1867 (38 page)

  
1.
Whelan’s speech of April 1850, in Peter McCourt,
Biographical Sketch of the Hon Edward Whelan together with a Compilation of Speeches
(Montreal: 1888; Canadian Inventory of Historic Manu-scripts #26184, 1982), p. 124; Francis Bolger,
Prince Edward Island and Confederation
(Charlottetown: St. Dunstan’s University Press, 1964), p. 42.

  
2.
Edward Whelan,
The Union of the British Provinces
(Charlottetown: 1865), p. 109.

  
3.
Peter Waite, “Edward Whelan Reports from the Quebec Conference,”
Canadian Historical Review
42 (1961), pp. 23-45.

  
4.
Donald Creighton,
The Road to Confederation
(Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1964) p. 141-2.

  
5.
Peter Russell,
Constitutional Odyssey: Can Canadians Be a Sovereign People?
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press), p. 32;
George Woodcock, “Confederation as a World Example,” in Keith Banting and Richard Simeon, eds.,
And No One Cheered: Federalism, Democracy and the Constitution Act
(Toronto: Methuen, 1983), pp. 333-47.

  
6.
McCourt,
Biographical Sketch
, p. 262 ff., Whelan’s speech “Eloquence as an Art,” January 29, 1864.

  
7.
D. C. Harvey, “The Centenary of Edward Whelan,” in G. A. Rawlyk, ed.,
Historical Essays on the Atlantic Provinces
(Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1971), pp. 207-28.

  
8.
Edmund Burke,
Reflections on the Revolution in France
(London: Penguin, 1968), pp. 169-70.

  
9.
Conor Cruise O’Brien,
The Great Melody
(London: Minerva Books, 1993), p. 311.

10.
Edmund Burke, “Speech on the Economical Reform,” in
Writings and Speeches
, Vol.
II
(London: 1889), p. 112.

11.
Burke, “Speech on the Economical Reform,” p. 112.

12.
O’Brien,
The Great Melody
, p. 94.

13.
“Thoughts on the Causes of the Present Discontents,” in Paul Langford, ed.,
Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke
, Vol.
II
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), pp. 251-322, at p. 308.

14.
O’Brien,
The Great Melody
, pp. 208-9.

15.
“Thoughts on the Causes,” p. 279.

16.
John Beverley Robinson,
Canada and The Canada Bill
(London: 1839).

17.
Burke’s speech on the Constitutional Act, May 6, 1791, in William Cobbett, ed.,
The Parliamentary Register
, Vol. 29 (London: Debrett, 1791) p. 379.

18.
Speech to the Electors of Bristol, 1774, quoted in O’Brien,
The Great Melody
, p. 75.

19.
Quoted in O’Brien,
The Great Melody
, pp. 184-5.

20.
Whelan’s speech on increased representation, 1856, in McCourt,
Biographical Sketch
, p. 130.

21.
G. P. Browne, ed.,
Documents on the Confederation of British North America
(Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1969), pp. 153-65.

22.
Allan Greer and Ian Radforth, eds.,
Colonial Leviathan: State Formation in Mid-Nineteenth Century Canada
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992), p. 13.

23.
Edmund Burke, “Thoughts and Details on Scarcity” (November 1795) in
Works
,
VII
(London: Rivington, 1826), p. 373 ff.

24.
Harvey, “The Centenary of Edward Whelan”; Ian Ross Robertson, “Edward Whelan,” in
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
ix (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976), pp. 828-35.

25.
Ian Ross Robertson,
The Tenant League of Prince Edward Island, 1864-67: Leasehold Tenure in the New World
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996).

26.
Whelan’s speech on the lieutenant-governor’s address, 1856, and Whelan’s speech on the visit of the Prince of Wales, 1860, in McCourt,
Biographical Sketch
, pp. 92, 178, respectively.

27.
Whelan’s speech on the visit of the Prince of Wales, 1860, in McCourt,
Biographical Sketch
, p. 178.

28.
Whelan’s article of May 30, 1864, in
The Examiner
, quoted in Robertson,
The Tenant League
, p. 70.

29.
Whelan’s article of May 30, 1864.

30.
Speech of J. H. Gray, September 8, 1864, in Edward Whelan, ed.,
The Union of the British Provinces
(Charlottetown: 1865, reprinted 1965), p. 13; Creighton,
Road to Confederation
, p. 22. Bolger,
Prince Edward Island and Confederation
, pp. 59-61.

31.
Robertson, “Edward Whelan,” p. 831.

32.
The Protestant
(Charlottetown), quoted in Bolger,
Prince Edward Island and Confederation
, p. 61.

33.
Whelan’s speech of May 7, 1866, in McCourt,
Biographical Sketch
, p. 216; Waite, “Edward Whelan Reports from the Quebec Conference,” p. 26.

34.
Harvey, “The Centenary of Edward Whelan,” p. 227.

35.
Dufferin’s letter to Macdonald quoted in Bolger,
Prince Edward Island and Confederation
, p. 292.

36.
Whelan’s speech at Montreal, October 29, 1864, in Whelan,
Union
of the British North American Provinces
, p. 109; Whelan’s speech of May 7, 1866, in McCourt,
Biographical Sketch
, p. 216.

37.
Waite, “Edward Whelan Reports from the Quebec Conference,” pp. 37-8.

  
1.
Mercy Ann Coles, “Diary,” National Archives of Canada, MG24 B66.

  
2.
Frances Monck,
My Canadian Leaves: An Account of a Visit to Canada in 1864-5
(London: 1891).

  
3.
Peter Waite, ed., “Edward Whelan Reports from the Quebec Conference,”
Canadian Historical Review
42 (1961), pp. 23-45.

  
4.
Whelan’s speech of October 29, 1864, in Edward Whelan,
The Union of the British Provinces
(Charlottetown: 1865), p. 109.

  
5.
Waite, ed., “Edward Whelan Reports,” p. 40.

  
6.
Details of the conference are from the reports and minutes collected in G. P. Browne, ed.,
Documents on Confederation of British North America
(Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1969), pp. 55-165.

  
7.
Moncrieff Williamson,
Island Painter: The Life of Robert Harris, 1849-1919
(Charlottetown: Ragweed Press, 1983).

  
8.
Browne, ed.,
Documents
, September 29, 1859, pp. 29-30.

  
9.
Peter Waite,
The Life and Times of Confederation
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962), p. 94.

10.
Peter Waite, ed., “Edward Whelan Reports,” p. 35.

11.
Browne, ed.,
Documents
, p. 138.

12.
Canada,
Parliamentary Debates on Confederation of the British North American Provinces
(Quebec: 1865), p. 495.

13.
Browne, ed.,
Documents
, p. 98.

14.
Jeffrey L. McNairn, “Publius of the North: Tory Republicanism and the American Constitution in Upper Canada, 1848-54,”
Canadian Historical Review
77 (1996), pp. 504-37.

15.
J. S. Mill,
Utilitarianism, On Liberty and Considerations on Representative Government
(London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1972), p. 354.

16.
Brown’s Toronto speech of November 3, 1864, quoted in Whelan,
Union of the British Provinces
, p. 193.

17.
Confederation Debates
, p. 171.

18.
Browne, ed.,
Documents
, p. 108.

19.
A. Margaret Evans,
Sir Oliver Mowat
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992) p. 17.

20.
Evans,
Sir Oliver Mowat
, p. 155.

21.
Evans,
Sir Oliver Mowat
, p. 162.

22.
Donald Creighton,
Canada’s First Century
(Toronto: Macmillan, 1970), p. 46.

23.
Browne, ed.,
Documents
, pp. 55-93, Minutes of the Quebec Conference; Donald Creighton,
The Road to Confederation
(Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1964), pp. 162-7.

24.
The first Creighton quotation is from
Canada’s First Century
, p. 49, the second from
Road to Confederation
, p. 174.

25.
Browne, ed.,
Documents
, p. 123.

26.
Ibid., p. 123-5.

27.
Tilley: Browne, ed.,
Documents
, pp. 77-8; Brown:
Globe
of August 30, 1864, quoted in Evans,
Sir Oliver Mowat
, p. 145.

28.
J. Keith Johnson, “John A. Macdonald,” in J. M. S. Careless, ed.,
The Pre-Confederation Premiers of Ontario
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985), pp. 197-245; James Young,
Public Men and Public Life in Canada
(Toronto: 1912), p. 225.

29.
Charles R. W. Biggar,
Sir Oliver Mowat: A Biographical Sketch
(Toronto: Warwick Bros. and Rutter, 1905), p. 132.

30.
Paul Romney, “Oliver Mowat,” in
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
XIII
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994), p. 729.

31.
Phrase “miniature responsible government” from Creighton,
Road to Confederation
, p. 164.

32.
Speech on the lieutenant-governor’s speech, 1856, in Peter McCourt,
Biographical Sketch of the Hon Edward Whelan together
with a Compilation of Speeches
(Montreal: 1888; Canadian Inventory of Historic Manuscripts #26184, 1982), p. 92.

33.
Confederation Debates
, p. 500.

34.
Robert C. Vipond,
Liberty and Community: Canadian Federalism and the Failure of the Constitution
(Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991), p. 26.

35.
Vipond,
Liberty and Community
, p. 5.

36.
Evans,
Sir Oliver Mowat
, p. 154.

37.
Ibid., p. 155.

38.
Vipond,
Liberty and Community
, pp. 78-82.

39.
Evans,
Sir Oliver Mowat
, p. 161.

40.
Ibid., pp. 178-9.

41.
J. M. S. Careless,
Brown of the Globe
, Vol.
II
(Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1989), p. 171.

42.
Whelan,
Union of the British Provinces
, p. 214.

43.
Browne, ed.,
Documents
, Document 19, July 6, 1862.

44.
Mercy Coles, “Diary.”

  
1.
Henri-Paul Bergeron,
Brother André: The Wonder Man of Mount Royal
(Montreal and Paris: Fides, 1958).

  
2.
Speeches of Henri Joly, Cartier, and Dunkin in Canada,
Parliamentary Debates on Confederation of the British North American Provinces
(Quebec: 1865), pp. 358, 1,015, and 498-9, respectively.

  
3.
Brian Young,
George-Étienne Cartier, Montreal Bourgeois
(Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1981).

  
4.
Allan Greer,
The Patriots and the People: The Rebellion of 1837 in Rural Lower Canada
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993), particularly Chapter Nine.

  
5.
Andrée Desilets, “Étienne-Paschal Taché,” in
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
ix (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976), pp. 774-9.

  
6.
Confederation Debates
, pp. 59-60.

  
7.
J. M. S. Careless,
Brown of the Globe
, Vol.
II
(Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1989), p. 171; Peter Waite, ed., “Edward Whelan Reports from the Quebec Conference,”
Canadian Historical Review
42 (1961), p. 43.

  
8.
Careless,
Brown of the Globe
, Vol.
II
, p. 120.

  
9.
Canada,
Confederation Debates
, p. 9.

10.
Canada,
Confederation Debates
, p. 500.

11.
Canada,
Confederation Debates
, pp. 61, 614.

12.
Louis Archambault, December 23, 1864, quoted in Andrée Desilets,
Hector Langevin, un père de la confédération canadienne
(Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 1969), p. 140.

13.
Confederation Debates
, p. 251.

14.
Confederation Debates
, pp. 655, 354.

15.
Jean-Paul Bernard,
Les Rouges: Libéralisme, nationalisme, et anti-cléricalisme au milieu du XIXe siècle
(Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 1971), p. 253.

16.
Confederation Debates
, pp. 585-626.

17.
Confederation Debates
, p. 250.

18.
Desilets,
Hector Langevin
, p. 150.

19.
Desilets,
Hector Langevin
, particularly p. 130.

20.
Desilets,
Hector Langevin
, p. 171;
Confederation Debates
, pp. 362-92.

21.
Confederation Debates
, p. 386.

22.
Confederation Debates
, p. 255.

23.
Confederation Debates
, pp. 387 (Langevin), 10 (Taché).

24.
Confederation Debates
, pp. 391-2.

25.
Confederation Debates
, pp. 15, 31.

26.
Msgr. Charles Cazeau, quoted in Desilets,
Hector Langevin
, p. 123.

27.
Waite,
The Life and Times of Confederation
, p. 156.

28.
Le Pays
of June 4, 1867, quoted in Bernard,
Les Rouges
, p. 292.

29.
Evans,
Sir Oliver Mowat
, p. 327.