with Canadian
Pacific Railway over their monopoly of transportation, 285; takes a
constitutional stand on Jesuits' Estates Act, 289; commercial union
policy, 291 _et seq._; contemplates a general election, 300-302; takes
steps to renew commercial intercourse with United States, 303; his last
appeal to electors of Dominion, 304-311; makes the most of contents of
Farrer pamphlet, 313-314; throws himself with energy into election
campaign of 1891, 314; for fourth time his government is sustained, 315;
receives a chill while attending demonstration at Napanee, 319; attends
opening of the session, 320; suffers a slight stroke of paralysis, 320;
his last appearance in the House, 320; suffers a final stroke on May 29,
1891, 321; and dies on June 6, 1891, 321; funeral, 321, 322; tribute
from Queen Victoria, 322; memorial service in Westminster Abbey, and
tablet to his memory in St. Paul's Cathedral, 322-323; a summing up of
his work and influence, 333-353; a practical politician, 333-336; his
political methods, 335-338; his personal magnetism, 339; anecdotes of,
340-341; not an orator, but an effective debater, 341-342; proposed
preferential trade in 1879, 342; in favour of Imperial federation, 343;
letter to, from Cecil Rhodes, 349; kept in touch with Imperial affairs,
344; Imperial honours bestowed on, 344-345; a self-made man, 345;
tributes to his statesmanship, 346; his sympathy with French-Canadians,
347-348; a peacemaker, 348; Lord Dufferin on, 348-349; a poor man,
349-350; sum raised for, in 1870, 351; statues to, in many Canadian
cities, 351; his greatness and shortcomings, 351-353. =T= At
Charlottetown Conference, 74, 75; at Quebec Conference, 76, 78; at
Westminster Conference, 121; presented to the Queen, 124; forms first
Dominion ministry, 127-128, 129; forms second ministry, 136; his
national policy, 137. =Bib.=: Pope, _Memoirs of Sir John Alexander
Macdonald_; Macpherson, _Life of Macdonald_; Collins, _Life and Times of
Macdonald_; Adam, _Life and Career of Macdonald_; Hopkins, _Life of
Macdonald_; Biggar, _Anecdotal Life of Macdonald_; Dent, _Can. Por._ and
_Last Forty Years_; Taylor, _Brit. Am._; _Cyc. Am. Biog._

=Macdonald, John Sandfield= (1812-1872). Born in St. Raphaels,
Glengarry. In 1840 called to the bar, and practised in Cornwall. In 1841
elected to the Parliament of the recently united provinces of Upper and
Lower Canada; and in 1849 solicitor-general in the La Fontaine-Baldwin
government. In 1852-1854