PRIME MINISTERS, 1867-1912

From photographs by Topley, Ottawa, and Notman, Montreal

AND ITS PROVINCES

A HISTORY OF THE CANADIAN PEOPLE AND THEIR INSTITUTIONS BY ONE HUNDRED ASSOCIATES

PRINTED BY T. & A. CONSTABLE
AT THE EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
FOR THE PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATION
OF CANADA LIMITED

TORONTO

GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY
1914

Copyright in all countries subscribing to

the Berne Convention

CONTENTS

THE FEDERATION: GENERAL OUTLINES, 1867-1912. By
GEORGE M. WRONG

THE NEW DOMINION, 1867-1873. By JOHN LEWIS

I. CHIEF ARCHITECTS OF CONFEDERATION.

II. THE COALITION GOVERNMENT

III. THE INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY

IV. EXPANSION WESTWARD

Annexing the Great West-Red River Insurrection-Donald
Smith's Mission-The Scott Tragedy - Bishop Taché as
Peacemaker-The Wolseley Expedition-The Amnesty

V. THE WASHINGTON TREATY

VI. Fall of THE MACDONALD GOVERNMENT

THE MACKENZIE ADMINISTRATION, 1873-1878. By JOHN
LEWIS

1. THE LIBERALS IN POWER.

Protests from British Columbia-Reciprocity-Canada First
-The Supreme Court-The Clergy and Politics-Temperance
Legislation-The Letellier Case

II. THE NATIONAL POLICY

Defeat of Mackenzie

CANADA UNDER MACDONALD, 1878-1891. By JOHN LEWIS

THE NEW TARIFF

THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY

THE REDISTRIBUTION OF 1882

THE ONTARIO BOUNDARY

THE STREAMS BILL