The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885 (84 page)

  50.
Ibid.
, Jan. 14, 1885.

  51.
Ibid.
, Jan. 20, 1885.

  52.
Pope,
Correspondence
, Macdonald to Tupper, Jan. 24, 1885, p. 331.

  53.
Macdonald Papers, Vol. 269, Macdonald to Stephen, Jan. 20, 1885.

  54.
Ibid.
, Stephen to Macdonald, Jan. 20, 1885.

  55.
Bonar, quoting Randolph Bruce, Lieutenant-Governor of B.C., who was told the story by Van Horne.

  56.
Coleman, p. 14.

  57.
Macdonald Papers, Vol. 269, Stephen to Macdonald, Feb. 9, 1885.

  58.
Ibid.

  59.
Ibid.

  60.
Tyler Papers, Tyler to wife, Aug. 29, 1888.

  61.
Mail
, March 2, 1885.

  62.
Saunders, Vol. 2, Stephen to Tupper, March 11, 1885, p. 47.

  63.
Macdonald Papers, Vol. 269, Stephen to Macdonald, March 14, 1885.

  64.
Tupper Papers, Vol. 6, Macdonald to Tupper, March 17, 1885.

  65.
Vaughan, p. 120.

  66.
Hughes Manuscript, p. 142.

  67.
Ibid.
, p. 145B.

  68.
Vaughan, p. 179.

  69.
Hughes Manuscript, p. 146.

  70.
Skelton,
Laurier
, pp. 276–277.

  71.
Vaughan, p. 121.

  72.
Skelton,
Laurier
, p. 277.

  73.
Caron Papers, Vol. 192, Caron to Henry Abbott, March 24, 1885.

  74.
Ibid.
, Caron to Van Horne, March 24, 1885.

  75.
Ibid.
, Abbott to Caron, March 25, 1885.

  76.
Ibid.
, Caron to Abbott, March 27, 1885.

  77.
Macdonald Papers, Vol. 269, Stephen to Macdonald, March 26, 1885.

  78.
British Whig
, March 26, 1885.

  79.
Globe
, March 30, 1885.

  80.
Caron Papers, Caron to Abbott, March 27, 1885.

  81.
Globe
, March 28, 1885.

  82.
Ibid.
, March 31, 1885.

  83.
Ibid.

  84.
Ibid.

  85.
Ibid.

  86.
Mail
, March 31, 1885.

  87.
Globe
, March 31, 1885.

  88.
British Whig
, April 1, 1885.

  89.
Ibid.

  90.
Citizen
, April 1, 1885.

  91.
Globe
, April 3, 1885.

  92.
Citizen
, April 4, 1885.

  93.
Morning Chronicle,
April 7, 1885
.

  94.
Ibid.
, April 14, 1885.

  95.
Ibid.
, April 3, 1885.

  96.
Ibid.
, April 3, 1885.

  97.
Ibid.

  98.
Ibid.
, April 13, 1885.

  99.
Globe
, March 31, 1885.

100.
British Whig
, March 28, 1885.

101.
Citizen
, April 1, 1885.

102.
Morning Chronicle,
April 1, 1885
.

103.
Van Horne Letterbooks, No. 11, Van Horne to William Whyte, April 23, 1885.

104.
Globe
, April 6, 1885.

105.
Ibid.
, April 13, 1885.

106.
Ibid.

107.
Ibid.

108.
Ibid.
, April 11, 1885.

109.
Ibid.
, April 13, 1885.

110.
Chambers, p. 93.

111.
Globe
, April 6, 1885.

112.
Ibid.
, April 15, 1885.

113.
Ibid.
, April 23, 1885.

114.
War Claims Commission Report.

115.
Howard, p. 101.

116.
Globe
, April 13, 1885.

117.
Ibid.

118.
Ibid.

119.
Armstrong Manuscript, p. 167.

120.
Globe
, April 18, 1885.

121.
Sentinel
, April 10, 1885.

122.
Denison
, Soldiering in Canada,
p
. 274.

123.
Berger, pp. 12–22.

124.
Denison
, Soldiering in Canada,
pp. 273–276
.

125.
Morning Chronicle,
May 5, 1885
.

126.
Ibid.
, May 1, 1885.

127.
Mail
, April 9, 1885.

128.
Globe
, April 28, 1885.

129.
Archer, April 6, 1885.

130.
Mail
, April 9, 1885.

131.
Globe
, April 23, 1885.

132.
Archer, April 6, 1885.

Chapter Nine

    1.
Globe
, April 11, 1885.

    2.
Morning Chronicle,
May 1, 1885
.

    3.
Roberts, p. 48.

    4.
Morning Chronicle,
May 18, 1885
.

    5.
Citizen
, April 15, 1885.

    6.
Quarterly Review
, 1887, p. 138
.

    7.
Globe
, April 25, 1885.

    8.
War Claims Commission Report,
Nov. 3, 1886
.

    9.
Van Horne Letterbooks, No. 11, Van Horne to Caron, April 11, 1885.

  10.
Ibid.

  11.
Macdonald Papers, Vol. 269, Stephen to Macdonald, March 26, 1885.

  12.
Hughes Manuscript, p. 146A.

  13.
Pope
, Day of Sir John,
p. 152
.

  14.
Sunday World
, Toronto, May 18, 1918.

  15.
Preston, p. 140.

  16.
Sunday World
, Toronto, May 18, 1918.

  17.
Macdonald Papers, Vol. 269, Stephen to Macdonald, April 15, 1885.

  18.
Ibid.
, April 9, 1885.

  19.
Ibid.
, April 11, 1885.

  20.
Ibid.
, April 15, 1885.

  21.
Ibid.
, Stephen to Pope, April 16, 1885.

  22.
Herald
, Calgary, Feb. 17, 1885.

  23.
Steele
, Forty Years in Canada,
p. 195
.

  24.
Ibid.
, p. 196.

  25.
Steele,
Policing
, p. 38.

  26.
Steele
, Forty Years in Canada,
p. 197
.

  27.
Bone, pp. 104–106.

  28.
Steele’s description of the Beavermouth strike is to be found on pp. 197–201 of
Forty Years in Canada
.

  29.
Macdonald Papers, Vol. 269, Stephen to Pope, April 16, 1885.

  30.
Gibbon, p. 287.

  31.
Willison, p. 196.

  32.
Stephen Papers. Macdonald to Stephen, May 26, 1885.

  33.
Pope
, Correspondence,
p. 331
.

  34.
Macdonald Papers, Vol. 129, Macdonald to C. F. Smithers, April 24, 1885.

  35.
Ibid.
, Vol. 269, Stephen to Macdonald, April 30, 1885.

  36.
Ibid.

  37.
Ibid.
, Vol. 268, Drinkwater to Macdonald, April 27, 1885.

  38.
Ibid.
, Vol. 269, Stephen to Macdonald, May 1, 1885.

  39.
Ibid.
, May 4, 1885.

  40.
Quoted in Creighton,
The Old Chieftain
, Vol. 2, p. 427.

  41.
Macdonald Papers, Vol. 269, May 9, 1885.

  42.
Tupper Papers, Vol. 6, Stephen to Tupper, April 30, 1885.

  43.
Denison,
Canada’s First Bank
, Vol. 1, p. 224.

  44.
Globe
, May 22, 1885.

  45.
Ibid.

  46.
Macdonald Papers, Vol. 269, Stephen to Macdonald, May 12, 1885.

  47.
Morris, pp. 57–58.

  48.
Stephen Papers, Macdonald to Stephen, May 26, 1885.

  49.
Tupper Papers, Vol. 6, Schreiber to Tupper.

  50.
Tyler Papers, Tyler to wife, June 12, 1885.

  51.
Ibid.
, June 24, 1885.

  52.
Macdonald Papers, Vol. 269, Stephen to Macdonald, June 18, 1885.

  53.
Saunders, Macdonald to Tupper, Feb. 27, 1885, Vol. 2, p. 46.

  54.
Hansard, 1885, p. 2504.

  55.
Pope
, Correspondence,
p. 331
.

  56.
Vaughan, p. 129.

  57.
Ibid.