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 | | In 1872, he was accused of buying a government contract to build a railway to the Pacific after it came to light that he had contributed $350,000 to the campaign of the Conservative Party. |
 | | He became a prominent railway executive and entered politics as a reformer in 1849, representing Sherbrooke from 1849 to 1850, and 1853 to 1867. |
 | | As a small newspaper publisher for the Irish community, he called for the Confederation, a transcontinental railway, prairie settlement, a protective tariff against the Americans, and the development of a distinctive form of Canadian literature in his editorials. |
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