Samuel Leonard Tilley

Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley (born the May 8th 1818, deceased the June 25th 1896) was a pharmacist and Canadian Politician . It is one of the fathers of the Canadian Confédération.

Tilley was born with Gagetown (New Brunswick) from his/her parents Thomas Morgan Tilley, owner of shop, and Susan Ann Peters. The May 6th 1843, it marries Julia Ann Hanford with Midsummer's Day. They have eight children together. Hanford dies in 1862. The October 22nd 1867, it marries Alice Starr Chipman with St Stephen and they have two children, including the future Prime Minister of New Brunswick Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley.

Tilley militates within the movement for the Tempérance, which brings it to the policy. It has suddenly preached the Gouvernement responsible because of the recession for 1848 which had been caused, partly, by the British economic policies. Tilley joint with the New Brunswick Colonial Association which recommended that the colony has control on its public expenditure, that a public school system is established, that the government controls public works and claimed a " government honnête". Initially elected at the legislative Parliament of New Brunswick under the liberal banner in 1850, it sits in the opposition until the election of 1854 which brought the reformists to the capacity. Tilley becomes provincial Secrétaire in the government of Richard Fisher.

He is delegated to the conferences of Charlottetown and Quebec like partisan of the Canadian Confédération. He serves as Prime Minister of the colony of New Brunswick of 1861 until the defeat of his government in 1865. Like Prime Minister, it supported the entry of New Brunswick in the Canadian confederation and the construction of an intercolonial railroad.

One owes in Tilley the use of the word " Dominion " in the name of the new country. The fathers of the confederation had discussed the prefix to give to Canada, John A. Macdonald having a clear preference for " Kingdom of Canada". During its devotions of the morning, Tilley reads the Psalm 72:8, where he is written: It will dominate from one sea to another English (: " He shall cuts dominion also from sea to sea") and its inspiration to the others, their ambition presents being to extend the new nation until the Pacific Ocean. The proposal is adopted unanimously, and the " term; dominion" was also used by the Australia and the New Zealand.

The term was also used for the name of the national festival of July 1st in English (in French rather, one called it the national Festival, an expression who is applied today to the festival of the Saint Jean to the Quebec). This historical reference was put at the rancart in 1980 when the Dominion Day was officially renamed Canada Day (festival of French Canada) by a law of the Parliament.

Tilley launches out in federal policy at the time of the confederation in 1867 and sits in the federal cabinet of Macdonald as a Minister for the Customs. He becomes Minister for Finance in 1873 until the defeat of the government later this same year. He is named Lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick in 1873, station which he occupies until in 1878. When the tories of Macdonald return to the capacity in 1878, Tilley again becomes Minister for Finance until his retirement of the policy in 1885, becoming lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick for a second mandate until in 1893.

It is buried with the Fernhill cemetery with Midsummer's Day (New Brunswick).

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Biography of the '' biographical Dictionnaire of Canada in line ''
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