Cartier, Sir George Étienne, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald: leader of French-Canadian wing of Liberal-Conservative government, 41, 44-5, 47, 57, 96, 115; his work on behalf of Confederation, 42, 62, 78, 80; the Double Shuffle, 59-62; his relations with Macdonald, 78, 91; negotiates for the transfer of the North-West, 88.
Cartwright, Sir Richard, 87, 96; takes umbrage at Macdonald's appointment of Hincks as finance minister, 84, 85, 86 and note, 87; his relations with Macdonald, 116, 118, 150, 165-7; a most accomplished debater, 164-5.
Cayley, William, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, 25.
Chapleau, Adolphe, a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, 140, 142-3, 156.
Clear Grits, the, press for the secularization of the Clergy Reserves, 29; combine with the Conservatives in the defeat of the Government, 35, 36; combine with the Rouges, 47; protest against the choice of a capital being left to Her Majesty, 53; their success with 'Rep. by Pop.' and 'No Popery' in Upper Canada, 54-6.
Clergy Reserves question, the, 29 and note, 37, 38, 45.
Collins, John Edmund, his book on Sir John Macdonald, 165-166.
Commercial Bank, failure of the, 82, 86 and note.
Confederation, the scheme of, 62, 71-4, 75, 76.
Conservatives, join with Lower Canadian Liberals in 1854, becoming the Liberal-Conservative party, 36-9, 102; defection among, 69; their National Policy, 112. See Parliament.
Costigan, John, and Macdonald's Home Rule views, 153-4.
Dilke, Sir Charles, on Sir John Macdonald's resemblance to Lord Beaconsfield, 175-6.
Disraeli, Benjamin, 58; on Goldwin Smith, 156. See Beaconsfield.
Dorion, A. A., the Rouge leader, 39-40, 47, 56, 67, 96; his alliance with Brown, 45 and note; in the Macdonald-Sicotte Cabinet, 69-70; hostile to Confederation, 74.
Dorion, J. B. E., 'l'enfant terrible,' 56.
Double Shuffle episode, the, 52, 57, 59-62.
Draper, W. H., and Macdonald, 13; from prime minister to chief justice, 19; Canadian commissioner in the Hudson's Bay Company investigation, 49.
Dufferin, Lord, and the Pacific Scandal, 97 and note; and Macdonald, 115-16.
Durham, Lord, his Report on the state of Canada, 15, 34; the question of its authorship, 15 n.
Elgin, Lord, his troubles in connection with the Rebellion Losses Bill, 22, 23, 24, 25.