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| Â | SIR LOUIS LAFONTAINE - LoveToKnow Article on SIR LOUIS LAFONTAINE |
 | | Canadian statesman and judge, third son of Antoine Mnard LaFontaine (1772-1813) and Marie-J-Fontaine Bienvenue, was born at Boucherville in the province of Quebec on the 4th of October 1807. | | | LaFontaine was educated at the College de Montral under the direction of the Sulpicians, and was called to the bar of the province of Lower Canada on the 18th of August 1829. | | | After the death of Sir James Stuartin 1853 LaFontaine was appointed chief justice of Lower Canada and president of the seigneurial court, which settled the vexed question of land tenure in Canada; and in 1854 he was created a baronet. |
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| Â | Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Sir Biography / Biography of Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Sir Biography |
| | Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine (1807-1864) was a Canadian politician of French-speaking background who collaborated with Robert Baldwin in the achievement of "responsible government" and who laid the basis for the effective participation of French-Canadians in the government of the country. | | | Lafontaine now began negotiations with Robert Baldwin and Francis Hincks, leaders of the reform group in Upper Canada, to work together for the achievement of "responsible government," by which the executive would be made dependent upon the support of a majority in the elected legislature. | | | In the new legislature of the united Province of Canada, after 1841, Lafontaine emerged as the leader of the French-Canadian reformers, eloquently expressing the political claims of his countrymen. |
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| | LaFontaine, Sir Louis-Hippolyte, also La Fontaine, politician (b at Boucherville, LC 4 Oct 1807; d at Montréal 26 Feb 1864). | | | LaFontaine retired to private life in 1851 but was appointed chief justice of Canada East in 1853. | | | LaFontaine thus became the first prime minister of Canada in the modern sense of the term. |
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| | The preamble of this bill states that Louis David Riel, Member of the House of Commons for the electoral district of Provencher from 1873 to 1874, was convicted on August 1, 1885 of high treason, sentenced to death, and was hanged on November 16, 1885, at Regina, North West Territories. | | | The memory of Louis Riel was finally honoured on March 10, 1992 by this House, when it adopted a motion by Conservative minister Joe Clark to recognize the unique and historic role of Louis Riel as founder of Manitoba and his contribution in the development of confederation. | | | This House must be consistent in its own decisions and admit that it cannot recognize Louis Riel's role as founder of Manitoba and his contribution to the development of the Canadian Confederation, while still tolerating that his conviction for the offence of high treason stand. |
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| | Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine was a brilliant lawyer from a modest Boucherville family and a leading figure in the "Patriotes" party. | | | Lafontaine would later return the favour by offering Baldwin the reform seat of Rimouski after his defeat in the 1843 election. | | | Nor did Lafontaine forget his exiled fellow Patriots, passing an Amnesty Act that would be signed by Queen Victoria in February 1849. |
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| | Trained as a lawyer, LaFontaine began his political career with election to the Lower Canadian Assembly when he was twenty three years old. | | | Like LaFontaine, Robert Baldwin was a lawyer who took up politics at an early age. | | | He had spoken to his constituents in the Fourth York and had persuaded them to elect LaFontaine in his place. |
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| Â | SIR LOUIS LAFONTAINE - LoveToKnow Article on SIR LOUIS LAFONTAINE |
| | In 1839 Lord Sydenham, the governor-general, offered the solicitor generalship to LaFontaine, which he refused; and after the Union of 1841 LaFontaine was defeated in the county of Terrebonne through the governors influence. | | | LaFontaine was educated at the College de Montral under the direction of the Sulpicians, and was called to the bar of the province of Lower Canada on the 18th of August 1829. | | | After the death of Sir James Stuartin 1853 LaFontaine was appointed chief justice of Lower Canada and president of the seigneurial court, which settled the vexed question of land tenure in Canada; and in 1854 he was created a baronet. |
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| | LaFontaine, Sir Louis-Hippolyte, also La Fontaine, politician (b at Boucherville, LC 4 Oct 1807; d at Montréal 26 Feb 1864). | | | LaFontaine retired to private life in 1851 but was appointed chief justice of Canada East in 1853. | | | LaFontaine thus became the first prime minister of Canada in the modern sense of the term. |
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| | Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine stands out among the politicians of the past 150 years because he was the first to understand how the power and flexibility of the British Constitution could be used to ensure the survival of his people. | | | Sir Louis Hippolyte LaFontaine, joint premier of the Province of Canada, 1848-51, oil on canvas, by June Forbes McCormack (courtesy Government of Ontario Art Collection). | | | LaFontaine accepted the generous offer and was elected. |
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| | Sir Louis Hippolyte LaFontaine was born near Boucherville, Chambly county, Lower Canada, on October 4, 1807, the third son of Antoine Menard dit Lafontaine, a farmer; and the grandson of Antoine Menard LaFontaine, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1796 to 1804. | | | Other materials related to Sir Louis Hippolyte LaFontaine are located at Archives nationales du Quebec,in Quebec City; National Archives of Canada (MG 24); Archives national du Quebec, in Montreal; and the Bibliotheque municipale de Montreal. | | | He opposed the appeal to arms by the Patriotes in 1837; but he deemed it wise to leave Canada, and on his return to Canada in 1838 was arrested. |
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| Â | AllRefer.com - Sir Louis Hippolyte LaFontaine (Canadian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia |
| | Sir Louis Hippolyte LaFontaine [l u w E ´ E pOl E t´ lAfONten´] Pronunciation Key, 1807–64, Canadian political leader, b. | | | LaFontaine resigned in 1851; from 1853 until his death he served with distinction as chief justice of Lower Canada. | | | A lawyer, he entered (1830) the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada and supported Louis Joseph Papineau in his opposition to the British administration but did not approve of the rebellion of 1837. |
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| | LaFontaine, Sir Louis Hippolyte - LaFontaine, Sir Louis Hippolyte, 1807–64, Canadian political leader, b. | | | According to one legend, after Theseus abducted her sister Antiope, Hippolyte led a vengeful army to Athens but was defeated and died of grief. | | | Carnot, Hippolyte - Carnot, Hippolyte, 1801–88, French statesman; son of Lazare Carnot. |
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| Â | Baldwin and Lafontaine |
| | Trained as a lawyer, LaFontaine began his political career with election to the Lower Canadian Assembly when he was twenty three years old. | | | Like LaFontaine, Robert Baldwin was a lawyer who took up politics at an early age. | | | He had spoken to his constituents in the Fourth York and had persuaded them to elect LaFontaine in his place. |
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| | Eventually, Champlain convinced Cardinal Richelieu, chief minister to King Louis XIII, of the importance of North America to the economic development of France. | | | Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette began exploring the Mississippi River, and René-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, reached the Gulf of Mexico in 1682. | | | The Patriote leader, Louis Joseph Papineau, a seigneur who wanted to preserve or restore many aspects of traditional French Canadian society, was a reluctant revolutionary who soon fled across the border to exile in the United States. |
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| Â | Explore the hill - Statues A Treasure to Explore: Parliament Hill (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) |
| | Once a member of his cabinet, Sir Wilfrid Laurier described Mackenzie as "One of the truest and strongest characters to be met within Canadian History." During his 5 years as Prime Minister, the Supreme Court of Canada and the Auditor General's Office were established. | | | Cartier formed a joint ministry for a United Canada from 1857 to 1862 with long-time friend Sir John A. Macdonald, thus serving as joint Prime Minister. | | | Sir Wilfrid Laurier served as Canada's first Francophone Prime Minister from 1896 to 1911. |
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| | Sir Louis Hippolyte LaFontaine was born near Boucherville, Chambly county, Lower Canada, on October 4, 1807, the third son of Antoine Menard dit Lafontaine, a farmer; and the grandson of Antoine Menard LaFontaine, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1796 to 1804. | | | Other materials related to Sir Louis Hippolyte LaFontaine are located at Archives nationales du Quebec,in Quebec City; National Archives of Canada (MG 24); Archives national du Quebec, in Montreal; and the Bibliotheque municipale de Montreal. | | | He was educated at the College of Montreal, was called to the Bar of Lower Canada, and practiced law in Montreal. |
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| | LaFontaine seized upon the thought that responsible government would amount to Canadian home rule, the best means of defending the Canadiens' own rights. | | | And Sir John Franklin's expedition of 1845-47, at last to determine the North West Passage, starkly resulted in his own death and those of the crews of his two vessels; yet brought on a stream of searches to "find Franklin." These certainly were futile; nevertheless, they widely increased Arctic knowledge and contacts with the Inuit. | | | Thus when the new parliament met in 1848, the existing Tory administration was crushingly defeated in the House, and resigned in early March. |
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| | After the reunion of Upper and Lower Canada in 1841, Baldwin and Louis Hippolyte LaFontaine were allowed to form their first coalition government (1842) under Sir Charles Bagot. | | | With Bagot's death and the arrival (1843) of Sir Charles Metcalfe as governor, the first Baldwin-LaFontaine government resigned, but in the elections of Dec., 1847, the reformers won an overwhelming vote. | | | In 1836, as a recognized leader of reform in Upper Canada, Robert Baldwin was appointed by Sir Francis Bond Head to the executive council, but he resigned in a few weeks when it became apparent that the governor had no intention of acceding to the demands of the reformers. |
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| | Sir Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine introduced responsible government to Canada when it was the largest colony in British North America. | | | MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Sir Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine | | | From 1848 to 1851 LaFontaine headed the first government in the colony controlled by the elected assembly. |
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| Â | Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Sir Biography / Profile of Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Sir Biographies |
| | Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine (1807-1864) was a Canadian politician of French-speaking background who collaborated with Robert Baldwin in the achievement of "responsible government" and who laid the basis for the effective participation of French-Canadians in the government of the country. | | | Born on Oct. 4, 1807, at Boucherville in Quebec, Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine was called to the bar in 1828 and, like so many other ambitious young French-Canadian lawyers, embarked on a political career. | | | On his return Lafontaine was briefly arrested as a person connected with the rebels, but he was..... |
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| | Sir Louis Hippolyte LaFontaine - LaFontaine, Sir Louis Hippolyte, 1807–64, Canadian political leader, b. | | | Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau - Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis, 1819–96, French physicist. | | | According to one legend, after Theseus abducted her sister Antiope, Hippolyte led a vengeful army to Athens but was defeated and died of grief. |
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| | In 1848 the moderate reformers of both Canada East and Canada West, Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin, won their elections, and Lord Elgin asked them to form a government together. | | | Lord Elgin became the first Governor General to remove himself from the affairs of the legislature, leading to the essentially symbolic role that the Governor-General now has. | | | Under Lord Elgin the first real attempts began at establishing responsible government in Canada. |
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| Â | TrekEarth House of Sir Louis-H-Lafontaine Photo |
| | Louis Hippolyte LaFontaine (1807-1864) is a French-Canadian Reform leader in Lower Canada and parliament member for York County in Canada West. | | | The house is now use as museum that present many small free exhibit. | | | FORJP001, alexbf, perryhooter has marked this note useful |
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| | Louis Hippolyte LaFontaine (1807-1864), a French-Canadian Reform leader in Lower Canada and parliament member for York County in Canada West. | | | You can order reproductions of this image as a Print, suitable for framing, produced on 38# photo-quality paper. | | | Click here to view a larger picture; to return, use your browser's back button. |
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| | Papineau and McKenzie were the leaders of the rebellions of 1837 in Lower and Upper Canada respectively, which led to the first responsible government in the British Empire. | | | Baldwin and Lafontaine formed a humanist pact as the first, joint leaders of the newly-amalgamated Upper and Lower Canada ten years later. | | | They were engaged in that most complex of public acts - attempting to match imaginative initiative with careful moderation. |
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| | Louis H. LaFontaine Louis Hippolyte LaFontaine (1807-1864), a French-Canadian Reform leader in Lower Canada and parliament member for York County in Canada West. | | | William Kirby William Kirby (1817-1906), an early Canadian writer, author of The U.E., The Golden Dog, and Annals of Niagara. | | | George Laidlaw George Laidlaw (1828-1880), the successful promoter and builder of railways such as the Toronto, Grey and Bruce, the Toronto and Nipissing, and the Credit Valley line. |
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