Mcgee Thomas D'arcy 1825-1868 Emigrated From Ireland To The United


States, 1842, and became editor of the Boston Pilot; returned to

Ireland and edited The Nation, the Young Ireland's party organ; fled

to New York; came to Canada in 1857. Established and edited the New

Era in Montreal; elected to Parliament for the same city; president of

Executive Council, 1862-1863; minister of agriculture, 1864-1867. Took a

leading part in the movement for the Confederation of the provinces.

Shot by
a Fenian, P. J. Whelan, in Ottawa, April 9, 1868, =Index=: (George Brown Era)

On Confederation movement, xi; his speech on Confederation--names

founders of movement, 129, 130, 147; in Tache's government, 1864, 149.

(Sir John A Macdonald era) Takes part in debates on resolutions adopted at Quebec Conference,

118. (Tilley era) His work for Confederation, 65, 67; at Charlottetown

Conference, 74, 75; at Quebec Conference, 76. =Bib.=: Works: Canadian

Ballads; Popular History of Ireland; Notes on Federal Governments;

Speeches and Addresses Chiefly on Subject of British American Union;

Poems, with biog. sketch by Mrs. J. Sadlier. For his minor

publications in Canada, and works published before coming to Canada,

see Morgan, Bib. Can. For biog., see Taylor, Brit. Am. and

Thomas D'Arcy McGee: Sketch of his Life and Death; Dent, Can. Por.

and Last Forty Years.



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