, no. 1 (2004): 117-24.

11 Martin, John A. Macdonald, 32-33.

12 Pope, Memoirs, vol. 1, 11.

13 Keith Johnson, Affectionately Yours: The Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald and His Family (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1969), 29.

14 Biggar, Anecdotal Life, 52.

15 Phenix, Private Demons, 58.

16 Lt. Col. J. Pennington Macpherson, The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir John A. Macdonald (St. John, NB: Earle Publishing House, 1891), 4-5.

17 Johnson, Affectionately Yours, 32.

18 Ibid., 34-35.

19 Ibid., 35.

20 Ibid., 41.

21 Martin, John A. Macdonald, 50.

22 Johnson, Affectionately Yours, 58.

23 James McSherry, “The Invisible Lady: Sir John A. Macdonald’s First Wife,” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 1, no. 1 (1984): 92-93, 96.

24 Phenix, Private Demons, 103.

25 Hugh Hornby Langton, ed., A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada: The Journals, Letters and Art of Anne Langton (Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1950), 189.

26 Johnson, Affectionately Yours, 72-73.

27 Gwyn, John A, 128.

28 Donald Swainson, Sir John A. Macdonald: The Man and the Politician, 2nd ed. (Kingston, ON: Quarry Press, 1989), 42.

29 Johnson, Affectionately Yours, 89.

30 Ibid., 91-92.

31 Martin, John A. Macdonald, 76.

32 Phenix, Private Demons, 135-36.

33 P.B. Waite, Macdonald: His Life and World (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1975), 13.

34 Macpherson, Life, 425.

35 Swainson, Sir John A. Macdonald, 54.

36 Martin, John A. Macdonald, 79.

37 Johnson, Affectionately Yours, 96-97.

38 Swainson, Sir John A. Macdonald, 56.

39 P.B. Waite, The Charlottetown Conference (Ottawa: Canadian Historical Association, No. 15, 1970), 11.

40 Gwyn, John A, 304.

41 Ibid., 276.

42 Ged Martin, “John A. Macdonald and the Bottle,” Journal of Canadian Studies 40, no. 3 (2006): 162-85.

43 Rev. Francis W.P. Bolger, “The Charlottetown Conference and Its Significance in Canadian History,” Canadian Catholic Historical Association, report no. 27 (1960): 18.

44 Martin, John A. Macdonald, 89.

45 Johnson, Affectionately Yours, 98-99.

46 Gwyn, John A, 387.

47 Johnson, Affectionately Yours, 102-103.

48 Louise Reynolds, Agnes: The Biography of Lady Macdonald (Toronto: Samuel Stevens, 1979), 45.

49 Ibid.,51.

50 Phenix, Private Demons, 183.

51 Ibid., 184.

52 Reynolds, Agnes, 58.

53 Phenix, Private Demons, 196.

54 Reynolds, Agnes, 65.

55 Ibid., 58.

56 Martin, John A. Macdonald, 122.

57 Biggar, Anecdotal Life of John A. Macdonald, 233.

58 Steven Poole, “Queen Victoria on cannabis, and all the other things you never knew about drugs,” New Statesman, February 14, 2014, http://www.newstatesman.com/2014/02/high-hopes.

59 Phenix, Private Demons, 212.

60 Waite, Macdonald, 51.

61 Phenix, Private Demons, 214.

62 Ibid., 215.

63 Richard Gwyn, Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times (Toronto: Vintage, 2012), 213.

64 Johnson, Affectionately Yours, 111-12.

65 Swainson, Sir John A. Macdonald, 98-99.

66 Macpherson, Life, 199.

67 Ibid.

68 Swainson, Sir John A. Macdonald, 99.

69 Langton, A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada, 321.

70 Catharine Parr Traill, The Female Emigrant’s Guide and Hints on Canadian Housekeeping (Toronto: Maclear, 1854), 133-34.

71 Waite, Macdonald, 49-50.

72 Langton, A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada, 252.

73 Johnson, Affectionately Yours, 118.

74 Phenix, Private Demons, 245.

75 Lucinda Hawksley, The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria’s Rebellious Daughter (London: Random House, 2013), 181.

76 Waite, Macdonald, 50.

77 James William Daschuk, Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life (Regina: University of Regina Press, 2013), 118.

78 Margaret Conrad and Alvin Finkel, History of the Canadian Peoples, 1867 to the Present, vol. 2, 4th ed. (Toronto: Pearson, 2005).

79 Richard Gwyn, “Canada’s First Scapegoat,” The Walrus, December 2014, http://thewalrus.ca/canadas-first-scapegoat/.

80 Martin, John A. Macdonald, 167.

81 Gwyn, Nation Maker, 420.

82 John Thompson to Annie Thompson, Sir John Thompson Papers, vol. 288, November 3, 1885. Library and Archives Canada.

83 Gwyn, Nation Maker, 9.

84 Patricia Beeson, Macdonald Was Late For Dinner (Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 1993), 191.

85 Reynolds, Agnes, 110.

86 Maurice Pope, ed., Public Servant: The Memoirs of Sir Joseph Pope (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1960), 54-55.

87 Reynolds, Agnes, 111.

88 Phenix, Private Demons, 271.

89 Waite, Macdonald, 168.

90 Richard Gwyn, “Sir John A. Macdonald made mistakes, but he wasn’t a racist,” Toronto Star, February 6, 2014.

91 Martin, John A. Macdonald, 178.

92 Rev. Byron H. Stauffer, speaker, Address to The Empire Club of Canada, Toronto, February 18, 1915, http://speeches.empireclub.org/62057/.

93 Ibid.

94 Globe and Mail, http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/series/primeministers/stories/obit-JAM.html.

95 Swainson, Sir John A. Macdonald, 148.

96 Pope, Memoirs, vol. 2 (Ottawa: J. Durie & Son: Ottawa, 1894), 293.