IX: CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES 189

X: FAREWELL TO CANADA 203

XI: POLITICAL PROGRESS 227

XII: A COMPARISON OF SYSTEMS 239

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 269

INDEX 271




CHAPTER I



EARLY CAREER

The Canadian people have had a varied experience in governors
appointed by the imperial state. At the very commencement of British
rule they were so fortunate as to find at the head of affairs Sir Guy
Carleton--afterwards Lord Dorchester--who saved the country during the
American revolution by his military genius, and also proved himself an
able civil governor in his relations with the French Canadians, then
called "the new subjects," whom he treated in a fair and generous
spirit that did much to make them friendly to British institutions. On
the other hand they have had military men like Sir James Craig,