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a room in the Queen's Hotel, Toronto, where Sir John A. Macdonald held many of his conferences while in that city.
Quotations
1891
A meeting of manufacturers interested in the National Policy was called by Sir John, in the campaign of 1882, and was held in the "Red Parlor" of the Queen's Hotel, Toronto.
1891
The spectacle of manufacturers in the Red Parlor is a piece of brazen effrontery which could not be witnessed outside the Dominion of Canada.
1891
[quoting Toronto World, January, 1891] "after a busy day's work he [Macdonald] left Monday morning for Toronto, arriving here next morning. The Red Parlor was visited by scores of friends and workers during the day."
2 — Transferred use
the business men and politicians who became identified with the conferences in this room.
Quotations
1891
Probably nobody in the country is more thoroughly aware of this than the members of the Dominion Government, and yet they are bound to fight for it till the last cartridge is gone, because they think it better politics to put their faith in the Red Parlor, than in the cause of the people.