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	Samuel Leonard Tilley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in Gagetown, New Brunswick, Tilley was the son of Thomas Morgan Tilley, a storekeeper, and Susan Ann Peters.
		Tilley was an activist in the temperance movement and this brought him to politics.
		Tilley entered federal politics with Confederation in 1867 and served in the federal Macdonald Cabinet as Minister of Customs He became Minister of Finance in 1873 until the defeat of the government later that year.
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	Leonard P. D. Tilley biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley (1870-1947) was a New Brunswick politician and premier.
		Tilley was elected to the provincial legislature in 1916 as a Conservative MLA and became a cabinet minister in 1925 under Premier John B. Baxter.
		Tilley is the son of Samuel Leonard Tilley, one of the Fathers of Confederation.
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	Encyclopedia: Samuel Leonard Tilley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Leonard P. Tilley speaking on Parliament Hill in 1927 Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley (May 21, 1870-December 28, 1947) was a New Brunswick politician and premier.
		Tilley became Provincial Secretary in the government of Richard Fisher Samuel Leonard Tilley Canadian politician and his first wife, Julia Ann Hanford.
		During morning devotions, Tilley read the Psalm that states "He shall have dominion from sea to sea", and presented his inspiration to the others, being as it was their ambition to stretch the new nation to the Pacific Ocean.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Samuel-Leonard-Tilley (1389 words)

	Samuel Leonard Tilley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tilley became provincial secretary in the government of Richard Fisher He attended both the Charlottetown an Quebec City Conferences as a supporter of Canadian Confederation.
		Leonard Area Map Shows where Leonard is in relation to Bemidji and surrounding communities.
		Samuel Garth (1661-1719) Text of Samuel Johnson's biography of the poet and The Dispensary.
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	Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley - Canadian History
		Tilley, Sir Samuel Leonard (1818-1896), statesman was born at Gagetown, New Brunswick, on May 18, 1818, the son of Thomas Morgan Tilley and Susan Ann Peters.
		He was educated at the Gagetown grammar school, and in 1831 began to earn his own livelihood as a clerk in an apothecary's office in Saint John, New Brunswick.
		In 1867 Tilley resigned from the New Brunswick cabinet, and became minister of customs in the first cabinet of the Dominion of Canada.
	www2.marianopolis.edu /quebechistory/encyclopedia/SirSamuelLeonardTilley-CanadianHistory.htm (417 words)

	Tilley, Sir Samuel Leonard
		Tilley, Sir Samuel Leonard, politician (b at Gagetown, NB 8 May 1818; d at Saint John 25 June 1896).
		Tilley got his start in a Saint John drugstore, and eventually went into partnership with his mother's relations in that business.
		Tilley was uneasy about the government's commitments to the CPR in the 1880s, and doubtless would have pulled the plug had he been allowed to do so.
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	Samuel Leonard Tilley, Sir Biography / Biography of Samuel Leonard Tilley, Sir Biography Biography
		Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley (1818-1896) was one of the Canadian fathers of confederation and twice lieutenant governor of New Brunswick.
		Samuel Leonard Tilley was born on May 8, 1818, at Gagetown, New Brunswick, into a family which had once farmed part of what is now Brooklyn, New York City, and as loyalists had migrated northward after the American Revolution.
		Tilley was reelected in 1857, becoming premier in 1861 and remaining in office until defeated as a champion of confederation in 1865.
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	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Tilley, although he supported all the measures, is irrevocably associated with two in particular, an effort to put control over finances into the hands of the Executive Council and an attempt to institute prohibition.
		Tilley had had some hope of obtaining the finance portfolio when Galt resigned, but the Canadian primacy was clearly demonstrated when Macdonald offered it first to Howland and then to John Rose*, a man of limited parliamentary experience.
		Tilley struck up an alliance with his old colleague and opponent, convincing him that he belonged in the Macdonald camp, and the two united to protect the New Brunswick schools legislation when it came under attack in Ottawa.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=40589&query=tilley (7927 words)

	Samuel Leonard Tilley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Samuel Leonard Tilley Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley (May 8,1818-June 25,1896) was a Canadian politician.
		Samuel Leonard Tilley and his first wife Julia Ann Hanford, circa 1843 First elected to the New Brunswick Assembly as a Liberal in 1850 he sat in opposition until the 1854 election swept the reformers to power.
		Tilley became Provincial Secretary in the government of Richard Fisher He attended both the Charlottetown and Quebec City Conferences as a supporter of Canadian Confederation.
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	Confederation for Kids: Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tilley was born at Gagetown, New Brunswick, on May 8, 1818.
		Tilley wanted New Brunswick to join Canada, but after he returned from talks with Canadian leaders he learned the people of New Brunswick were against Confederation.
		Tilley held several important jobs in the government, and later became the lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick in 1873.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /confederation/kids/h2-1650-e.html (176 words)

	Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley
		His father was Thomas Morgan Tilley, and his grandfather, Samuel, was a loyalist, who, at the close of the American Revolution, left Brooklyn, New York, and settled in New Brunswick becoming a grantee of the city of St. John.
		Young Tilley was educated at the county grammar-school, but at the age of twelve he was obliged to leave his home and seek employment.
		Tilley's name first appears in connection with the politics of his native province, when, espousing the side of the protectionists of that day, he nominated and aided in electing a candidate for the legislature.
	www.famousamericans.net /sirsamuelleonardtilley (1109 words)

	Sir Leonard Tilley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Samuel Leonard Tilley was born of Loyalist parentage at Gagetown, New Brunswick, May 8, 1818.
		With the term of parliament ending in 18 65, Tilley considered it fatal to try to push through the scheme in the last few months of the session; so he agreed to put the question to the electors.
		In the new Canada, Tilley was minister of customs and then minister of finance, but resigned in 1873 to become lieutenant governor of New Brunswick.
	www.hpedsb.on.ca /smood/fathers/tilley.htm (349 words)

	Leonard Tilley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tilley was an activist in the temperance movement and this brought him topolitics.
		He became an advocate for responsiblegovernment as a result of the 1848 recession which was caused, in part, by Britain 's economic policies.
		Tilley joined the New-Brunswick Colonial Association which advocated that the colony have control over itspublic expenses, that a public school system be established, governmentcontrol of public works and "honest government".
	www.therfcc.org /leonard-tilley-247824.html (213 words)

	TilleyHouseP
		It sold to Samuel Tilley and then passed to his grandson, Thomas Morgan Tilley, in 1817.
		Samuel Leonard Tilley, born on May 8, 1818 in the parlour bedroom, became New Brunswick's outstanding Father of Confederation.
		As well as marking Tilley's birthplace, it is a museum dedicated to the preservation of Queens County History.
	www.geocities.com /qchsm/TilleyHouseP.html (220 words)

	Confédération pour enfants: Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tilley s'est intéressé à la politique et a milité pour un gouvernement responsable.
		Tilley a remporté alors de nouvelles élections et est redevenu premier ministre.
		Tilley y a occupé plusieurs postes importants et, en 1873, il est devenu lieutenant-gouverneur du Nouveau-Brunswick.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /2/2/h2-1650-f.html (200 words)

	Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley - Charlottetown Conference of 1864 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Born the son of United Empire Loyalists Samuel Leonard Tilley was educated in Gagetown and had humble beginnings as a drugstore clerk.
		Tilley served in the Assembly during much of the time between 1850-67 and served as provincial secretary under Charles Fisher's first responsible government in New Brunswick.
		Tilley also had strong interests in railway development and encouraged New Brunswickers to accept Confederation.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /charlottetown/fathers/tilley.html (173 words)

	Samuel Leonard Tilley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley achieved fame, almost by having it thrust upon him.
		The nominating convention which first chose him to run for political office picked him even though he was absent and even when afterwards he demurred.
		Tilley, an ardent teetotaller, was born at Gagetown, N.B., on May 18, 1818 to United Empire Loyalists parents who could trace their roots in North America back to the Mayflower passengers.
	www.canadahistory.com /sections/politics/polsamuelleonardtilley.htm (255 words)

	Dictionnaire biographique du Canada en ligne
		Tilley était tellement furieux qu’il démissionna de son siège quand Wilmot fut réélu en octobre.
		Tilley trouvait en effet absurde de perpétuer des injustices ou d’aider la cause des adversaires de la Confédération en refusant de modifier l’entente originale qui avait réuni les provinces.
		Tilley continua d’affirmer que la Politique nationale préservait le Canada des pires effets de la crise et empêchait les Américains de détruire de nouveau le marché canadien.
	www.biographi.ca /fr/ShowBio.asp?BioId=40589 (9108 words)

	Fathers of Confederation
		With the term of parliament ending in 1865, Tilley considered it fatal to try to push through the scheme in the last few months of the session; so he agreed to put the question to the electors.
		The anti-confederates won three to one; all three assembly delegates to the conferences, Tilley, Gray and Fisher, were defeated; the union seemed a lost cause.
		In 1866 external pressures and internal divisions brought a distinct reversal in favor of union and Tilley was returned to power.
	crl.library.ns.ca /amhersthistory/tilley.htm (359 words)

	Ruby M Cusack - Life and Times of Sir Leonard Tilley
		When we shook our heads, he continued, “Sir Leonard Tilley was one of the Father’s of Confederation.” “He and his wife were probably one of the few persons from New Brunswick who were ever invited to visit Queen Victoria at Osborne, in the Isle of Wright.
		Young Leonard Tilley attended the Madras School and the Grammar School in Gagetown until 1831, when at the age of thirteen he came to Saint John to clerk in the drug store of Dr. Henry Cook.
		Lady Tilley took an active part in the Victoria Hospital in Fredericton, the Nurses’ Home in connection with the Public Hospital in Saint John and the Reformatory for the care of bad or neglected boys, who were in danger of becoming criminals.
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	Tilley, Sir Samuel Leonard -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The English poet and satirist Samuel Butler is famous as the author of Hudibras, the most memorable burlesque poem in the English language and the first English satire to make a notable and successful attack on ideas rather than on personalities.
		The English novelist Samuel Richardson explored the dramatic possibilities of the novel by his use of the letter form, known as the epistolary technique.
		Virginia married Leonard Woolf in 1912 at the age of thirty.
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	Office of the Lieutenant Governor New Brunswick
		Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley (1818-1896) Born in Gagetown, New Brunswick.
		Joseph Leonard O'Brien (1895-1973) Born in South Nelson, New Brunswick.
		Wallace Samuel Bird (1917-1971) Born in Marysville, New Brunswick.
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	Samuel Leonard Tilley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A pharmacist, he went into business as a druggist.
		Tilley became provincial secretary in the government of Richard Fisher
		Dictionary of Canadian Biography: Samuel Leonard Tilley (http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=40589)
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		Samuel Leonard Tilley was born in Gagetown, New Brunswick on the 8th of May in the year 1818, and later became the premier as well as a lieutenant governor.
		Leonard Tilley was married twice, became lieutenant governor in 1873, and was knighted in 1879.
		If it wasn't for Leonard Tilley, New Brunswick wouldn't have joined Confederation, and by not joining Confederation, they would have stopped all of the Atlantic provinces from joining.
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	SIR SAMUEL TILLEY - LoveToKnow Article on SIR SAMUEL TILLEY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		SIR SAMUEL TILLEY - LoveToKnow Article on SIR SAMUEL TILLEY
		(1818-1896), Canadian statesman, was born at Gagetown, New Brunswick, on the i8th of May 1818, the son of Samuel Tilley, an American Loyalist, who had settled in St John in 1783.
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