Lawyers in Nova Scotia - John Sparrow David Thompson, Robert Borden, Charles Tupper, Angus Lewis MacDonald, Peter MacKay, Darrell Dexter (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: John Sparrow David Thompson, Robert Borden, Charles Tupper, Angus Lewis Macdonald, Peter MacKay, Darrell Dexter, Tim Cranston, James Hamet Dunn, Charles Cahan, Robert Stanfield, David Dingwall, Gerald Regan, Purdy Crawford, Hiram Blanchard, Graham Steele, Mather Byles DesBrisay, Henry Hicks, Charles Hibbert Tupper, Daniel Duncan McKenzie, John Buchanan, James Lorimer Ilsley, Elmer MacKay, Robert Coates, Stewart McInnes, Bernie Boudreau, William Andrew MacKay, Robert Sedgewick, Hanson Taylor Dowell, George Nowlan, William Johnston Tupper, Ronald St. John Macdonald, George Isaac Smith, Roland Ritchie, John Burpee Mills, Vincent Pottier, Earl Wallace Urquhart, David G. Coles, Alistair Fraser, Gail Asper, Albert James Smith Copp, George F. Curtis, Harold Putnam, Russell MacEwan, John Dickey, Edgar Gold, Jim Cowan, Fred Dickson, Lewis Herbert Martell, Azel Randolph Lusby, Joseph Andrew Chisholm, Graham Day, George Cooper, Matthew Henry Richey, Kenzie MacKinnon, Barrie Dunn, William Chisholm Macdonald, Edward Joseph Theriault, Frances Fish, Constance Glube, Joseph Phillip Kennedy, Walter Harold Covert, Charles Haliburton, William Crosbie, Frank Harris Patterson, Joel E. Fichaud, J. Michael MacDonald. Excerpt: Sir Charles Tupper, 1st Baronet, GCMG, CB, PC (July 2, 1821 - October 30, 1915) was a Canadian father of Confederation: as the Premier of Nova Scotia from 1864 to 1867, he led Nova Scotia into Confederation. He later went on to serve as the sixth Prime Minister of Canada, sworn in to office on May 1, 1896, seven days after parliament had been dissolved. He would go on to lose the June 23 election, resigning on July 8, 1896. His 69-day term as prime minister is currently the shortest in Canadian history. At age 74, in May 1896, he was also the oldest person to serve as Prime Minister of Canada. Born in Amherst, Nova S...