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FOSTER, GEORGE EULAS (1847– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 732 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FOSTER, See also:GEORGE EULAS (1847– ) , See also:Canadian politician and financier, was See also:born in New See also:Brunswick on the 3rd of See also:September 1847, of U.E. Loyalist descent. After a brilliant university career at the university of Brunswick, at See also:Edinburgh and See also:Heidelberg, he returned to See also:Canada and taught in various See also:local See also:schools, eventually becoming See also:professor of See also:classics andhistory in the local university. In 1882 he became Conservative member for See also:King's See also:County, N.B., in the Dominion See also:parliament, and in 1885 entered the See also:cabinet of See also:Sir See also:John See also:Macdonald as See also:minister of marine and See also:fisheries; in 1888 he became minister of See also:finance, which position he held till the defeat of his party in 1886. A careful and even brilliant financier, and a keen debater, he became known as a strong believer in See also:protection for Canadian See also:industries and in preferential See also:trade within the See also:British See also:empire.

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