Introduction
1. Charles Lynch, The Lynch Mob, Stringing Up Our Prime Ministers (Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1998), 183.
Walk 1: Two Royal Parks
1. Seán Jennett, The Official Guide to the Royal Parks of London (London: HMSO, 1979), 12.
2. Frederick A. Pottle (ed.), Boswell’s London Journal (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950), 231.
3. James Morris, Heaven’s Command (London: Penguin Books, 1979), 359; Kenneth Bourne, Britain and the Balance of Power in North America 1815–1908 (London: Longmans, 1967), 404.
4. Christopher Hibbert, Wellington: A Personal History (Reading, MA: Perseus Books, 1979), 173.
5. “Federal Lack of Action on War Memorial ‘Scandalous,’ Says Black,” CBC News, August 16, 2007, www.cbc.ca/news/world/federal-lack-of-action-on-war-memorial-scandalous-says-black-1.689969.
6. Issued by St. Stephen’s Bank of New Brunswick until 1886.
7. Joseph Schull, Laurier, the First Canadian (Toronto: Macmillan, 1965), 355.
8. Norman Hillmer and Jack Granatstein, Empire to Umpire (Toronto: Copp Clark Longman, 1994), 17.
9. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Vincent Massey, What’s Past is Prologue: The Memoirs of the Right Honourable Vincent Massey (Toronto: Macmillan, 1963), 255; Claude Bissell, The Imperial Canadian: Vincent Massey in Office (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986), 40. There is a plaque at 36 St. Mary’s Terrace in Hastings, East Sussex, where Archibald Belaney, or Grey Owl, lived.
10. Max Beloff, Britain’s Imperial Sunset, Volume 1: Britain’s Liberal Empire 1897–1921 (London: 1969), 20–21, quoted in David Reynolds, Britannia Overruled (London and New York: Longman Group, 1991) 10.
11. The approximate value of $146,000 in 1911, www.bankofcanada.ca/en/rates/inflation_calc.html.
12. J. Simpson and G. Martin, The Canadian Guide to Britain, Volume 1: England (Toronto: Macmillan, 1985), 7.
13. Simon Schama, Dead Certainties, Unwarranted Speculations (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1991), 21–22.
14. Benjamin West was appointed historical painter to the king the following year and would paint four more copies of his famous painting. The 2nd Duke of Westminster presented the original, dated 1770, to Canada in 1918 in recognition of its contribution to the First World War.
15. Tom Bower, Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge (New York: Harper Press, 2006), 148.
16. Anne Chisolm and Michael Davie, Beaverbrook, A Life (London: Pimlico, 1992), 174.
17. Chester W. New, Lord Durham: A Biography of John George Lambton, First Earl of Durham (London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1968), 564.
18. Arnold Smith with Clyde Sanger, Stitches in Time (London: Andre Deutsche, 1981), 285.
19. Ibid., 65.
20. Hillmer and Granatstein, 252. In 1994, with Nelson Mandela as president, South Africa returned to the Commonwealth family.
21. David Adamson, The Last Empire (London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 1989), 15–16.
22. William Kilbourn, The Making of the Nation, A Century of Challenge (Toronto: The Canadian Centennial Publishing Co., 1965), 69.
23. Robert Hardman, “The Most Loathsome Bird in Britain,” Mail Online, June 4, 2008.
24. Vincent Massey, 276–77.
25. Tom MacDonnell, Daylight Upon Magic: The Royal Tour of Canada 1939 (Toronto: Macmillan, 1989), 244.
26. Jean Lacouture, De Gaulle, the Ruler: 1945–1970 (London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991), 450.
27. Ibid., 456.
28. James Morris, An Imperial Retreat (London: Penguin Books, 1979), 337.
29. John H. Plumb, The First Four Georges (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1967), 148.
30. The Journal de Bougainville, quoted in C.P. Stacey, Quebec, 1759, The Siege and the Battle, revised edition (Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 2002), 225.
31. The New Chart of the St. Lawrence River was published the following year, 1760.
Walk 2: St. James’s and Pall Mall
1. William Bernstein, A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World (London: Atlantic Books, 2008), 248–49.
2. Richard Grenville, quoted in Brian Tunstall, William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (Great Britain: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1938), 89.
3. J.M. Scott, The Book of Pall Mall (London: Heinemann, 1965), 63.
4. Robert Windeler, Sweetheart: The Story of Mary Pickford (New York: Praeger, 1974), 118–19.
5. American Experience, “Mary Pickford,” www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pickford.
6. Charles Foster, Stardust and Shadows: Canadians in Early Hollywood (Toronto: Dundurn, 2000), 284.
7. Eileen Whitfield, Pickford (Toronto: Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, 1997), 202.
8. G. Graham, The Walker Expedition to Quebec, 1711 (Toronto: Champlain Society, 1953), 44.
9. Charles Davies, Bread Men: How the Westons Built an International Empire (Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1987), 39.
10. And, of course, to keep Jermyn’s costs down.
11. Arthur Pound and Richard Day, Johnson of the Mohawks (New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1971), 431.
12. Ibid., 430. Guy Johnson’s house still stands in Amsterdam, New York, not far from his more-famous relative’s home. It is one of many properties loyalists fleeing to Canada abandoned for which they were never compensated. Today the old Erie Canal runs past its front door.
13. James Roy, Joseph Howe (Toronto: Macmillan, 1935), 96.
14. Phillip Buckner, “Campbell, Sir Colin,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 7, (Toronto: University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003), www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=3290.
15. Charles Ritchie, The Siren Years 1937–1945 (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1974), 147.
16. And remained so until the Carlton Club, which was even more Conservative, was created in the 1830s.
17. John Keegan, ed., Churchill’s Generals (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1991), 108.
18. Ibid., 125. Liddell Hart quoted.
19. Owen Cooke and Norman Hillmer, “Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis,” The Canadian Encyclopaedia (Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1985).
20. Anthony Lejeune, The Gentlemen’s Clubs of London (London: Parkgate Books, 1984), 289.
21. Tom Bower, Conrad and Lady Black, Dancing on the Edge (New York: Harper Press, 2006), 13. In the 2007 Canadian Who’s Who, Lord Black lists the Athenaeum and the Beefsteak as his other London clubs.
22. Anthony Lejeune, 67.
23. Burgoyne surrendered his army in October 1777 at Saratoga, New York, and returned to England. The American Revolution continued until General Cornwallis’s defeat in 1781 at Yorktown.
24. Roy MacLaren, Commissions High, Canada in London (Kingston/Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006), 325.
25. Claude Bissell, Imperial Canadian: Vincent Massey in Office (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986), 54; Charles Lynch, The Lynch Mob: Stringing up our Prime Ministers (Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1988), 178.
26. Vincent Massey, What’s Past is Prologue: The Memoirs of the Right Honourable Vincent Massey (Toronto: Macmillan, 1963), 241–42.
27. Ibid., 268.
28. Nancy Gelber, Canada in London: An Unofficial Glimpse of Canada’s Sixteen High Commissioners, 1880–1980 (London: Canada House, 1980), 58.
29. Choral Pepper, Walks in Oscar Wilde’s London (Salt Lake City, UT: Peregrine Smith Books 1992), 33–34; H. Montgomery Hyde, ed., Trials of Oscar Wilde, Vol. 70: Notable British Trials (London: W. Hodge and Company, 1948), 206.
30. Carl Bishop, The Beaver: Exploring Canada’s History (February-March 2006), 34(6), quoting The St. James Gazette, September 24, 1890. It should be noted there are other origins of the story.
31. Maureen Borland, Oscar Wilde’s Devoted Friend (Oxford: Lennard Publishing, 1990), 16.
32. Even Wilde’s headstone in Père Lachaise Cemetery by British sculptor Jacob Epstein (1880–1959) proved controversial. It was decorated with a flying figure encumbered with large privates. Parisians covered up the stone in shame until someone came along with a chisel and emasculated it.
33. Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde (Markham, ON: Viking, 1987), 260.
34. James Noonan, Canada’s Governors General at Play (Ottawa: Borealis, 2002), 284.
35. Maybe because he didn’t completely understand the game, Grey never took part in a ceremonial kick-off. That honour went to his descendant, the 6th Earl Grey, in 1986 (James Noonan, 290).
36. Charles Ritchie, Storm Signals: More Undiplomatic Diaries (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1971), 128.
37. Leslie Plommer, Globe and Mail, February 16, 1981.
38. Stephen Clarkson and Christina McCall, Trudeau and Our Times, Volume 1: The Magnificent Obsession (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart,1990), 317.
39. Ibid., 385.
40. Paul Martin, The London Diaries 1975–1979 (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1988), 313.
41. King James II (1633–1701; reigned 1685–88). Peter C. Newman, Company of Adventurers, Volume 1 (Viking, 1985), 102.
42. Ibid., 105.
43. Now located at 69 St. James’s Street. The old club in Pall Mall was hit by an incendiary bomb in 1940.
44. Fred Anderson, Crucible of War (New York: Alfred Knopf, 2000), 311; John H. Plumb, Chatham (London: Collins, 1953), 75.
45. Charles Ritchie, The Siren Years, 78.
46. Massey Diary, April 1, 1937 quoted in Claude Bissell, 9.
47. Vincent Massey, 251.
48. Charles Ritchie, Storm Signals, 124.
49. Alan Gowans, Looking at Architecture in Canada (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1958), 78.
50. Charles Greville quoted in Adam Shortt, Lord Sydenham (Toronto: Morang & Co., 1908), 43–44.
51. David Bercuson et al., Colonies: Canada to 1867 (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1992), 332.
52. Paul Martin, London Diaries, 202.
53. Vincent Massey, 291.
54. John H. Plumb, The First Four Georges (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1967), 143.
55. John Kalbfleisch, “The First of a Long Line of Royals,” Montreal Gazette, September 7, 2008.
56. Nancy Gelber, 36.
Walk 3: Trafalgar Square and Whitehall
1. Rodney Mace, Trafalgar Square Emblem of Empire (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 2005), 46.
2. J.P. Kenyon, Stuart England (London: Penguin, 1983), 75.
3. James Adams, “Faceoff Over Bard a Battle of Wills,” Globe and Mail, April 13, 2009.
4. Peter and Douglas Richardson, Canadian Churches: An Architectural History (Toronto: Firefly Books, 2007), 44.
5. Thomas R. Millman, “Mountain, Jacob,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume 6, (Toronto: University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003), www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=3040.
6. Except for the columned portico. Mountain couldn’t afford that and chose a flat façade instead. Alan Gowans, Looking at Architecture in Canada (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1958), 70.
7. Peter and Douglas Richardson, 121.
8. Rodney Mace, 200. The ambassador’s wife was Lady Emma Hamilton, Nelson’s soon-to-be mistress.
9. Scurvy is a painful disease caused by a deficiency in vitamin C. It would eventually be remedied by eating sauerkraut.
10. Tom Pocock, Nelson’s Women (Andre Deutsch, 2005), 57.
11. Ibid., 72.
12. René Lévesque, Lévesque Memoirs (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1986), 130–31.
13. Walter Thornbury, “Whitehall: Historical Remarks,” in Old and New London: Volume 3 (1878), 337–61, www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45158.
14. Julian Symons, England’s Pride, the Story of the Gordon Relief Expedition (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1965), 106–07.
15. R.T. Naylor, Canada in the European Age 1453–1919 (Vancouver: New Star Books, 1987), 491.
16. John Boileau, “The Nile Voyageurs,” Legion Magazine (January 1, 2004), www.legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2004/01/voyageurs-on-the-nile.
17. R.T. Naylor, 57.
18. Jack Granatstein, The Generals, The Canadian Army’s Senior Commanders in the Second World War (Toronto: Stoddart, 1993), 31.
19. C.P. Stacey, Memoirs of a Canadian Historian: A Date with History (Ottawa: Deneau Publishers, 1982), 235.
20. Jack Granatstein, 112–13.
21. Ibid., 111, quoting Alanbrooke papers.
22. John Laffin, British Butchers and Bunglers of World War One (Gloucester: Sutton Publishing, 2003), 118.
23. Irvin Ehrenpreis, Swift: The Man, His Works and the Age, Volume 2 (London: Metheun & Co, 1967), 468–69.
24. Antoine de Guiscard died in London’s Newgate Prison. The jailor pickled his body and charged the curious a penny to see it. Peter Jones, “Antoine de Guiscard, Abbé de la Bourlie, Marquis de Guiscard,” Electronic British Library Journal, 1982, 111, www.bl.uk/eblj/1982articles/article6.html.
25. Stephen Clarkson and Christina McCall, Trudeau and Our Times, Volume 1: The Magnificent Obsession (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart,1990), 322.
26. Ged Martin, Britain and the Origins of Canadian Confederation, 1837–67 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1995), 118.
27. D.M.L. Farr, The Colonial Office and Canada 1867–1887 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1955), 23.
28. Geoffrey Simmins, ed., Documents in Canadian Architecture (Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 1992), 33.
29. David Dilks, The Great Dominion, Winston Churchill in Canada (Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers, 2005), 101.
30. Gordon Robertson, Memoirs of a Very Civil Servant, Mackenzie King to Pierre Trudeau (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000), 65.
31. C.P. Stacey, Canada and the Age of Conflict, Volume 2. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981), 298.
32. Ibid., 298.
33. Robert Bothwell, Canada 1900–1945 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987), 341.
34. Ramsay Cook, Canada A Modern Study (Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company, 1963), 86.
35. Richard Gwyn, John A., The Man Who Made Us: The Life and Times of John A Macdonald, Volume 1 (Toronto: Random House Canada, 2007), 434.
36. Glen Frankfurter, Baneful Dominion: The Idea of Canada in the North Atlantic World, 1581–1971 (Don Mills, ON: Longman Canada, 1971), 173.
37. W.L. Morton, The Critical Years, The Union of British North America 1857–1873 (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1963), 212.
38. Though the term had been used briefly before to describe early New England.
39. Kenneth McNaught, The Penguin History of Canada (Toronto: Penguin Books, 1988), 130.
40. Charles Dickens, Pictures from Italy and American Notes (London: 1859), 205.
41. In return, Canada presented clerk’s table made of Canadian oak to the restored House of Commons.
42. Ged Martin, 288.
43. Oscar Douglas Skelton, The Life and Times of Alexander Tilloch Galt (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1920), 410.
Walk 4: Westminster and Lambeth
1. D. Creighton, John A Macdonald: The Old Chieftain (Toronto: Macmillan, 1965), 279. A term to describe a representative of the pope.
2. Roy MacLaren, Commissions High, Canada in London (Kingston/Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006), 40.
3. Ibid., 39.
4. Ibid., 229, quoting Peter Larkin in Saturday Night, September 15, 1923.
5. Donald Creighton, John A. Macdonald: The Young Politician (Toronto: Macmillan, 1952), 443.
6. Oscar Douglas Skelton, The Life and Times of Alexander Tilloch Galt (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1920), 408.
7. Donald Creighton, The Young Politician, 454.
8. Alan Gowans, Looking at Architecture in Canada (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1958), 113.
9. Ibid., 115.
10. Franklin Toker, The Church of Notre Dame in Montreal (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1970), 77.
11. Roy MacLaren, 41.
12. Edmund Burke to the British House of Commons, 1870, quoted in David Bercuson et al., Colonies: Canada to 1867 (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1992), 130.
13. Kenneth McNaught, The Penguin History of Canada (Toronto: Penguin Books, 1988), 71. One of these was Henry Dearborn (1751–1829), nicknamed “Granny” by his troops.
14. Castlereagh to Liverpool, 1815, quoted in Kenneth Bourne, Britain and the Balance of Power in North America 1815–1908 (London: Longmans, 1967), 53.
15. Christopher Hibbert, Wellington: A Personal History (Reading, MA: Perseus Books, 1979), 238.
16. Clive Holland, “McClintock, Sir Francis Leopold,” in Canadian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 3 (Toronto: University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003), www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?BioId=41016.
17. William Whiteley, “Saunders, Sir Charles,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume 4 (Toronto: University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003), www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?BioId=36283.
18. Stephen Brumwell, The Paths of Glory: The Life and Death of General James Wolfe (London: Habledon Continuum, 2006), 304.
19. McNairn, A., Behold the Hero, General Wolfe & the Arts in the Eighteenth Century (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1997), 69.
20. G.R. Elton, England Under the Tudors (London: Metheun, 1974), 42.
21. Christopher McCreery, The Order of Canada: Its Origins, History, And Development (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), 13–14.
22. Donald Creighton, The Old Chieftain, 272.
23. Fred Anderson, Crucible of War (New York: Knopf, 2000), 113.
24. W.S. Kennedy, Henry W. Longfellow: Biography, Anecdotes, Letters, Criticism (Cambridge: Moss King Publishers, 1882), quoted in Cecil B. Williams, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1964), 155.
25. C.P. Stacey, Quebec 1759 (Toronto: Robin Brass, 2002), 134–36.
26. Alan Taylor, The Civil War of 1812 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011), 47.
27. John Campbell, F.E. Smith: The First Earl of Birkenhead (Cape, 1983), 266, quoted in Anne Chisholm and Michael Davie, Beaverbrook, A Life (London: Pimlico, 1992), 113–14.
28. Village of Rexton website, www.villageofrexton.com/bonar.php, updated 04/16/2014.
29. June Purvis, Emmeline Pankhurst, A Biography (New York: Rutledge, 2002), 332.
30. Ibid., 331.
31. The name given to syphilis by the Italians. The French called it the Italian Disease.
32. June Purvis, 323.
33. Ibid., 329.
34. Alan Taylor, 51.
35. National Post, January 6, 2001.
36. I. Vincent, “Paintings Raise Blunt Questions,” National Post, December 14, 2000.
37. Robert F. Legget, “By, John,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume 7 (Toronto: University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003), www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?BioId=37404.
38. Angus McLaren, A Prescription for Murder: The Victorian Serial Killings of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), 34.
39. Lynn Macdonald, The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001), 23.
40. A.N. Thompson, “Smithurst, John,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume 9 (Toronto: University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003).
41. William Anthony Styles, Unusual Facts of Canadian History (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1947), 112; Vivienne Smith, “Preacher Carried a Torch for Florence,” Derby Evening Telegraph, September 28, 2004, www.stjohnselora.ca/index.cfm?page=FlorenceNightingale.
Walk 5: Fleet Street to St. Paul’s
1. Peter Ackroyd, London: The Biography (London: Vintage, 2001), 404.
2. Drawings of John Soane, Volume 42/55: John Soane (1753–1837): Government House, York, Upper Canada, November 13, 1818, www.soane.org.uk/drawings.
3. “Passed Legless Air Hero Now Posted to R.C.A.F.,” Canadian Press, October 15, 1940, http://acesofww2.com/UK/aces/bader.
4. Brereton Greenhous et al, The Crucible of War, 1939-1945: The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Volume III (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994), 40.
5. Brereton, Greenhous et al., 54.
6. Peter Burroughs, “MacDonnell, Sir Richard Graves,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume 11 (Toronto: University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003), www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?BioId=39794.
7. James E. Hendrickson, “Cary, George Hunter,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume 9 (Toronto: University of Toronto/Université Laval), www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=4341.
8. Ged Martin, Britain and the Origins of Confederation (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1995), 282. See footnote 249.
9. Stephen Eggleston, “The Myth and Mystery of POgG (Peace, Order and Good Government),” Journal of Canadian Studies, Winter 1996–97.
10. Ged Martin, 110; Donald Creighton, Road to Confederation, 282.
11. Brereton Greenhous, “Billy Bishop — Brave Flyer, Bold Liar,” Canadian Military Journal, Autumn 2002, 61–64.
12. James Boswell, Life of Johnson (Boston: Carter, Hendee and Co., 1832), 194.
13. “The Mill Founder, His Descendants and Their Canadian Tax Crusade,” Globe and Mail, February 17, 2009.
14. Alan Cooke, “Frobisher, Sir Martin,” in Canadian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1 (Toronto: University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003), www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=230.
15. Tom Bower, Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge (New York: Harper Press, 2006), 127.
16. Ibid., 112–13, quoting R. Siklos, Shades of Black.
17. Ibid., 170.
18. “All over at the Black Lubianka?” Sunday Telegraph, February 2, 1997, 8.
19. Anne Chisholm and Michael Davie, Beaverbrook: A Life (London: Pimlico, 1992), 135.
20. Ibid., 163.
21. “Daily Express, A Chequered History,” BBC News, 25 Jan 2001; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/974835.stm.
22. Anne Chisholm and Michael Davie, 200.
23. “A Century Later, was Dr. Crippen Really Innocent?” Daily Express, November 27, 2010.
24. Fred Anderson, Crucible of War (New York: Knopf, 2000), 12.
25. Brendan Simms, Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714–1783 (London: Allen Lane, 2007), 64; Richmond Bond, Queen Anne’s American Kings (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952), 4; and Fred Anderson, 20. The paintings of the four kings are now in the possession of Library and Archives Canada.
26. Alan Taylor, The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels & Indian Allies (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011), 188–89.
27. James Morris, Heaven’s Command: An Imperial Progress (London: Penguin Books, 1979), 350–55.
Walk 6: Mayfair
1. F.H.W. Sheppard (general editor), Survey of London: Volume 40: The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair Part 2, British History Online, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=298.
2. Richard Gwyn, John A., The Man Who Made Us: The Life and Times of John A. Macdonald (Toronto: Random House Canada, 2007), 258.
3. C.P. Stacey, A Very Double Life: The Private World of Mackenzie King (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1976), 213.
4. Francis Parkman, Half Century of Conflict, Volume I (Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1898), 178.
5. Kevin O’Brien, Oscar Wilde in Canada, An Apostle for the Arts (Toronto: Personal Library, 1982), 146.
6. Ibid., 79.
7. Ibid., 44.
8. Ibid., 119.
9. Paul Martin, The London Diaries 1975–1979 (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1988), 374.
10. Donna McDonald, Lord Strathcona (Toronto: Dundurn, 1996), 489.
11. Tom Bower, Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge (New York: Harper Press, 2006), 399.
12. Ben Pimlott, The Queen: Elizabeth II and the Monarchy (London: Harper Press, 2012), 3.
13. See www.niagaraparks.com/attractions/sir-adam-beck-history.html.
14. Pierre Berton, Niagara: A History of the Falls (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1992) 215.
15. Howard Schneider, “A Statue of Limitations Not Fit for a King,” Washington Post, May 18, 1998.
16. W. Kaye Lamb, “Vancouver, George,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume 4 (Toronto: University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003), www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=2195; Stephan Ruttan, “The Vancouver/Camelford Affair,” Greater Victoria Public Library, http://gvpl.ca/using-the-library/our-collection/local-history/tales-from-the-vault/the-vancouver-camelford-affair.
17. P.B. Waite, “Bernard, Susan Agnes,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume 14, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003, www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bernard_susan_agnes_14E.html; Louise Reynolds, Agnes: The Biography of Lady Macdonald (Toronto: Samuel Stevens, 1979).
18. P.B. Waite, “Stanley, Frederick Arthur, 1st Baron Stanley and 16th Earl of Derby,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume 13 (Toronto: University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003), www.biographi.ca/en/bio/stanley_frederick_arthur_13E.html; “Blimey, it’s Stanley; Lord Stanley’s Cup makes its First Visit to its Birth Place,” Hamilton Spectator, April 21, 2006; Kevin Shea and John J. Wilson, Lord Stanley, The Man Behind the Cup (Bolton, ON: Fenn Publishing Company Ltd., 2006), 383.
Walk 7: Greenwich
1. Peter Ackroyd, London: The Biography (London: Vintage, 2001), 548.
2. Leslie Roberts, There Shall Be Wings (Toronto: Clarke, Irwin and Company Ltd., 1959), 137.
3. Peter Foster, Towers of Debt (Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1993), 201.
4. Ibid., 199.
5. Ibid., 287, see footnote.
6. Stephen Hume, “Sir Francis Drake, not Captain James Cook, was the First European to set Eyes on the B.C. Coast,” Vancouver Sun, February 19, 2009, A17.
7. Frank McLynn, Captain Cook, Master of the Seas (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011), 350–51.
8. Ibid., 278.
9. Derek House and Beresford Hutchinson, The Clocks and Watches of Captain James Cook 1769–1969, reprinted from four quarterly issues of Antiquarian Horology (London: 1969), 194.
10. K1 and K3 are the only timekeepers associated with Cook.
11. Derek Hayes, Historical Atlas of Canada: Canada’s History Illustrated with Original Maps (Vancouver and Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 2002), 158.
12. Jean McGill, The Joy of Effort: A Biography of R. Tait McKenzie (Oshawa, ON: Alger Press, 1980), 125.
13. Clark Blaise, Time Lord: The Remarkable Canadian Who Missed His Train, and Changed the World (Toronto: Vintage Canada Edition, 2000), 86–90.
14. Francis Parkman, Montcalm and Wolfe: The French & Indian War (New York: Da Capo Press, 1995), 415.