Preface 1. Electioneering Against Johnny Blue Nose 2. Oligarchs and Assemblymen of Halifax Town and County 1759-1830 3. The Triumph of Reformn in Halifax 1830-1847 4. The Yeomen Farmers and Merchants of Kings and Hants Counties The Family Compacts of Kings County and Their Ledgers In Defence of the Gypsum Trade 5. Planters, Acadians and Loyalists of Annapolis and Digby Counties The Tory/Baptist Alliance and the Rise of Parties in Old Annapolis County Factions Become Parties in Digby County 6. Halifax Connections and the Counties of Lunenburg and Queens Foreign Protestants and Englishmen Liverpool's Two Family Compacts 7. Planters, Acadians and Loyalists of Yarmouth and Shelburne Counties The Reformers of Yarmouth and the Squires of Argyle The Sargents of Barrington Township Respectability, Religion and Faction in Loyalist Shelburne 8.

The Scotch Irish, Yorkshire and Scots Farmers of Cumberland and Colchester Counties Upholding the Tory Cause in Cumberland The Colchester/Halifax Axis 9. The Scots, Loyalists and Acadians of Pictou, Old Sydney and Cape Breton Counties Kirkmen and Seceders: Tories and Reformers The Family Compacts of Guysborough and a Bishop & His Highlanders Repealers Versus Annexationists on Cape Breton Island 10. Nova Scotian Politicians and the Achievement of Reform Notes on Databases and Sources Endnotes Index.