Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 13

Sir Sam Hughes (1853-1921)

by Carol Whitfield

Endnotes

Sir Sam Hughes

1 The Canadian Who's Who (London: Times Publishing Co., 1910), p. 111.

2 Ernest J. Chambers, ed., The Canadian Parliamentary Guide (Ottawa: Mortimer Co., 1912), p. 154.

3 Charles Francis Winter, Lieutenant-General The Hon. Sir Sam Hughes, K.C.B., M.P., Canada's War Minister, 1911-1916; Recollections of Services as Military Secretary at Headquarters, Canadian Militia, Prior to and During the Early Stages of the Great War (Toronto: Macmillan Co., 1931), p. 5.

4 Ernest J. Chambers, ed., loc. cit.

5 Ibid.

6 J. Mackay Hitsman, "Samuel Hughes," Encyclopaedia Canadiana (Toronto: Grolier, 1966), Vol. 5, p. 193.

7 Sam. S. H. Hughes, "Sir Sam Hughes and the Problem of Imperialism," Canadian Historical Association Report (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1950), p. 32.

8 Ernest J. Chambers, ed., loc. cit.

9 The Canadian Who's Who, loc. cit.

10 Colonel Sam Hughes; Return to an Order of the House of Commons dated February 19, 1900, for Copies of all Correspondence, Telegrams, and Cablegrams that may have passed between Major General Hutton and Lieutenant-Colonel Hughes, M.P., or between these Officers and any Member of the Government of Canada or Others, Touching the Conduct of Lieutenant-Colonel Hughes, M.P., in Connection with his Volunteering for Active Service in South Africa; These Papers to include all Letters, Cablegrams and Telegrams sent to South Africa, England or Elsewhere and Replies Received; Also any Report or Reports made by Major General Hutton on the Conduct of Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hughes, M.P., in Connection with such Offer or Offers for Active Service (Ottawa: King's Printer, 1900) (hereafter cited as Colonel Sam Hughes), p.4. Hutton to Minister of Militia and Defence, 31 July 1899.

11 Ibid., pp. 18-23, Hughes to Hutton, 26 October 1899.

12 Ralph Allen, Ordeal by Fire: Canada, 1910-1946 (Toronto: Doubleday, 1961), p. 37.

13 Colonel Sam Hughes, p. 30, Col. H. Foster, 29 October 1899.

14 Ralph Allen, loc. cit.

15 Ernest J. Chamber, ed., loc. cit.

16 Ralph Allen, op. cit., pp. 37-8.

17 Sam H. S. Hughes, op. cit., p. 35.

18 Ibid., p. 32.

19 Samuel Hughes, "Canada's Future within the Empire," In: E. A. Victor, ed., Canada's Future, What She Offers After the War; A Symposium of Official Opinion (Toronto: MacMillan, 1916), pp. 10-15.

20 Sam H. S. Hughes, op. cit., p. 36.

21 Sir Robert Laird Borden, Robert Laird Borden: His Memoirs. Ed. and with a pref. by Henry Borden; intro. by Arthur Meighen (Toronto: Macmillan, 1938), Vol. 1, p. 330.

22 Heath N. Macquarrie, "The Formation of Borden's First Cabinet," The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science. Vol. 23 (1957), pp. 96-102.

23 A, Fortescue Duguid, Official History of the Canadian Forces in the Great War, 1914-1919. General Series, Vol. 1: From the Outbreak of War to the Formation of the Canadian Corps August 1914-September 1918 (Ottawa: King's Printer, 1935), p. 3.

24 Charles Francis Winter, op. cit., pp. 40-41.

25 Ibid., p. 64.

26 Ibid., p. 81.

27 Ibid., p. 6.

28 Ibid., p. 60.

29 Ibid., p. 44.

30 Ibid., pp. 111-12.

31 G. W. L. Nicholson. Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919, Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War (Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1962), p. 12.

32 Canada, Public Archives (hereafter cited an PAC), MG26, H, OC190, pp. 15614-21.

33 Charles Francis Winter, op. cit., pp. 120-5.

34 G. W. L. Nicholson, op. cit., p. 201.

35 Ibid., pp. 18-9.

36 George F. G. Stanley, Canada's Soldiers, 1604-1954; The Military History of an Unmilitary People (Toronto: Macmillan, 1954), p. 310.

37 A. Fortescue Duguid, op. cit., p. 23.

38 J. Sutherland Brown, "Military Policy of Canada, 1905-1924, and Suggestions for the Future," Canadian Defence Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 4 (1934), p. 28.

39 Sir Robert Laird Borden, op. cit., Vol. 1, p. 462.

40 A. Fortescue Duguid, op. cit., Appendix 57, p. 42.

41 Ralph Allen, op. cit., p. 67.

42 Charles Francis Winter, op. cit., p. 72.

43 A. Fortescue Duguid, op. cit., p. 126.

44 G. W. L. Nicholson, op. cit., p. 214.

45 Charles Francis Winter, op. cit., p. 139.

46 Sir Robert Laird Borden, op. cit., Vol. 2, p. 613.

47 J. Castell Hopkins, The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs, 1916 (Toronto: Annual Review Publishing Co., 1917), p. 263.

48 Sam H. S. Hughes, op. cit., p. 38.

49 A. Fortescue Duguid, op. cit., p. 78.

50 Sir Robert Laird Borden, op. cit., Vol. 2, pp. 563-6.

51 Ibid., pp. 559-60.

52 A. Fortescue Duguid, op. cit., Appendix III, pp. 75-99.

53 Ibid., Appendix 8, p. 8.

54 G. W. L. Nicholson, op. cit., p. 203.

55 Donald M. A. R. Vince, "The Acting Overseas Sub-Militia Council and the Resignation of Sir Sam Hughes," Canadian Historical Review, Vol. 31, No. 1 (1950), p. 5.

56 PAC, MG26, H, OC318(1), pp. 35726-7, newspaper clippings and Borden to Hughes, Ottawa, 7 September 1916.

57 G. W. L. Nicholson, op. cit., p. 208.

58 Ibid., p. 209.

59 PAC, MG26, H, OC318(2), p. 35838, Hughes to Borden, 26 October 1916.

60 PAC, MG26, H, OC318(2), pp. 35860-62, Hughes to Borden, Ottawa, 1 November 1916; see Appendix A.

61 Ibid., pp. 35884-5: see Appendix B.

62 G. W. L. Nicholson, op. cit., p. 127, n.

63 Ibid., p. 209, n.

64 Charles Francis Winter, op. cit., pp. 173-6.

65 Donald M. A. R. Vince, op. cit., p. 2.

Appendix A

1 PAC, MG26, H, OC318(2), pp. 35860-62, Hughes to Borden, Ottawa, 1 November 1916.

Appendix B

1 PAC, MG26, H, OC318(2), pp. 35884-5, Borden to Hughes, Ottawa, 9 November 1916.