Public men and public life in Canada; the story of the Canadian confederacy, being recollections of Parliament and the press and embracing a succinct account of the stirring events which led to the confederation of British North America into the Dominion of Canada . Street was, however, only political chaff, and thepolitical platform adopted by the conventionists,although likely to consign the Reform party to thecold shades of Opposition for many years, was welladapted to promote the welfare and good govern-ment of Canada, and most of its planks have sincebeen placed on our sta
Public men and public life in Canada; the story of the Canadian confederacy, being recollections of Parliament and the press and embracing a succinct account of the stirring events which led to the confederation of British North America into the Dominion of Canada . Street was, however, only political chaff, and thepolitical platform adopted by the conventionists,although likely to consign the Reform party to thecold shades of Opposition for many years, was welladapted to promote the welfare and good govern-ment of Canada, and most of its planks have sincebeen placed on our statute books with almost uni-versal acceptance. To the surprise of many, when the new Tache-Macdonald Government met Parliament six weekslater (the 26th February), though weak at its birth,it had grown and strengthened wonderfully. Themajority of four had increased to twenty, andalthough the struggle between the two sections ofthe Province was still gathering force, it was evi-dent that the Coalition was more secure in thesaddle and carried its measures through the sessionwith a firmer hand. The principal of these werethe appointment of Chief Justice Draper as Com-missioner to Great Britain on the Hudson Bayquestion, and the appropriation of £225,000 for 104. SIR GEORGE ETIENNE CARTIER. HON. WILLIAM CAVLEY. SIR ETIENNE P. ROBERT SPENCE. HON. TOSEPH EDOUARI) CAUCHON. PROMINENT MEN IN TACHE-MACDONALD MINISTRY. CONFLICT OF UPPER AND LOWER CANADA buildings as a permanent seat of government, thechoice of which was to be left to Her Majesty theQueen. Nearly every one was agreed that the perambu-lating system of having Toronto and Quebec fouryears alternately as the seat of government oughtto cease, but Montreal, Toronto, Quebec, Kingstonand other cities all wanted to be the capital, and itwas found impossible to secure a majority in Parlia-ment for any one of them. The Ministry, therefore,sought to find a way out of the difficulty under coverof a choice by Her Majesty, whic
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