Head Sir Edmund Walker 1805-1868 Fellow Of Merton College Oxford
1830-1837; lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick, 1847; governor-general
of Canada, 1854-1861. Afterwards appointed a civil service commissioner
and elected governor of the Hudson's Bay Company. =Index=: (Sir John A Macdonald era) Calls
upon Tache to form ministry, 80; suggests Bytown (Ottawa) as capital,
85. (Lord Elgin era) Succeeds Elgin as governor-general, Dec. 19, 1854, 203; Elgin's
opinion of, 208; visits Elgin, 239. (George Brown Era) Sends for George Brown to form
ministry--relations with, 101-105, 108. (Egerton Ryerson era) Requests report on separate
school question from Ryerson, 234. (Wilmot era) On reducing number of judges in
New Brunswick, 129, 130; and Wilmot, 131. (Tilley era) Judicial appointments, 31;
and Confederation question, 63. =Bib.=: Morgan, Cel. Can.; Dent, Can.
Por. and Last Forty Years; Dict. Nat. Biog.; Pope, Memoirs of Sir
John A. Macdonald; Mackenzie, Hon. George Brown.