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43. Ibid., p. 30. While English-speaking Canada was certainly strongly in favour of the imperial commitment in general terms,<br />
it is important to note there were significant factions that were against it. These included, for example, sections of the Irish<br />
and German Canadian community, labour organizations, and pacifist religions like Mennonites and Doukhobors.<br />
44. Buchan, Lord Minto, A Memoir, Chapter 6.<br />
45. R.J.R. Lehane, “Lieutenant-General Edward Hutton and ‘Greater Britain’: late-Victorian imperialism, imperial defence and<br />
the self-governing colonies,” PhD thesis, University of Sydney, 2005, p. 173.<br />
46. “Draft Memoirs of Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Hutton – Period 8,” HP, Reel F-2.<br />
47. Letter: Hutton to Minto, 30 January 1900, HP, Reel A-1.<br />
48. Morton, Ministers and Generals, p. 153.<br />
49. “Draft Memoirs of Lieutenant General Sir Edward Hutton – Period 5,” HP, Reel F-2.<br />
50. Clarke, “Manufacturing Spontaneity?,” p. 137.<br />
51. Letter: Hutton to Chamberlain, 4 September 1899, HP, Reel A-2.<br />
52. Lehane, “Lieutenant-General Edward Hutton and ‘Greater Britain’,” p. 171.<br />
53. Mowbray, “Militiaman,” p. 101.<br />
54. C. Miller, “The Public Life of Sir Frederick Borden,” MA thesis, Dalhousie University, 1964, p. 66.<br />
55. Letter: Chamberlain to Minto, 3 October 1899, MF, Vol. 14, Reel, C-3114.<br />
56. Durrans, “Imperial Defence,” p. 103.<br />
57. Clarke, “Manufacturing Spontaneity?,” p. 146.<br />
58. Wilcox, Australia’s Boer War, pp. 2021.<br />
59. Morton, “Authority and Policy in the Canadian Militia,” p. 409. See also Lehane, “Lieutenant-General Edward Hutton and<br />
‘Greater Britain’,” pp. 70–71.<br />
60. Durrans, “Imperial Defence,” p. 92.<br />
61. Sanford Evans, The Canadian Contingents, p. 44.<br />
62. Miller, Painting the Map Red, pp. 4142.<br />
63. Letter: Hutton to Minto, 31 January 1900, MF, Vol. 18, Reel, C-3114.<br />
64. Aubrey, “Major-General E.T.H. Hutton,” p. 44.<br />
65. Wood, Militia Myths, p. 79.<br />
66. Miller, “The Public Life of Sir Frederick Borden,” p. 53; Sanford Evans, The Canadian Contingents, p. 62.<br />
67. Durrans, “Imperial Defence,” pp. 104–105.<br />
68. ‘Draft Memoirs of Lieutenant General Sir Edward Hutton – Period 5’, HP, Reel F-2. The French-Canadian press, meanwhile,<br />
took a different stance. La Presse, for example, ran a story on 5 October lamenting the fact that there while there is work<br />
to do at home, in the farm fields, on the railway, etc., men were being convinced to go to South Africa. La Presse,<br />
5 October 1899, p. 4.<br />
69. “A Disgrace to Canada,” Ottawa Citizen, 5 October 1899, p. 4.<br />
70. “The Military Column,” Ottawa Citizen, 7 October 1899, p. 9.<br />
71. Sanford Evans, The Canadian Contingents, p. 57.<br />
72. Letter: Chamberlain to Minto, 7 October 1899, MF, Vol. 14, Reel, C-3114.<br />
73. Memo: Strathcona to Laurier, 11 October 1899, HP, Reel A-2.<br />
74. “Draft Memoirs of Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Hutton – Period 5,” HP, Reel F-2.<br />
75. Letter: Laurier to Minto, 12 October 1899, MF, Vol. 7, Reel, C-3113.<br />
76. Miller, Painting the Map Red, p. 44.<br />
77. Letter: Minto to Strathcona, 13 October, 1899; and Cable: Chamberlain to Minto, 18 October 1899, Laurier Fonds (LF),<br />
LAC MG26-G, Reel C-1171.<br />
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