future. In 1869 Hill had met HBC officer Donald Alexander

owner and president, taking as partners John Dillon, Thomas Bingham Hall, Donald William Ross, and William Ross. For several years he had lobbied the government to encourage domestic milling by dropping

Riel*’s provisional government with a stable authority acceptable in central Canada. Wolseley immediately tried to find some involvement. When he learned that Donald Alexander

mps, who urged Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald* not to carry out the sentence. Like several other

travelled to the Rockies and British Columbia again, to establish a usable pass through the Selkirks. The following year Fleming and Donald Alexander

. Macdonald*, and enjoyed cordial business relations with George Stephen*, who would become the first president of the Canadian Pacific Railway

federal election in the summer of 1872 did not, however, measure up to the hopes of the youthful members. Sir John A. Macdonald

 John A. Macdonald*] was largely restricted to expressions of courage