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GALT, SIR ALEXANDER TILLOCH (1817-1893) , Canadian statesman, was the youngest son of John Galt the author. Born in London on the 6th of September 1817, he emigrated to Canada in 1835, and settled in Sherbrooke, in the province of Quebec, where he entered the service of the British American Land Company, of which he rose to be chief
commissioner
chief
Protestant
majority in his native province be maintained. In the same year he retired from parliament but re-entered it in 1853, and was till 1872 the chief representative of the English-speaking Protestants of Quebec province. On the fall of the Brown-Dorion administration in 1858 he was called on to form a ministry, but declined the task, and became finance minister under Sir John Macdonald and Sir George Cartier on condition that the federation of the British North American provinces should become a part of their 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 order. To him are due the introduction of the decimal system of currency and the adoption of a system of protection to Canadian manufactures. To his diplomacy was due the 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 November 1867. After his retirement he gave to the administration of Sir John Macdonald a support which grew more and more fitful, and advocated 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 fisheries commission at Halifax
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Great
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system of Fichte. On his philosophical views see L. Ferri, Essai sur l'histoire de la philosophie en Italie au XIX' siecle, i. (1869); V. Gotta in Ueberweg's Hist. of Philosophy, ii. app. 2; G. Barzellotti, " Philosophy in Italy," in Mind, iii. (1878); V. Lastrucci, Pasquale Galluppz. Studio critico (Florence, x89o). End of Article: GALT, SIR ALEXANDER TILLOCH (1817-1893) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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