Chapter XXII: Constitutional Life Under Confederation

FEDERAL AND PROVINCIAL INFLUENCE

MONTREAL AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN FEDERAL AND PROVINCIAL
POLITICS--CONFEDERATION TESTED--CARTIER AND THE PARTI ROUGE
AT MONTREAL--ASSASSINATION OF THOMAS D’ARCY M’GEE--THE
HUDSON’S BAY TRANSFER--THE METIS AND THE RIEL REBELLION--LORD
STRATHCONA--THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY BILL--RESIGNATION
OF SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD--SECOND FENIAN RAID--THE “NATIONAL
POLICY”--VOTING REFORM--TEMPERANCE BILL--ORANGE RIOTS--SECOND
NORTH WEST REBELLION--THE “SIXTY-FIFTH REGIMENT”--THE
MANITOBA SCHOOL QUESTION--PROMINENT CITIZENS--BRITISH
PREFERENTIAL TARIFF--BOER WAR--“STRATHCONA HORSE”--THE
NATIONALIST LEAGUE--RECIPROCITY AND FEAR OF ANNEXATION--THE
ELECTIONS OF 1911--NAVAL BILL--PROVINCIAL POLITICS--MONTREAL
MEMBERS--PROVINCIAL OVERSIGHT OVER MONTREAL--HOME RULE--THE
INTERNATIONAL WAR OF 1914--THE FIRST CONTINGENT--MONTREAL’S
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