relations with George Brown, 189-192;
asked to form government, 1865, 189; interview with Brown, 189-191; his
proposal that Belleau be premier accepted by Brown, 191; virtual leader
of government, 191; charged with using Brown as a stepping-stone to his
own political ambition, 199; benefits by Brown's entry into ministry,
199, 200; Holton describes his path as "studded all along by the
gravestones of his slaughtered colleagues," 201; on friendly terms with
Holton, 202; his essential conservatism, 202; relations with Macdougall
and Howland, 202, 209; with Joseph Howe, 203-206, 210; his ideal of a
legislative union, 207; anomalous position of his Liberal colleagues,
209-210; his government overthrown, 210, 235. =BL= Co-operates in
founding United Empire Association, 228; elected in 1844, 252; enters
ministry as receiver-general, 276; re-elected, 279; offers Baldwin
chief-justiceship of Common Pleas, 357; Hincks in his Cabinet, 359.
=Md= Assigned foremost place among Canadian statesmen, i; national
recognition of his services after his death by creation of peerage for
his widow, i; memorial tablet in St. Paul's Cathedral, and statues in
Canadian cities, i; his personal popularity, i-ii; his personality made
Confederation possible, ii; Canada's debt to him, iii-iv; his birth and
ancestry, 1; brought to Canada in 1820, 1; boyhood days at Kingston and
on the Bay of Quinte, 2; his debt to his mother, her strong personality,
2; educated at Kingston Grammar School, 3; Mowat's tribute, 3; studies
law, 4-5; called to the bar, 1836, 5; begins practice at age of
twenty-one, 5; Oliver Mowat and Alexander Campbell students in his
office, 6; called out as a volunteer in Rebellion of 1837, 7; defends
Schoultz and Ashley, 8-9; his first visit to England, 1842, 9; takes
Alexander Campbell into partnership, 9; elected alderman for Kingston,
10; marries his cousin, Miss Isabella Clark, Sept. 1, 1843, 10; their
children, 10; enters public life, 1854, as member for Kingston, 11-12;
his firm belief from the beginning that Canada's prosperity depended on
permanent connection with the mother country, 12; impelling motives of
his long public career, 13; unsettled problems in 1844, 13-14;
Confederation movement, 14; difficulties of his position, 15-16; his
election address, 23; takes little part in discussions during his first
session, 25; Draper recommends him for position of commissioner of crown
lands, 26; had no sympathy with political creed of