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AUTHOR'S NOTE

HE first twenty-seven chapters of this book were written in 1901 and published in December, 1903. Chapters XXVIII and XXIX were written in March and April, 1925, when the last chapter was also revised and much new material added. In the preparation of the volume as originally published the writer was greatly assisted by Mr. John S. MacLean, then correspondent of the Toronto Globe at Montreal, who spent many hours in examining the files of the French newspapers in the library of the Fraser Institute. He was also indebted to Mr. W. H. Dickson, then the Globe's resident correspondent at Ottawa, for similar useful and necessary work in the Library of Parliament. Through Mr. Avern Pardoe, Librarian of the Legislative Assembly at Toronto, and officials of the Toronto Public Library he was able to consult newspaper files, Blue Books and Parliamentary papers. The late John A. Ewan of the Globe's editorial staff and Dr. A. H. U. Colquhoun, former chief editor of the Toronto Empire and now Deputy Minister of Education for Ontario, gave the writer access to valuable books and pamphlets in their private libraries. Dr. Colquhoun also read in manuscript the book as published in 1903 as well as the three

later chapters and prepared the index. There are few chapters in the book to which Dr. Colquhoun did not make some contribution and it is fully realized that many errors have been avoided because of his wide and accurate knowledge of the political history of Canada.

Toronto, August, 1925.

J. S. W.