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See also:GALT, See also:SIR See also:ALEXANDER TILLOCH (1817-1893) , See also:Canadian statesman, was the youngest son of See also:John Galt the author. See also:Born in See also:London on the 6th of See also:September 1817, he emigrated to See also:Canada in 1835, and settled in See also:Sherbrooke, in the See also:province of See also:Quebec, where he entered the service of the See also:British See also:American See also:Land See also:Company, of which he See also:rose to be See also:chief See also:commissioner. Later he was one of the contractors for extending the See also:Grand See also:Trunk railway westward from See also:Toronto. He entered public See also:life in 1849 as Liberal member for the See also:county of Sherbrooke, but opposed the chief measure of his party, the See also:Rebellion Losses See also:Bill, and in the same See also:year signed a manifesto in favour of See also:union with the See also:United States, believing that in no other way could See also:Protestant and Anglo-Saxon ascendancy over the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:French See also:majority in his native province be maintained. In the same year he retired from See also:parliament but re-entered it in 1853, and was till 1872 the chief representative of the See also:English-speaking Protestants of Quebec province. On the fall of the See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown-See also:Dorion See also:administration in 1858 he was called on to See also:form a See also:ministry, but declined the task, and became See also:finance See also:minister under Sir John See also:Macdonald and Sir See also:George See also:Cartier on See also:condition that the federation of the British See also:North American provinces should become a See also:part of their See also:programme. From 1858 to 1862 and 1864 to 1867 he was finance minister, and did much to reduce the somewhat chaotic finances of Canada into See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order. To him are due the introduction of the decimal See also:system of currency and the See also:adoption of a system of See also:protection to Canadian manufactures. To his See also:diplomacy was due the See also:coalition in 1864 between Macdonald, Brown and Cartier, which carried the federation of the British North American provinces, and throughout the three years of negotiation which followed his was one of the chief influences. He became finance minister in the first Dominion ministry, but suddenly and mysteriously resigned on the 4th of See also:November 1867. After his retirement he gave to the administration of Sir John Macdonald a support which See also:grew more and more fitful, and advocated See also:independence as the final destiny of Canada. In 1871 he was again offered the ministry of finance on condition of abandoning these views, but declined. In 1877 he was the Canadian nominee on the Anglo-American See also:fisheries See also:commission at See also:Halifax, and rendered brilliant service. In 188o he was appointed Canadian high commissioner to See also:Great See also:Britain, but retired in 1883 in favour of Sir See also:Charles See also:Tupper. During this See also:period he advocated imperial federation. He was Canadian delegate at the See also:Paris Monetary See also:Conference of 1881, and to the See also:International See also:Exhibition of Fisheries in 1883. From this date till his See also:death on the 19th of
incomplete); Storia See also:delta filosofia (i., 1842); Considerazioni filosofiche sull' idealismo trascendentale (1841), a memoir on the
system of See also:Fichte.
On his philosophical views see L. See also:Ferri, Essai sur l'histoire de la philosophie en Italie au XIX' siecle, i. (1869); V. Gotta in See also:Ueberweg's Hist. of See also:Philosophy, ii. app. 2; G. Barzellotti, " Philosophy in See also:Italy," in Mind, iii. (1878); V. Lastrucci, Pasquale Galluppz. Studio critico (See also:Florence, x89o).
End of Article: GALT, SIR ALEXANDER TILLOCH (1817-1893)
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