Elgin had not been long in Canada before he saw one important fact-that the real Annexationist feeling had commercial, not political roots.
"British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government 1839-1854"
J. L. Morison
The Annexationist clamour fell and rose, mounting highest in Montreal, and reaching a crisis in the year of the Rebellion Losses disturbance; but Elgin, while sometimes he grew despondent, always kept his head, and never ceased to hope for the reciprocity which would at once bring back prosperity and still the disloyal murmurs.
"British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government 1839-1854"
J. L. Morison