
Tributes to Sir Charles Tupper by Sir Robert Borden and Sir Wilfrid Laurier, House of Commons, February 7, 1916
Resolved, that the House of Commons of Canada desires to express its deep sense of the loss sustained by the Dominion and the...
Resolved, that the House of Commons of Canada desires to express its deep sense of the loss sustained by the Dominion and the...
[Ed. In an unexplained incident of Confederation, William Miller, to this point a key Nova Scotian opponent of the Quebec plan of Confederation,...
[Ed. At one of the first meetings of the new Canadian parliament in Ottawa, Charles Tupper replies to Joseph Howe’s denunciation of Nova...
[Ed.: Arguing that a Confederation of all the provinces is still far off, Tupper moves the resolution that led to the Charlottetown Conference...
[Ed.: With Confederation at an impasse in the aftermath of Tilley’s defeat in the New Brunswick elections, and facing rising anti-Confederation sentiment in...
[Ed. In the following extract, Tupper reminisces about the difficulties he faced as Premier in carrying Confederation. The speech is perhaps most noteworthy...
Independently of the great Red River and Saskatchewan country lying between Canada and the Rocky Mountains, and the gold-bearing district of British Columbia...