several times _bâtonnier_ of the Montreal bar, and was also
_bâtonnier-general_ of the bar of the province. He began at an early age
to take an interest in politics, and from 1854 to 1861 he sat in the
Canadian Assembly for Montreal, and for Hochelaga from 1862 until the
union. He represented the same county in the House of Commons until
1872, when he was returned for Napierville, for which he continued to
sit until his elevation to the bench. He was leader of the _Rouge_ or
French Canadian Liberal party of the province of Quebec, from his
entrance into political life until his retirement. In August, 1858, the
Macdonald-Cartier government was succeeded by the Brown-Dorion
administration, when Mr. Dorion became attorney-general. He was sworn in
a member of the Privy Council November 7th, 1873, and was minister of
justice from that date until appointed chief justice of the province of
Quebec. During his career in parliament, he held the offices of
commissioner of crown lands in 1858; provincial secretary from May,
1862, to January, 1863, when he resigned on the Intercolonial Railway
question; attorney-general for Lower Canada, and co-leader of the
government (with Hon. John Sandfield Macdonald as premier), from May,
1863, to March, 1864, when the ministry resigned from office. He acted
as administrator of the province of Quebec, in December, 1876, during
the illness of Lieut.-Governor Caron. He was married, in 1848, to a
daughter of the late Dr. Trestler, of Montreal.
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=Tupper, Hon. Sir Charles=, G.C.M.G., C.B., D.C.L., Minister of Finance
for the Dominion of Canada, M.P. for Cumberland, Nova Scotia, was born
at Amherst, N.S., on the 2nd July, 1821. The family is of Hesse-Cassel
origin. After having settled for a time in Guernsey, one of the British
channel islands, the forefathers of the future Canadian minister of
finance, with the object of improving their condition, left for
Virginia, in America, and subsequently, at the termination of the
American revolutionary war, removed, with other United Empire loyalists,
to Nova Scotia, where they settled. The family was also connected with
that of the late Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, the hero of Queenston
heights. His father was the late Rev. Charles Tupper, D.D., of
Aylesford, N.S. Young Tupper received a classical education at Acadia
College, Nova Scotia, and graduated from that institution with the
degrees of M.A. and D.C.L. He subsequently went to Edinburgh, Scotland,
where he studied medicine, and took the degree of M.D., and also
received the diploma of the College of Surgeons of the same city, in