Abbott’s office by his confidential clerk, George Norris, but he had attended the meeting with Sir George-Étienne Cartier* during
London with Sir George-Étienne Cartier* negotiating the acquisition of the northwest. Aikins demurred, urging Macdonald to take
in chief of public works in the government of John A. Macdonald* and George-Étienne
refused to serve under him. A widower since 11 January, he agreed to run as a federal candidate instead when his friends urged him to assume the mantle of Sir George-Étienne
(MG 26, A), George-Étienne Cartier (MG 27, I, D4), and Francis-Joseph
for a conciliatory policy towards the people of the Red River region. His speech appealed to Sir George-Étienne Cartier*, who, in
close to George-Étienne Cartier*, whose political views he espoused. It is thought that Cartier was the one who persuaded him in 1867 to
seminary enjoyed the support of such powerful figures as George-Étienne Cartier*, Pierre-Joseph-Olivier
more deeply involved in politics. On the death of Sir George-Étienne Cartier* in May 1873, Riel decided to seek election in
-Étienne-des-Grès in 1859. Ten years later the notary Petrus Hubert, when describing George Baptist’s holdings (sometimes called the “domain of Les Grès”), enumerated a mill, houses, stables for horses
the diversity of sources from which laws were derived, ‘had been championed by George-Étienne Cartier
. Macdonald and George-Étienne Cartier*, anxious to strengthen their ministry, named him speaker of the Legislative Council on 26
.
In the assembly Bellingham largely endorsed the governments formed by Macdonald, first with Étienne-Paschal Taché* and then with George
and 1855. He completed his education at the Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal. From 1861 he was articled to George-Étienne Cartier* and
. The prospect of such a career was sufficiently pleasing to Bibaud for him to allow a small committee of nine lawyers to be set up centred around George-Étienne
the weekly receptions given by George-Étienne Cartier* and Joseph-Philippe-Rend-Adolphe
Wilson* in challenging the constitutionality of the “double shuffle” in the Conservative cabinet of George-Étienne Cartier* and John
joined with many supporters of the government of George-Étienne Cartier* and John A