The life of a country doctor involved long and frequently arduous journeys on horseback and he had to turn his hand to everything from surgery to pulling teeth.
To open the way for development Tupper persuaded Johnston in 1857 to negotiate an end to the General Mining Associationâs monopoly over the mineral resources of the colony. He had strongly supported the efforts of Sandford Fleming to construct the Intercolonial to the highest possible standards and he viewed the Liberal policy of raising freight rates and using contractors from outside the Maritimes as a betrayal of the economic benefits promised by confederation. He was buried beside his wife in St Johnâs Cemetery, Halifax, after a state funeral with a procession a mile long. Certainly he expected important âcommercial advantagesâ for Nova Scotia, but again his concern was with more than economic development. Tupper himself went down to defeat and two days after the election he announced his resignation, selecting as his successor his fellow Nova Scotian and friend Robert Laird http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/tupper_charles_14E.htmlhttp://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/tupper_charles_14E.html© 2003-2020 University of Toronto/Université Laval When did John Caldicott die? The act did not introduce local taxation; it simply promised greater financial support to school districts which instituted compulsory assessment.
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Joseph Howe. After 1887 the league was racked by internal dissent over the question of regular colonial contributions to imperial defence, which Tupper opposed, and it was dissolved on 24 Nov. 1893. He transferred his practice to Ottawa in 1868, and during the period in opposition after 1873 he practised there and in Toronto.
in 1897 for introducing imperial preference without getting anything for Canada in return.
What Tupper wanted was greater influence for his colony within the empire. He recognized, however, that his appointment would not be universally welcomed, he enjoyed his influence in London, and he urged his son Charles Hibbert, then minister of marine and fisheries, to give âhearty supportâ to Sir John Thompson. The negotiations failed, partly because the Canadians seemed more interested in federal union, which Tupper did not feel authorized to discuss, but primarily in his view because the British were âtoo much engaged with their own immediate interests.â He returned to Nova Scotia convinced of the need to restructure the imperial relationship and to seek closer ties with the other British North American colonies.
Yet personal ambition will only go so far in explaining the determination with which he pursued his goal. Although Archbishop Connolly strongly lobbied for constitutional guarantees for separate schools in the Maritimes, Tupper refused his consent. When the CPR required additional financial support in December1883, he worked out a rescue plan and persuaded the caucus and the commons to agree to it. Tupper reluctantly put pressure on Fleming to reduce the costs â and therefore the quality â of construction but he could not save his old friend and in May 1880 was forced to remove him.