• The Montreal Annexation Manifesto was a political document dated September 14, 1849, and signed in Montreal, Canada East, calling for the Province of...
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    John Abbott (category Montreal Annexation Manifesto signers)
    involved himself in politics from a young age, signing the Montreal Annexation Manifesto in 1849 – which he later regretted – and winning election to...
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    participants in the 1837-38 rebellions.[citation needed] The Montreal Annexation Manifesto was published in 1849. It was hoped a merger with the United...
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    John Redpath (category Montreal Annexation Manifesto signers)
    and philanthropist who helped pioneer the industrial movement that made Montreal, Quebec, the largest and most prosperous city in Canada. In 1796, John...
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    Benjamin Holmes (Canadian politician) (category Montreal Annexation Manifesto signers)
    he was a supporter of annexation by the United States in the late 1840s, and a signatory of the Montreal Annexation Manifesto. He became a vice-president...
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    Peter Redpath (category Montreal Annexation Manifesto signers)
    born in Montreal, Lower Canada, the son of a Scottish immigrant, John Redpath, a director of the Bank of Montreal and a member of the Montreal City Council...
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    John Molson Jr. (category Montreal Annexation Manifesto signers)
    Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad (Canada's first railway), and president of Montreal General Hospital. He was the son of the founder of the Molson family dynasty...
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    William Molson (category Montreal Annexation Manifesto signers)
    and President of Molson Bank, which was in 1925 absorbed by the Bank of Montreal. He was the son of the founder of the Molson family dynasty in Canadian...
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    William Workman (Canadian politician) (category Montreal Annexation Manifesto signers)
    President of Montreal's City Bank. He was Mayor of Montreal and invested in railways, shipping, real estate and charity. His home was in Montreal's Golden Square...
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    John Torrance (category Montreal Annexation Manifesto signers)
    speculations and mortgages. Torrance strongly supported the Montreal Annexation Manifesto, which cost him his commission as a Major in the militia. Through...
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    David Torrance (banker) (category Montreal Annexation Manifesto signers)
    a leading founder of the High School of Montreal. Torrance was a signer of the Montreal Annexation Manifesto in 1849. On January 9, 1832, he married his...
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    Sir John Rose, 1st Baronet (category Montreal Annexation Manifesto signers)
    Cornwall and Privy Counsellor. In 1872, he was created 1st Baronet Rose, of Montreal. His eldest son inherited the title and in 1909, his second son, Sir Charles...
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  • Match 51st state Movements for the annexation of Canada to the United States Montreal Annexation Manifesto Annexation Bill of 1866 Cascadia Doug flag Parti...
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  • open up access to the Eastern Townships. Smith supported the Montreal Annexation Manifesto of 1849. He helped establish Bishop's College and was a partner...
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  • Edward Goff Penny (category Montreal Annexation Manifesto signers)
    London), England, Penny moved to Canada in 1844, settling in Montreal, Quebec and joined the Montreal Herald as a reporter. At the same time he studied law and...
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    Luther Hamilton Holton (category Montreal Annexation Manifesto signers)
    reciprocity in trade with the United States and, for a time, he supported annexation. During the 1850s, he became involved in railway development and played...
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    11 – The Montreal Annexation Manifesto is published December 26 – Electors ask J. McConnell, M.P.P. for Stanstead, if he favours annexation, which they...
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    David Lewis Macpherson (category Montreal Annexation Manifesto signers)
    shares of the Montreal and Kingston Railway, knowing that their rail line was required as part of a planned railway connection between Montreal and Hamilton...
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  • Legislative Council of the Province of Canada. He signed the 1849 Montreal Annexation Manifesto proposing union with the United States, viewing this as the...
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    Louis-Joseph Papineau (category Lawyers from Montreal)
    exile in the United States and France, Papineau supported the Montreal Annexation Manifesto that called for Canada to join the United States of America...
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  • Jacob De Witt (category Montreal Annexation Manifesto signers)
    voluntary annexation of Canada by the United States began, particularly amongst the Montreal business community. It culminated in the Montreal Annexation Manifesto...
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    Joseph Papin (category Members of the Institut canadien de Montréal)
    de Montréal in 1844 and served as president in 1847. Papin also contributed to the newspaper L'Avenir. Papin signed the Montreal Annexation Manifesto of...
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    was assaulted, the parliament building was burned, and the Montreal Annexation Manifesto was issued, calling for the absorbption of the Province of Canada...
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    was assaulted, the parliament building was burned, and the Montreal Annexation Manifesto was issued, calling for the absorbption of the Province of Canada...
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    George Moffatt (Canada East politician) (category Directors of Bank of Montreal)
    publication of the Montreal Annexation Manifesto in the Montreal Gazette on October 11, 1849. One of the prominent signers of the Manifesto was John Abbott...
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  • now strongly supporting annexation, as a republican option. Supporters of annexation issued the Montreal Annexation Manifesto. Dessaules, Boutillier's...
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    Colonies. The British American League was juxtaposed to the Montreal Annexation Manifesto, the latter of which wished to see the Province of Canada annexed...
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  • Wilson John Wilson Sought re-election in opposition to the Montreal Annexation Manifesto Glengarry January 11, 1850 John Sandfield Macdonald John Sandfield...
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  • Terrebonne. In 1849, McCulloch supported annexation by the United States, as set out in the Montreal Annexation Manifesto. McCulloch at one point owned a parcel...
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    Canada buildings in Montreal were burned down. See Burning of the Parliament (Montreal). 1849 - On October 11, an Annexation Manifesto, supported by both...
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