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| | Charles Tupper |
 | | At once Tupper took a marked position in the legislature, and when in 1856 the Johnston cabinet was formed he became provincial secretary of Nova Scotia, serving till 1860, and identified himself with such measures as the abolition of the monopoly in mines and minerals, representation by population, and consolidation of the jury law. |
 | | Tupper was also a member of the conference that met in London in 1866-'7, where the terms of union were settled in detail. |
 | | On 29 August, 1888 Sir Charles was created a baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for services in connection with the fisheries treaty at Washington.--His son, Charles Hibbert, born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, 3 August, 1855, was educated at McGill college university, Montreal, and at Harvard. |
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