The Legends of Lake on the Mountain (16 page)

Books and Sources Used in Writing This Book

Biggar, E.B.
Anecdotal Life of Sir John Macdonald
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Montreal, John Lovell & Son; 1891.

Creighton, Donald.
John A. Macdonald: The Young Politician. The Old Chieftain
; Toronto, University of Toronto Press; 1952.

County Magazine, Issue Numbers 19, 101 and 102.

Gwyn, Richard.
John A: The Man Who Made Us
;

Toronto, Random House Canada; 2007.

Napanee Beaver,
‘The Great Drowning,'
April 30, 1897 edition.

Phenix, Patricia.
Private Demons: The Tragic Personal Life of John A. Macdonald
; Toronto, McClelland & Stewart; 2006.

Pope, Joseph.
Memoirs of the Right Honourable Sir John Alexander Macdonald First Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada
, Ottawa; 1894.

Sewell, John.
Mackenzie: A Political Biography of William Lyon Mackenzie
; Toronto, J. Lorimer & Co; 2002.

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