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    Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt, GCMG CB PC (September 6, 1817 – September 19, 1893) was a politician and Father of Confederation, the union of British North...
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    Galt then returned to London and married Elizabeth Tilloch, daughter of Alexander Tilloch. They had three boys, John Galt Jr (1814–1866), Thomas Galt...
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    Territories (NWT) from 1878 until 1885. He joined Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt and Elliott Torrance Galt in their western industrial enterprises as a surveyor...
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    Alexander Tilloch FSA (Scot) (28 February 1759 – 1825) was a Scottish journalist and inventor. He founded the Philosophical Magazine. The son of John...
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  • England in 1882 by Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt, one of Canada's Fathers of Confederation. As part of his vision for Canada, Galt was committed to finding...
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  • A key component of his National Policy, Macdonald was helped by Alexander Tilloch Galt, who was the owner of the North Western Coal and Navigation Company...
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    later William Watson Ogilvie. Galt House was also built on Simpson Street by Canadian Founding Father Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt. The entrance of Simpson Street...
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    articles published in the Courrier du Canada. Two years later, Alexander Tilloch Galt, George-Étienne Cartier, and John Ross travelled to the United Kingdom...
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    Minister of Canada John A. Macdonald, George-Étienne Cartier and Alexander Tilloch Galt, who signed the visitor book in 1866. The 4th Earl presented the...
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  • politician, and the 20th President of the United States (b. 1831) 1893 – Alexander Tilloch Galt, English-Canadian politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Finance (b...
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  • St. John Richardson Liddell, American general (d. 1870) 1817 – Alexander Tilloch Galt, English-Canadian businessman and politician, 1st Canadian Minister...
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    ambassadors to each other. The first official high commissioner was Alexander Tilloch Galt, appointed in 1880. The office remained the most important in Canadian...
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    Canada's High Commissioner in London. Macdonald initially refused, and Alexander Tilloch Galt retained the High Commissioner's post. During the 1882 election...
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    the support of an influential independent member of the Assembly, Alexander Tilloch Galt. They took advantage of an exception in the statute which provided...
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    of the novelist John Galt and only child of the politician Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt (1817-1893) by his wife Elliott (d. 1850 shortly after giving birth...
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    Chancellor of the University of Oxford Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt, Father of the Canadian Confederation Ross Brawn, Formula One Managing...
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    ship-broker, ship owner and commission merchant based in Quebec City Sir Alexander Galt (1817–1893), businessman, statesman, Father of Confederation Horatio...
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  • William Allan 1870-71 – Sir Richard John Cartwright 1872 – Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt 1873-78 – Joseph Merrill Currier 1879 – Alonzo Wright 1880 – James...
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    co-Premier. Macdonald and Cartier were able to form a new ministry with Alexander Tilloch Galt. On August 28, Brown won the by-election that was called because...
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    John W. Hopkins. Since demolished. Galt House, Simpson Street; built in the 1860s for Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt, later lived in by George Caverhill;...
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  • Galt is the surname of: Alexander Tilloch Galt (1817–1893), politician and a major figure in the Canadian Confederation Edith Galt (1872–1961), second...
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    designation of high commissioner. The Canadian government appointed Alexander Tilloch Galt as the first high commissioner of Canada to the United Kingdom in...
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    delegations. Canada East sent three delegates: George-Étienne Cartier, Alexander Tilloch Galt, and Hector-Louis Langevin. Canada West sent three delegates: William...
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  • history include: Sir John A. Macdonald Sir George-Étienne Cartier Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt John Carling Sir John Rose Thomas D'Arcy McGee Joseph Howe Sir Samuel...
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    greater bank regulation. In 1860, the provincial Minister of Finance, Alexander Tilloch Galt, proposed that the government issue bank notes, replacing notes...
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    canadienne, 1899–1939. Skelton, Oscar (1920). The Life and Times of Alexander Tilloch Galt. Oxford: Oxford University Press.[page needed] Nersessian, Mary...
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    Henry Pope John Hamilton Gray George Brown Alexander Campbell George-Étienne Cartier Alexander Tilloch Galt Hector-Louis Langevin John A. Macdonald William...
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    Conservative government of John A. Macdonald, together with mining magnate Alexander Tilloch Galt. As a condition for joining the Canadian Confederation, British...
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  • George-Étienne Cartier (1814–1873) John A. Macdonald (1815–1891) Alexander Tilloch Galt(1817–1893) Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1825–1868) Henri-Gustave Joly de...
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    Nova Scotia Yes Yes No Charles Fisher New Brunswick No Yes Yes Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt Quebec Yes Yes Yes John Hamilton Gray Prince Edward Island Yes Yes...
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