The Right Honourable
Sir Charles Tupper
THE POLITICAL POWER
BORN
- 2 July 1821, Amherst, Nova Scotia
EDUCATION
- University of Edinburgh (Medecine), Scotland
PERSONAL STATUS
- Married 1846, Frances Morse (1826 - 1912)
- Tree sons, tree daughters
OCCUPATION
- Physician, practised as a country doctor in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
- 1867 - 1870 President, Canadian Medical Association
- Author
PARTY
- Conservative
- 1896 - 1901 Party Leader
CONSTITUENCIES
- 1867-1884, 1887 -1888 Cumberland, Nova Scotia
- 1896 - 1900 Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
OTHER MINISTRIES
- 1857 - 1860, 1863 -1867 Provincial Secretary (Province of Nova Scotia)
- 1870 - 1872 President of the Privy Council
- 1872 - 1873 Inland Revenue
- 1873 Customs
- 1878 -1879 Public Works
- 1879 - 1884 Railways and Canals
- 1887 - 1888 Finance
- 1896 Secretary of State
POLITICAL RECORD
- Premier of Nova Scotia 1864 - 1867
- Father of Confederation 1867
- Participant in the Confederation Conferences of Charlottetown 1864, Quebec 1864, and London 1866
- Minister of Railways and Canals during construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway 1879 - 1884
- High Commissioner to the United Kingdom 1884 - 1887, 1888 - 1896
DIED
- 30 October 1915, Bexley Heath, England
BURIED
- St. John's Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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