. When Brown ran in Toronto in the general election of 1857–58, Hope Mackenzie, not Alexander, took the Reform nomination in Lambton. Perhaps Alexander felt that his political reputation had been

applied equally to provincial affairs. Indeed, the Mowat government’s narrow pluralities suggest that the handicaps he mentioned may have been tipping the balance. In 1879 the Reformers had taken 58

,” CHA, Report, 1957–58, 13–34; “Papineau et la rivalité Québec-Montréal (1820–1840),” RHAF, XIII (1959–60), 311–27

: “Four early letters of Egerton Ryerson,” CHR, 23 (1942): 58–64, and “Canadian Methodism in 1828: a note on an early Ryerson letter,” Douglas Library Notes (Kingston), 12 (1963), no.3: 2

., Paris, 1892). Joseph Cossette, “Jean Talon, champion au Canada du gallicanisme royal, 1665–1672,” RHAF, XI (1957–58), 327–48. J.-N. Fauteux, Essai sur l’industrie au Canada sous le