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;
joins 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


C

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, 40;
its platform, 41

Clergy reserves,
intended to endow Protestant clergy, 51;
claim of Church of England to exclusive enjoyment, 51;
evidence of intention to establish Church of England, 52;
effect of policy on Canada, 52;
described as one of the causes of rebellion, 53;
settlement retarded by locking up of lands, 53, 54;
Brown advocates secularization, 54;
Brown addresses meeting in Toronto, 55, 56;
the meeting mobbed, 58;
Riot Act read, and military aid used to protect meeting, 58;
secularization accomplished, 59, 60

Confederation of British American provinces advocated by British American League, 37, 38;
the proposal attributed to various persons, 129;
D'Arcy McGee says it was due to events more powerful than men, 129, 130;
Brown's course leads up to confederation, 130;
his letter to Luther Holton treating it as an open question, 131;
advocated by Dorion, 132;
by A. T. Galt, 132;
failure of attempt made in 1858, 133;
Liberals of Lower Canada declare for federal union, 133;
convention of Upper Canada Reformers, 133, 134;
the evils of the legislative union set forth, 134;
account of the convention, 134;
divided between dissolving and federalizing the union, 135;
Sheppard's acute criticism of plan of federation, 135;
convention declares for local legislatures, with joint authority for matters of common interest, 136, 138;
George Brown opposes dissolution of union, 137;
the legislature rejects Brown's resolutions founded on those of the convention, 139;
becomes an urgent question, 147;
causes of that change, 147;
Canada urged by Great Britain to take measures for defence, 147;
effect of the American Civil War, 147;
abrogation of reciprocity treaty and loss of American trade, 148;
fears of abolition of bonding system, 148;
isolated position of Canada, 148;
the credit of the country low, 148 (note);
the dead-lock in the government of Canada, 149;
attempts to form a stable government fail, 149;
Brown describes the situation, 150;
Brown brings into the House report of a special committee favouring federation as a remedy for difficulties in the government of Canada, 150;
the Taché' government defeated, 151;
negotiations with Brown, 151;
Ferrier's account of the meeting, 152;
Brown's account of negotiations, 152, 153;
Sir Richard Cartwright describes a scene in the House, 153;
official account of negotiations, 154;
Brown reluctant to join coalition ministry, 154;
question whether federation should include Maritime Provinces and North-West Territories, 155, 156;
Brown consults Reform members for Upper Canada, 156;
they approve of confederation and of coalition, 157;
the governor-general (Monk) urges Brown to enter coalition, 157;
Brown consents, 158;
letter from Brown, 158;
formation of the coalition, 159;
predominance of Conservatives in government, 160;
the bye-elections generally favour confederation, 160, 161;
movement for Maritime union, 161;
meeting of Canadian and Maritime representatives at Charlottetown, 161;
conference at Quebec, 163;
anxiety to avoid danger of "State sovereignty," 163;
powers not defined to reside in central parliament, 163;
constitution of the senate, 164;
Brown advocates nominated senate, 164;
Brown describes result of conference, 165;
the Maritime delegates visit Canada, 166;
cordial reception at Toronto, 166;
Brown there describes scheme of confederation, 166;
Brown visits England, 167;
Brown finds English opinion favourable, 167;
debate in the legislature of Canada, 169;
speech of Sir E. P. Taché, 169;
of John A. Macdonald, 170;
of Brown, 171-4;
of Dorion, 175;
Dorion's objections to centralization considered, 178;
the plan endangered by defeat of New Brunswick government, 181;
debate in the Canadian legislature, 182;
John Sandfield Macdonald charges coalition with attempting to mislead people, 183;
John A. Macdonald announces that a deputation will be sent to England to consult as to defence, and as to attitude of New Brunswick, 183;
Macdonald refers to debate in House of Lords on Canadian defences, 183, 184;
Macdonald moves previous question, 185;
ministers charged with burking discussion, 185;
the Maritime Provinces inclined to withdraw, 186;
Macdonald, Brown, Carrier and Galt visit England and confer with British ministers, 186;
an agreement made as to defence, etc., 186;
pressure brought to bear on New Brunswick, 186-8;
death of Sir E. P. Taché, 189;
discussion as to succession, 189;
Brown's objection to Macdonald becoming premier, 189, 190;
Sir N. F. Belleau chosen, 191;
causes which led to Brown's leaving the ministry, 191;
the reciprocity negotiations, 192;
a 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 protests against that, and generally against Galt's proceedings, 194;
Brown resigns his place in coalition, 195;
his reasons considered, 195-201;
violation of self-government involved in steps taken to bring about confederation, 204, 205;
absence of popular approval, 205, 206;
undue centralization, 207


D

Dorion, A. A.,
leader of Rouges, 80;
his friendship with George Brown, 80;
joins Brown-Dorion government, 102;
proposes federal union, 132;
his speech in Canadian legislature against confederation, 175;
declares that real authors of confederation were owners of Grand Trunk Railway Company, 176;
contends that too much power is vested in central authority, 177;
some of his objections well-founded, 178;
declares that Macdonald accepted confederation merely to retain office, 199

"Double majority," the, advocated by John Sandfield Macdonald, 142

"Double Shuffle," the, 100;
the Cartier-Macdonald government defeated on question of seat of government, 100;
resigns, 101;
George Brown asked to form ministry, 101;
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


E

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;