Ebook: Canada transformed: the speeches of Sir John A. Macdonald: a bicentennial celebration

Directory of key names -- Preface -- Introduction -- Editor's note -- Part one: Birth of a parliamentarian -- Declaring for the Crown and for Britain, 1843 -- Upholding the Election Law, 1844 -- Defending primogeniture, 1845 -- Challenging the Usury Laws, 1846 -- Arguing for import duties, 1846 -- Thoughts on the secret ballot, 1846 -- Learning the lessons on education: his first bill, 1847 -- Winning the voter with the university question, 1847 -- Fighting the Rebellion Losses Bill, 1849 -- Rejecting the Temperance Bill, 1853 -- Representation Bill, 1853 -- Compensation to the Seigneurs, 1853 -- Part two: Rise of a statesman -- "Yielding to the times": secular clergy reserves, 1854 -- Defending separate schools, 1855 -- "Double majority," 1858 -- Finding the seat of government, 1858 -- Defining a homeland with the Homestead Act, 1860 -- Talking on tour, 1860 -- "Best speech Mr. Macdonald ever delivered," 1861 -- Part three: Nation maker -- Toast to Colonial Union, 1864 -- Debating Confederation, 1865 -- "Martyr to the cause," eulogizing McGee, 1868 -- Founding a library, 1868 -- Pacification of Nova Scotia, 1869 -- Part four: Steadfast visionary -- Resistance at Red River, 1870 -- Manitoba enters Confederation, 1870 -- Waiting for news of PEI, 1873 -- Treaty I and the North West Mounted Police, 1873 -- The Pacific scandal, 1873 -- Placing the tariff pillar of the National Policy, 1879 -- Land, money, and the Canadian Pacific Railway, 1881 -- Analyzing the North-West Rebellion, 1885 -- Wading against the Rivers and Streams Act, 1882 -- Being an auxiliary kingdom, 1886 -- Part five: Making Canadians -- New Brunswick schools, 1873 -- A sun run its course, 1873 -- Election speech to the workingmen, 1882 -- Celebrating forty years in politics, 1885 -- Unveiling George-Étienne Cartier's statue, 1885 -- The franchise debates, 1885 -- The science of model farms, 1885 -- Disallowance and the Jesuits' Estates Act, 1889 -- Portrait-unveiling ceremony, 1890 -- Election manifesto of 1891 -- Last words, 1891 -- Eulogizing Macdonald, 1891 -- Acknowledgements -- Works cited -- Notes -- Index.