sér., Lévis, Qué., 1933), 4: 53–55. Wallace, Macmillan dict. Bernard, Les Rouges, 150, 163. John Boyd, Sir George Étienne Cartier, bart., his life
confederation, seeing it as national suicide for French Canadians. The “crafty types,” those “men with an elastic conscience,” were traitors who had sold out for money. Politicians George-Étienne
sisters, Hortense, who wedded George-Étienne Cartier* in 1846, and Hectorine. Through his wife, whom he married under the regime of
* against John Rose*, George-Étienne Cartier*, and Starnes. Rose, Dorion, and McGee
* and later George-Étienne Cartier*. His correspondence with his brothers indicates that he was consumed with ambition. In July
George-Étienne Cartier*, but rather punctilious where honour, religion, or country were concerned. He was at home with the
George-Étienne Cartier*. Called to the bar on 2 March 1857, he went into partnership with his friends Hector
FARIBAULT, GEORGES-BARTHÉLEMI, lawyer, public servant, and bibliographer; b
August 1852 he took up permanent residence in Montreal. Over the next decade or so he was employed by the firm of Morison, Cameron, and Empey, studied law in the office of George-Étienne
unresponsive to the scheming, manipulative tactics to which Sir George-Étienne Cartier* and the old hands of the party still clung
remained closely linked with the codification of civil law in Lower Canada. On 27 April 1857 George-Étienne
, especially after November 1857 when the energetic George-Étienne Cartier* took over from Taché. Macdonald himself kept a firm hand on
Abbott’s office by his confidential clerk, George Norris, but he had attended the meeting with Sir George-Étienne Cartier* during
George-Étienne Cartier*]. The survey teams employed that year on the construction of the Dawson road [see John Allan
began to make common cause with George-Étienne Cartier* in Canada East; George
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Scott’s appointment, his family claimed later, was due to the influence of Sir George-Étienne Cartier*, the long-time chief counsel
disappointed. From 1858 to 1862 Holton remained outside parliament but kept a watchful eye on the activities of the George-Étienne
and 1855. He completed his education at the Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal. From 1861 he was articled to George-Étienne Cartier* and
uninventoried. Miles lobbied Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt, Sir George-Étienne
-Étienne Cartier* would later, in the 1840s, hold as Louis-Hippolyte