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Title: Lord Elgin

Author: John George Bourinot

Release Date: July 31, 2004 [eBook #13066]

Language: English

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LORD ELGIN

by

SIR JOHN GEORGE BOURINOT

THE MAKERS OF CANADA

EDITED BY DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT, F.R.S.C., AND PELHAM EDGAR, PH.D.

Edition De Luxe

Toronto, 1903

[Illustration: "Elgin a Kincardine."]

EDITORS' NOTE

The late Sir John Bourinot had completed and revised the following
pages some months before his lamented death. The book represents more
satisfactorily, perhaps, than anything else that he has written the
author's breadth of political vision and his concrete mastery of
historical fact. The life of Lord Elgin required to be written by one
possessed of more than ordinary insight into the interesting aspects
of constitutional law. That it has been singularly well presented must
be the conclusion of all who may read this present narrative.

CONTENTS

Chapter Page

I: EARLY CAREER 1

II: POLITICAL CONDITION IN CANADA 17

III: POLITICAL DIFFICULTIES 41

IV: THE INDEMNIFICATION ACT 61

V: THE END OF THE LAFONTAINE-BALDWIN MINISTRY, 1851 85

VI: THE HINCKS-MORIN MINISTRY 107

VII: THE HISTORY OF THE CLERGY RESERVES (1791-1854) 143

VIII: SEIGNIORIAL TENURE 171

IX: CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES 189

X: FAREWELL TO CANADA 203

XI: POLITICAL PROGRESS 227

XII: A COMPARISON OF SYSTEMS 239

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 269

INDEX