HISB41H3 Midterm: midterm notes
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Lecture 1 john norquay manitoba conservative premier. Advocate of compact theory province can unmake confed. Honore mercier (french catholic) vs. dalton mccarthy (english protestant) Macdonald convinced house of commons to let it pass 188-13. George denison police magistrate (judge) police officer commander of gg bodyguard. Pro british, pro war, anti america, hated americans, more british than british thought canada should be part of imperial federation grand imperial parliament in. British did not like his idea, no room for india, not realistic, reflected the views of. Supporter of free trade w/ us, when blake left office he thought. Laurier could take over but laurier was french and catholic good speaker but too soft/nice. He needed to do something = unrestricted reciprocity risky but it worked as high tariffs were not creating prosperity. Born in canada, humble background, journalist/business man, gm of dunn co ny moved there in 1860s.
