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The Man from Halifax : Sir John Thompson, Prime Minister / P.B. Waite.

De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 Available online

De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
Format:
Author/Creator:
Series:
  • Heritage
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Genre:
  • Biographies.
  • Thompson, John.
  • Thompson, John S.
  • Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (577 pages)
Place of Publication:
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Language Note:
In English.
Summary:
Professor Waite has ably and intimately portrayed the private life of a late-Victorian politican: the sacrifice of home comforts, the loneliness of Ottawa, and the sense of public duty that drive Thomson, despite his natural inclinations, to persist in government service.
Contents:
  • pt. 1. Halifax Boy and Lawyer, 1845-1877. 1. J.S. Thompson Comes to Halifax
  • 2. Father and Son
  • 3. The Courting of Annie Affleck
  • 4. The Halifax of Alderman Thompson
  • 5. Practising Law
  • pt. 2. Politician, Attorney General, and Judge, 1877-1885. 6. Getting Elected for Antigonish
  • 7. Attorney General of Nova Scotia
  • 8. The Fall of the Holmes-Thompson Government
  • 9. Mr. Justice Thompson
  • pt. 3. The Train to Ottawa: Minster of Justice in Macdonald's Cabinet, 1885-1891. 10. Minister of Justice
  • 11. Defending the Macdonald Government
  • 12. Adminsitering the Department of Justice
  • 13. Adventures in Washington
  • 14. Overseer of Provincial Law: Thompson and Disallowance
  • 15. Dragon's Teeth
  • 16. Thompson's Canadian Diplomacy
  • pt. 4. Becoming Prime Minister, 1891-1894. 17. The Wages of the Macdonald Era
  • 18. Steadying the Helm
  • 19. The New Prime Minister
  • 20. The Paris Interlude, 1893
  • 21. The Weight of Responsibility
  • 22. The End of Things
  • 23. In the Service of His Country
  • Epilogue.
Notes:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Sep 2019)
ISBN:
1-4875-8047-9
OCLC:
1121053831

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