Hincks* administration, a Grand Trunk Railway sub-contract to build a bridge over the Napanee River, and an appointment as company arbitrator for the GTR in April 1854

Morin and Francis Hincks*, whose fortunes were about to be eclipsed, and his opposition to the Clear Grits and more advanced

, along with the Unitarian Francis Hincks*, in the St Patrick Society, which had been founded in 1834. Both of them, with Lewis Thomas

complete his contracts he gained a reputation, according to Francis Hincks*, as “one of the best and most successful contractors that had ever been

not in the whole ministry. In private, the “ultra” Reformers were confused and annoyed by Harrison’s performance. Francis Hincks

which ensued, Drummond and his organizer, Francis Hincks, united two groups of arch-rivals, the French Canadian

Hincks*. King called upon Prime Minister Macdonald to guarantee “the absolute security of the currency” by the terms of the new bill, but such pleas had little impact upon Hincks, who had close ties

Hincks*, minister of finance, but he left his party over the Pacific Scandal later in the same year. He indicated firmly, however reluctantly, that he would oppose Macdonald’s government. Lewis either

years earlier in the short-lived Canada Farmer. These activities collectively paid off in 1851. Francis Hincks*, who had replaced

in the place of the Reverend Robert Vashon Rogers, with whom he was involved in a proposal in the mid–1850s to have the Reverend Thomas Hincks, brother of

1851. Niles represented East Middlesex in the Legislative Assembly from 1854 to 1857, elected as a moderate Reformer in support of Francis Hincks

Rolph*, and Francis Hincks, Price was a founder and director of the Bank of the People in 1835; he also

choice of Sir Francis Hincks* as minister of finance in 1869, an appointment strongly attacked by the Toronto Globe. Asserting that

candidate to save the town of Sherbrooke for the Liberals. It was therefore not surprising that the government of Francis Hincks* and Augustin

Hincks* and Joseph Curran Morrison*. Simpson was returned in 1857 as a Conservative, defeating Charles Curry. He was successful in

Hincks* questioned the truth of the story. By 1842, however, Cameron returned to his support of Baldwin, and in that year was appointed inspector of revenue under the Baldwin–La Fontaine ministry

Hincks and was one of the Hincksite Liberals backing the Conservative-dominated ministry of Sir Allan Napier

Hincks* threatened to resign as inspector general, but the Tory Toronto Patriot termed the appointment “the only honorable act of . . . [the government’s] ten months of power

of his wealth. In the early 1850s he obtained extensive timber limits in Hinchinbrooke Township, Frontenac County, from the administration of Francis Hincks and Augustin-Norbert

Hincks, for instance, he observed that Hincks was a “statesman who had the courage to utilize to patriotic ends qualities that were base as well as . . . noble, and regardless alike of