Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt, an MP who voted in favour of Confederation and was Canada's first minister of finance, is credited as the prime mover for the...
40 months ago

Delivered shortly after the Quebec Conference of October 1864, Alexander Galt presents the coalition government's comprehensive official...
89 months ago

Despite the century-and-a-half that separates us, Alexander Galt and I share a common background. We both live or lived in Quebec's Eastern...
89 months ago

CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I.-September 11,1864- Constitutional Convention at Charlottetown, P.E.I., of Delegates from the Legislature of Canada,...
87 months ago

MLI's signature initiative to celebrate the legacy of Confederation – and the home of the five-part Confederation Series authored by Alastair Gillespie.
31 months ago

BARCLAY, Evelyn ElizabethWith sadness, we announce the death of our mother, Elizabeth "Liz" Barclay, who died peacefully at age 96 at Mount Tolmie Hospital,...
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George Brown, journalist, politician, senator, cattle breeder (born 29 November 1818 in Alloa, Scotland; died 9 May 1880 in Toronto, ON).
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The minister of finance for the then Province of Canada, Alexander Tilloch Galt of Sherbrooke. CPR railroad financier Donald Smith, pictured at Craigellachie,...
86 months ago

Canada became a country in 1867, and in 1878 at just 11 years old, the new country was already holding its 4th federal election.
115 months ago

Canada's founders were a not-so-motley crew of mostly lawyers and businessmen, with the odd doctor, journalist and pharmacist thrown in for...
99 months ago