Speech on Formation of the Great Coalition, June 14, 1864 - George Brown
[On June 14, 1864 the short-lived Taché-Macdonald government lost a confidence vote and collapsed. On June 22, the Great Coalition was announced by...
Speech to Reform Convention, June 27, 1867 - George Brown
[Brown resigned from cabinet in December 1865, ostensibly due to a dispute with Galt over trade policy. Brown’s biographer explains that there were...
George Brown Introduces Motion for Constitutional Committee, October 12, 1863
[With politics in Canada growing increasingly dysfunctional, Brown renews his call for constitutional change with a novel tactic – citing the 1858 federation...
Speech to Liberal Convention of Upper Canada, November 10, 1859 - George Brown
[George Brown’s decisive speech to the Great Reform Convention of 1859, urging the convention to adopt resolutions in favour of federalizing Upper and...
Policy of the Brown-Dorion Administration – August, 1858
[A major speech given in the aftermath of Brown’s two-day government of 1858, outlining the negotiation with Lower Canada’s Antoine-Aimé Dorion leading to...
To the Electors of the City of Toronto, Globe, August 21, 1858 - George Brown
[Just ejected from government after only two days in power, Brown addresses his constituents seeking re-election. Acknowledging charges of abandoning his principles –...
George Brown, Speech in the Confederation Debates – February 8, 1865
This major speech represents the culmination of George Brown’s 15-year campaign for constitutional reform and representation by population, and is in itself an...
"Dispatches from 1865" on George Brown: Alastair Gillespie in the National Post
In this series for the National Post, written by Munk Fellow Alastair Gillespie, leading statesmen from 1865 articulate the political challenges they grappled with....