1. W. A. Mackintosh,The Economic Background of Dominion-Provincial Relations: Appendix III of the Royal Commission Report on Dominion-Provincial Relations, ed. J. H. Dales (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, Carleton Library Series, 1964), p. 70. On the uneven effects of the National Policy in the Maritimes, see Judith Fingard, “The 1880s: Paradoxes of Progress,” inThe Atlantic Provinces in Confederation, ed. E. R. Forbes and D. A. Muise (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993), pp. 83–86.
2. See D. A. Muise, “The 1860s: Forging the Bonds of Union,” inThe Atlantic Provinces in Confederation, ed. E. R. Forbes and D. A. Muise (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993), pp. 38–46; Ken Cruikshank,Close Ties: Railways, Government, and the Board of Railway Commissioners, 1851–1933(Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991), pp. 40–43, 160–178; Ernest R. Forbes,The Maritime Rights Movement, 1919–1927: A Study in Canadian Regionalism(Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1979), pp. 158–181.
3. Donald J. Savoie,Visiting Grandchildren: Economic Development in the Maritimes(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006), pp. 317–318.
4. See Garth Stevenson,Ex Uno Plures: Federal–Provincial Relations in Canada, 1867–1896(Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993), pp. 321–342.
5. See Margaret R. Conrad and James K. Hiller,Atlantic Canada: A Region in the Making(Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2001), esp. chaps. 9 and 10.