Wilmot and Tilley

Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada in the year 1907 by Morang & Co., Limited, in the Department of Agriculture

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CONTENTS

LEMUEL ALLAN WILMOT

CHAPTER I Page ANCESTRY AND EARLY LIFE 1

CHAPTER II EARLY EFFORTS FOR REFORM 13

CHAPTER III WILMOT IN THE LEGISLATURE 31

CHAPTER IV WILMOT AS A DELEGATE TO THE COLONIAL OFFICE 41

CHAPTER V LORD JOHN RUSSELL ON TENURE OF OFFICE 57

CHAPTER VI THE READE APPOINTMENT 67

CHAPTER VII WILMOT'S VIEWS ON EDUCATION 83

CHAPTER VIII THE DEMAND FOR RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT 99

CHAPTER IX THE VICTORY IS WON 113

CHAPTER X JUDGE AND GOVERNOR 131

SIR LEONARD TILLEY

CHAPTER I EARLY LIFE AND BUSINESS CAREER 143

CHAPTER II ELECTED TO THE LEGISLATURE 159

CHAPTER III THE PROHIBITORY LIQUOR LAW 171

CHAPTER IV REFORM AND PROGRESS 183

CHAPTER V THE INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY 195

CHAPTER VI THE MOVEMENT FOR MARITIME UNION 201

CHAPTER VII THE QUEBEC CONFERENCE 215

CHAPTER VIII DEFEAT OF CONFEDERATION 231

CHAPTER IX TILLEY AGAIN IN POWER 239

CHAPTER X THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICA ACT 253

CHAPTER XI THE FIRST PARLIAMENT OF CANADA 269

CHAPTER XII FINANCE MINISTER AND GOVERNOR 277

INDEX 293

LEMUEL ALLAN WILMOT

CHAPTER I

ANCESTRY AND EARLY LIFE

The contest for responsible government which was carried on in all the provinces of British North America for so many years resembled in some of its features a modern battle, where the field of operations is so wide that it is impossible for a general to cover it with his eye or to keep control of all the movements of his subordinates. In such a case, everything depends on the ability of the generals who command the different army corps, who, operating in remote parts of the field, must take the responsibility of success or failure. The two Canadas were so far removed from New Brunswick, and the means of communication were so poor, that there was but little help, even in the way of suggestion, to be expected from them, while the contest for responsible government was being carried on. Even the efforts in the same direction which were being made in the province of Nova Scotia had but little influence on the course of events in New Brunswick, for each province had its own particular grievances and its own separate interests. Thus it happened that the battle for responsible government in New Brunswick was fought, to a large extent, without reference to what was being done in the other provinces which now form the Dominion of Canada, and the leaders of the movement had to be guided by the peculiar local circumstances of the situation. Still, there is no doubt that the efforts of all the provinces, directed to the same ends, were mutually helpful and made the victory more easily won.