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	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Galt personally contributed £500, and when in 1847 the factory was on the verge of bankruptcy, hampered by the constraints of its charter and the inability of numerous small shareholders to pay for their subscribed shares, Galt himself bought back the assets for British American Land.
		Galt was, however, too closely linked at the time to the railway enterprises receiving government subsidies for his reputation not to be sullied by the regular and vicious attacks in both houses of parliament denouncing the collusion between politicians and these companies.
		Galt soon suffered in his new duties, however, because of the ambiguity of his status, insufficient financial resources to maintain the lifestyle required in the capital of the empire, and the tensions between his penchant for publicly revealing every notion he entertained and the Canadian government’s desire to see him maintain greater diplomatic discretion.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=40234 (7459 words)

	Galt, Sir Alexander Tilloch
		Galt was no exception to the rule that railway promoters - in search of state subsidies and bond guarantees - often entered politics, and he represented Sherbrooke in the legislature of the PROVINCE OF CANADA (1849-50, 1853-67).
		Galt, a member of the GREAT COALITION Cabinet, attended the QUÉBEC CONFERENCE in 1864 and was a Canadian delegate to England in 1865 and 1866.
		Galt was knighted for his services on the commission to settle the question of American payment for access to Canadian fisheries, as arranged by the Treaty of WASHINGTON.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0003141 (447 words)

	Galt, Sir Alexander Tilloch on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		He was a member of the Canadian Legislative Assembly (1849-50, 1853-67) and of the Canadian House of Commons (1867-72).
		In 1859, in answer to Great Britain's protests against the protective tariff newly adopted by Canada, Galt declared that Canada must be allowed control of its financial policies.
		Benjamin West, John Galt, and the biography of 1816.(Critical Essay)(Biography)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/G/Galt-S1ir.asp (323 words)

	Alexander Tilloch Galt, Sir Biography / Biography of Alexander Tilloch Galt, Sir Biography Biography
		Alexander Galt was born in Chelsea, London, on Sept. 6, 1817, the youngest son of John Galt, the Scottish novelist.
		Galt soon established himself as the leader of the English-speaking members of the Assembly from Canada East and in July 1858 was invited to enter the Macdonald-Cartier government as minister of finance.
		Galt's last years were spent in directing various enterprises in the western prairies in which his family was interested, notably irrigation, coal, and railroad ventures.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-alexander-tilloch-galt-sir/index.html (653 words)

	Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt - Canadian Confederation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Despite the failure of the Canada Company, John Galt helped found the British American Land Company in 1834 and arranged for his son to be taken on as a clerk in the Sherbrooke office.
		Early in his career, Galt could have been considered a supporter of the"parti rouge", which favoured the abolition of seigneurial tenure, the secularization of clergy land reserves, secret ballot elections, and the separation of Church and State.
		Galt's agreement to join the government was conditional on the serious consideration of a project to federate the British North American colonies.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /confederation/023001-2326-e.html (627 words)

	Alexander Tilloch Galt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt (1822 - 1911) was an English -born Canadian politician, and a father of Canadian Confederation.
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		Galt Local News: Topix.net Local, regional, and statewide news collected from diverse sources on the web.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Alexander_Tilloch_Galt.html (302 words)

	Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt (1817-1893)
		Born in England in 1817, Alexander Galt immigrated to Sherbrooke in 1835 to work for the newly created British American Land Company, which was chartered to settle large tracts of land in the Eastern Townships.
		Galt rose steadily in the company, eventually becoming high commissioner in 1844, a post he held until 1855.
		Alexander Tilloch Galt died in Montreal in 1893.
	www.townshipsheritage.com /Eng/Hist/FamousPol/galt.html (480 words)

	Alexander Tilloch Galt - Charlottetown Conference of 1864 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Here Galt saw potential for the area of Quebec's Eastern townships, which the British America Land Company was settling, to be linked to the ocean with a railway.
		Later he also became a contractor for the extension of the Grand Trunk Railway which was pushing westward from Toronto, and in 1849 he became president of the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad.
		Galt was a strong proponent of union with the United States of America.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /charlottetown/fathers/galt.html (203 words)

	Sir Alexander Galt
		Alexander Tilloch Galt was born in London, England, September 6, 1817 and came to Canada in 1835 when his father, the novelist John Galt, became commissioner of the Canada Land Company with responsibility for the land settlement of the Huron Tract between Lake Erie and Lake Huron.
		Alexander himself became a clerk with a similar land company in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, where he was soon promoted to be commissioner of the company.
		Galt was characteristically enthusiastic but undiplomatic and returned to Canada three years later.
	www.hpedsb.on.ca /SMOOD/fathers/galt.htm (398 words)

	Galt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt was a father of Canadian Confederation
		GALT is an abbreviation of the enzyme galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase.
		GALT is an acronym for gut-associated lymphoid tissue
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Galt (110 words)

	Chester Martin, Sir Edmund Head and Canadian Confederation, 1851-1858 (1929) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Galt's place in Canadian history is secure, but I cannot help thinking that Head's has been obscured, largely perhaps by the brilliant qualities of his predecessor Lord Elgin, and still more effectually, I am inclined to think, by his own self-effacing modesty.
		Galt, then unconnected with the ministry, put in the votes a notice for the consideration of it which was not yet disposed of.
		Galt, therefore, came into office it was natural that the question of an Union of the Colonies should at once be discussed.
	www.cha-shc.ca /bilingue/addresses/1929.htm (4314 words)

	Galt, Sir Alexander Tilloch -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Galt emigrated from England to Sherbrooke, Lower Canada (later Canada East, now in Quebec), in 1835 and worked for the British American Land Company, serving as high commissioner from 1844 to 1855.
		Alexander the Great was able to conquer a large area in a remarkably short period of time.
		After Alexander's death, there were endless disputes between his heirs that eventually led to the complete destruction of the family.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9035932 (722 words)

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		Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt (Canada) was born in London, England, September 6, 1817.
		Alexander Galt also worked for a company, as a clerk in the Eastern Townships, but soon became commissioner himself.
		William Alexander Henry (Nova Scotia) was born in Halifax, December 30, 1816.
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/3586/74723 (587 words)

	Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt - La Confédération canadienne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Alexander Tilloch Galt est l'un des hommes politiques canadiens les plus influents de son époque.
		Au début de sa carrière, A. Galt peut être perçu comme un « rouge » qui appuie l'abolition du régime seigneurial, la sécularisation des réserves foncières du clergé, le vote secret aux élections ainsi que la séparation de l'Église et de l'État.
		Alexander Tilloch Galt prend part aux conférences de Charlottetown, de Québec et de Londres.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /confederation/023001-2326-f.html (714 words)

	Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt
		Alexander Galt devint l'un des principaux promoteurs ferroviaires de son époque.
		Alexander Galt s'est assuré que la voie ferrée passait directement au cœur de Sherbrooke.
		Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt décéda à Montréal en 1893.
	www.townshipsheritage.com /FR/Hist/HommesPol/galt.html (618 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Galt Sir Alexander Tilloch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Galt, Sir Alexander Tilloch (1817-1893), Canadian statesman, born in London, England, and privately educated.
		The conference agenda included the prospect of two unions, one confined to the Maritime colonies and the other, much larger, proposal for a federal...
		Fleming, Sir Alexander (1881-1955), British bacteriologist and Nobel laureate, best known for his discovery of penicillin.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Galt_Sir_Alexander_Tilloch.html (105 words)

	Galt Family Crest
		The name Galt comes from the ancient Norman culture that was established in Britain after the Conquest of 1066.
		In continental Europe, the most ancient recorded family crest was discovered upon the monumental effigy of a Count of Wasserburg in the church of St. Emeran, at Ratisobon, Germany...
		In the Galt coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/galt-family-crest.htm (535 words)

	John Galt has last laugh \| The Guelph Mercury
		Galt was one of the first people to envision Canadian confederation.
		His son, Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt, returned to Canada and saved the Galt name, becoming Canada's first finance minister, the first Canadian High Commissioner in London and a Canadian Father of Confederation.
		Galt has the thriving city of Guelph which becomes, as he envisioned, an agricultural centre.
	www.guelphmercury.com /news/special/175_anniversary/news_special_020406142430.html (300 words)

	Famous People
		Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt - A Father of Confederation, Alexander Galt was a dynamic promoter, visionary, and statesman.
		Elected MLA for Sherbrooke, Galt joined John A. Macdonald's government as finance minister in 1858, and formulated the financial terms for Confederation.
		Later Galt split with Macdonald and left politics.
	www.mountroyalcem.com /cemetery/nature_history/famous_people.aspx?lang=en-CA (349 words)

	Family Connections
		The Galt family arrived in New York in mid March 1828, where John met them and brought them first to a house at Burlington Bay, then about September 1828, the family took up permenant residence in the renovated Priory at Guelph, Ont. The three boys were sent to boarding school in Chambly, Lower Canada.
		John Galt's three sons decided themselves that the possiblities in Canada were endless and they could not do wrong by returning so in early 1833 John and Thomas, left, John to a farm at Goderich where he later bacame Register of Huron County.
		Alexander Tilloch, took leave in 1834, was nominated for junior clerkship in the office of the British American Land Company at Sherbrooke, Lower Canada (Quebec), rose to the position of Commissioner, become involved in the county's politics and is well know as one of the Father of Confederation of the Dominion of Canada (1867).
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~macfie/familyconnections.html (3203 words)

	Sherbrooke - Alexander Tilloch Galt
		Alexander Tilloch Galt was born on September 6
		He was the last child of the three sons of John Galt and Elizabeth Tilloch.
		Alexander started to study at the Anglican Seminary of Chambly.
	www.csrs.qc.ca /goeland/proj/envolee/matieres/anglais/realisations/sherbrooke/legends/alexander-galt.html (550 words)

	Railways
		The St Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad was the idea of a Canadian, Alexander Tilloch Galt of Montreal, and an American, John A. Poor of Portland, Maine.
		Galt and his fellow businessmen in Montreal wanted access to a port that did not freeze up in winter, as the St Lawrence River did.
		Portland, Maine, the American terminus of the proposed railway, was such a port.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&TCE_Version=J&SectionId=625366&mState=1 (487 words)

	Encyclopedia: Alexander Tilloch Galt
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	Galt on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Debunking the public health myth: municipal politics and class conflict during the Galt, Ontario waterworks campaigns, 1888-1890.
		Galt Introduces Surveillance Services Division; Dr. John Clark to Lead Company's New Signaling and PSUR Services for Faster, More Efficient Surveillance of Public Health Safety Data.
		Galt Appoints Former Merck and Co. Senior Vice President Dr. Louis Sherwood to Board of Directors; Sherwood to Help Drive Drug Safety Company's Direction and Growth.
	encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-G1alt.asp (285 words)

	Who Were the Fathers of Confederation? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Galt was a successful businessman and financier in Lower Canada in the 1840s serving for several years with the British American Land Company in the Eastern Townships.
		Galt's expertise with finances were called upon during the development of the federal model debated at the Confederation conferences.
		Province of Canada: George Brown, Alexander Campbell, George-Étienne Cartier, Alexander Galt, Hector Langevin, John A. Macdonald, William McDougall, Thomas D'Arcy McGee.
	www.pco-bcp.gc.ca /aia/default.asp?Language=E&Page=federation&Sub=WhoWeretheFathersofConfe (3140 words)

	Galt Coat of Arms
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		Galt Coat of Arms / Family Crest Coffee Mug
		Galt Coat of Arms / Family Crest Mouse Pad
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/galt-coat-arms.htm (1289 words)

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