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"Ay, an' there's more than wan tent," said Mowat, giving his steering oar a sweep that sent the boat farther out into the stream, and enabled them better to see what lay beyond the bend of the river in front of them. "Hold on, lads; stop pullin'!" The men lay on their oars and turned round to look ahead.
"Iss it here the canoe wass lyin', Tonal'?" "Ay, yonder it is, just beyond the palin', bottom up." "Man, this iss fine weather whatever." "It is that," replied Mowat, who could hardly have replied otherwise, for the fact did not admit of a doubt. There was an intense brilliancy yet a hazy softness in the air, which was particularly exhilarating.
Cantering round the corner of a fence, Lambert came within a hundred yards of a house round which the water was deep enough to float a large boat. Here he observed his friends, John Flett and David Mowat, embarking household goods into a large canoe out of the parlour window. Riding into the water, Lambert hailed them. "Hallo, Flett, d'ee want help?" "Thank 'ee, no; this is the last load.
'If I carry the country, he declared at a public meeting in 1882, 'as I will do, I will tell Mr Mowat, that little tyrant who has attempted to control public opinion by getting hold of every office from that of a Division Court bailiff to a tavern-keeper, that I will get a bill passed at Ottawa returning to the municipalities the power taken from them by the Licence Act. At the next session the M'Carthy Act was passed, providing, not for municipal control, but for control by federal commissioners.
A list of the delegates, who are now styled the Fathers of Confederation, follows: From Canada, twelve delegates SIR ETIENNE P. TACHÉ, receiver-general and minister of Militia; JOHN A. MACDONALD, attorney-general for Upper Canada; GEORGE E. CARTIER, attorney-general for Lower Canada; GEORGE BROWN, president of the Executive Council; OLIVER MOWAT, postmaster-general; ALEXANDER T. GALT, minister of Finance; WILLIAM McDOUGALL, provincial secretary; T. D'ARCY McGEE, minister of Agriculture; ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, commissioner of Crown Lands; J. C. CHAPAIS, commissioner of Public Works; HECTOR L. LANGEVIN, solicitor-general for Lower Canada; JAMES COCKBURN, solicitor-general for Upper Canada.
Alizay was sent off in a canoe much to the satisfaction of Mowat for that forgotten keg of screw-nails which had lain so heavy on his mind, and the old chief was supplied with unlimited tobacco, and allowed to wander about at will, under the agreeable impression that he was superintendent-general of the works.
Holton's delightfully ambiguous remark, on the occasion of Macdonald's marvellous restoration to office in 1878, is historic: 'Well! John A. beats the devil. Sir Oliver Mowat said, 'He was a genial man, a pleasant companion, full of humour and wit. Even his satirical foe, Sir Richard Cartwright, recognized in him an unusual personality impressing all who came in contact with it.
In their names the contemporary observer need not be too acute to discover both an avowal and to some extent an enforcement of Mr Murchison's political views; neither an Alexander Mackenzie nor an Oliver Mowat could very well grow up into anything but a sound Liberal in that part of the world without feeling himself an unendurable paradox.
As he spoke the flotilla rounded a point on the river, and came in sight of MacSweenie's canoe making for the land after having picked up the geese. An impartial observer would not have found it easy to determine which party expressed more surprise. "Fire-spouters!" shouted the new arrivals. "Eskimos!" exclaimed Mowat. "Savitches whatever!" said MacSweenie. "Wow! but this iss goot luck!
The Lower Canadian Liberal leaders, Dorion and Holton, were adverse to the coalition scheme, regarding it as a mere device for enabling Macdonald and his friends to hold office. Mowat and Brown were re-elected without difficulty, but Macdougall met with strong opposition in North Ontario.
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