VOLUME TWO
BROWN
OF
THE GLOBE
STATESMAN OF CONFEDERATION 1860-1880
J.M.S. Careless
To my children
VOLUME TWO
BROWN
OF
THE GLOBE
STATESMAN OF CONFEDERATION 1860-1880
J.M.S. Careless
TORONTO & OXFORD
1989
Copyright © J. M. S. Careless, 1989
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The publication of this book was made possible by support from several sources. The publisher wishes to acknowledge the generous assistance and ongoing support of The Canada Council, The Book Publishing Industry Development Programme of the Department of Communications, The Ontario Arts Council., and The Ontario Heritage Foundation, an agency of the Ontario Ministry of Culture and Communications.
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J. Kirk Howard, Publisher
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Careless, J. M. S., 1919-
Brown of the Globe
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Vol. 1. The voice of Upper Canada, 1818-1859 —
v. 2. Statesman of Confederation, 1860-1880.
ISBN 1-55002-050-1 (v. 1) ISBN 1-55002-051-X (v. 2)
1. Brown, George, 1818-1880. 2. Canada — Politics and government —1841-1867. 3. Politicians — Canada — Biography. 4. Journalists — Canada — Biography. 1. Title.
FC471.B76C3 1989 971.04′092 C89-090670-X
F1032.B76C3 1989
Originally published by Macmillan of Canada.
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Contents
Two: Captain on the Side-lines
Three: The Remaking of George Brown
Illustrations
BETWEEN PAGES 150-151
The new Globe office of 1864
King Street, Toronto, in the 1860s
George Brown and family
Wells in the Oil Region
Luther Holton
The fall of Sandfield Macdonald’s ministry
British North America before Confederation
Queen’s Own Rifles during the Fenian Raid
The sage of the Globe, 1873
The house at Bow Park
Lambton Lodge in the 1950s
Alexander Mackenzie in the 1870s
Brown in later years, as engraved for Globe readers
Preface
This is the second and concluding volume on the life of George Brown, 1818-1880, Canadian journalist and Liberal party leader. The first volume, which ran to the end of 1859, dealt with Brown’s Scottish boyhood, his first years in North America spent in New York, and his removal to Canada in 1843. It described his founding of the Toronto