[Cartier speaks of promises made to the English-speaking minority of Quebec before Confederation, now delivered with a reformed education bill for Quebec. Cartier...
[Cartier addresses a crowd assembled at Montreal’s Bonaventure Station, welcoming him home from a mission to England to negotiate the accession of the...
[Cartier is given a hero’s welcome in Ottawa, greeted by crowds and receiving official congratulations from the Mayor and the President of the...
[Delivered to a banquet honouring Alexander Galt, Cartier pays tribute to a key political ally and representative of the English-speaking minority of Quebec,...
[Returning home after the London Conference, Cartier steps off a Grand Trunk train and delivers this speech to a crowd approaching 10,000 waiting...
[Returning home to Montreal after the London Conference and an audience with the Pope at Rome, Cartier’s train pulls up to greet a...
[Before the departure of delegates for the London Conference, Cartier addresses a banquet for 250 hosted in his honour at Montreal and presided...
[One of Cartier’s earliest surviving speeches, delivered to a political rally when he was just 28, foreshadows with remarkable precision the political nationality...
MLI paper explores the role of George-Étienne Cartier in the establishment of Confederation OTTAWA, March 7, 2017 – The Macdonald-Laurier Institute is pleased...
George-Étienne Cartier’s famous speech on Confederation articulated a new idea of Canadian political nationality—one capable of bridging the ethnic, religious and linguistic divides...