The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885 (77 page)

Notes

In this volume, as in
The National Dream
, I have tried to arrange the notes in such a way that the narrative flow will not be interrupted for the lay reader while, at the same time, the scholarly researcher can, without too much difficulty, establish the sources of my material. For this reason I have not followed the usual method of sprinkling the text with small numbers – a practice that I find irritating. I have also discarded another annoying tradition – that of combining the bibliography with the notes and using
op. cit
. for all but the first reference to any work. It is maddening for a researcher to struggle back through all the
op. cits
. in his search for the original citation. In the abbreviated notes that follow, the scholar can always go directly to the bibliography.

I have tried to give a source for every quotation in the book and, in addition, for facts that are not self-evident and for anecdotes that may be disputed.

Chapter One

    1.
Free Press
, Ottawa, Feb. 18, 1881.

    2.
Tupper Papers, Vol. 5, Tupper to Macdonald, July n.d., 1881.

    3.
Ibid.
, Tupper to Macdonald, March 31, 1881.

    4.
Free Press
, Ottawa, June 24, 1882.

    5.
Free Press
, Manitoba, June 1, 1881.

    6.
Ibid.
, Sept. 7, 1881.

    7.
Sessional Paper, No. 23, 1880–81, p. 64.

    8.
J. A. Chapleau, Hansard, 1885, p. 2566.

    9.
Macoun does not name them but it is clear from newspaper accounts that Stephen and Angus were both in St. Paul in May just before Macoun went north.

  10.
Macoun,
Autobiography
, p. 182.

  11.
Ibid.
, p. 163.

  12.
Quoted in Roe, “Early Opinions,” p. 143.

  13.
Taylor Papers, Microfilm Roll M-118, Taylor to R. B. Angus, Nov. 20, 1880.

  14.
Macoun
, Autobiography,
p. 56
.

  15.
Taylor Papers, Microfilm Roll M-118, Taylor to Angus, Nov. 20, 1880.

  16.
Macoun,
Autobiography
, p. 185.

  17.
Hansard, 1882, p. 9531

  18.
Ibid.
, p. 974.

  19.
The
CPR’S
own historian holds to this view.

  20.
Macdonald Papers, Vol. 127, J. H. Pope to Macdonald, Aug. 19, 1881.

  21.
Globe
, Jan. 3, 1882.

  22.
See Pyle, Vol. 1, pp. 299–300.

  23.
Macoun,
Autobiography
, p. 185.

  24.
Globe
, Jan. 19, 1882.

  25.
Macoun,
Autobiography
, p. 184.

  26.
Edward Blake, Hansard, 1885, p. 2600.

  27.
Hedges, p. 90.

  28.
See Roe, “Early Opinions.”

  29.
Times
, March 24, 1881.

  30.
Ibid.
, May 17, 1881.

  31.
Free Press
, Manitoba, April 22, 1881.

  32.
Ibid.
, April 20, 1881.

  33.
Secretan, p. 127.

  34.
Shaw and Hull, p. 89.

  35.
Trotter and Hawkes, p. 89.

  36.
Ibid.
, p. 163.

  37.
Ibid.
, p. 87.

  38.
Times
, May 18, 1881.

  39.
Kavanagh, p. 142.

  40.
Trotter and Hawkes, p. 200.

  41.
Free Press
, Manitoba, May 20, 1881.

  42.
Ibid.
, May 20, 1881.

  43.
Ibid.

  44.
Kavanagh, p. 146,
fn
.

  45.
Trotter and Hawkes, p. 200.

  46.
Ibid.

  47.
Ibid.
, p. 160.

  48.
Ibid.
, p. 169.

  49.
Ibid.
, p. 159.

  50.
Ibid.
, p. 157.

  51.
Secretan, pp. 133–135.

  52.
Kavanagh, p. 115.

  53.
Ibid.
, p. 116.

  54.
Trotter and Hawkes, p. 95.

  55.
Shaw and Hull, p. 89.

  56.
Quoted in
Free Press
, Ottawa, March 3, 1881.

  57.
Free Press
, Manitoba, Aug. 10, 1881.

  58.
Lorne Papers, Lorne to Lord Archibald Campbell, Aug. 28, 1881.

  59.
Gibbon
, p. 223.

  60.
Macdonald Papers, Vol. 267, Stephen to Macdonald, Dec. 13, 1881.

  61.
“Ishmael.”

  62.
Begg, p. 3.

  63.
Macdonald Papers, Vol. 267, Stephen to Macdonald, Dec. 10, 1881.

  64.
Ibid.
, Nov. 4, 1881.

  65.
Ibid.
, Jan. 11, 1882.

  66.
Ibid.
, Jan. 13, 1882.

  67.
Ibid.
, Stephen to Rose, Aug. 15, 1881.

  68.
Ibid.
, Stephen to Macdonald, Dec. 20, 1881.

  69.
Ibid.
, Oct. 29, 1881.

  70.
Ibid.
, Nov. 5, 1881.

  71.
Ibid.
, Dec. 20, 1881.

  72.
Ibid.
, Vol. 524, Macdonald to Stephen, Oct. 19, 1881.

  73.
Ibid.
, Vol. 267, Stephen to Macdonald, Sept. 12, 1882.

  74.
Ibid.
, Aug. 27, 1881.

  75.
Ibid.
, Dec. 10, 1881.

  76.
Ibid.
, Nov. 5, 1881.

  77.
Ibid.
, Nov. 17, 1881.

  78.
Ibid.
, Nov. 4, 1881.

  79.
Pyle, Vol. 1, p. 318, Hill to Angus, July, 1880.

  80.
Pearce Memo.

  81.
Globe
, Aug. 26, 1881.

  82.
Vaughan, p. 74.

  83.
Tupper in Hansard, 1882, p. 1007.

  84.
Vaughan, p. 148.

  85.
A Year in Manitoba,
p. 72
.

  86.
Free Press
, Manitoba, Aug. 6, 1881.

  87.
Miller, p. 65.

  88.
Free Press
, Manitoba, Oct. 8, 1881.

  89.
Ibid.
, Sept. 15, 1881.

  90.
Ibid.
, Aug. 10, 1881.

  91.
Times
, March 10, 1881.

  92.
Free Press
, Manitoba, Sept. 28, 1881.

  93.
Times
, March 10, 1881.

  94.
Vaughan, p. 62.

  95.
Ibid.
, pp. 108–109.

  96.
Pearce Memo.

  97.
Vaughan, p. 75.

Chapter Two

    1.
Free Press
, Manitoba, Jan. 2, 1882.

    2.
Times
, Jan. 26, 1882.

    3.
Globe
, Jan. 19, 1882.

    4.
Ibid.
, March 3, 1882.

    5.
Times
, March 23, 1882.

    6.
Free Press
, Manitoba, Dec. 21, 1881.

    7.
Globe
, April 29, 1882.

    8.
Ibid.
, March 3, 1882.

    9.
Ibid.
, April 4, 1882.

  10.
Quoted in
Times
, Feb. 3, 1882.

  11.
Quoted in
Sun
, Winnipeg, March 8, 1882.

  12.
Sentinel
, Nov. 11, 1881.

  13.
Sun
, Winnipeg, April 14, 1882.

  14.
Globe
, Jan. 18, 1882.

  15.
Quoted in
Times
, Feb. 7, 1882.

  16.
Ibid.
, Feb. 11, 1882.

  17.
Sentinel
, Nov. 11, 1881.

  18.
Times
, Sept. 16, 1881.

  19.
Armstrong Manuscript, p. 121.

  20.
Sun
, Winnipeg, Feb. 24, 1882.

  21.
Ibid.

  22.
Ibid.
, March 16, 1882.

  23.
MacGregor, p. 149.

  24.
Ham, pp. 51–52.

  25.
Trotter and Hawkes, p. 222.

  26.
Times
, Feb. 7, 1882.

  27.
Ibid.

  28.
Trotter and Hawkes, p. 229.

  29.
Quoted in
Times
, Sept. 26, 1881.

  30.
Globe
, Feb. 10, 1882.

  31.
Tway thesis.

  32.
See Campbell Papers, correspondence between Alexander Campbell and E. T. Galt, Feb. and March, 1882.

  33.
Globe
, Feb. 2, 1882.

  34.
Ibid.
, March 3, 1882.

  35.
Ibid.
, Feb. 24, 1882.

  36.
Sun
, Winnipeg, Feb. 20, 1882.