Canada Transformed by Gibson, Sarah -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Directory of Key Names Preface Introduction Editor’s Note Part One: Birth of a Parliamentarian

Declaring for the Crown and for Britain, 1843 Upholding the Election Law, 1844 Defending Primogeniture, 1845 Challenging the Usury Laws, 1846 Arguing for Import Duties, 1846 Thoughts on the Secret Ballot, 1846 Learning the Lessons on Education: His First Bill, 1847 Winning the Voter with the University Question, 1847 Fighting the Rebellion Losses Bill, 1849 Rejecting the Temperance Bill, 1853 Representation Bill, 1853 Compensation to the Seigneurs, 1853

Part Two: Rise of a Statesman

“Yielding to the Times”: Secular Clergy Reserves, 1854 Defending Separate Schools, 1855 “Double Majority,” 1858 Finding the Seat of Government, 1858 Defining a Homeland with the Homestead Act, 1860 Talking on Tour, 1860 “Best Speech Mr. Macdonald Ever Delivered,” 1861

Part Three: Nation Maker

Toast to Colonial Union, 1864 Debating Confederation, 1865 “Martyr to the Cause,” Eulogizing McGee, 1868 Founding a Library, 1868 Pacification of Nova Scotia, 1869

Part Four: Steadfast Visionary

Resistance at Red River, 1870 Manitoba Enters Confederation, 1870 Waiting for News of PEI, 1873 Treaty 1 and the North West Mounted Police, 1873 The Pacific Scandal, 1873 Placing the Tariff Pillar of the National Policy, 1879 Land, Money, and the Canadian Pacific Railway, 1881 Analyzing the North-West Rebellion, 1885 Wading Against the Rivers and Streams Act, 1882 Being an Auxiliary Kingdom, 1886

Part Five: Making Canadians

New Brunswick Schools, 1873 A Sun Run Its Course, 1873 Election Speech to the Workingmen, 1882 Celebrating Forty Years in Politics, 1885 Unveiling George-Étienne Cartier’s Statue, 1885 The Franchise Debates, 1885 The Science of Model Farms, 1885 Disallowance and the Jesuits’ Estates Act, 1889 Portrait-Unveiling Ceremony, 1890 Election Manifesto of 1891 Last Words, 1891 Eulogizing Macdonald, 1891

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