George etienne cartier biography of martin
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Cartier, Sir George Etienne, Bart.
(), statesman, was born at St. Antoine, county of Verchères, Lower Canada, on September 6, , the son of Lt.-Col. Jacques Cartier and Marguerite Paradis, and probably a descendant of a collateral branch of the family of the explorer, Jacques Cartier.
George etienne cartier biography of martin luther The governor-general having in vain requested Mr. Sir Edmund Percival Hillary. Graham E. School website".He was educated at the college St. Sulpice, in Montreal; and in he was called to the bar of Lower Canada. In he shouldered a musket, fought at St. Denis and St. Charles on the rebel side, and was forced to take refuge in the United States. He returned to Canada in ; and in he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Canada for the county of Verchères.
He continued to represent Verchères until , when he was elected for Montreal; and for this constituency he sat in the Legislative Assembly and the House of Commons until his death.
George etienne cartier biography of martin lawrence Succeeded by Sir Louis-Victor Sicotte. But the governor, instead of removing obstacles from Mr. It must be admitted that, on this particular question, Mr. Sir Francis Galton.He first entered office in , when he was appointed first provincial secretary and then attorney-general for Lower Canada, in the MacNab - Taché ministry. In he became leader of the Lower Canadian section of the government in the Macdonald -Cartier administration. He remained in power until the defeat of this government in ; and in the short-lived Taché-Macdonald ministry of he was again attorney-general for Lower Canada.
In the movement toward Confederation he played a conspicuous part.
He was the leading French-Canadian member of the " Great Coalition"; he was a delegate to the Quebec Conference of ; and it was largely through his efforts that French Canada accepted the federation proposals. He was minister of militia in the first government of the Dominion of Canada; and was regarded as Sir John Macdonald's chief lieutenant.
In he became implicated in the so-called "Pacific Scandal"; but before parliament had pronounced its verdict on that episode, he died in London, England, on May 20,
He was a politician of indomitable energy and good executive ability; and his hold over the people of French Canada was, from to , almost unchallenged.
His political methods were perhaps not always above reproach; but his services in connection with Confederation outweigh any shortcomings he may have had.
He married, in , Hortense, daughter of Edouard Raymond Fabre, of Montreal; and by her he had two daughters.
George etienne cartier biography of martin johnson As a delegate, Cartier advocated for a strong central government and the protection of French language and culture. Cartier, in a strong and uncompromising speech, announced his unalterable opposition to what he styled the unjust pretensions of Upper Canada. Sir Gilbert Blane 1. Parks Canada.In he was created a baronet of the United Kingdom. He was the author of a song which at one time seemed likely to become the national anthem of Canada, O Canada ! mon pays, mes amours!
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See J. Boyd, Sir George Etienne Cartier (Toronto, ); A.
Dansereau et al., Georges-Etienne Cartier (Montreal, ); C. E. Lavergne, Georges-Etienne Cartier (Montreal, ) ; B. Sulte, Georges Cartier (Montreal, ); A. D. DeCelles, Cartier et son temps (Montreal, ); L. O. David, Esquisse biographique (Montreal, ), and Canada sous l'union (2 vols., Quebec, ).
Source: W. Stewart WALLACE, The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. 1, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, pp.