being an articled clerk in the law office of George-Étienne Cartier*, he was called to the bar on 30 Oct. 1866. He then
*. When Drummond carried through his threat to resign as attorney general, Macdonald and Taché simply replaced him with George-Étienne
Mercier* joined. In the 1872 federal election, despite his political inexperience, Jetté defeated Sir George-Étienne Cartier* in
the government of John A. Macdonald* and George-Étienne Cartier
became an opponent of the government of John A. Macdonald and George-Étienne Cartier* in 1858, openly supporting the principle of
succeeded in persuading Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau and George-Étienne
forgotten: Sir George-Étienne Cartier*, the new dominion’s minister of
George-Étienne Cartier*, essays included in a single volume published in
.
His funeral was an impressive one. By a strange coincidence it took place at Notre-Dame two days after that of Sir George-Étienne
1852, following the resignation of the commissioner of public works, John Young*, and the refusal of George-Étienne
*, René-Édouard Caron*, Étienne-Paschal Taché*, Jean-Charles Chapais, George
Sicotte, replaced the Conservative ministry of John A. Macdonald* and George-Étienne
George-Étienne Cartier*. On 29 April 1937 his cottage in Sainte
Archibald* in establishing the provincial government, having been encouraged to do so by Sir George-Étienne Cartier* and Bishop
-election, as they were required to do on accepting portfolios, and a somewhat strengthened old gang under George-Étienne
test when elections were announced in November by the government, now led by Macdonald and his powerful French Canadian ally, George-Étienne
minutes of the council of 14 Sept. 1855 indicate that George-Étienne Cartier* even wrote to him that no “branch of the secretariat of
reconstructed government of George-Étienne Cartier* and Macdonald. Cayley had, however, been returned for Renfrew in a March 1858 by-election
. Macdonald* and George-Étienne Cartier*. This defeat convinced Brown and Howland that only a radical restructuring of the legislative
Advertiser’s main goals were to develop a sense of local pride in the human and natural resources of the region and to have that spirit forcefully expressed in political life. When George-Étienne