- Charles Hibbert Tupper
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Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper Member of the Canadian Parliament
for PictouIn office
1882–1896
Serving with John McDougaldPreceded by John McDougald
Robert DoullIn office
1896–1904
Serving with Adam Carr BellSucceeded by Edward Mortimer Macdonald Personal details Born August 3, 1855
Amherst, Nova ScotiaDied March 30, 1927 (aged 71)
Vancouver, British ColumbiaNationality Canadian Political party Conservative Spouse(s) Janet McDonald Relations Charles Tupper, father Children Victor Gordon Tupper (1896-1917), Reginald Hibbert Tupper (1893-1972), J. Stewart Tupper, James Macdonald Tupper (1887-1967), Dorothy Joyce Tupper (1922) Residence Halifax, Ottawa, Victoria, Vancouver Profession Lawyer, Politician Cabinet Minister of Marine and Fisheries (1888-1894)
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada (1894-1896)
Solicitor General of Canada (1896)Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, KCMG, PC (August 3, 1855 – March 30, 1927) was a Canadian lawyer and politician.
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Family, early career
Tupper was the second son of Sir Charles Tupper, a physician, leading Conservative politician, and Canadian diplomat. The elder Tupper served as premier of Nova Scotia, was a Father of Confederation, and served briefly as prime minister of Canada in 1896. The younger Tupper practiced law in Halifax, Nova Scotia, after articling to learn the profession; at the time there was no formal legal education in Atlantic Canada. He formed a successful partnership with Wallace Graham, and the two invited the young Robert Borden, a future prime minister who was one year older than Tupper, to join them in the late 1870s. A decade later, Borden became the firm's senior partner after Graham was appointed a judge and Tupper entered politics.
Tupper's younger brother William Johnston Tupper also became a Conservative politician.
MP, Cabinet minister
He was elected as a Conservative MP in 1882. He was appointed Minister of Marine and Fisheries by Sir John A. Macdonald in 1888, and kept that position in subsequent Conservative cabinets until 1894, under PMs Sir John Abbott and Sir John Sparrow David Thompson.
He then became Minister of Justice in the government of Sir Mackenzie Bowell and attempted, unsuccessfully, to resolve the Manitoba Schools Question by drafting a bill to restore Separate School education for Catholics in Manitoba. Tupper resigned in January 1896 to protest Bowell's leadership, which had largely failed on this question, among others. He returned as Solicitor General of Canada in the short-lived government of his father, who became prime minister later in 1896, when Bowell stepped down. Tupper Sr. was defeated in the Canadian federal election, 1896, by Liberal Wilfrid Laurier, who became prime minister. Tupper remained an MP until his retirement from politics in 1904.
Knighted
In 1893, while minister of Marine and Fisheries, he was involved in the Bering Sea Arbitration between the United States and Canada as a representative of the British government, which at that time was responsible for Canadian foreign affairs. He was knighted in recognition for this service, which produced a successful outcome for Canada.[1]
Moves to west coast
In 1897 he moved to Victoria, British Columbia, and then moved to Vancouver in 1898, but continued as the Member of Parliament for Pictou, Nova Scotia, where he was re-elected in 1900. From 1898 he practiced law in Vancouver, where he served as a bencher of the Law Society of British Columbia. He represented Japanese-Canadians in a series of cases opposing discriminatory practices of the provincial government.[1] In 1923, he was involved in the creation of the short-lived Provincial Party of British Columbia.
Family
In September 1879, Charles Hibbert Tupper married Janet McDonald, daughter of the Hon. James McDonald, Chief Justice of Nova Scotia, and his wife, Jane. The couple had four sons and three daughters. The couple lived in Parkside, Vancouver, B.C. Her sister married her brother-in-law, Mr. W. J. Tupper. Another sister married the Rev. L. H. Jordan, B.D., of Chicago.
References
- ^ a b McKinnon, Kaitlin (January 2010), "Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, K.C.", The Advocate (Vancouver: Vancouver Bar Association) 68 (January 2010): 94–96, ISSN 0044-6416, http://the-advocate.ca
External links
- Charles Hibbert Tupper at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
- Charles Hibbert Tupper - Parliament of Canada biography
Macdonald · Dorion · Smith (acting) · Fournier · Blake · Laflamme · Campbell · Thompson · Tupper · Daly (acting) · Dickey · Mowat · Mills · Fitzpatrick · Aylesworth · Doherty · Bennett · Gouin · Lapointe · Guthrie (acting) · Patenaude · Lapointe · Guthrie · Geary · Lapointe · Michaud (acting) · St. Laurent · Ilsley · St. Laurent · Garson · Fulton · Fleming · Chevrier · Favreau · McIlraith (acting) · Cardin · Trudeau · Turner · Lang · Basford · Lang · Lalonde · Flynn · Chrétien · MacGuigan · Johnston · Crosbie · Hnatyshyn · Clark (acting) · Lewis · Campbell · Blais · Rock · McLellan · Cauchon · Cotler · Toews · NicholsonMinisters of Marine and Fisheries (1867-1930)1 Ministers of Marine (1930-1936)2 Ministers of Fisheries (1930-1969) Minister of Fisheries and Forestry (1969-1971) Ministers of the Environment (1971-1976)3 Ministers of State (Fisheries) (1974-1976) Minister of Fisheries and the Environment (1976-1979) Ministers of Fisheries and Oceans (1979-) 1The office of Minister of Marine and Fisheries was abolished and the offices of Minister of Fisheries and Minister of Marine were created in 1930
2The offices of Minister of Marine and Minister of Railways and Canals were abolished and the office of Minister of Transport was created in 1936
3From 1971 to 1976 the Minister of the Environment was also the Minister of Fisheries.Solicitors General of Canada
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