Excerpts from the Book 'The Makers Of Canada George Brown':

... courts have trampled on what they deem the rights of the Christian people in Scotland, exhibiting a lesson to the world which must produce results ...
... immigration and I have little doubt that the French, when once placed by the legitimate course of events and the working of natural causes, in a ...
... small sum of money necessary to recompense you for losses arising out of the rebellion. However, it is easier to discuss these matters coolly in 1906 than ...
... on a non-sectarian basis, and the inauguration of a policy by which the province was covered with a network of railways. With such a record, the ...
... given to the exclusive claims of the Church of England by Sir John Colborne's establishment of fifty-seven rectories, was, in the opinion of many persons, ...
... 1849, it was issued three times a week. When the daily paper was first published the circulation was six thousand. To anticipate a little, it may ...
... immense force in Upper Canada, lies in its relation to the larger plan of confederation. The Makers of Canada: George Brown Chapter ...
... working of the union. The official declaration of its policy contains these words: His Excellency's present advisers have entered the government with ...
... for Brown, and as easy as possible for Macdonald, even to the point of acquiescing in the evasion of the law known as the Double Shuffle. In the ...
... of one man. In the later fifties Mr. Brown was pursuing a course which led almost with certainty to the goal of confederation. The people of Upper Canada ...
... but that the Roman Catholic Church would continually make new demands and encroachments, until the public school system was destroyed. On this ...
... which opened on October 10th, 1864. The Makers of Canada: George Brown Chapter 16 THE QUEBEC CONFERENCE The conference was held with ...
... by giving Upper Canada, in the House of Commons, the number of members to which it was entitled by population. In the senate, ...
... assume larger obligations. From this time the tone of the debate is entirely changed. It ceases to be a philosophic deliberation of the merits of the ...
... to a conclusion, in the face of indignant protests and demands that the scheme should be submitted to the people. Holton told Brown that he had ...
... of the government. In the year and a half that elapsed between his withdrawal from the government and the first general election under the new constitution, ...
... on the subject, and I understand he will support us. Charles Sumner is heart and hand with us, and is most kind to me personally. On February 14th, ...
... too heavy and too galling to be borne. They had adopted the plank of British connection by a majority of only four. They had chosen as their standard-bearer, ...
... in which he was employed. Bennett said that the head of the department had refused to give the certificate. Mr. Brown then told him to apply to ...
... Fathers of Confederation. A noted Reform politician, he was also the founder and editor of the Toronto Globe, which is today (having merged with ...