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See also:TUPPER, See also:SIR See also:CHARLES, See also:BART . (1821– ), See also:British colonial statesman, son of the Rev. Charles Tupper, D.D., was See also:born at See also:Amherst, Nova See also:Scotia, on the 2nd of See also:July 1821, and was educated at See also:Horton See also:Academy. He afterwards studied for the medical profession at See also:Edinburgh University, where he received the diplomas of M.D. and L.R.C.S. In 1855 he was returned to the Nova Scotia See also:Assembly for See also:Cumberland See also:county. In 1862 he was appointed, by See also:act of See also:parliament, See also:governor of See also:Dalhousie See also:College, See also:Halifax; and from 1867 till 1870 he was See also:president of the See also:Canadian Medical Association. Mr Tupper was a member of the executive See also:council and provincial secretary of Nova Scotia from 1857 to 186o, and from 1863 to 1867. He became See also:prime See also:minister of Nova Scotia in 1864, and held that See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office until the See also:Union Act came into force on the 1st of July 1867, when his See also:government retired. He was a delegate to See also:Great See also:Britain on public business from the Nova Scotia government in 1858 and 1865, and from the Dominion government in See also:March 1868. Mr Tupper was See also:leader of the delegation from Nova Scotia to the Union See also:conference at See also:Charlottetown in 1864, and to that of See also:Quebec during the same See also:year; and to the final colonial conference in See also:London, which assembled to See also:complete the terms of union, in 1866-x867. On that occasion he received a patent of See also:rank and See also:precedence from See also:Queen See also:Victoria as an executive councillor of Nova Scotia. He was sworn a member of the privy council of See also:Canada, See also:June 1870, and was president of that See also:body from that date until the 1st of July 1872, when he was appointed minister of inland See also:revenue. This office he held until See also:February 1873, when he became minister of customs under Sir See also:John See also:Macdonald, resigning with the See also:ministry at the See also:close of 1893. On Sir John's return to See also:power in 1878, Mr Tupper became minister of public See also:works, and in the following year minister of See also:railways and canals. At this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he was made K.C.M.G. Mr Tupper was the author of the Public See also:Schools Act of Nova Scotia, and had been largely instrumental in moulding the Dominion See also:Confederation See also:Bill and other important See also:measures. Sir Charles represented the county of Cumberland, Nova Scotia, for See also:thirty-two years in See also:succession—first in the Nova Scotia Assembly, and subsequently in the Dominion parliament until 1884, when he resigned his seat on being appointed high See also:commissioner for Canada in London. Shortly before the Canadian Federal elections of February 1887, Sir Charles re-entered the Conservative See also:cabinet as See also:finance minister. By his efforts the Canadian Pacific railway was enabled to See also:- FLOAT (in O. Eng. floc and flota, in the verbal form f eotan; the Teutonic root is flut-, another form of flu-, seen in " flow," cf. " fleet "; the root is seen in Gr. a-M e, to sail, Lat. pluere, to rain; the Lat, fluere and fluctus, wave, is not connect
float a See also:loan of $30,000,000, on the strength of which the See also:line was finished several years before the expiration of the See also:contract time. He resigned the office of finance minister in May 1888, when he was reappointed high commissioner for the Dominion of Canada in London. Sir Charles was designated one of the British plenipotentiaries to the See also:Fisheries See also:Convention at See also:Washington in 1887, the result of which conference was the See also:signing of a treaty in February 1888 (rejected by the U.S. See also:Senate) for the See also:settlement of the matters in dispute between Canada and the See also:United States in connexion with the See also:Atlantic fisheries. He was created a See also:baronet in See also:September 1888. When the Dominion cabinet, under Sir See also:Mackenzie See also:Bowen, was reconstituted in See also:January 1896 Sir Charles Tupper accepted office, and in the following See also:April he
succeeded Rowell in the premiership. On both patriotic and commercial grounds he urged the See also:adoption of a preferential See also:tariff with Great Britain and the See also:sister colonies. At the See also:general See also:election in the ensuing June the Conservatives were severely defeated, and Sir Charles Tupper and his colleagues resigned, Sir See also:Wilfrid See also:Laurier becoming premier. The Conservative party now gradually became more and more disorganized, and at the next general election, in See also:November 1900, they were again defeated. Sir Charles Tupper, who had See also:long been the Conservative leader, sustained in his own See also:constituency of Cape See also:Breton his first defeat in See also:forty years.
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