in chief of public works in the government of John A. Macdonald* and George-Étienne

represented the same county from 25 Sept. 1849 to 23 June 1854. After an absence of four years, he returned to parliament for the period 1858 to 1861. With George-Étienne

. Foster entered politics in 1858 as a follower of George-Étienne Cartier when he was elected in a by

willing to compromise, as did Morin, La Fontaine, and George-Étienne Cartier*. He believed now in an alliance with the Upper Canadian

Thibault*, who had served in the northwest for 35 years, and Salaberry, who was probably chosen on the recommendation of Sir George-Étienne

career. In 1869, when Rupert’s Land was acquired by Canada [see Sir George-Étienne Cartier], and during the unrest that followed, he opposed his colleagues in the name of the rights of the

the diversity of sources from which laws were derived, ‘had been championed by George-Étienne Cartier

. Although he began as a declared independent in parliament, he soon supported the Liberal-Conservatives of George-Étienne Cartier* and gave

, speed of conception, and rightness of judgement are concerned.” Throughout his whole career Renaud was a friend of George-Étienne

* administration of 2–4 August, George-Étienne Cartier

Morrin*, to present Quebec’s claim to be the permanent capital of Canada. Queen Victoria chose Ottawa instead [see Sir George-Étienne

, Boutillier was one of those who, with George-Étienne Cartier* and Augustin-Norbert

 Patrie, a paper Rambau began publishing in Montreal in September 1854. As the organ for the liberal-conservative coalition of which George-Étienne

(MG 26, A), George-Étienne Cartier (MG 27, I, D4), and Francis-Joseph

for Sir George-Étienne Cartier* (1873) and Jean-Baptiste Prat (1876), as well as the decorations in the hall used for Prat’s

Riel*]. Sir George-Étienne Cartier* viewed him as the person best qualified to act as recorder until courts were set up in the

not untypical, he wrote to Macdonald, George-Étienne Cartier, and Joseph

Conservative party, of which George-Étienne Cartier, conjointly with John A

appointed the previous year as an associate justice in the Court of Oyer and Terminer for Carleton County. In 1861, by now a “Coalition Reformer” supporting the George-Étienne

-Étienne Cartier* and also a member of the Board of Railway Commissioners, except for the period of the “double shuffle” in August