Den Otter, Philosophy of Railroads, 170-73.
Enclosure 5, no. 4, Statement by Mr. McMullen with Documents (from the Montreal Herald), Canadian Pacific Railway, Correspondence, 64.
Hincks and Macdonald later tried to cast all this in a very different light.
Others associated him with the original goal of soliciting American capital.
Earl of Dufferin to Earl of Kimberly, Aug. 15, 1873, no. 4. p. 7, 30.
Testimony of Sir Francis Hincks, Sept. 4, 1873, "Report of the Royal Commissioners," 94-103.
Testimony of Jan Charles Chapais, Sept. 12, 1873 "Report of Commissioners," 141-2.
Testimony of John Mcdonald, Sept. 17, 1873, "Report of Commissioners," 171-80, 186.
Den Otter, Philosophy of Railroads, 175.
Berton, Impossible Railway, 52-55, 77-80, 83, 121.
testimony of John Macdonald, Sept. 17, 1873, Report of the Royal Commissioners, Canadian Pacific Railway Correspondence, 171-73.
Americans, J. Gregory Smith to Cooke, March 14, 1872, Cooke Papers; Hugh Allan to an American gentleman . . . in New York, July 1, 1872, Aug. 7, 1872, 55-57.
Earl of Dufferin to Earl of Kimberly, Aug. 15, 1873, no. 4, p. 8.
Allan contended that he informed the Americans in October of 1872 that his negotiations with them were at an end and that he wrote New York to this effect in December.