4. Quoted in Christopher Moore, Three Weeks in Quebec City: The Meeting That Made Canada, History of Canada Series (Toronto: Allen Lane, 2015), 1.
5. Douglas Baldwin and Thomas Spira, eds., Gaslights, Epidemics and Vagabond Cows: Charlottetown in the Victorian Era (Charlottetown: Ragweed Press, 1988), 30.
6. MacLeod, One Woman’s Charlottetown, 50.
7. Ibid., 15.
8. George Brown to Anne Brown, 5 September 1864, George Brown Fonds, R2634 0-9-E, Library and Archives Canada.
9. Coles diary.
10. Peter B. Waite, “Edward Whelan Reports from the Quebec Conference,” Canadian Historical Review XLII (1961): 41.
Chapter Two: Charlottetown
1. George Brown to Anne Brown, 2 September 1864.
2. Ibid., 5 September 1864.
Chapter Three: The Journey Begins
1. W.M. Whitelaw, “Reconstructing the Quebec Conference,” Canadian Historical Review XIX (1938): 131.
2. C.M. Wallace, “Tilley, Sir Samuel Leonard,” Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 12, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003, www.biographi.ca/en/bio/tilley_samuel_leonard_12E.html.
Chapter Four: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
1. Edward Whelan, The Union of the British Provinces (1865; repr., Toronto: Garden City Press, 1927), 67–68.
Chapter Six: The Temptation of John A. Macdonald
1. Waite, “Edward Whelan Reports from the Quebec Conference,” 41.
2. From the Charlottetown Islander, March 17, 1865, which was reporting on the PEI Assembly debates of March 2, 1865. As reported in Peter B. Waite, The Life and Times of Confederation 1864–1867 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962; repr., 1977), page 83, footnote 45.
3. Whelan, Union, 138.
4. Joseph Pope, “24 March 1865,” Correspondence of Sir John Macdonald (Toronto: Doubleday, Page, 1921).
Chapter Eight: Montreal Sightseeing and the “Eighth Wonder of the World”
1. William Notman, Photography: Things You Ought to Know (n.p., n.d., ca. 1866–67).
Chapter Nine: Ottawa the Unseemly
1. Waite, Life and Times, 100.
2. Whelan, Union, 147.
Chapter Ten: Sightseeing in Toronto, 1864 Style
1. Whelan, Union, 166.
Chapter Eleven: Niagara Falls
1. W.L. Morton, Monck Letters and Journals, 1863–1868: Canada from Government House at Confederation (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1970), 147.
Chapter Twelve: Family and Travel
1. MacLeod, One Woman’s Charlottetown, 2.
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Image Credits
All images are © McCord Museum
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N-0000.193.194.1 | Photograph | Place d’Armes and English Cathedral, Quebec City, QC, 1860
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N-0000.193.16.2 | Photograph | Basilica of Notre Dame de Québec, Quebec City, QC, 1859
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I-13477.1 | Photograph | Samuel L. Tilley, politician, Montreal, QC, 1864
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N-0000.193.112.1 | Photograph | Lorette Falls from above the falls looking up, near Montmorency, QC, about 1860
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N-0000.193.190.1 | Photograph | Citadel, with Wolfe and Montcalm Monument, Quebec City, QC, about 1860
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I-12069.1 | Photograph | Lady Monck, Montreal, QC, 1864
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I-7950 | Photograph | John A. Macdonald, politician, Montreal, QC, 1863
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M975.62.263.3 | Wood engraving | Grand Finale of Fire-Works in Honor of the Prince of Wales and the Successful Completion of the Victoria Bridge, Montreal, Canada East
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MP-0000.10.170 | Photograph | Bird’s eye view of Seminary gardens, N-0000.193.26.1 |
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N-0000.193.26.1 | Photograph | Christ Church Cathedral, St. Catherine Street, Montreal, QC, about 1860
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I-16295.0 | Photograph | Parliament buildings under construction, Ottawa, ON, 1865
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N-0000.193.213.2 | Photograph | Osgoode Hall, Toronto, ON, about 1860
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I-4022 | Photograph | Mr. H. Bernard, Montreal, QC, 1862
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I-23089.1 | Photograph | Charles Drinkwater, Montreal, QC, 1866
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I-13474.1 or I-13474| Photograph | Miss Tupper, Montreal, QC, 1864
Table of Contents
Cover
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Preface
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Appendix
Note on Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Image Credits
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