Canada First Association
(George Brown Era) Platform, 235; criticized by the
Globe, 236; suspected of aiming at national independence, 237; Goldwin
Smith, leader of party, attacked by Globe, 237; his reply, 238; spirit
of the movement, 239; its effect, 240-241; Liberal party injured by
hostility to movement, 240-242. (Sir John A Macdonald era) Formed in Toronto, 1870, 226; its
policy, 226. =Bib.=: Dent, Last Forty Years; Canada First: A Memorial
of the Late William A. Foster; Denison, The Struggle for Imperial
Unity.