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Born in: Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu

City lived in adult life: Quebec City

Museum: Sir George Etienne Cartier national historic site. 458 Rue Notre-Dame E, Montreal, QC. H2Y IC8

-Lawyer

-Businessman

-Poet/Writer

-Politician

-Prime minister of the province of Canada

-Home-schooled by his mother since there were no schools in Saint-Antoine

-College of Montreal (directed by the Sulpicians)

-Had legal training in the office of Edouard-Etienne Rodier (a Montreal lawyer who was disposed towards the demand of the patriot party)

Fathers of Confederation By: Sydney

George Etienne Cartier

Family

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Lives In

Father: Jacques Cartier (1774-1841)

Mother: Marguerite Paradis (-May 20th 1873)

Brother: Franc-Damien Cartier

Spouse: Hortense Fabre (married from 1846–1873)

Children: Hortense Cartier (1849-1941), Josephine Cartier (1847-1846), Reine-Victoria Cartier (1853-1854)

Work Experience

Bibliography

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http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/cartier_george_etienne_10E.html

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sir-george-etienne-cartier/

Education

Photos

Important times

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Interests

-Leader of le Parti Blue. (A group that was in favour of the confederation)

-Writing poetry *I was unable to find his work*

1814 -Born on September 9th

1835- Graduated from the college of Montreal and joined the radical group Fils de la liberte

1837- Cartier fought with Wolfred Nelson and the rebels as they successfully routed Colonel Charles Gore's force

1838- Returned and practiced law in Montreal

1840- Had been nullified by the Act of Union

1841- Became active in politics

1843- Was the secretary of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society

1848- Was elected as a Liberal Reformer in Vercheres

1857-58- Served as co-premier with John A Macdonald

1858-62- Pushed the movement towards confederation

1861- Moved to Montreal East after the coalition with the Montreal Conservitives

1864- Cartier led the Canadian great confederation of all colonial Provinces

1868-69- He and William McDougal negotiated in London for the transfer of the HBC territory of Rupert's land and the North Western Territory to the Dominion

1869- Played a key role in securing Rupert's land

1870- Helped in drafting the Manitoba Act

1871- Negotiated the Terms of Union of British Columbia, which passed this year

1872- Rival Railway promoters who wanted to get into the trade of the Canadian Northwest by railway lines crossing the border, they heavily financed Cartier's political rivals leading to Cartiers defeat.

1873- The American promoters engineered the release in April

1873- Was extremely ill with Brights Disease and dies on May 20th

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