. Macdonald*, desiring to maintain a coalition government, invited him to join the cabinet in 1868 to replace William Pearce

. Prime Minister John A. Macdonald*, with his customary political shrewdness, hurriedly came to the rescue of the indicted men by

Science and technology biblio. (Richardson and MacDonald), which indexes more than 180 entries, most of them editorials and articles in the Canadian Horticulturist (St Catharines, Ont

government of Sir John A. Macdonald*. Beausoleil ran as the Liberal candidate in Berthier. The main plank in his platform was the

Minister Sir John A. Macdonald* of 21 March, before the vote, explains his dilemma: “If I support the Government against

uncomfortable for him, however, for in dominion politics he was a partisan of Sir John A. Macdonald*’s Conservatives and the support

. Macdonald*’s proposed National Policy, which he considered would be “the foulest blot in history on the fair face of British institutions.” When Mackenzie and the Liberals were defeated, he attributed the

. Macdonald*’s Liberal Conservatives, as did Fraser and Cotter; Thompson, his wife’s cousin, was a Liberal. Federal party labels counted for little in the assembly, where members chose government or

referred to the clerk of the commons, especially in the years of uncertainty following the death of Sir John A. Macdonald* in

. Macdonald*, promised him a government job for the following year as “Storekeeper of the Surveys.” Bown never again rose to the level of prominence

disappointments in securing patronage, Boyle eventually had the ear of Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald* and those of his Irish

Ferguson, a member of the provincial government, noted in a letter to Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald* that

. 1873 the government of Sir John A. Macdonald* resigned, and in the election of January 1874, the Conservatives were

Macdonald*, Caven summarized the principles that informed his advocacy of church union. There was nothing in Scripture, he argued, that sanctioned the divided state of the church. Admittedly, many of the

A chronological list of Chapman’s scientific publications, excluding book reviews, can be found in Science and technology biblio. (Richardson and MacDonald); listings for his non-scientific

the butt of ridicule and discourteous remarks.” Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald

Macdonald*, to study such colleges in the United States and submit a scheme for setting one up. In his report the following year Clarke recommended that a college be situated at a “country town of

. Macdonald*. For example, in 1886 he pointed out to the commons the benefits of the National Policy for the agrarian community while loyally ignoring the design’s shortcomings. He was never slavish in

Canada. In 1880–81 he submitted to Sir John A. Macdonald*’s cabinet recommendations that had a profound influence on the

Allan*; Sir John A. Macdonald*], the newspaper, a long-time ally of the Liberal-Conservatives, had gone over to the