Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley

Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley

Death

In June 1896 Tilley cut his foot while at his Rothesay summer house he had bought. By June 11th he had blood poisoning and on the 25th this knighted, great father of confederation sadly passed at the age of 78.

Tilley's Notable Actions

Pros and Cons of confederation in their province?

What colony did he represent?

About Samuel and his History

Sources

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/confederation/kids/023002-3120-e.html

http://www.biographi.ca/EN/index.html

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/confederation/023001-3010.22-e.html

http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/301/ic/can_digital_collections/charlottetown/fathers/

AND SOME REALLY HELPFUL YAHOO ANSWERS!

• Promoted and encouraged railways
• Quebec resolutions
• Attended all notable conferences to promote confederation
• Won premier election and got personally selected for the new government

Sir Sam represented the province of New Brunswick, that's where he was born and raised and became a politician there, making him an amazing candidate for election and a great father of confederation.

A pro of New Brunswick joining Canada is that at the time the U.S. were planning to expand north and being in the country would help them defend. Some cons would be that the costs of confederation (taxes) would affect them as every economy would be different but they would still be a country, not good for a small province.

My Father of Confederation, Samuel Tilley was born on May 8th 1818 in Gagetown, New Brunswick. He was a pharmacist at the age of 20 but he had and interest in politics. He won a seat in the New Brunswick assembly and stayed there for seventeen years. Samuel was pro-confederation and - as the premier - tried to persuade others in NB to be the same but it didn't work, he was defeated in the vote of 1867 in 1865.

Sovereignty

Fairness

Co-operation

Why Did He Join And Under What Terms Did He?

Why Confederation?

What Did He Contribute?

Identity

What Conferences Did He Attend?

I believe that the fairness was freed and allowed people to do what they wanted now that they are apart of a new country. A large part of NB culture was the provincial industries like shipbuilding, you could ship internally in a larger province even though this is New Brunswick were talking about, or ship across the nation. Or of course keep your special tradition to yourself. This was the freedom of a new country.

He fought for a responsible government and that made him premier and ultimately led him to be pro-confederation. He definitely wanted what was best for his province joining the confederation would help NB ship out their various trades. He joined simply

because he loved politics, no term or catch about it.

When you want several provinces or territory to join together being pro confederation as one you would expect a lot of things to become the whole country's business but as I've said in the con section the economy is partially independent (taxes). So on one point it disables and on the other they still have their own industries running the same but only more money generated with the new shipping with the railway.

PRE-CONFEDERATION RAP!

Samuel only wanted what was best for his province and his country, otherwise he wouldn't have been selected for a new government, he was known for this. The railway could only generate more money for the economy and share the nations treasures with everyone. If he wasn't pleasing everybody he wasn't pleasing himself.

Samuel had a strong interest in the railway and the Quebec resolutions (which I will explain on the next slide of what he contributed) these two would be positively affected with confederation. This was the prelude to his loss in 1865, as he couldn't persuade his hometown to be pro confederation.

Samuel attended three conferences, London, Quebec and, Charlottetown which he proposed the Quebec resolutions to the many at the conference.

Tilley contributed with others the Quebec resolutions which is a document which states 72

declarations which where presented in the Charlottetown conference of October 1864. Samuel also was chosen in John A. MacDonald's first federal cabinet in 1867.

As it was his home province he of course loved the identity otherwise he wouldn't want to run for premier! Tilley and his colleagues remembered what kept this colony sustained, and you could tell that no one else forgot either, the confederation medal shows one of the women representing NB has a lumberman's ax. This was always what they were remembered for as their own identity.