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Foreword by Christopher Moore

Preface

One — Miss Confederation: Mercy Anne Coles

Two — Charlottetown: The Circus, Champagne, and Union

Three — The Journey Begins: The Lure of Travel, the New — and Leonard Tilley

Four — From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: The “Failed,” the Grand Success, or the Drunken Fiasco of the Government Ball

Five — Diphtheria

Six — The Temptation of John A. Macdonald

Seven — What She Said — A Woman’s Point of View

Eight — Montreal Sightseeing and the “Eighth Wonder of the World”

Nine — Ottawa the Unseemly

Ten — Sightseeing in Toronto, 1864 Style

Eleven — Niagara Falls

Twelve — Family and Travel

Thirteen — Going Home

Fourteen — Confederation Suitors

Fifteen — Daughters and Fathers

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Appendix — “Reminiscences of Confederation Days: Extracts from a Diary Kept by Miss Mercy A. Coles When She Accompanied Her Father, the Late Hon. George Coles, to the Confederation Conferences at Quebec, Montreal and Ottawa in 1864.”

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