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Metcalfe’s reputation as Governor-General of Canada has been a historiographical football ever since 1847 when the words of his friend Macaulay were inscribed on a marble tablet at the parish church of Winkfieldl to mark Metcalfe’s last resting place.
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J.M.S. Careless, Brown of The Globe (Toronto: Macmillan, 1959 ), Vol. I, pp. 66–8.
Edward Thompson, The Life of Charles, Lord Metcalfe ( London: Faber & Faber, 1937 ).
John W. Cell, British Colonial Administration in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Policy-Making Process (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), p.115. There is a certain irony in this judgement since Metcalfe was one of the few early nineteenth-century colonial officials who constantly mused about the decline of the Empire.
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Jacques Monet, The Last Cannon Shot, A Study of French Canadian Nationalism, 1837–1850 ( Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969 ), p. 138.
Phillip A. Buckner, The Transition to Responsible Government, British Policy in British North America, 1815–1850 ( Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985 ), pp. 272–3.
John William Kaye, The Life and Correspondence of Charles, Lord Metcalfe op. cit., 1854, Vol. I, p.38.
Egerton Ryerson, Sir Charles Metcalfe Defended Against The Attacks Of His Late Counsellors ( Toronto: British Colonist Office, 1844 ), p. 98.
C. B. Sissons, Egerton Ryerson, His Life And Letters (Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1947 ), Vol. II, p. 43.
Egerton Ryerson], The Hon R. B. Sullivan’s Attacks Upon Sir Charles Metcalfe Refuted ( Toronto: Office of the British Colonist, 1844 ), p. 6.
See Boyd Hilton, The Age of Atonement, The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought, 1795–1865 ( Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988 ), pp. 218–36.
Dunbar Ross], The ‘Crise’ Metcalfe And The La Fontaine-Baldwin Cabinet Defended. Letter of Zeno To The Legislative Assembly of Canada ( Quebec: W. Cowan, 1844 ), p. 4.
Robert Baldwin Sullivan], Letter on Responsible Government by Legion ( Toronto: The Examiner Office, 1844 ), p. 130.
E. Ryerson], The Affairs Of The Canadas. In A Series of Letters, ( London: J. King, 1837 ), pp. 39–40.
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Francis, M. (1992). Metcalfe and Images of Authority in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Canada. In: Governors and Settlers. Cambridge Commonwealth Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375703_10
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