Sir Charles Tupper fonds [textual record (microform)]
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Sir Charles Tupper fonds [textual record (microform)]
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Finding aid Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid consists of computerized author, subject and chronological indexes for volumes 1-20. For a description of the remaining papers, 21-31, consult the inventory entry. The first link is for the finding aid. The second link consist of the author list. The third link consist of the chronological list. The forth link consist of the subject list. MSS0153 (90: Open)
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Record information Sir Charles Tupper fonds [textual record (microform)]
Date:1821-1919, 1958.Reference:R12555-0-4-E, MG26-FType of material:Textual material, Objects (including medals and pins), ArtFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:105103Date(s):1821-1919, 1958.Bilingual equivalent:Place of creation:No place, unknown, or undeterminedExtent:3.069 m of textual records.
2 paintingsLanguage of material:EnglishScope and content:Fonds consists of political papers, n.d., 1823-1916, 2.165 m; personal papers, n.d., 1821-1915, 0.385 m; family papers, 1857, ca. 1878-1919, 0.165 m; additional papers, n.d., 1841-1915, 1958, 0.151 m; related papers, 1885, 1887-1914, 0.203 m., Fonds also consists of two paintings of Sir Charles Tupper and his wife dated 1888 by John Horsburgh.Provenance:Additional name(s):- Macpherson, D. L. (David Lewis), 1818-1896
- Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
- Macdonald, John A. (John Alexander), 1815-1891
- Tupper, Charles Hibbert, Sir, 1855-1927
- Turner (Family)
- Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Shea, Ambrose, Sir, 1815-1905
- Strathcona and Mount Royal, Donald Alexander Smith, Baron, 1820-1914
- University of Edinburgh
- Charlottetown Conference (1864)
- Mount Stephen, George Stephen, Baron, 1829-1921
- Canada. Parliament
Biography/Administrative history:Tupper, Charles, Sir, 1821-1915 : Prime Minister of Canada (1896).
Charles Tupper was born at Amherst, Nova Scotia on 2 July 1821. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and was the founding president of the Canadian Medical Association.
Tupper was elected as a Conservative to the Nova Scotia legislature in 1855 for the riding of Cumberland County. He served as provincial secretary under Premier James W. Johnston, who he succeeded in 1864.
Tupper was elected to parliament for the riding of Cumberland in 1867. Under Sir John A. Macdonald, Tupper served as president of the Privy Council (1870-72), minister of inland revenue (1872-73), customs (1873-74), public works (1878-79), and railways and canals (1879-84), in which role he championed the transcontinental railway. Tupper travelled to Red River in 1869 after his son-in-law was detained by the Métis provisional government under Louis Riel.
Tupper went to London as Canada's high commissioner in 1883. He initially retained his cabinet post and was actively involved in Canadian politics throughout his time as high commissioner, including serving as minister of finance (1887-88).
Tupper returned to Ottawa in January 1896 to become secretary of state in Sir Mackenzie Bowell's disintegrating government. He represented the riding of Cape Breton. Tupper succeeded Bowell on 1 May 1896. Despite losing the general election in July, Tupper led the Conservatives until 1900. His 69-day term as prime minister is the shortest in Canadian history.
Tupper endorsed the federal government's systematically racist relationship with Indigenous Peoples, which caused tremendous ongoing trauma, displacement, disenfranchisement and exclusion
Tupper married Frances Morse in 1846. He was knighted in 1879, and created a baronet in 1888. He retired to England and died there on 30 October 1915. He is buried at St John's Cemetery, Halifax.Additional information:Custodial history:A large part of the Sir Charles Tupper Papers was given to the Public Archives in 1926 by Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, a son and literary executor. These had been used for "The Life and Letters of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Tupper, Bart" edited by Rev. E.M. Saunders (1916), and for a supplement by Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper (1926)., On the advice of Sir Joseph Pope a portion of the papers was retained by Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, consisting chiefly of his own correspondence with his father. This portion, with letterbooks, journals and memoranda was transferred to the Archives in 1953 from the University of British Columbia through the kindness of R.H. Tupper, Q.C. In 1966, an additional 1m of Tupper Papers were presented by Misses Jessie C. Tupper and Frances Tupper of Toronto., The two paintings of Sir Charles Tupper and his wife dated 1888 by John Horsburgh have been acquired in 2006 from the great-great-grand-daughter of Tupper, Dorothy Dunlop.Availability of other formats note:Most of the collection, Volumes 1-29, is available on 12 reels of microfilm, reels C-3202 to C-3213. The finding aid is available in bound form and also on microfilm, reel C-4500.Container note(s):C-4500 : Finding AidSubject heading:- Canada Confederation, 1867
- Patronage, Political Canada
- Legislative bodies - Reform, 1864 The Life and Letters of the Rt. Honourable Sir Charles Tupper, Bart, 1867
- Legislative bodies - Maritime Provinces, 1864 Washington Treaty (1888), 1887-1888
- Alaska Boundary Dispute, 1886-1887 Washington Conference (1887), 1887-1888
- Alaska - Boundaries - Canada, 1886-1887 Canadian Pacific Railway Company, 1888
- Canada - Boundaries - Alaska, 1886-1887 Recollecton of Sixty Years, 1914
- Fishery law and legislation - North America, 1823-1911 John Elisha Tupper, n.d
- Pictou (N.S.) - Elections, 1888 Conservative Party of Canada, 1867-1919
- Railroads - Canada, 1888 John Schultz, [1878-1896]
- Political rights, 1885
- Charlottetown (P.E.I.) - Legislative hearings, 1864 George Johnson, 1887
- Election campaigns, 1882-1896
- Wedding anniversaries, 1896
- Rev. Charles Tupper - Biography, 1857
- E.M. Saunders - Manuscripts, 1867
- Investments, Foreign - Canada, 1888
- Investments, British - Canada, 1888
- Boards of trade, 1900-1909
- Consolation, 1915
- Charles Tupper - Death and burial, 1915
- Bills, Legislative - Canada, 1885
- Suffrage, 1885
- Canada United States
- United States Canada
- Portraits
- Speeches, addresses, etc., Canadian
- Legislators Canada
- Politicians Canada
- Prime ministers Canada
- Canada
- Riel Rebellion, 1885
- Fisheries Canada
- Diaries
- Cabinet ministers Canada
- Canada 1841-1867
- Constitutional history Canada
- Political parties Canada
- Campaign funds Canada
- Hand Book of Canada, 1887
- Political oratory Canada
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