Alexander Tilloch Galt
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Alexander Tilloch Galt 🇬🇧

Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt (Known as "First Canadian High Commissioner")
Father of Confederation, Minister of Finance, First Canadian High Commissioner to London
Born Sep 06, 1817 🇬🇧 Chelsea (London), Great Britain
Passed Away Sep 19, 1893 Montreal, Canada
Lifespan 76 years old
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"He laid the financial keystones of the Dominion and championed economic independence."

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Brilliant financial architect of Confederation who introduced Canada's first protective tariff in 1859, secured minority education guarantees in the constitution, and served as first High Commissioner to London.

Biographical Record

Son of Scottish novelist John Galt, Alexander Galt entered finance as land commissioner of the British American Land Company in Sherbrooke. In 1858, he made federal union an official government policy as a condition of entering the Macdonald-Cartier cabinet.

As Minister of Finance, Galt established Canadian fiscal independence from Britain with the Cayley-Galt Tariff of 1859 and designed the financial subsidies that made Confederation possible. He also authored Section 93 of the Constitution Act, 1867, safeguarding Protestant minority schools in Quebec and Catholic schools elsewhere.

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Mount Royal Cemetery
Montreal, Canada
GPS: 45.5083, -73.5975
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