ly one
was the nominee or the special choice of Sir Hugh Allan. The others
were elected without the slightest reference to him; some of them
against his most strenuous opposition, and they included three of the
incorporators of the Ontario company, two of whom had been directors in
that company. In that charter there were no advantages given, nor
could they be given, by the Government. Parliament had decided what
the subsidy in money and land should be, and that was given and no more.

[16] At that very time George Brown was writing thus to a leading
banker in Toronto:

TORONTO, _August_ 15, 1872.

MY DEAR SIR,--The fight goes bravely on.... We have expended our
strength in aiding outlying counties and helping our city candidates.
But a big push has to be made on Saturday and Monday for the East and
West divisions.... We therefore make our grand stand on Saturday.
There are but half a dozen people that can come down handsomely, and we
have done all we possibly can do, and we have to ask a few outsiders to
aid us. Will you be one? I have been urged to write you, and comply
accordingly. Things look well all over the Province.... Things look
bright in Quebec.--Faithfully yours,

GEO. BROWN.

[17] Senate Debates, 1879, p. 565.

[18] 'I now refer to the diplomatic blunder committed in undertaking
solemn engagements that the entire resources of the Empire could not
possibly implement.... You will see how unlikely it was that that
road, with all the power of man and all the money of Europe, could have
been completed in 1881' (Mackenzie at Sarnia, October 11, 1875).

Even after the completion of the C.P.R. the _Globe_ mocked at the
enterprise in this fashion: 'The iron band of Confederation has been
completed.... The salubrious Rocky and Selkirk ranges may now become a
summer resort for the fashionable and crowded populations situated
between Callander and Rat Portage. In short, the Canadian Pacific
Railway has been opened.... For our own part, we have not the
slightest doubt that the C.P.R. will be no less effective than the N.P.
in creating wealth for Canada.... This will be amply proved by the
spectacle of a railway 2500 miles long operated on the strength of a
traffic with about 150,000 people. Such a thing was never tried
before, and is unlikely ever to be tried again' (_Globe_, July 13,
1886).

[19] 'You don't, I think, give sufficient weight to the troubles and
difficulties which beset the Gover